The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE,

Edmund Yates, the novelist, has
started an evening parcr il London.
Mr., Chen, the Chinese minister at
Washington. is ,aid to have such
strength and force in his face and such
dignity OF manner that even his wo-
manish dress and ignorance % English
can't make him awkward or ridiculous.
Queen Victoria WAS so struck tie
other day with the rapility and appar-
ent ease with which a lady was propell-
ing tricycle. along the NentnOr road,
at the Isle OF Wight that she has had
one Of the same kind ordered to Os-
borne for the benefit Of the princesscs.
Mr.. William Lehman Ashmead Bart
lett has the royal license Of Queen Vic
tOria to make ''Burdctt-COuts" part
Of his own name, and to quarter the
arms Of "Bmrdctt-Couts' with those of
his own family. What would the late
Ellis Bartlett have said if he had been
requested to produce his coat-of-arms?
That excellent New Bedford man did
not attain to heraldic dignity.
Swinburne says in the last Fort
mghty RecieW of Tennyson's "Riz-
pah'' If after thousand years all
trace Of AL Tennyson's poems had van
ished from all human record save only
these eighty-siX verses Of "Rizpah,"
proof positive and ample and over
flowing would be left in the survival of
these that in him, if ever upon earth,
a great poet had been born among
men. II this be not a great work, no
great work ever was or will ever be
done in verse by any human hand
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has SUMMER
home in Gloucester, Mass. which is de-
scribed as two-story brown cottage,
with doors and windows opening upon
piazza facing the sea. Upon the in
terror Miss Phelps has bestowed much
of the artistic taste which distinguishes
her The parlor is a long, narrow
room, tinted with a delicate green
shade. In other rooms of the house the
same taste has directed that one should
be rose pink, another robin s-egg blue,
another the native coors of the wood.
The house is filled with remembrances
of friends.
Whittier furnished as directions for
tableau of Snow Bound" at Cleveland
the following description of the kitchen
in the old house at Ilaverhill: "The
mantle piece was at least ten feet long,
and fireplace wide enough TO take in
iivc-foot log There was an oven with
Il wooden leg on one side of it. The
andlrOns were tall, quaint, and wide
legged A brass warming-pan shone
like a setting moon against the wall of
the kitchen. Nearly opposite the fire.
place stood the great cupboard, with its
pewter plates and platters. In one
corner was the old desk with drawers
and slanting cover let down to write
upon. The old bulrs-eye watch hung
over the mantel."
Jay Gould, who was in st. Louis re-
Gently, is thus described by reporter
of the Globe Democrats The personal
appearance of the renowned capitalist
is at once pleasant and forbidding He
is very small of stature, measuring five
feet three inches in height, and weigh
ing 1855 pounds. He wears full black
beard and mustache, has small black
eyes, large ears, and iron-gray hair.
He was clad yesterday morning in n
pair of tight-litting, light colored pants,
a small blue coat and vest, of common
texture and bad make, heavy chin
chilla overcoat, navy blue in color,
which certainly did not cost over SIS,
Il bright yellow and red scarf of anti
quated pattern, q tiue dress hat, and
new pair of button shoes. Mr.. Gould
has the head and nose of General Grant.
but there the comparison ends. While
engaging in conversation he does not
squarely face one, unless he is not in
tercsted and desires the interview TO
close. In the latter case he half-closes
both eyes and looks at one so steadily
and persistently that one is glad to es-
cape. His smiles and polite words are
full of cordially and cyntcism, and
while he shakes hands earnestly there
is an underlined pressure about it which
leads one to believe that Mr.. Gould sus.
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