, 1880-11-26
Personal and Otherwise.


tria and Hungary. He is strong in
stature and his corpulency increases.
General Garibaldi is so feeble that
the utmost care and repose are re-
CURED to restore him to his ordinary
health
The Queen Of Italy has made gift to
the Italian Roman Catholic Church Of
Boston Of bronze statuette of Agustus
Cesar, of exquisite workmanship.
Mr.. George Bancroft, the historian,
entered Harvard College in 1913, when
only thirteen years of age, and was
graduated with honor in the class of
1917.
Miss Marie Paul Ninninger, the
new caatatrice, who has recently been
received with much favor in New
York, is a niece of Secretary of War
Ramsey.
Marcus Richardson, of Bangor, Me-,
who was 100 years old the last Of Octo-
Der, has been Mason for II years, and
is probably the oldest member Of the Or
der living.
The Rev. DR.. Garnet has advices
from Liberia stating that the refugees
from Arkansas, sent out last Spring, are
settled upon farms, and are prosperous
and happy.
Mr.. Wendell Phillips will not this sea-
son be able to begin his lectures before
January. Mrs. Phillips health is so
precarious that her husband is often
forced to cancel his lecturing angage-
ments.
The new incumbent of the chair Of
Latin at Yale College, Prof. Tracy Peck,
wants the Roman system of pronounc-
ing Latin adopted there, and it will
probably be done, beginning with the
next class. f h"'
The Gear, when at his palace in Ii
vida, is continually surrounded by po-
licemen and soldiers. The park and
castle are watched by night and day by
imperial spies, to prevent the influx of
Nihilistic assassins.
Many quaint old colonial documents
are now lying in the archives Of the
county court Of Virginia in a decayed
condition, though the rayages Of war left
them untouched. Some of the lovers Of
antiquities should gather them together
for the benefit of history. .......,.
The correspondence Of Peter the Great
will shortly be published by Imperial
authority at st. Petersburg, The work
of editing the materials has already
been seven years in hand. The text is
elucidated by commentaries from the
pen of the Russian academician Bytch-
kotf. .s...r
French physicians have found brandy
to be perfect antidote to drunkenness
from beer, and French paper declares
that cabbage is sovereign remedy, or
rather antidote against intoxication, and
that by eating certain amount people
may drink ad libitum afterward without
inconvenience.
"Tkere is nothing seotarian about
Minister James Russell Lowell" says
writer in the Gentleman's Magazine,
nothing of the stump, nothing 'shod-
dy;' he is simply scholar, a man of
letters, and true patriot, and by vir.
tue of his wide culture and generous
sympathies, in the best sense, citizen
of the world.
When Charles Dickens visited st.
Louis in April, 1912, he became inter-
ested in "a little woman with baby"
his fellow passengers on Mississippi
steamer, and, learning the little woman's
romantic history, described it at some
length in "American Notes." The baby
is still living in the person Of Mr.
Charles K. Garrison, who was given
Dickens reception on his thirty-ninth
birthday recently.
Mrs. Arnold, tie sole surviving sister
OF StOnewall Jackson, now lives at Buck
hannon, West Virginia She was
throughout the war faithful Unionist,
although every member of her family
except one--a young nephew-was
secessionist. For her brother she enter
tains strong affection, and insists that it
was with extreme reluctance and pro-
found misgiving that he took up arms
against his country.
Marie, daughter of the Gar of Rus
sia and wife Of the Duke Of Edinburg,
is said to deeply desire to become known
to and popular with the English people.
She is described as genial, kindly, ac-
complished and highly educated, and her
want of popularity is probably owing TO