National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-11-12
PERSONALITIES.
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The widow of the great chemist, Baron
Liebig, has lately died.
Two HUNDRED requests for autographs
are received by Mr.. Whittier every year.
Mr.. ADoLpH PoPPENHUsEN arrived
Thursday on the steamer westphalia from Ham,
burg
JAMES GORDON BENNETT is to sail for
Europe TO- day in the White Star steamship Bril-
fannie
NIcoLINI, the tenor, thee's" and
"thous Patti in public. He is good talker and
a man oftact
LORD O'HAdAN, the retired Lord Chan
celor of Ireland took q formal farewell of the bar
On wednesday.
Mr.. CHoATE was once described by an
old farmer as looking like a mixture of jaundice
and Jurisprudence.
Mr.. JAMES BARRON HOPE is to repeat
his Yorktown Centennial poem in Richmond, Va,
on Tuesday, ODD inst.
CARDINAL NINA has succeeded to the
procedures of the congregations formerly presided
over By Cardinal Caterini.
TIE Norristown Herald surmises that
Mr.. Wolfe will give his whole time now to life in
surance and the salary grab.
BY blood" says Mr.. Gladstone, am
scotchman. by birth Lancashireman, by resi-
dence Londoner, and by marriage Welshman."
NEAR President Harrison's grave, at
North Bend, Ind, there is to be built a Methodist
Church as Il memorial of him, which will bear his
name.
SATISFIED that the State was all right
and his re- election not doubtful, Governor Long,
of Massachusetts, went to Boston theatre on
Tuesday night.
ACCORDING to Louisiana newspaper
Louis Albert Wagner, who committed suicide In
New orleans last month"; was the inventor OF the
term "bulldozcr."
IlEnwARTu Won BITTERFIELp is the old
est field marshal in the German army being
nearly ninety years old, and having served for
seventy, aud is still hale and sound.
IL some gentleman could accom-
modate Kunnel" Cash, of South Carolina, with a
duel, and fire him into the hereafter, great
vice would be done the State, the country, and the
cause Of civilization.
ERAsTUs Brooks and the President of
the State Board of Health of New York have been
appointed TO represent the board at the meeting of
the Public Health Association TO be held In Sa
vannah on November "a.
The paragraph is going the rounds of
the press that Bret Harte parts his hair in the
middle. He almost always did. His hair is
curly and ON the brow 1t has plenty of cowlicks
which naturally part somewhere near the middle.
JUDGE RAPALLo Thursday evening gave
the judges Of the Court of Appeals and their wives
II dinner at his residence in Albany, the occasion
being the retiring from the court Of Chief Justice
Folser. Governor Cornell and wife were present
RECENTLY New Jersey embezzler, who
had gathered unto himself 900 belonging TO other
ppODlp. awarded t\yplVa I'm no hamilton.
tiary. This is New Jersey justice. Under this rule
Cashier Baldwin, Of Newark, will go up for 1880
years.
IF Congress appropriates money to
pay u.s. said one of the surgeons that attended
Garfield, eve shall be glad, but'we shall never ask
Mrs. Garfield for dollar" This is sound sense,
and the people will sustain Congress in paying the
physicians generously
PROBABLY the only person now living
who ever saw CORVALLIS is Charles Branigan, of
Watertown, Wis.,who is ninety seven years old and
who remembers when the soldier passed through
the County Monaghan, in ireland, in 179S. with his
flying camp, us 1t was called.
The Hon. l.. b. Washburne is living
quietly In his Chicago home, but is far from idle.
lie has lately been occupied in the preparation of
a history of the life and times OF the Hon. Edward
Coles, the second Governor Of Illinois. The book
| has much to say concerning the anti slavery
| struggle in that State
PRINCE ACHILLE NEPoLEoN MURAT is
not too fortunate stock .obber in Paris. lie is the
grandson Of king, His father, Prince Lucicn, is
still living; his sister is the wealthy Duchess de
Mouchy and his wife, Princess Salome, OF Min
grelia, brought him million rubles for dowry
the gift of the late Emperor Of Russia.
Mr.. SANTLEY, the vocalist, who was in
this country few years ago. has become Roman
Catholic, and is very generous to that Church. He
supports three or four orphan children, sings regu-
larly and without charge to a church in Highgate,
ondon, and has given S25,0Oo to diocesan semi
| nary in which Cardinal Manning is interested.
THE Sultan has again commanded the
| site ofSolomon's Temple to be cleared of weeds
and rubbish. When the Emperor Francis Joseph
visited Jerusalem, some years since, Abdul Azz
ordered the work to begin at once but after little
| exhibition of energy 1t ceased. The recent visit
of the Crown Prince Rudolph has, however, given
| the matter fresh impetus.
BRAYToN IVES, New Yorker, paid S15,-
900 for an illuminated missal the other day not too
large to slip into an overcoat pocket IT, like those
| In Mir. George Bancrofts overcoat, the pocket Is
made big enough to take in an octave volume.
This is probably the largest price paid in this
country for one book. In England $4,000 paid for
Il Guttenburg Bible on paper, is high.water mark
ByLwER always wrote in perfect isola-
ton. His study was remote, and the least noise
was forbidden. While writing the floor about
him was strewn with books and papers, and so
jealous was he of the privacy of his sanetum that
| few were ever admitted within It's walls. In his
later days he never gave more than three hours to
| composition. After silently eating light break
fast he would enter his study at ten, and regularly
at one o'clock he would emerge his work over for
| the day.
Tile Gar is about to present the Shah
with picture representing the late Emperor at
| various ages the frame of which-in oak
inlad with gold and precious stones-cost over
$1,000 His Imperial Majesty has just bought for
| 6,00O0oO rubles four large houses which are too
near his Anichkof Palace. from one of which a
Eighiliska" mine was once laid, and in another
JeyaloR was arrested. 1t is said that very alice
| Tomato relations exist between the members Of
the imperial family and the widow of the last
Gar the Czarna visiting her the day the assassi
nation, the Duchess of Edinburgh spending many
hours with her before the funeral OF the murdered
man, and even the Princess Of Wales taking pains
to show her respect
Hayes.
History is writing Hayes down as the
weakest President the United States has ever had
Buffalo Nous, Slightly inaccurate we think History