New-York tribune., 1878-10-11
Personal.

The Right Honorable Lyon Playfair and his
Boston bride at Lake George.
DIR. Strousberg. the man once known rs tho
Railway King" abOut TO appear before the world IN
Vienna as the proprietor and conductor OF newspaper
The grounds.and Out-buildings around Henry
Clays old home of Ashland Just they were in bs
lifetime The old locust avenue where he walked and
Wondered his speeches is wholly unchanged.
Mr.. Robert Collier bas in his Chicago study
The anvil upon which he hammered in the English town
where as youth he learned the trade OF blacksmith l5
was presented To him by Cheagoan' VINO bought h III
its native shop
Lord DufferiD is SAID to prepare with great
care the very eloquent speeches which have the tone
and fervor OF improvisation. He dictates them to ms
secreary and after the Ms has been written out he re-
vses Il until sometimes scarcely Wora OF inc oflglha
remains.
Earl Beaconsfeld is among the subscribers
70 proposed statue OF Earl Russell and vet he once de-
pounced Russell as a person with strong ambition ana
,be utelleet who aimed reduce everything 10 MS
own level, ard TO degrade every W A' wv"
malignant standard"
Mr.. Gladstone, in writing about the man.
agement Of the In public speaking says that when
he has bad very ghened statements 60 make he has
used what called eggip-a glass OF sherry beaten
up with an egg" What quantity of eeg-hp the emf
neut orator mast have cOnsumedl % think II excel
lent" he adds but have much more fslth Ia the egg
than In tbs aicOoOL
Mr.. Henry Bergh has been much touched by
the efforts OF Georgia lady 10 found society for the
protection Of animals Ho writes TO the president OF
branch society Savannah Suppose this world
composed such public spirited and benevolent ladies'
instead Of tho fashionable who flock the ball
OF noted watering resorts what blessed abode
this planet Of ours would beI'
Professor Gray, of Cambridge, and Professor
Dana, Of Yale. still most persistent and indefat-
gable workers spite OF the which have not msde
them younger IL has boen proposed TO honor some an
nversary Of their ves somewhat after the fashion OF
the Longfellow, Whittier, aud Bryant celebrations
and certainty there men IN our colleges VINO DeP
ter deserve such an evidence OF esteem and regard
The Emperor William is an extremely SEN
sible man. Because he is crowned head he does nos
think il necessary to submit overcharge at the hands
OF his tradespeOple While he at Tepz, carrier
was employed to convey TO the railway quantity OF
luggage belonging 20 the Imperial household. but on
presenting Dill the steward Of the palace ns
charges Nigh and refused to pay unless reducuMVa M
was made The carrier has summoned the Emperor Do
| fore the Tribunal OF Teplitz
| Mr.. Edmund Yates is taking George Augustus
saa to task for treating alecture tour In the Onca
states as dangerous aud In doing so showsa Vivo TO
| collection OF his own reception 10 this country
! ecturod," ho says. onehundfed and tsn times ane
travelled $4,000 nsles during seven montns run "
the United States and had hours Illness iro"
the ,te my leaving In the Cuba 70 f0y re'arh 10
| Cambria. Mr. Dickens whom G. A. 8 quotes !" "'