New-York tribune., 1878-03-01
and Mulett and there would Be bodh music and
birthstone in the air.
PERSONAL.

Professor II. w. Longfellow, was seventy
years Old On Wednesday.
Mr.. Wade is very weak; he can take nd
stimulants and but little food.
Vice-President Wheeler is staying at Pitts.
burg with his nephew, Dr. Wheeler editor Of The Chrs
tidn Advocate.
A memorial of Governor Wentworth ap-
peared tie other day, while wOrkmen were tearing
down the old Melcher house in Portsmouth. II was Q
proclamation OF the Governor dated 1882 and attached
to the wall 1t had been covered with wall paper and
was well preserved
The Paris ROthschids, who are all bankers,
said to work hard IL they beginning their
fortune They observe their Office hours punctuaIy
does the clerk There popular belief that
they hope execute the dream Of the rebuilding Of
temple and the city OF Jerusalem.
Mr.. w. S. Gilbert, many of whose plays are
charming poems, appeared o harlequin In a recent
performance in London the other actors being nearly all
titled people. 1t described amusing yislonthat
the stad Of letters Hourishing his lath plungng
through the traps in the stage, and taking headers"
through the trick doors.
Mr.. j. w. Mackey is reported to have lost
thirty pounds from his weight IN exploring lately, the
hot drifts Of his mines. His riches give him almost
much hard Work as luxury. He up the surface
Of the Opr mine, the other day. exhausted, dirty.
painting with sunkcn eyes and Redeemed face. Look at
me-" he said to his friends. DO look like bonanza
kugi" ".M0rc like bonanza slave" the response.
las aTIlVcu Ill DOstOu
from Washington, looking, 1t is enthusiastically re.
marked as fresh as a rose" He is reported TO have
divers sympathzing friends at Springfield that
he had nothing to complain Of that he would rather
have the consciousness that he deserved success than
success ITSELF and that he proposed now TO devote HIM
self assduOusy to his private business. MI Simmons 10
thrtyscyen years old has frank blue eyes, and cordial
manner. The newly appointed Collector A. W. Beard Is
VemOnter OF fttnree, who Ias had small early edu.
cation and n valuable and useful business career, and
naaab abawp il remarkable
tact as political manager.
Mr.. Prinsep has had very hard task in paint
ing his picture Of the Empress OF lndias Proclamation
Delhi None Of the portraits OF the Indian princes,
for instance, are 10 drawn smaller scale tl~n the
Others lest jealousy should be raised. For the Same
reason the group is semicrcular, Lord Lytton being
seated what would be the centre OF the completed
circle 30 that the chairs Of the princes are equdstant
by tie mathematical precision OF the rad from biz own.
Mr. Prnsep has taken this semcrcle IN profile, and has
put al portraits into the further secton which faces
The spectaOr The perspective produces hardiy per-
cepubie difference OF scale Oriental dignity is re-
spected without the sacrifice or tue laws OF art.
At the opera in Paris, the other evening,
coored lady, very elegantly dressed sat m one Of the
boxes surrounded by other dark vsaged persons. II
vas the Princess Celia dughter Of sonouque once En-
peor of Hayt and family The Princess lives most
OF the time III England. souOuque could write his
signature only, and could read nothing but print lie
declared himself Emperor in lsi3, and created among
the negro population 400 mobiles, OF whom four
princes, ifty-ninc dukes and twelve marquisae The
others were counts barons and knights. H. also Great
ed two orders for military. that OF SAINT Faus-
tin; the other civil. the legon Of honor; also tw0
for women, those OF Sane-Madeleine and sainteAhne