New-York tribune., 1878-01-05
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Tilden is about to spend a month in
! Florida.
Senator Blaine will arrive in Washington
| from Arkansas next Tuesday
| Mr. Ulysses Grant, .jr., will begin to perform
his duty Assistant United states DstrictAttorney
about the 1st OF February. He has some to California.
Speaker Randall is greatly praised because
New Years Day his loaded table had II nothing
intoxicating He believes that total abstinence is right
Mr.. Longfelow is said TO have liked much
Professor Caske HarrisOns merical translation of pOr
ton OF the Odes of Horace" The Old poet saJ that it
has 4" the true Horatian flavor
Mrs. Hayes, like Alr. Randall, gets approval
from the Temperance advocates She had no wine on
her table her sverweddng dinner, and the wife Of
the Secretary of War gave her New Years callers only
chocolate aud coffee.
Mr.. Z. T. Barnum is a-weary. He says he will
undertake no enterprises that he IS now sixty
eight years old and is doing the work OF ten men. lie
adds that he is setting his house in ORDER and will De
ready to 90 when required.
DR.. Stephan, the Pussian p0stmaster-g general,
who is an active worker in the movement for Ger
manizing bis native language that is to say eliminating
all words Of foreign origin, classical modernAcarres
his hobby far that in Introducing the Use Of the tele
phone in the Empire he has CHANGED It's name lie cans
II "Fcusprccler y" iat-speekcr.'
Mr.. WiLie Collins is reported to have writ
ten onethrd Of his story Of "The Woman in White" be
fore he could get title for the work After cudgeng
his brains in yain he betook himself in despair to Broad
stairs He walked and smoked for hours on the cliffs,
but ti;le At last, as the sun went down. hs
threw himself the grass and looked Grossly at the
North Foreand Lighthouse slyagey biting the end OF
his last cigar he said aloud to the building standing
snly and coldly in the evening lights "You are ugly
and stf AMI awkward you know yon are; as sun and
in White! The title by Joye!" Aud the book was
named.
The clever Bishop of Manchcster-Who was
Of the British that came Overhere twelve
years ago to examine sclooshaS lately been giving
it A. his opinion that the American elementary schools
attempt teach TOO much Every movable and teach
able thing under the crowded into the curricu-
lum he said, and when he expressed doubts whether
Euclid could be mastered in six months and whether the
same period sufficient TO dispose OF other subjects 1t
was admitted that il was too short time. The result
was that there was no solid instruction; and in
strument OF mental discipline that farraSo OF multi
furious ana he might say OmnlflriOus, learning was
great dcusion and proiigious snare. To learn few
right method OF disclpnins the mind.
Mr. John G. Whittier, thanking the Florence
Corgrcgalonal sundayschoo for It's celebration Of Lis
birthdiy says You 10 not err In yor hope that may
gladly receive this token of your good will No differ
ence of religious sentiment make insensible 10
words Of kindness. In tie long struggle Of the past
have learned to value above all the orthodoxy OF good
and true life have learned in the same school with
John Wooman TO feel no narrowness as to sects AMI
opinions TO use my words in this connection which
you wi! pardon me for quoting:
The truths worst foe Is he who claims
To CiOds
And 1T' beyond lis sentry beat.
The crystal walls IN danger.
Who sets for hcrcsy his eraps
O;yCrOal quirk ans quibbie,
Ant weeds the garden OF the Lord
with Satll's borrowed cbSle'
co.. rSe every earnest would rejoice TO have all
men share the faith and hope which sustain and COM
fort himself this feeling should be always TEMPERED
by Inc charity winch suilcrrth long and is kind
=. ~ will
shortly be conveyed TO the town of Razsn, 1lo miles
southeast OF Moscow, where he will pass his captivity.