New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-04-18
PERSONAL.

Colonel T. W. lligg;nson IS, to give an adj
dre.s at Bates College commandments
Mary Paul, a granddaughter OF the famous
pryateer John Plnl Jones' lately died I'D sco'"H" az
the age OF seyenty-niue. Her ancestors name was
really John Pau!-when ne entered the pfl'@'cei'NS
bu,lucss he added tie Jones'
One Of Mr.. George Bancrofts thin little
volumes of early poems sold for sl5 a. recent
Iool, sale IN this city. somebody told Mr. Bancroft
obout AN! ne said; I've pentyot them put
aNay and would have sold one for half tie money
The late Walter Bagehot was fond OF hunt
ing but cared nothing for the ordinary amusement" OF
societv lie once said that he wished lac could think
h,rs wicked being So unqucstonabiy stupid, with
ali tneir little blue anu PINK girls 50 lAe ea'h Vhci
senator Beck is tall and large, with black
hair and dark eyes, and somewhat hrrS t"ml'A Oh
He speaks III rather eXctable and "raspy asHoH
senator Hoar his antagonist OF Wednesday = gray
he ,rled naa with an earnest face bright blue eyes,
oud cor,ulexion OF almost tufautine freshness ic
snroks in "A Massachusetts, manner delivering u
INN voice sentences that like tourists OF napier
". Sarcey. writing of Dinah Felix, the sister
of the great Rachel, says that Papa Felix objected
much TO his youngest daughters going upon the stage
When al last an occasion presented itself FOR bile.
Dr,b IN appc,r with her sister in AHac he refused %
leave his home al Montmorency and 70 to Paris Tor her
convenience On theatre nights, therefore, Ae oman
had TO take the train 10 SaDtDenis. where donkey
sited her on whuss back size had 10 ride home across
H. Min Her father Thought 10 discourage her by thS
feasone nocturnal saop. but Mlie. Oman had not mis-
taken her vocation.
Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh, does not APP
pearat all ugly in the eyes OF Mrs. Hooper. The latter
avs that the pictures OF the Duchess lar from doing
bcr us,ce she has become much tGuer, and her face
has in consequence. lost the heavy look that was ITS
chief defect. she has lovely blooming compexion'
and would be very pretty her chm were not too short
she is tall and gracefland her figure when Mrs l0opcr
saw her was shown 60 ADVANTAGE IN the very simple
ret OF black braided cloth that she wore over plicA
silk skirt She Is very intelligent anu hlshl Uceo
p.hed
Describing dinner at Mr. Bryants, tho
late r H. Dana said: "Aucr dinner, Hallrck and
t.lEed mounrchsm, with nobility and third order
ecopyh 10 prevent dcspousn. nothing mole. Bryant
~, nv hearing us why, said he. you are not IN
aoruestV Never So was our answer Bryant stiii
hold, to simple democracy believe. HOwfar Mr. llas-
lccK may have modified his creed know not. For my
.el, am only better than ever satisfied what Moor
rc.be creature man Is 90 govern under the Ni9e't
adopted forms. But mau Will have TO come 10 otde1s
and degrees at last"
OF Herr August Wilhelmj Mr.. j. X. VI
Uassard saws IN Scrbner that the Distinguished must
elan began 10 use the violin the OF four Al seven
he exhbted his accomplishments FOR the entertainment
Of Henrietta sOutag, who on Visit 10 his iahS'
and he was 40 charmed with the exactncSs OF MS exc
cutIon and tho purity and beauty oi his Tone thai sho
embraced aud kissed him. and predicted for him spieh
dI future When only elsat he played IN qn'ret' 'l
Haydn. when sixteen years old he set out Tor "enat
TO submit himself the Judgment OF L'Ef FOR tAe eaeS