The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-07-25
AVUntics.
PERSONS AND THINGS.

Mr.. NJ. b. Latimcr and son will leave in Il
few days for the mountains Of Virginia.
The Rev. Mr. Addison is visiting Col.
IIewlit's family at the old homestead near Cam
bridge on the Eastern shore.
Mr.. S. ii. Lemon, advance agent of Robert
Stckney's Imperial circus, which viii shortly appear
here, paid us visit yesterday.
Chief Justice Waite is at Mount Desert.
Justice Clifford is ut Cornish Me-, and Justices Miller
and Harlan are guests at Block Island.
At Fort Yuma the thermometer stands ut
ll5 degrees at midnight. So says the san Francisco
POST A man gets his Turkish bath In that country
In spite Of himself, and without paying anything
for It..
Senator Beck has returned from the Vir-
ginia mountains, where he has been living with and
like the mountaineers for the past few weeks and Is
al his daughters home ''Wo"drere, - la Mary
land.
"If,' says a correspondent of the RW Mail
Ga=ette, ave can conceive Italy without Piedmont
and l.ombardy, or Austria without ITS German
provinces 1t would give some idea Of what Afghans-
tan would he without the Province Of Candal'ar.'
The privates in the English army are
| clamoring for Increase of the meat ration. At
present the IrDy and Macy hazette maintains the
want of sufficient meat drives the private to the can
| teen and Ia the public house to MI his stomach
with beer to make mp for the short supply OF animal
| food.
The following dialogue takes place between
"Where does all the river water goI'' G.-"into
| the sean C. And how happens 1t, with all The
afiuents Of rivers, that the sea never ovarows ~
lyon great donkey! the slonges absorb the en-
| cess. ~ There Is nothing like science.
The venerable octogenarian, Father Cur
ley, who has been connected with Georgetown College
for time whereof the memory OF the present geIier
alton Of mankind rnnnefh not tnte contrary, lett the
college Friday for Philadelphia on tour for health
aud recreation The Venerable Gentleman stands In
Gently climbed To the top u: the lofty college tower Of
| his own motion, u feat which many younger mel,
| would regard with disiay. Sic h"r al "sfrd.
Speaking of Mr.. Bright, Lord George Ham
iltDn saws he is liberal enough about land which he
does not and about church to which he does not
belong but touch tie question of trade. and paricu-
larry that brancnf trade with which lie IS personally
concerned and 1t VIII he found that u more selfish oh
sructiye never entered the House OF Commons Does
Lord George mean, asks the PdH MdH GaIeits, that
Mr. Bright ever wlfully Obstincied the business OF The
| Legislature IN order la serve lbs own personal end
and t.os. of u firm AZ Rochdae with which le Is oi
was .onnectedy Does he mean that Mr.. bright ever
seihshly opposed the Treaty at Commerce with France,
| ih,f he ever sefshy advocated the imposition oi
duties upon Australian wool or American cotton on thu
colufsui rd IN dytlhb'
There are said to l,- no fewer than eigl,
teen members OF the Vanderbilt family now staying
al the Hotel Bristol, Paris, and even the suite al
apartments usually Reserved for the Prince of Wales
has been given up 10 the American millionaire.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, We are told Is sitting u
M-issonier for her portrait, but II Is very mpr1la,
| that MeissOnicr viii himself do much work on th,
picture, lie N known Ia have refused several Euro
pecan oienlaies, not caring as he says. I" go down IL
| posisriy as 'painicr al iikeness1s.' And, more
over, 90, OoD flames which Is the snn that Mr.. Van
dribill is said Ia have agreed 10 pay, II very low
| price for picture by this renowned artist. Mis-
katharine T.. WOLFE during her last absence II
| paintt, ii her. II ~ not unlikely that nounat ol
Cabanel Is al work GA Mrs. NandeIhlli's plciEre 81
possibly Mcasonicr may employ less celebrate,
artist do the IOngher part of the work and put N
the finishing touches hinseif
Mr.. John Cross, says correspondent o
the H0mdH's JpurHdi Is an excellent man of forty
two years, rich, aud an old aud devoted friend ot TN
lived close by the Leweses' country place and cam
Ia aud out like an attached relation. He admfe'
Mrs. Lewes profoundly, and always said lac would d.
anything Ia the world Tor her. lie Is not an intel
lectual companion like MI. lewef hut strong, solid
reliable man, Who gives you al once sense Of cont
dence, o thoroughly reliable Kind, upright steadfas
mana thOrOugh support; such man as any wOunl
would be thankful 10 have near her as constant
, devoted friend. Nothing Is more wise aud inor
happy than that such an Invaluable hiend should h
allowed Ia supply the daily care and hiecl0natc com
partnership which his admiration aid his aIlectlO
the woman, with her tender anh yiulaing uatuIe. IL
uuCunsciuusy skrtched la Maggie Iulliyer aud DoIo
thea. 10 resist the soothing support of such devote
, affection.
The wife OF William Morris the poet, cal
give points 10 Mrs Langry and The rest Of The pro
fessiOnal beauties, II a correspondent Of the Inter
4 Ocsda Is To be trusted: 'she Il mysterious
: Egyptian looking woman with great strange So
eyes, oriental complexion burning scarlet lips
aud the expression OF ineable remoteness and vague
ness that one Ia Imagination gives TO the sphinx IN
Young lady face Was just one of the ineXpIessibl
melancholy thar the pre- Iaphaelites adore
lust the type Of young women coming down the 'gO
den stairs In Burne Joues's picture al the GTOsyenO
Gallery this year-and Morris married her. NJ
4 long ago this lady az evening party robe
q the sheeriest, hlmiest White muslin line enough to Il
drawn through ring. The pettic0at under II mu,
n have been the same for the folds OF HE robe rluug
her body and limbs as II cut there 10y the hnest chlse
4 At the waist this Thin robe was confined by long
3 supple chain IN the form Of serpent which, ate
wTiihing about her body, dIopped It's leweiel hea
by her iei side. where It's diamond eyes giered an
harmed IKE IRE. Egyptian bracelets and necklac
adorned her arms and neck, and an Egyptian masqu
gathered and held the folds of the robe the throat
Iier black hair one thick mass of short cuIls
, lay elose down 10 her eyes, erep In and out by an
nther golden serpent with jeweled scales aud hurnin
syss. One wOud nave said she Was Cleopatra, VII
had turned her asps into gold aud loves hhd
life 10 dazzle barbarian world II tue uudiyiu
William Is married Ia such woman as This thu Hui
: falo Courier doesn't wonder that lac has stOpIe
whiting poetry. with creature who wears tbi
style OF dress peilicoai, and CHAIN HE must he a
eternal poem and the mandatory iOr Wallpaper
! yeritable earthly paradise.