New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-13
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Swinburne has written an ode of 500 lines on
Victor Hugos seventy birthday. and IL is to
be published Immediately.
Mr. w. j. Gilbert is said to have received from
Mr. Sothern the sum of $l5 900 as the price Of his
new comedyj and tho actor ~ quoted as saying that
he would not take $50 900 for 1t now.
Mr. Carlyle has not been well Of late. having
been unable to take even carriage exercise. He
sees no society beyond his family circle and
few literary frierds including Mr. Fronde and Mr.
LeclSy An occasional failure of memory Is SAID TO
be the only sign of mental weakness shown by the
Chelsea sage.
The engagement Is announced of Miss Louisa
Evarts the youn gest daughter of Secretary Eyarts
TO Dr. Charles Scudder. of Henry J. Scudder
of Scudder & Carter DR.. Scudder, who is at pres
ent house surgeon III Bellevue Hospital intends to
spend next year in Europe following his proies-
sOnal studies.
Lord Beaconshed had an ancestor who possessed
inventive talent A Jewish gentleman has discov
cred tho following in the calendar of the British
Home Office Papers under date Of May 20. 1867 ::
decentralization of Benjamin DIsraeli, for
patent in England etc. for bis invention OF the art
OF making womens chip bats aud hornets. and the
materials called patt or plating. referred to the
Attorney or SolicitOr-General, May 20"
Henri Reguaut, that brilliant artist, too early
dead. when in Spain made portrait of Prim The
latter when he came to see the picture. was eX-
tremely dlscOurteOu5 To the artist, ueCldrlnB III
b,ucbty. brusaue way that il was not good like
mesa nor To his taste Regnaut, disguised, left
Madrid with the portrait. " travelled thlrd-clasS."
Inc saiI IN the bitterness of his heart II there had
been y sxth-class compartment on the railway |
would have taken It. SO Inundated did feel"
Mr.. Mllaiss new picture, Cherry Ripe" is de-
scribed as very quaint and pretty. 1t represents
tiny maid of four years old or thereaDout, seated,
facing the spectator, on the fallen trunk.
of a tree Her head is crowned with
a huge mob-oap Her little black-mittened
hands are clasped between her knees, and
her toes turned In, Of course, dange in the air. The
background Is a shadOwy bank Of tangled weed and
honeysucklQ cabbage leaf full of red and black
cherries gives its namo to the picture.
Assistant-Sccretary- of-Stato John Hay is quoted
nv The Leader of Cleveland as saying that at a din
nor nor long ago with Senator Blaine he felt more
than ever that he had never a man with such
universal and exact knowledge Blaine was at
bo,nc ON every subject of conversation
whether II were of general or special interest
With q learn +, naturalist he could discourse MI
pnrelv and ipteihgentv on The most abstract theo-
rs ~ evolutiou With physicians he could discuss
ti. Iotest theories of disease while his knowledge
of mechanics and chemistry was such that he
rnuld exulaiu the newest discoveries IN electricity
XII The implication of s. cam. OF wit lie was over
having In literature he was c0plOus with criu-
,sn,s and memoirs OF he best authors. As a story
teier nobody nc tho table could approach the per-
lection of Blame. In Colonel Hays estimation not
only was the Senator the prince Of politicians but
he was the king of good fellows.