New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-18
PERSONAL.

| There is said to be q possibility that Mr.. L. s.
| Nada now of the American Legation in London,
| may be appointed 10 the vacant Consulate III Rome.
| George Eliot's services to the Hebrew race have
been recognized, il is reported by the Jews OF Lone
don by the Offering OF prayers for the reDose Of her
| soul.
Lord Wentworth grandson of Byron, was married
December 30 to Mary Caroline Stuart WUrtIey. Tho
brides white satin gown was embroidered at tine
| Royal School OF Art heediework, and her vel was
| antique Brussels.
| Prince LsOpolds visit to this country Of much
benefit to his always delicate health He is shortly
| TO appear rs best ut the marriage OF Lord
Brooke, Earl Warwic's eldest sou, to Miss Florence
| Evelyn Maynard the beautiful young lady to whom
| II was ones reported the Prince himself was 10 be
| married. This young lady has y 10000 year.
General Garfcds elder will not return to the
preparatory achool in which they have been pupils
They are going to Washington. where they VIII be
| inmates of the home of Colonel Rockwell. their
| fathers ciassmatr here they Will prepare with
the COiOners sou for Illi;Iins College, under tile
| direction OF private tutor.
Miss Iincker, the author of "Siguor SlonaldiDis
Niece has another novel III press. 1t is called By
the lbtr. aud Is asserted to Dc personal history
:he an;hor herself being under the nalno OF Vale
ria," the central figure. OtEer persons, more less
| known 10 English and American society at Rome,
| also appear III the bOOA.
Ex-Governor BULLOCK, OF bCOTQlh, uaS gwen over
politics altogether. and interests himself only in his
business He is quoted as mentioning the time and
money he had d" lost IN the executive chair, aud
| adding: " | was unfortunate enough to be elected
tIuY"Inur OF Georgia once. never sought rhc Office
aud 1t was the only one ever held. Ihave never
boon IL politician ; AN simply business man.
Tall, spare aud sinewy. Mr.. Whittier looks no
older now than lie did ten years ago His dark,
quenchaOle old eyes, says the Boston correspondent
OF Tie ProridcHce Press twinkle aud gsten with
| the brightness Of youth Perhaps you tell him a
funny little story. and find it funnier still as he
draws down his lips iutOa droll naudibic whistle
and shakes his SHOULDERS, and the WISE heal under
the solemn tall nat, with Its brim just ltto wider
for sign oil his sect.
Mr.. Wendell Phillips. says The Boston Courier. in
talking the other day upon the truth and falsity
of history. said: IAN amusing instance occurred to
me once showing the way in which truth may spoil
good history Years ago. when spoke at the Opera
House III Chicago upon slavery. the crowd became
very much excited aud threw various unsav0ry
missiles at the stage aud the speakers Fortunately
nobody was hurt, or. 50 far as remember. hit but
tho drop-curtan was streaked and dscOlored so as
TO be fairly ruined. Some time ago, met o Western
man who recalled the circumstance. aud lie Lold
me that the owner OF the Opera House had through
all these years kept that curtain as atestimony
against the people. refusing to have At changed.
Now there, yOu see, was beautiful incident, and
thought OF uSnglt IN one OF my ecture5; out very
foollshy took the precauiOn to inquire about the
truth of 1T, and found that IN reality the curtain
| was replaced tho very day after 1t was spoied!"
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes recently wrote to q
member Of young peoples literary society in Brook
| Ign: 1.-The only thing think of for the five min
ues have for this note is the mention of the kind
| of library was brought up ill., IL was very largely
theological so that was walled in by solemn foos
making the shelves bend under the weight Of their
| loads OF sacred learning. Walton's POlyglot Bible
| was one of.them, PolPs Synopsis was another, a
back letter copy of Fox's Acts and Monuments was
another and 80 Higher up on tho shelves stood
lIenry's Ecclesiastical History in twenty-five vol
umes. octave In one volume of this u boOk-wOrm
had eaten his way straight through, from beginning
to end leaving round hole through every leaf II
small shot had gone through it. My father wrote
| some verses about It, remember beginning,
See here, my sou, what industry can do.
| / wish had profited better by them. 4 have not
been the most INDECENT of mortals. but the industry
| of some of my cquaintancos-Of my cassmate and
| friend, James Freeman Clarke, for example-makes
uc feel as If bad been lazy III comparison.