New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-13
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PERSONAL.

Prince Bismarck has just celebrated bis sixty
seventh birthday In Berlin.
Vice-President Wheeler is described as being very
fond of animals, and often stopping during his
walks to stroke stray cat or dog
The Empress of Russia is said to be kept alive by
morphine, diluted goats milk and small epieces OF
raw meat put into strong boRsttoH.
There is q rumOr of the possible marriage OF the
Princess Beatrice. of Britain, to Prince Tomas
Albert Victor. Duke of Genoa, and younger brother
of Queen Margaret, OF Italy.
Mr.. Henry L. Lamb. acting Superintendent OF
the Banking Department for whose place Mr. Hep
burn has been nominated, Is mentioned as the pos
sible editor of The Albany Journal.
Ex-Minister Washburne has been suffering during
the past Winter from almost constant headaches
the result of the malaria Of sewer-gas. He thinks
that the Hot Springs have helped him.
Three farmer brothers of the late William Cullen
Bryant live in Princeton. III. They are described
as good honest and substantial men, only one, MI.
J. Fl. Bryant having literary capacity. He has
written many poems, and published them, 700: ne
dwells in handsome house, which was the gitt OF
his distinguished brother.
An article by Mr.. Bret Harte on the Chinese in
California appears in German In the Vienna Neae
Fee Presse The paper COngratulates Its readers in
an editorial paragraph the accession to the ranks
VI VI WiibOA UAVb W S~~
ity of his genius observation and the power Of his
pom, has obtained an influence reaching far beyond
the boundaries OF his own country. Mr. Hartes
paper is serious essay on the Chinese problem on
the Pacific Coast, which must provo es instructive
as 1t Is interesting to European readers.
Mr.. Francis Murphy has received from divers
Philadelphia friends the gift of house in that
city. Mr.. Murphy took possession Of his new home
on Saturday. for the first time In ten years gather
ing his six children together under one roof. 1.-THE
last time they were together" says Tho Record,
" was a year after Mrs. Murphy died. and when the
father had given up his life OF dissipation, and mad
begun, in feeble way, to preach temperance. lie
was too poor then to support Them and placing the
girls In an orphan asylum aud the boys ON farms:
he started out on his crusade. When he had saved
$40 be removed the girls from the asylum and
placed them in Christian homes, where he maj
tanned them"
CURIOUS letter, said to have been written by Ma
poleon /. to his father when the future Emperor
was mere child and pupil at the military school
at Brienne has just been published in France. 1t Is
dated April 5, 1871, and runs thus: Father. II
you or my protectors cannot afford me the means OF
living more honorably In this house, bring me back
home at once. 1 am tired of proclaimng my ndi-
gence and Of seeing the sneers of insoent scholars
whom nothing but their fortune elevates above me,
but there is not one who is not hundred pixies
below the noble sentiments which animate me. Is
your son TO remain Ine lauBnlnB'BUOck OF lew
pdltOquets. who, vain of their own means OF enjoy.
ment insult me by smiling at my privatIonsi II
you are unable to afford me any Improvement OF my
position here, take me away from Brenne, and put
me into some mechanical position. From this otfer
you may judge of my despair. Please believe that
my letter has not been dictated by the vain desire
of induging in expensive amusements, which have
no taste for. only want to be able to show that
have the means of procuring them like my compan-
ions. Your respectful and affectionate son, Bona
parte"
CALCUTTA, April 12.-Count Szeohenyi has ar
rived having accomplished his journey through
China to Bhamo.
PARIS, April 12.-Prince Hohenlohe. the German
Ambassador, will leave here on the 18th inst. on
his return to Berlin to assume the functions of
Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
PARIS, April 12.-Pere Didon. the Dominican.
has been rustcated by the general of his Order and
will be iuterned in small monastery Of Carbaro.
on the island of Corsica, inhabited by halfdozen
Italian monks The story of the capture OF the
Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen by Soilian
brigands is untrue.