New-York tribune., 1879-12-22
PERSONAL. .

For those few pc pie who have not seen DIR.
Arthur Sullivan IT may be worth while TO present
tins Photograph: He is If the medium height ana
is moderately stout; his features are small and IN
tcllIgen; his expression iull of mind ana huni2r
his eyes very dark and bright ana his closely
cut haIr. beard and mustache are black
Mr.. j. W. Mackey is said by n correspondent OF
The Post Of San Francisco to feel the strongest de-
vonon to the Comstock Mine. IL inflicts upon him
no end of care, responsibility aud annoyance, but
he cannot endure to leave it, In eighteen months
he iias been but twice to San Francisco, and then
only TO remain few hours he has been unremit-
tingly at lis post during the WhOle lllle.
1nere is not much of the dandy about Dir. Glad
stone Last session it to pass that he appeared
in Parliament with a white hat, blue neck-he a
pair of really wel-nade trowsers. and one lavender
KID glove lie was seen with more
than the one glove; he had probably dropped
the other, after being carefully dressed at
home and sent OF TO the House.. HIS ap-
pcarance created great sensation. and he main
tanned the Disguise for neariy week. Ihen ne
gladly got rid of the new cloths :, ana returned
to the familiar garments, which date back a-maDy
years ago"
Mr.. Dante Gabriel Rossett the poet, lives a
most secluded and retired lite; he rarely goes into
society, and even his brother does not venture to
bring visitors to his studio. 1T is since the death
of Mrs Rossett beautiful aud swcet-natured
woman. that this habit of reserve has grown
upon the husband she left to regret her.
When she died. R0ssetti Was so wreiched that
he felt his own intellectual lIfe AT an end aud
IN her grave he buried all the sonnes he had writ
ten and which. by the way, were addressed 70 her
HIS trends, resolved that the poems should not De
lost. opened the grave and rescued them; ana a1ei
n time revealing t. the poet that they III ex-
lstence, persuaded him 10 print them.
Secretary Thompson, when in his office one day.
received an acquaintance who brought with him a
stranger whom he presented TO the Secretary In a
-, 4 Mr. HON .Nu
introduced both gentlemen to him, but could
not remember the strangers name Mott
Randolph Motifs my name" SAID the latter"
" Are you Randolph Mott who used to live in Gull
pepper County p asked the Secretary. " am"
sand the other. "Well. Mott, I'm glad to see yon,"
said Mr. Thompson, and turning again To
the Secretary of State. he added " Dir.
Evarts let me now Introduce 10 you he man VINO
taught me how to sew" And then be explained
that when boy he had intended to become tailor,
and worked for time in the shop or Mr. Mott, who
was OF that trade.
Mrs. Grant is reported by The Gd-dfe OF
Reno as having discovered at the railway
station there the prettiest girl she has
seen in all her travels. The proud jour
nal which announces this fact says that though
Threatened with battle. murder and sudden death, it
won't reveal the Lame of the young damsel thus
distinguished. and proceeds in this manner to con-
sole those lovely danes OF Reno who Were not so
honored by Mrs Grant: Those who were not SO
remarked may not have been present at the time.
Or being at the depot they may not have been seen.
And. suppose they were there. were seen BY Mrs.
Grant and not admired. Who is Mrs. Grant, that
she should make such inyidious and absurd re-
marksi She has great reputation as Judge OF
beauty; not a national fame for it anyhow. At
least she is not celebrated IN Europe as critic or
that kind. Mrs. Grant may be color-bhnd for all
anybody knows.
OF David Swing the clever Western preacher n
WRITER in Tile AIbaRy journal says that his "awk-
wardness not seldom draws "a smile over the face of
one who Is not accustomed 10 his presence; and as
traveller bearing romantic ideal, is said TO have
exclaimed mt his frst view Of the Niie, Is that
all = so must many who have gone 10 and hear
this celebrated pulpit orator for the first time have
exclaimed as he stoie into his seat with his eyes
resting on the floor rather than OH the congregation
and his uncla sic figure seeming anxious TO vanish
ont of sight, Is that SwingP His voice is no gift
from Apollo Until the moment of embarrassment is
past and the soul of the speaker to his relief
and thought and poetry begin TO wreathe their vital
charms around him and inspire his vocal organs. his
voice is both weak and unmusical, aud Ia not a
few il is even disagreeable. He makes none of the
oratorical clImaxes popular with the listening
crowd. He Is rarely impassoned. No listener Is
thrilled. but every one Is Pleased and deeply I'M
pressed, without being able to know just why"
The late NJ. de Mercy dArgenteau. Archbishop OF
Tyr, and suilragan Bishop of Liege, had very re-
mantle life. lie was in his youth handsome and
brilliant colonel of Hassars, aud engaged to be
married to the young Countess de Ia Tour di
Plu. heiress of one of the great families OF
France Three weeks before the date fixed for
the wedding she was seized with an illness which
carried her off after few days suffering. II was
blow from which the "beau sabreur' did not re-
cover: he Immediately left the army and entering
the religious life. rose rapidly, and after
serving for ten years as Papal Nuncio
at Munich, was sent to Lege where he
took an active part in every good work
He visited Paris in 1895 for the first time since hc
was there his return from the disastrous Russian
campaign. and was received by the Emperor. who
remarklng on his breast the old decorations which
nearly half a century before his uncle had placed
there sal: : You have since then. Monseigneur
well merited promotion" and handed him the Cross
of Grand Officer which was afterward exchanged
for the Grand Gordon.
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