New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-19
PERSONAL.

Senator Dawes is spending a week with a
friend at Phillips Beach. swampscoit
Emperor William is taking mud baths ut
Tepitz which are considered very oflodcous remedy
for rheumatism.
The fund for the benefit of the family of
john wilson Barron, the murdered cashier, now
amounts to S2.o44 so.
The Hon. John F. Smyth, Superintendent of
the Department. wi sail from Glasgow. Scot
land, for home TINS week.
President Hayes has gratifod the Virgin
ians by accepting invitation TO visit Orange Court
House some time IN October.
Mr.. John Payne Collier is a man of extra
ordinary vitality. He ia now, although ninety years
Did, busy with q new edition OF his Annals Of the
Stage" finding his brain thoroughly equal TO tho exact
ing task.
One of Mr. Edmund Yates's belongings is
said be remarkably clever and agreeable cat which
always his meals with his master. He sits the
table beside Mr. Yates aud refreshes the inner cat
with the utmost grace and decOrum
The house wherein George Eliot lives and
writes stands in Of the most secluded hooks OF Lon
DON II Is plain, comfortable building, surrounded by
generous measure Of soft turf and graceful trees.
Awnings shade the windows, and high wall about the
lawn contributes to the almost rural etremont OF the
most distinguished OF living women
Miss Braddon (blrs. Maxwell) has thor
oughy English face and figure. She is stOut, and has
kindly face, with inclinDR 10 fer0hSS6 and nno
forehead from which Ter pretty hair iscareessy pushed
away She Is exceedingly pleasant, but unromantc in
appearances she looks the capable head OF the house
hold more than the writer OF fiction
OF j. M. w. Turner, in his early days, Mr.
Ruskin says that he visited muchj was, OF course
alwaye kindly treated and did his very best to please
his hosts by faithful aud lovely drawings OF their houses
That IN after life became unsociable. was In no
small degree owing the Tenderness OF feeling which
rendered 10 impossible for him even 10 ~ back TO q
house where his first host HAD died."
Sir Walter Scott gave, on August Ia, 1925,
to Maria Edgeworth the pen-hoder with which no had
written the Heart Of Midlothian all his novels In
fact up that time It's present possessor is De- But
Ter, OF Harrow. Tho MSS, of the " Black Dwarf"
Pevenl OF the Peak {" Woodstock" aud the For
tunes OF Nigel are all owned by Mr.. John Ruskn.
Giulio Zadolini, q young Roman sculptor,
has modelled excellent bust Of Leo XIII. The Pope
gave him four sittings and was much pleased with
the work At the last sitting his Holiness looked at the
bust silently, thon took the modelling stick from the
young scuptoFs hand with kind smile and wrote on
the lett shoulder In tho damp clay Leo de- Tribu Juda
and ordered q copy m marble.
The late Alfred Since, who accomplished so
many valuable discoveries IN electro-metaurgy, had
throughout his life great liking for pet animals His
father General to the Bank Of England
and II was In court OF tbs bank that the schoOlboy
kept pigeons rabbits and other pets As he main
tanned collection OF animals in his house. He had q
toad which, after dinner when the cloth was removed
he would Introduce 10 his guests exhibiting It's capac-
lilies with much pride The goldfish knew their owners
voice and would hasten TO tile surface when he beRnn 10
whistle. Tho oldest pet OF all tame rat, which
was fond OF going to steep 10 peoples pockets
The late Cardinal Franehi was a confirmed