New-York tribune., 1879-10-17
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Bret Harte Is said to have suffered
much In health from the climate Of his consular post
Creied in Rhensh Prussia, he ID, however, able IA
write
Mr.. Walt Whitman has been Ill in ST. Louis
for two weeks but is recovering lie still intends to
lecture the coming Winter and give public readings Of
his own poems.
cold Friends and New a little book pub
llshed by Houghton. Osgood Co. last week. not by
Miss Sara Jewett, the popular Of the
newspapers saying, but by Miss Sarah o. Jewett Of
South Berwick, Me.
Mr.. Whittier wrote in response 10 an invi-
tation to attend recent meeting Of sympathy with
eaant farmers in Ireland; do not understand fully
the condition OF the Irish tenant farmers at the present
time, but my sympathes are with the laboring poor.
Mr.. Worth, the man-milliner, Is described
by Miss Brewster The telegraph OF Philadelphia a.
STOPPING, simply ydressed man OF middle height, with
round gOodDaured face with hOmey, simple, straight
forward His son. twenty years old, is en-
pOyed with his father and Is said TO be even cleYerer
tuan Worth In demgning gowns.
President Lincoln, it is stated by Mr.. W. II.
Lamon. had from boyhood a present. ment that he
should President OF this country ano he also mad
presentnent thar he should die a violent death Mrs.
Lincoln too is said to have entertained the same belief
his attaining to the Presidency she Is quoted
saying: He's going 10 be President aud that's the
reason married him, for YOU know he lent pretty"
The cradle which the King of Burmah has
just had manufactured for his child is magnificent
10 cost the State two lacs OF rupees. IL was hrst
framed with mango wood aud then eneased with sheet
gold inside and over this Is ornamental gold work
set with diamonds, rubes, eapphircs, emerads and
other precious stones The cradle Is swung rod
by cords made 0i god wire and the bed on cushion -
of embroidered green velvet. The baOys wardrobe cost
1000 rupees.
The King of Siam. approaching the results
The English education OF his childhood Is giving The
advantages to his own children Princess Civil,
his bright clever Ito ten-year-old daughter, receives
from accomplished nglish lady regular instruction
in French. English and German, music dancing and
drawing The Qnccn her mother. takes great Interest
ia the lessons, and Is pleased with foreign ways tnat
she talks oi adopting tue European dress.
The entertainment given to General and
Mrs Grant by senator sharon az ms home OF " Bel
mont week Is described by the California journals
delightful The very large. very richly hted
and furnished ana Il was crowded from end 10 tho
other with magnificent flowers. In the reception paror
where the General stood were quantities of costly
eXotc.. aud on either side II nm were Large stands oI
blossoms special trans D.0asht te guests WHO were
numbered by hundreds.
Amasa Stone. esq. OF Cleveland, Ohio, who
recently built and endowed Home ior Aged Women In
that city, has made another addition 10 his list ~ 0tne-
factions AT meeting Of tho trustees OF the CniidTens
Aid Society, ot Cleveland held on Monday last, they
were agreeab!y surprised by aproposalo 3l stone to
erect, at his own expense "a spacious ard convenient
arcproof building OF Amherst stone. adapted 10 the
present and future needs Of that admirable insinton
work VIII begin on the new strnc'ur immediately.
The Archduchess Christina is to wear a
bridal vel Of Brussels point lace worked with the arms
Of the different kingdoms into which Spain was once
divided II the gift of her aunt the Queen OF the Bel
giaDs The young ladys bridal dress il OF SILVER cloth
embroidered in garlands with sparkling white Jet
Many Of her new copies OF the fashions OK
the time Of Louis XIII. One Of them is OF blue en-
bossed velvet and opalcoored satin trimmed with
frnges OF small pearls intermingled with silver lace
Her cambric handkerchefs are worked with the arms
or Spain and Austria In gold thread.