National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-11-30
PERSONALITIES.

WASHINGTON IRVING died November ~,
1850
Or Senator Mahone's eleven children
three are living
Mr.. JoHN W. MAcKAY is ut the Hod-
man Eouse, New York.
Ex-senator WILLARD WAnNER, OF Ala
bama, is ct the Gllsey House, New York.
Mr.. GALUsHA A. Grow, of Pennsyl-
vania, is at the Windsor Hotel, New York.
MILE. Rosa BoNHEUR is living at Nice,
where she has charming villa, and is greatly adj
mired and courted.
Miss DAISY HAMPTON, daughter of the
Senator, viii make her first appearance in WASH
ington society this winter.
THERE is q thriving town in Servia
named stepojevitz. Perhaps Jimmy Hustled would
like to be consul there, Mr. President.
Mr.. RANDALL's govt is inherited, and
he suffers greatly from it, Ills family is occupying
his house near the Capitol in Washington.
AS Mr.. GLADSTONE drove through Chess
ter the other day group of Irish cattle dealers
cheered him enthusiastically one of them inquir-
ing, Is that the man who gave us the land billg
JAcoD THOMPSON, who was born in North
Carolina, but who afterward moved to Mississippi,
and became Secretary ofthe Interior before he took
risks in the Confcderacy, now lives in Memphis.
He Is scventy.one years ofage
SIGNoR SALvINI has become father-in-
law. His eldest daughter has just been marrid at
Florence to a clever young lawyer, signor
Gabrielle. Savini is going to London next spring
to act with an English company
JUICE BENEDICT, of the United States
District Court of New York. has written to the
Governor of the state declining the appointment
to be Judge orthe Court of Appeals in the place Of
Judge Andrews, made Chief Justice.
The late James L. Fields is referred to
as prince OF publishers in his day, and king OF
good fellows to the last. He was n man who APP
prccatcd the personality of his authors as well as
made money for them and out of them.
By the Rev. DIR. p. S. Henson's accept
ance ola call to Chicago that city gains and Phila-
dclphia loses an able and eloquent preacher DR.
Hensons work will be missed in this field but 1t is
a consolation TO know that he goes to another
whore there is great deal of sin to be rooted out
Mrs. LANGTRY's baby is professional,
too and the Jersey Lilys picture is taken with
the baby in her arms. Thus the Laugtry easily
calls the turn on the other professional beauties,
that is she has the bulge on them. You under
stand.
II II dlulOSJ u plJy w otOiy
that General Lytle wrote his Anthony and Cleo
patra" the night before he fell at Chickamauga
and that 1t was found in his pocket saturated with
his Blood but the poem appears in "Coggeshalps
Collection" published in 1860, three years before
Chiokamauga, and 1t was not new then.-Cinctn-
matt Commercial.
IT is announced that D'Oyly Carte was
to be the entrepreneur of oscar Wilde In the United
States. We knew Oscar had to have that sort of O
thing, and we know of no man whose name will
morise into the title so harmouiously as Mr.
D'oyly Carte. 1t will be shipped in bulk, and the
waistband and buttons will be sewed on after IL
arrival in the Republic
WHEN Prince Bismarck descended
from the railway carriage at Berlin fortnight ago
he appeared to be in good health and spirits; but
1t was evident, as he leaned heavily on his thick
stick and supported himself by holding the handle
of the carriage door, that he was less strong In
reality than he was cheerful In appearance. He
suffers from neuralgia and slecpessncss and Is OK.
tremcly irritable
Or Mrs. Langtry traveller said the
other day to the Boston correspondent of the
Providence Press: I" They say that she is gone Off
that she is dropped; that nobody visits her and
all that; but l saw her with tho Princess
of Wales party on public occasion in
London two or three times, and that doesn't look
az II she was dropped; and as for her being gone
Oft. she is of the most beautiful women of the
day-the most lovely features the most perfect
complexion, and blue eyes like a child and such
u smile p
NEAR Paulding, ILL.,, lives one Of the
most remarkable hermits known, His name Il
| Samuel Paten, but he is commonly known as "Olt
Patch" He is slxty.three years of age, and Ina,
not been shaved or had his hair cut for lively,
IIa iNsnQ m Ia huht Ia ht
leaning large pieces Of bark against log, summer
and winter while around him are gathered some
Of the finest stock in the country, in which he
takes great pride. He is said to be man of good
education and high culture, but his ecccntrcitie'
make him live like an animal.