New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-01-02
PERSONAL.

I. a.
in the morning. is sad he eats butter and
ne especially likes br0ilcd chlcAcn,
Mr. Dion BOucicault has just fitted up, says
the New-Y0rk correspondent Of The Cincinnati Ga-ete,
new apartment, at expense OF $4,000. The bath
lOnter Of luxury and magnincehce
Mr.. Donald G.. Mitchell advocates floors OF
polished wood a house. with rugs IN the centre of
the rooms He likes house finished with implanted
wood and for walls he advises plaster on the ground
t,at wood ceiling absorbs 100 much light and paper
han -nes often interfere with other ornaments He ~
poraly admires unique and unexpected arrangements
OF rooms and doors.
Divers Boston danes are very mad because
women were not invited the Whittier dinner and Col
onel Higginson deprecatingy writes TO The Womans
Journal that lie didn't know whether ladies were 20 he
present or absent until be entered the room But the
clever Colonel does not say that he would have STAYED
TO avengc the omission ne htd KNOW" tnat Idu
uninyited.
General Bob" Toombs, of Georgia, is de-
scribed US the possesSor OF figure that is model Of
manly strength and beauty and OF head that Nature left
ronghast Grzzed uukempt locks are piled IN disorder
ov,r and around his broad, high forehead and tho dark
skin Of his features is blonghed by deep line.
ard forcby about and he speaks in hgh sharp voice
lie is earnest FretmaNon'
There "a n story that Mr.. SOthern, not long
,co hapneucd to be carried a country town with
another gentleman by mistake Of tram. and put no NJ
III. prlucipal hotel III the dningroon he sped lare
nortra,t General Mcclellan marched his friend before
IT, ~ ned him that IL the best portrait OF his soh
cr father lie had ever seen Tue friend thanked nm
to,rfuly for having him this excellent likeness Of
the old man and, between thom they got the WATERS
wild at the supposton that this was really Little
Macs" offspring.
Solyinl saws that twice in playing "Oros
manev he has stabbed himself In good earnest so ab
sorbed was he in his part On occasion tho dagger
penetrated to within hall an inch OF the heart IL
neither instance did he know what he had done until hs
performance but finished the scene with M
,o,e robes drppng with blood II is said that ode
ocvaritv OF the great actor il tha; oil the stage h,
never can remember single passage from any one OF
Sayini bur the he represents. and he not only re
members his part, bur that Of every other character
in the piece.
Mr.. Gladstone has just been challenged to a
trial of skill IN telling by stout Derbyshire timber
feer Mr. Gladstone replied THAI he regarded the chal
leugc As A great compliment "but," he added. % AZ
once give in / had pretonsons to excellence.
and had had them, by tas time rom age and ohei
causes they would have been lost" The following et,ct
was lately written by Mr. Gladstone to sheffield fra.
which forwarded to him one of their original American
patent axes the blade OF polished steel aud the handle
OF hickory: "Gcntlcmcn: 1 am very glad yon have
added that useful article. the Anne. T. the lit
Of our home productions and thank yOu for fayorins
me with specimen which seems. as much trial as have
made TO possess ali the merits Of the original nnd it
necessary study efficiency In proportion ana Wc-A'
ana II is under tins that think the American axe
comes out well especially Tor soft or free grained woods
The handle Is think, excellent; but always wish u
were cut straight across az the end. AT right angie -
IL, direction or axis remain gentlemen your tdtlhtW
servant, W. l.. Gladstone December H.
Here is pathetic story which appears to
be told in good faith. concerning Mr. William Black tho
novelist While stay at Obau last summer he tel ~
clined for swim one morning and selecting the qneess
nook he could Ind along the beach ne laid bis co'he'
carefully under rock, and proceeded 10 enjoy his SEQ
bath Presently. young lady with one OF h' own nov
els In hand came walking along the beach. ana aosor'
and unconscious. sat herself down close 10y the uuee
garments Poor Mr. william Black dld not know whaito
do lilo made a aosc with the water bob0ed up az"
down. and tried by every modest means IN his power"
indicate that he vas IN the vicinity, and not IN m u''
He WIS ashamed 20 stand up and shout, AMI hardly ven
tured indeed to than the top OF hts h''a
absorbing however, was his own story that nc eo"i'
attract attention ne had never before w'sis~i 10"
literary power was less but at that moment MS
hope was that he had written at least oae da ei'p' 80.
| bis volume That wish became an Inspiration. -" -,
| hilton. a desire legot In agony, when p''"s -,
came alonr tina, way short sighted sportsman ea''!A