New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-27

the tips Of his red slippers and the plain gold chain 49,
cross hanging from his neck-tbe very picture Of :
good old man, set background u scarlet and purn,
| draped stately cardinals and violet monsign0ri
| Rear-Admiral Preble, commanding the SoutA
Pacific station. has been planning cruise to Australia
but recent orders from Washington prevent his eayin.
the west coast Of South America The cruise 10 An.,,.
liza is always anticipated with pleasure by naval officers
1t full OF interest but Is seldom mado by ye.es
OF navy The confinement OF Admiral Prebe TO thu
South American coast IL, therefore, great disappon
ment to the officers OF his squadron lie will crus.
along the coast until Autumn when he will return IN
Panama Next February he will be placed on the retired
list The appointment OF secretary Thompson Is favor
the fiscal year. account Of the deficiency in the sppro
1t will work hard with some of>the officers.
Of Mrs. Browning, the late sculptor J. T,
Hart said "All the greatness written IN her
books falls short OF the reality OF her heart. She was
woman OF whom one would say through tears: Thank
God she has entered into her true life with the anger
She was shy with strangers and lacked In conversation
readiness Of words when talking with those she did not
know. She never said commonplace thing. and a.
most people like commonplace things and can't under.
stanQ anything else. she never shone brilliantly In
mixed company. But with her chosen friends her con-
versation, though never animated, was always dc
ghtful She refreshingly honest, and one always
felt that she exactly what she said and that
going to tho very soul Of subject and living refu
tation OF the notion that only clever in
ters OF detail" Mrs. Brownings soul written In her
expressiOn-n the depth and tenderness Of her eyes,
which no artist could have drawn d. The question OF
was something, too. OF the hopelessness OF trying TO
utter ones self.
"StOnewallr Jackson and his sister were Or
phan children, and brought up together until he
went TO West Point. Like most orphan children they
had Oh
settled in Beverly w. Va whore her husband carried
a large farm plantation Her brother, the General,
frequently visited her. and during these visits he would
invariably to the quarters Of the slaves for the
pose OF exhorting them the subject OF religion FIRE.
qucnty the soldier would be his knees In the
midst Of the children Of Africa offering earnest prayers
for their salvation When the broke out the brother
espoused tho of the South and became the greatest
of all Confederate generals, with worldwide reputation
for consummate military ability, and laid down his life
on the bloody field Of Charlottesville. The sister, In
spite OF the opposition OF her brother unnfluenced by
his brilliant achievements and the opposition Of her his
band and her relatives sided with the OF the Union
so great the feeling engendeIed her she
eventually separated from her husband and moved to
Springfield Ohio and resided with daughter who had
married Union officer.
When Alfred de Musset was years old he
had grand passion for young lady mach older than
himself; so very grand 1T that when she married
ne was kept for years in ignorance OF the fact He
eager and restless child the new biography just
published by his brother Characteristic story OF his
infancy tells how presented with pair Of
shoes and how he impatient TO ont, crying to his
mother Make haste, before my shoes old" In
one day he broke all the mirrors OF a room with q
billiard ball, cut up the new curtains with pair OF
scissors and fixed huge red wafer map OF Europe
In the midst OF the Mediterranean Sea- and all this with
out earning reproach. In his last years de Mus
set could sleep If he had left beggar unreeyed he
was delighted with the domestic life OF an English family
whom he knew AT Hlyre. and the children no less
fond Of him. To his brother to his in serious
Illness his mayvdine lady Of rank and wit he was
always grateful and always himself But he outstayed
his welcome while in the world, and than the
days of Keats and of Mozart II must have been with
profound OF relief that he uttered his last words
"Dormir enin ic yais dOrmir."
OTTAWA, Ont, April 26.-Letters have been
addressed to the Sir John A. Macdonald, the Hon.
Alexander Mackenzie and the press, ealing attention to
the fact that the Goth Of June Queen Victoria will
have completed the 10th year Of her reign, and pro-
posing that Canadians should manifest The national
attachment requesting Her Majesty
Of Empress OF Canada"