New-York tribune., 1880-01-15
PERSONAL.

The Hon. r. A. Lamberton, an able lawyer Of
Harrisburg has accepted the presidency of Lehgh
University.
Mr. Arnor Mori has arrived in London as Minis
ter from Japan. Since his Washington mission he
has been Japanese Envoy to China.
Ex-Governor Garceon will soon visit Washington,
whence he will escort his daughter home to Maine.
Miss Garcelon has been visiting her aunt Mrs. Frye.
Mrs. Katharine Chase Spraguc is reported to be
assisting Mr.. Z. s. Hamlin in preparing biography
OF her father, the late ChIef-Justice.
Dr. Fraser, the clever and accomplished Bishop of
Manchester, is about to be married. He is almost
elderly. and there is a quaint umor that his court
ship has extended over quarter of century.
Mrs. Ramsey. the wife of the secretary, was be-
fore her marriage Miss Anna jerks, the daughter
of member of Congress from Bucks County Penn
svlyanla.
NJ. Ernest Renan will visit England in April. de-
iverng lectures in London and going to Oxford as
the guest of Professor Max Miller. lie is TO give
a lecture at the Royal Institution on " Marcus
Aurellus."
Queen Margaret Of Italy is said to be nervous
and hystercal and when General Cialdinl paid hera
visit to amuse her with details of the Spanish mar
riage festvItles she interrupted bls narration abb
ruptly telling him that she felt distracted and i'll
She will return to Rome this month.
The Emperor William was in good health and
spirits when on NewYear's Day he received all his
relations aud the Court. He vsibly moved
when ans wering the congratulations Of his officers
warmly shaking hands with Won Moltke. Since the
death of Field-Msrshal rangel no speech is deIIy
cred on this occasion.
Major P0ore Says that Western lady owns let
ter from her grndmother in which the latter ex-
plans that the reason why she had time for letter
writing in the evening was that cousin Grace
Fletcher Is trying to entertain q young man by the
name of Daniel Webster by playing checkers.
Father and Uncle Chamberlain think him young
man OF great promise, bIt girls think him aW X
ward ana rather ycrdant."
Mr. Curtin is quoted by Cath" in The Cincinnati
Eaqgirer as saying of Mr. Parnell: He is fully
half American. His mother was the daughter of
Old Admiral Charles Stewart. of Pennsylvania. who
captured the British ships Cyane and Levant. Stew
arts daughter married an lrshman, ParLell, who
belongs 20 the family OF the old poet Parneu. She
lives IN jersey City, and has considerable amount
of property.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote to a lady, who
was one of his most valued English friends letter
from which a reviewer in The AthenGHm makes
characteristic quotation. She had asked him TO
fancy ball and he answered: Mr.. Hawthorne
bcgs to assure Mrs IL that he is quite sensible Of
his own folly and absurdlty in declining
an invitation which any other man would
40 down upon his knees TO get He
finds himself, indeed in the position of m
owl or n bat when invited to take pleasure trip in
the sunshine he cannot deny that it would be q
most delightful affair, but siil feels it filter for
himself TO stay in bis dusky hole than to 20 blink
ing about among other peoples cnJOyments. Inc
truth Is. Nj. H. has all his lie been undel spell
from which ii is now too late to tree himseif-or
rather, be was born a solitary brute. and he
otherwise account for his now being able to resist
Mrs. lis invitation