New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-14
PERSONAL.

| Mr. W. d. Howells has not gone to the Pacific
| Coast with the Presidential party, but is hard at
| work III Boston.
| Chow Phya- BhammW onges the Siamese Am
basSador in Paris Is to receive a civilized decora
| ton rs Commander Of the Legion of Honor
Wilhclmina Helena Paulna Maria is the
very long name of the very little daughter of the
| King and Queen of the Netherlands. She is to be
| called Princess Wilhelmina. and girl can have
| no pretensiOns to the throne OF Holland.
| Mr. Billie the new DANISH Minister to this c0un-
| try, is said by The WhtchaU Rcriec to have incur
red the displcasure of his sovereign by appearing
before him in plain clothes instead OF an official
unIlOrm-a grlcyOuS mistake.
Tie Commission that was appointed to choose
nurses for the royal infant at Madrid selected five
young women of the Province of Santander, all of
| very dark complexion The one who has attracted
the most attention. Leocada Fernandez is said to
be of the highest type of Arab beauty, with large
soft eyes and glossy hair
Queen Victoria drove out and visited her PEN
soners as soon she reached her Scotch estate and
was received with ordinations and tears by the old
men and women. Crathie Church, where the Queen
went on the following day, was cranmed to sutio-
cation, for not only the natives, but the tourists
within ten miles came to gaze upon their ruler.
Mr.Ashmead Bartlett, tiance of Baroness Burdett-
Coutts. and her amoner both i'll Ireland and the
East Is said, in England, to be entirely English by
descent his grandfather having been born an Eng
lish subject The Baroness will probably, therefore.
retain her immense fortune despite some of her re-
latlons who wished TO profit prcmlturey by the ca
PRECIOUS clause III the Duchess Of St. Albanss will.
Mile Bernhardt is foolish in her loyalty to her
country While in Copenhagen she found among
her letters one day which she supposed to be
Danish and turning to an acquaintance she asked
hin, IN read il her II was bp0piuQ letter and
written in German. "lS 1t German y she SAID, and
her eyes flashed. 'QueHe mfamie de m'oddresser moi
en- Allcmand" and she snatched the letter and tore
it to pieces.
A spirited picture of General Garfield on the plat
form twenty years ago is given by an old friend,
who speaks of the fresh, elastic joyous and reliant
manner in which he came upon the stage, and the
seeming almost infinite vitality vigor aud resources
of tho man. His words were glad leaping words.
coming from a man of life and putting life into the
hearers. His words of greeting and OF cheer have
passed from me, but the sparkling electrical life and
fire of the man. and his speaking counteuance and
form. still live fresh and present IN my mind"
A characteristic story of George Sand in the days
when she was writing " Leila" is told by the Paris
Presse. The Trappist Monastery of Foutgombauld.
which did not. of course, admit feminine sgh-seers
within its walls was one day visited by slender, dis
tinguishcd ooking gentleman, whose grace and Dig
nifty were such that the admTing porter conducted
him to the Father Superior who himself es-
corted the visitor through the chapel and libra
Ties. The stranger showed much learning aud
talked so charmingy that his good guide was sur
prlsed and delighted. AT last the gate reached.
The stranger handed his card to the eccleslastic
and vanished. The monk looked at 1t and made the
sign OF the cross Ii bore tho name of George Sand.
NIAGARA FALLS, Sept. 13.-BarOn Ernest Mayr,
Austrian Minister to tho United States and Max
Outrsy, French Minis ter to the United States. have
arrived here.