New-York tribune., 1878-02-04
PERSONAL.

Mr. William Winter is preparing an acting
edition of "Uamet," as played by Mr. Booth.
Mr. TcnnysOn has several new poems almost
ready be put into print. one or them Is ike the
Northern Farmer" IN style.
The oldest person i'm New England is said
to Mr. Lancaster Hodges. OF BrOwnheld, who reacheo
last week, the mature age OF lO7.
Samuel +. Hunt of Ohio, has just been
made president of the University Board of Cincinnati
IA high advance for so young n man.
Queen Margaret of Italy, is said to have a
pleasant way of always saying and doing the right
thing She is beautiful but she has tnat great sii
charm.
On the front of Mr.. Charles Reade's house,
near London lately painted in large letters the
iusc1ptlon .Naboth's Vineyard" This Is supposed to
refer TO prevalent idea that some one coves the ste
desiring 10 pull down tho modest tencments and erect
magnificent mausl0ns
That person of name so remarkable that
it would seem to have come from book of nonsense
verscs-the Akhoonl OF swatis dead. Swat is on the
northwest frontier OF india and in this region lived The
Akloond, venerable old man. esteemed so much OF
saint that Journeys were made by thousands acts OF
devotion him. His fame was great over all INDIA,
ard he has been understood being able to sway the
Mu-sunlan population and 10 h1yo instlgatcd ali the
British tronlles with the hll tribes the frontier.
Mrs lydia Maria Child will be seventy-siX
years old next Monday. Not long ago she wrote to
friend: life has been rather hreary 10 since lost
my kind, good com 1anion; for hayc no children The
friends of Old times have nearly all gone hence and
with the present generation meet only as marbles
touch other: here ami there point comes IN contact,
Lu; tho spheres roll apart Nevertheless. have much
10 Ia thankful for; and am thankful have sane
mind healthy body; and neither OF these precious
cirs is universal at the present day hayr a few
friends WHO are very kni. Au IN ny we" Vi thhSS
grow more and NOR unshicklCd'
4 new biography of the poet Shelley says
that hi. coaduor in the early volume, Poems oy Ietor
and CG-ire was his sister Elizabeth, and not Miss Har
riet Grove and that Shelley himself discovered the in
sortion in that volume OF a 10 pirated from Monk
Lewis and he theTeupon or'efcd the edition to be de-
siroyed which berraves Sheeytes OF the ngfcker-
ing hope Of discovering day copy OF this curiosity
OF lterarurc Mr. ". II. Ros4etti has been giving two
lectures on Shelley, which shortly to be published
one Of these contains some important extracts from un
pnb he'd letters written by Shelley especially relating
10 ms courshp OF IIarrist Westbrook.
Mr.. Reuben r. Springer, of Cincinnati, finds
that his Gift the city OF magnificent Emusic hall In
wolves moro expenditure OF money than ne at hrst
imagined His original gin for the building was the SUN oi
i95 &c was obliged TO add $50 900 TO save the
enterprise from failure; last Apr another $4,000 was
called for for the same and now he is asked FOR
Asno other citizen ready TO furnish It,.
Mr. Springer very generously gives third 10000. In
a letter offering this sum he wisely Gays: " AS these
hs,rin'ians will about exhaust me- ANU III l"u
ncT up make II Un the express condition that
Il all he on my part hnali:y, and that the trustees
.ha receive it rs such. and II money is wanted
tnnt they will supply 1t themselves, devise means OF
appealing the public. vino ara 10 be Tn Oeueicarcs
Oi the enterprise, ana VII! no douDt respond idV0rahy
when urgently called Cn." CIncnnatians viii probably
feel thai Mr. sprnscr n g.yng Slo1cOO las done quite
enough for their Music Han.
Ii is related OF Turner, the artist, that he was
staying IN a friends house where there three
children lie had brought drawing with him OF which
the distance already carefully outlined but there
~ material for the nearer pa IS. One morning, when
about t. proceed with his drawing. hc called IN the chill
dren as c0labomteurs for the rest in the following man
ncr He rubbed three cakes Of waer-cOlOr-red, blue
and yeow-ln three separate sauccrs, TO each
child aud told the children to dlDbo in the and
then play together their colored fingers his pa
per These directions gecfuy oboyed the read
rr may well imagine. Turner watched the work Of the
thirty little fingers with serious attention. and after the
dabbiing had gone or time sud eny called out,
"stop" lie then took the drawing into his own hands.
added imaginary landscape forms suggested
10y the accidental coloilnS, ana tho WORK WIS
finished. on another occasion, after dinner he amused
- dessert riltr and when disturbed in the operation bv
4 question, sali TO the queSt0ner There! You have
made ne lose tfly guineas."
Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley, since his return from
Area. has been described man slightly bent undera
burden OF memories Of fcyers and cramps; with boyish
ace crowned with shock of iron gray hair In curious
contrast Of effect with the black mustache; with high
check bones, tanned skin, and the hands of back
wuodsmau. roughcned by cutting way through forest
and Jungle, and carrying elephant rifle firing two
ounce bali When he reached the from the African
interior he was so cmacatcd that ne weighed only 10
pounds In fifteen days thereafter he gained
half n pound n day, and his voyage amOs,
completely restored his health. From the moment he
entered the African continent on ono sde until he
emerged from ON the other he received letter
nor ne spapor. nor heard syllable Of what going
ON in the world. Said Mr. Stanley mt the dinner given
To him by the members OF the IaIisian press:
1T WAS the journalistic instinct that caused
TO speed like the Victoria that impcllcl
on my way through that untrodden land; 1t that
Journalistic instinct that desire to have perfectly
curate intelligence. that led me to turn again, TO go
back 10 Till, and flash what other explorers
had left undone; 1t was, II you please 10
call IL So Journalistic ambition that led me TO
say, Il will not give it up; will go and
finish what Livingstone has left un!one.' When
at Nvargwc We heard those stories OF he crcduOus
pie who wanted to Tighten Us back by theF pictures or
The dangers should have 10 encounter AGAIN Iclcm-
bcred that WAS "a journalist. then Sald 10 myself
an "a soldier OF Journalism Loud chectS.l know
what the title implies in its fullest sgnitc ton, and
have done best-aud make boast OF Ito add dig
nifty the OF journalism Nj. Sanl,ys cXpedl-
ton Is said have cost Sl5,OOO. the expenses being
divided equally between Inc Herald and The Datiy Tee
grdph of LONDON.
CLEyELAND, Ohio, Feb. 3 .-Advices from
jefferson. Ohio this evening Iep esent that the Hon
Ren f. Wade is slowly recovering from his Illness ana
the prospect now IL tnat he VIII regain his usual health
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