Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-28
PERSONAL.
Value.

J. E. Millais is going to paint portrait
of Lord Beaconsfeld, to form companion
picture to the same artists most successful
portraits of Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Bright.
"Jim Woods, the " Irish MINER" who
took an active part In the Republican can
vass in Indiana last autumn, has been
made Doorkeeper of the Indiana House of
Representatives.
Bishop Coke says that he would rather
have written Watts hymn, "When l Sur
vey the Wondrous Cross" than Gray's
"Elegy," Millions ''Comus" or 81 cidas, -
or Dante's Paradise.
Pauline Lucca has been suffering from a
severe attack of sore throat, and has been
obliged to discontinue her appearances at
Vienna. She is ordered to pass q month
on the Riviera, probably at San Reno.
The wife Of Secretary Hunt, it is said,
is "a beautiful blonde, agreeable in man
ner and cultured in taste. She is one of
the best educated ladies in Washington,
and withal brilliant society woman. Her
circle of acquaintance is large, and she
eatertains with true Southern hberality."
The Washington Star gives the styles of
whiskers wfrn by the Cabinet. Secretary
Blaine wears full beard with moustache
Secretaries Window and kirkwood have
side whiskers only; Secretary Lincoln,
Postmaster enerel James and Attorney
General MacVeagh wear moustaches only !;
Secretary Hunt wears an imperial.
William Beach Lawrence does not intend
to allow Richard NJ. Ssaigg, the artist of
Boston, to take undisputed possession
of the Newport real estate awarded to him
by the decision of the Supreme Court of
Rhode Island. By provision in his will he
will direct that his heirs shall continue the
contest in the United States Supreme
Court.
The Empress of Austria had narrow
escape from an accident during recent
run with some hounds An unlucky
sportsman lost control over his very fresh
horse, just as he was going at fence
alongside of the Empress, and his steed
" cannoned with great force against her
horse, who was knocked out of his stride,
but managed to recover without falling.
DR.. lie Baron Russell OF Boston, in 1888,
made collection of the Sartor Resartus
papers by Carlyle, which were published
in that city before they were published in
volume in England. Carlyle once said to
Charles Sumner that the strangest thing in
the history of literature was the receipt of
ESQ from the United States on account Of
his French Revolution which had
never yielded him farthing in Earope.
The Vice-Regcnt of the Ladies' Mount
Vernon Association of Illinois has written
to the family Of the late Miss Ann Pamela
Cunningham, the originator and first
Regent of the association, asking for some
articles from her house in South Carolina
to place in the Illinois room at Mount
Vernon in memory OF her. The furniture
of the house, Rozemonte, is coeval with
the time of Washington, and in keeping
with the wealth and position of the family
at that time.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Record writes: Mrs. Blaine
can keep secret and ward off the inquisi-
tive. One day. about month ago, Eel.
low with curious mind thought to ascer.
tain from Mrs. Blaine whether the then
Senator would become Prime Minister
under Garfield. suppose. you viii be
delighted when the Senator goes into the
Cabinet.' said Curiosity. Indeed, replied
Mrs. Blaine, in apparent establishment, /
have noticed considerable comment in the
ON the subject. Pray, tell me
what you know about 1t.