New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-14
strengthen the belief, already strong in the Dem.
cratic party, that the defeat Of Tilden was cooi
thing, after all.
PERSONAL.


Ii is reported to be uncertain II Profesr,
Young will remain Princeton, and is further sar.x
that Dartmouth hopes that he will occupy his forme,
chair.
Earl Granville is reported 10 have said, ma
long ago. that in the and pronunciation OF the En-,
lish language, the educated American SURPRISES N.
EDgishman.
Mr.. Justin WinsOr wants to establish
Harvard press, which shall print works OF importance
for which there is rot sufficient demand to waIrantt
publication by private persons.
The Bishop of Colombo is an accomplished
person; on two successive days he preached In four
churches in four different languages: Cngalcsc Boz,
ghers "a kind OF Dutch. Portuguese and Tamil
Several of the ladies who visited Washing.
ton last week to advocate suffrage went to cal
upon Mrs Hayes and were received with great dl.tine
ton They were delighted but observed that neither u.
President nor his wife expressed any positive opnon
in regard to "thc cause"
Miss Julia Smith, of Glastonbury, was do.
scribed as tottering" in Washington the other day. IA.
Hartford Times promptly declares that though she 4,
eightysix she doesn't totter" For the past year aha
has frequently walked miles In day. and she walk,
almost every day. when az home. to the postoce, which
is two miles from her residence. "she drives I'D IA
Hartford frequently, in her carriage bitches her horse
skips about the city, does considerable business settling
the past year one or two estates as administrative and
drives back again. fresh and hearty unless she stops over
Il
meeting"
The late George Washington could lose hi,
temper on occasions well as more common folk ui
related that when he and the other commissioners vera
locating the city Of Washington they found certain
David Burns, the owner OF some property, rather d,.
gruned After enduring for awhile his opposition the
Father of his Country hastily remarked: Mr.. Burns
Federal city had not been located here, you would
have been poor tobacco planter instead OF rich land
owner" Vera wecl, Dir. Washington" replied Burns
"an II We hadna married the Widow Cnsts We wad ha'
been poor land surveyor instead of rich slave Ownero
subsequently the two became great friends.
A report comes from Rome. by way of Eng.
land, that the Government has offered Prince
Alexander Torona 15,O000o0 for one OF his museums
which he himself put together at great cost, and with
cOnsummate skill. Alas! the American Government
doesn't do such things The Prince 1t Is added hesates
about accepting this He has son, and one bic
two daughters is the wife OF OF Prince Borghese;
the other daughter was born deaf, blind and dumb Hi,
wife was insane for years before her death The sums
which Prince TOrOnia gained by the drainage OF Lake
TucIno were enormous and the best potatoes IN the
Roman market are grown On land once covered BY tho
waters OF that lake.
Mrs. S. c. Hall possesses very remarkable
album GlIed with contributions extempore and other.
wise. of the most famous persons of the time. On
page southey has written in aluson to the autographs
ofJoseph Bonaparte and Daniel OCOnnell, which were
inscribed on the next leaf:
birds Of n feather flock together
And thence you may gather IL not Of feather
with some OF the birds In this cage"
Later when Dickens furnished his little contribution,
he wrote in auson to southey's change of opinion:
snow II I don't make
The completest mistake
THIS bird Of t@o wcathcfs
Has mOulted his featbeT-
Aud left them IN some other cage"
can Stanley has been telling story of his
own boyhood and Gladstone's "There is a small school,
I he I'm wi IA
brought up before he went Et0n. few years after
ward another little boy proceeded to that same schOo-a
little boy whose name will not mention, but who SUBJ
scQuently went, when young man. to see IFS MASTER
and in the course Of conversation with that MASTER he
SAID TO him. There one thing in wLich have not the
slightest degree improved since quilted your estab
lshment, and that is casting M figures WELL tho
old master replied. nobody could have been more in
capable than you were at school with your arithmetic
but will tell YOU very curious circumstance: Mr.
Gladstone, when be here, just bad at casting
M figures az you and are: but YOU what
he has become When IL that the right honorable
gentleman enabled TO master his former ncapaclty
and TO become the great arthmeciaD which all know
he is am not aware; but the change did take place.
and have found in IL striking example and cheering
encouragement TO those who are duh IN youth not 10 de-
spair."
LONDON. Jan. 1.-THE marriage of King
Alfonso and the Princess Mercedes now fixed for the
ID of February. The Tmes's Paris correspondent
elegraphs that Queen Isabea-who, IL was stated
some days ago. would not be permitted to return 10
Spain on account OF her action In connection with the
expulsion from France OF Don Caros-inssts upon at
tending the marriage of King Alfonso and the Spanish
Ambassador at Paris is compelled to resort 10 number.
less petty precautions and stratasems to prevent her
from carrying out her intention.
ST. PETERSBURG Jan 13.-The condition of
be Cars health satisfactory, and reports 5aAbed
in London TO tue contrary are false