New-York tribune., 1880-02-17
PERSONAL.


General o. L. Babcock. as well as General Grant,
has legacy from the late A. 4. Bore. IL amounta
to S5,000 to be paid IN yearly instalments OF
81 $50.
Herr Richard Wagner refuses very positively to
be interviewed" Not one of the many foreign
and Italian journalists who have called upon him al
his present home IN Italy has been admitted 10 his
presence.
All the Gladstone family with the exception Of
the ex-Prime Minister, are staunch Tories. Sin
Thomas the elder brother. carries mis- political
differences into his personal relationship with Mr.
Gladstone. and does not lind time TO call upon bin
when he visits London.
Mr.. Howard Paul has erected a beautiful marble
monument to the memory of his wife in Bromptoc
Cemetery. 1t bears this inscription from Spenser
"Sleepe after toyle. port after stormie seas cass
after ware, death after life does greatly please"
Mrs. Fanny Kemble clngs, IL is said, TO the
ancient dramatic traditions caring not for nnoya
tions. She was asked lately by Baroness Burdetf
Coutts If she had seen Mr. Irving in the part Of
"Shylock." "Ses,' she said, 81 have" And
whaI do You think of the performance y insisted
the Baroness. " La my opinion" answered Mira
Kembe, ' If Shakespeare could see 10 he would re-
write the part"
Miss Charlotte Angus Scott the young lady who
has just gained so high position in the Maihcmat-
cal Tnpos at Cambridge. is only twenty-five years
old and the daughter OF Principal Scott, of Ian.
cashire College. From her earliest childhood she
has gwen evidence Of unusual mathematical ability
Her education carried on almost entirely n hci
own home until three years ago, when she entered
GirtOu College at Cambridge.
The flower painter, NJ. Tremblay, whose picture,
were once popular. was lately found, dead IN his
s1ualId room in Paris. lie had lived in apparent
poverty for the last few years. When his posses
sions were examined by his family a trunk was dis
covered which was filled to the brim with gold
coins mostly of the periods Of Napoleon |. aud Loui.
XVlll. He was an expert la numsmatics. and had
such an affection for his rare collection that hc suf.
fered the severest deprvations than part
with "a single coin.
Mr.. John RusSn. having been invited by gal
ery promotion committee In Leicester TO giyo hs
opinion as to how permanent art gallery can best
bo formed writes: what is there In my telling
you what to dOH Tho mob won't let you do It, II
Is fatally true that nowadays appreciate
pictures by the old masters. and that every
understand Friths Derby Day. That is to say,
everybody interested in Jockeys. harlos. mounte-
banks, and men about town; but nobody In saints.
heroes kings. wise men, either from the East OF
West. What can you dot III your committee 10
strong enough to carry such resolution rs the ape
pointmeut Of any sngly responsible person any
wel-intOrmed gentleman OF taste In your nei9hbor
hood to buy for the Leicester public Just what hs
would buy for himself-that is TO saw. himself and
his family, children being the really most import
ant part OF the uUtaught- public and to answe7
simply to all accusaton-That is a good and worthy
pIeco of aTt-lpast or present, no matter which,
make the most and best you can OF IT,"
LONDON, Feb. l0.-slr John Van Horne. Vice
President of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, sailed for America on Saturday last. lie ha.
been greatly benefited IN health by his sojOurn 10
Europe.