National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-05
PERSONALITIES,

! SALyINIs Gladiator" was written by
NJ. Gaumet, French playwright.
| CHRIsTrANCY ought to return to his na-
tive Republic ahd play an engagement as the re-
| formed husband.
THE Empress Eugenie's English home
at Camden place is shortly to be occupied by
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild.
| On PIERCE's HILL, Dorchester, near
Boston, stands house built in 1910, and which is
still occupied by descendants of its builders.
| MARY ANDERsoN is said to owe much
of her Western success to DIR. Hamilton Griffin s
| influence with the press. He didn't influence
here.
CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS, alias Yawcob
Strauss the "Pretzels humorist of the Boston
Journal of Commerce, has left that paper for the
Cambridge Tribune.
Mr.. WENDELL PHILLIPS was taken to
| task recently for making what appeared to be an
exaggerated statement. His reply was, al paint
with large brush"
THE mother of Mr.. Charles Stewart
Parnell, the Irish agitator. will address Land
League meeting at the Opera House in Newport, r.
l., next Saturday night.
ACCORDING to Olive Logan. Salvini says
that Mary Anderson has no philosophy, no study.
Anative genius satisfied with itself, and satisfac
tory to a too-lenient public.
LADY VIOLET GREvILLe, who has been
writing essays, tells women to beware of male
friends. Female friends are shifty, unstable, and
not always true, but men are worse"
LORD STANLEY, of Alderley, was SO i'm
prudent as to write letter in a London paper COM
pairing Irish assassins to Thugs before making
visit to a friend in Ireland. The friend has been
"boycotted.'
ROBERT A. FISHER, president of the
board of trade of Baltimore, and head of the well
known shipping and commission house of R. A.
Fisher & Co., died suddenly yesterday morning of
congestion of the lungs, aged forty-eight years.
Miss FRANCES POWER CoBBE intimates
that women are cowardly chiefly in small things;
but that in great concerns where life, honor or
faith is at stake where passive fortitude rather
than courage is tested. they are likely to be more
heroic than men.
MARIE VAN ZANDT, daughter of Mrs
Jenny Van Zandt so well known in this city, and
granddaughter of signor Blitz, is posing in Paris
for lifesized marble statue of herself in the char
acter of Hignon, which, when completed, is des-
tined for the next salon.
Miss ISABELLA BATEMAN is to continue
the management of her late mothers theatre, the
SadlerS Wells. Miss Bateman is a pretty young
woman, with good taste and excellant ability as
an actress. She has played, among other roles,
Desdeaaoaa to Mr.. Irying's 0iheNo.
THE Boston Adoertiser says it is under
stood that friend Of Harvard University has
given to President Elliott $4,000 for the construc
ton of new law school building at Cambridge,
and that the work will be begun as soon as the
location and plans have been agreed upon.
GENERAL GRANT is loved and honored
as the savior of the Union by millions and mil
lions of American citizens and It would have been
exceedingly appropriate for Southern party op-
ponents to vote him a competence and honorable
retirement from public Hfe.-Feksbarg Herald
(DeIn).
No SOONER is ex-senator Willard War
ner, of Alabama, mentionedas an available South
ern Republican for Cabinet position than he is
objected to as an Ohio man. He has lived fifteen
years in Alabama, represented the State in the
United States Senate, and done more to develop
her industrial resources than any one of her
tiyeborn citizens but all this does not count for
anything against the fact that he was born in
Ohio,