New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-22
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Herbert Spencer has publicly stated himself
to be stro lgy opposed to compulsory vaccination
Mile. Vera Sassulitch has not been exterminated
in Ru,sia--because she has not left Switzerland.
She is living in Geneva. and writing for revolu'
uonary Journal
Mr.. Sothern is quoted by The Chronicle, Of San
Francisco rs saying that he looks upon Irving in
England and Booth in America as being really ths
only TWO great wearers of the buskin to-day.
President Hayes with democratic simplicity,
walks to church and walks home with vigorous
stride and with head erect. He almost always
takes walk before breakfast and drive after
Office hours.
Mr.. Matthew Arnold is now ffty-seven years old.
lie lives lost of the time in London, has been mar
red for many years, and has several grownup chill
dren fIe has never tried TO make money by bis
peu: and he has a small independence Inherited
from his tarher the admirable Master OF Rng6y.
1t is related by the Washington correspondent OF
The Courcr-Journal that gentleman who saw
copy o Voltaire living on Colonel Robert lngefsolPs
table inquired: " How much did this hook cost
YOuV and the Colonel answered: The governor
ship Of Illinois"
NJ f. r. Bidceman will send two pictures TO tLs
PARIS Salon this Spring. One is an Arab interior,
the other an encampment in the desert. Nh
Bal, semau has been giving some attention TO por-
trai IRE and has painted q picture OF his BABY
daughter which described as admirable
Herr Iubke, Tie distinguished art-crtic Of Ger
many. and the author OF the book recently miro
duced here by NJ Clarence Cook, lives very plea
sanity in Stuttgart, with hs accomplished and
refined wife. He is man OF about siXty-hye, wlt1
county, manners, a handsome person, a me Dr9ad
forehead. and genial, attractive lace framed ln
white bar and beard.
The Vicomte dc TocQucvllle. nephew of the dis
tnguished author is now visiting San Francisco
with hIs charming young wife. Both are greatly
pleased with America. and the Yicomtessc thinks
that there are many things here, that could be
probably copied by The French. The Nicomte Is
man of thirty. member Of the a. scmbly, ana Was
a colonel in the Franco-Prussian war.
King Alphon,o has s.nt photograph of himself.
beautifully framed, in Spanish enamel Of gold and
silver on steel to the Historical Society Of Missouri
The picture bears the Klugs autograph, and is
token If approval Of the S0cety's intended ceebra'
ton of the anniversary Of the first Mississippi eH
plOTaton.
Principal Sharp, the Oxford Professor of Poetry
il liked a the university for his kindly Scotch
manner and for hi, reverence Tor the subject Of hi;
lectures; but though those lectures are vel
written. and HIS language is expressive and char
ac,eristIc She young oxford don goes not after MN
thinking lin too fond OF Wordsworth, anu MS
! audience Is chiefly made up OF the genler sex.
Professor Agassz is reported to have become very
wealthy rs president aud shareholder OF the Calu'
met and Hecla copper mines Of Lake Superior. Al
\ time when the stock was sold for cents on th,
u
dollar he visited the mines and his scientific eyei
Instantly saw their value, His income from then
for several months past is said so be -, 300 day
since 1870 the Professor has gwen 10 harvard
/ College the generous amount Of 100000.
HIS Majesty King CetywayO IS occupying himself
in social and scientific studies at Cape Town. Ht
has calculated that each charge fired by foreign
ships IA sautng the fort is of the value OF an OK
He also concludes that it is more expensive to Keep
ND ornaments in Europe than in Zulu and. And he
thinks Queen Victoria very discourteous in not an
sw.ring his message of contritIOn. Not long ago
ha was taken 10 call upon rhe eX-Chiet langalloa-
lrle The visit WAS very stif and formal nc hrs6,
but the savage celebrities presently " thawed" and
parted cordially.
Count Moltke rs a legislator Is punctnal and
persistent Though.he doesn't often address the
Reichstag he is nearly always present at the sit
tings, rarely absenting himself even from tedious
deliberations When he rises to make one Of hh
ferse speeches there is a comm0tIOn among his col
leagues, who hasten from all sides not to lose
word falling from his lips. lie never attempts any
oratorica flourish. and speaks slowly in rather
monotonous tone. He gives the impression that he
is abOung under great neryo0ness, althoug M
obviously endeaYOrs 70 hide tins weakness from hli
hearers By a feIgnei attitude OF cOmpOsure.