New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-09
PERSONAL.

Professor Gray. II Is announced, has been
recognized the original inventor OF he telephone.
aud receive 20 per cent OF the profits from the vn'
tli or the machines 10 America
President and Mrs. Hayes have been visit
ing the omo ~ President Liucon, at Springfield ILL.,
Tho ,arcopaAus was decorated will quantities of flow
trs ana with portrait 81 Lincoln
Mr.. Carlyle and his brother, the DR.. John
Aiken Carlyle hes just died, were greatly attached
to each other Tie two men were very dtcIcn ma ihcr
tastes bat at IN perfect simplicity Of lie and
sincerity of motive. The brothers are often remembered
IN scotland taking long walks and talks together On
Tue banks of the Firth
Mr. jefferson Davis, in reGrctfully refusing
an invitation to attend meeting Of North Carolina eN-
Confcderates, calmly observes: " Prominent among
your objects is To alay il-feeng which may remain
between those VINO followed different nag-, 10
unite all proper efforts FOR the general welfare Of your
stale Nothing surely could be more coumcndab.e than
fnr ooect ana nothing less Christian. mare uus0l
dicry. than malice and cherished desire for revenge"
When Mr.. Longlclow, says The London
LITERARY world visited Queen Victoria at Windsor Cas-
te the servants crowded the starways aud In tue
Hobbies 10 get view OF IA m On the Queen asking
them next day Why this compliment was pad 10 Tue
noct she wa, told nat they used to listen 10 Prince Al
bert r,anin Eyangelae 70 his children. and. know
~ lines near, bv heart they longed u sce the man
VINO wrote them Tie queen l. iona OF t'"ihs '"''
story.
Mr.. Moody is said to dislike very much any
atlfaNU
m entered the hall IN Cleveland the other day, he found
iore ornamental glass stand IN front OF the platform
iu,a with water and plants That is very pretty. ne
aatd obut IL must come away; 1t would feel Ike an
iceberg between me aud my congregation" And when
- wont IN he church where he l. also 10 speak he
Injected t. the platform being too far back, asking Tor
r one m front the other, " So that can he
rit t.to ana not feel though were talking across
n .,reef" Mr. Moody viii stay month an Cleveland
and Will thea 40 To -. Louis.
A doughty warrior looks Bismarck III these
DAYS with his proud. gait. his steady. cold eyes,
and hi. hercuean shoulders ana chest set Oh 10 sdsAn
rage in the clOse-buttouei uniform. lac heavy mus
tache. falling over his firm lip aud massive Jaw, Is
snowy white. The Prince appears 10 look forward 70
hard work all his life a. toO ho said 10 ~ Ieisserenc
e Bort the other day. "have at times devoted myself
10 the management OF my land like agriculture and
n WAS my happy time. out now, nO:~ outstanding the
state Of nv health forbidden to think OF It. can
moi moreover, understand how Count Audrassy can
have resolved give his post AT such moment ana
In the prime OF hfe
Mr. Whittier's own statement OF the origin
of his poem OF Maud Muller" Ia quoted by CORE
spondent OF The Springfield Republican He was driving
with his slater through York. Me-, and stopped az
harvest field to inquire tho way. young gir raking
hay near the stoue-wa stopped 10 answer their In
auries Whittier noticed as she talked that she bash
fully raked the hay around aud over her bare feet aud
she WAS frcsh The little incident left Its linz
presson and he the poem that very evening
~ But n bad had any idea" ho said. that the
plaguey little thing would have been so liked. should