National Republican., 1881-12-07
PERSONALITIES.

Mr. JAMES GORDON BENNETT has left
Paris for few days sojourn at Nice.
Mrs. BRIeHT EYES TmBLEs, the Ponca
bride, has been visiting Sitting Bull at Fort
Randall.
The other day ex-senator Dorsey
shipped fifty carloads of steers from his rancho in
New Mexico.
DR. J. MARION SIMS is again a resident
of Paris the papers of which city refer to his i'm
proved health.
Mr.. ANDREW CARNEGIE, a wealthy citi-
Of Pitsburg has offered to that city free IL
brary on which he promises to expend $4,000.
MRs. GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN, wife of the
palace inventor, with her family, has returned
to her residence in Paris for the winter months
b AMONG the scholars of public school
in Woonsocket, r. l., is man 40 years Of age, who
attends regularly. But he will graduate in the
spring.
LONG JOHN WENTWORTH, of Chicago fiat
ters himself that he is the last survivor Of the bat
tie of Thames, october 49, 1918, where Tecumseh
was killed.
Mr.. WILLARD HUNTINGTON, the nephew
of Mr.. G. p. Huntington, is engaged to marry Miss
Marie L. Ream, q relative Of Mrs Winnie Ream-
Hoxie, the sculptor.
Mr. WILSON, one of the leaders of the
English Education Society, says that there is and
always has been an undoubted co-existence off
liglosity and animalism.
AN admirer of Patti says "She is the
most magnetic creature. She just draws your soul
out of your body" "And money from your
pocket" he might have added.
KING HUMBERT, anxious to pay his
fathers extraordinary debts, practices an economy
unparalleled by crowned head He has tried to
sell several of the royal palaces.
IT is said that John Humphrey Noyes,
founder OF the Oneida Community, is cousin Of
Rutherford Il. Hayes. Why didn't the Democrats
find this fact out in the summer of 1S76Y
SENoRA AUGUSTINE RAMIREZ, the mother
of twelve sons, who with their father oil died in
arms against the French has just been awarded
pension of $3.50 month by the Mexican Congress
PROFESSOR SEELEY is of the opinion that
| historical societies should become more political
and less archaeological, and create a public to
whom the scientific historian might address him
| self
THE person who started the story that
| Longfellow had q cancer In his cheek, is the
checklist" citizen heard of in a long time. The
distinguished poet is suffering with no such thing.
| lie says so himself.
Mrs. MARY BURNETT BAssETT died at
Brenham, Tex, about the middle Of November,
and her sister, Mrs Annette Lewis Ingle, died at
Henderson, s. C., few days ago. They were great
grandnieoes OF General George Washington.
STURGEON says that when you meet a
mad dog you should never argue with him, unless
you are of your logic 1t is better TO get out
of his way; and If fanybody calls you coward you
need not call him fool-everybody knows that
ILLUsTRIoUs names in American history,
names never to be forgotten the earth continues
its daily revoluIion-Guiteau, Little Eva" Ell
| Perkins "Uncle Tom" Dr. Mary Walker, George
Francis Train, Sammy Tilden, Susan b. Anthony
Dan Rice, Da ius Allen, Bob Ingersoll, "ThG
Sweet Singer Of Michigan" jay Gould, and John
Kelly.
A TOUCHING scene was witnessed one
evening last week in Boston concert hall. L. w
Locke, the song writer and singer, had just sung
and whistled "Were Marching On to Richmond,
when a soldier came forward and took his hand
sayingi 81 heard you sing that song when lay
wounded on tho battlefield and shall never for
get it."
DR.. ISAAC /. HAYES is understood tc
have said that he had renounced political servic,
and would now devote himself to magazine writ
ing and lecturing. The other evening at CHECKER
ing Hall, New York, he gave his first "Artic enter
tainment" before large and enthusiastic audi
ence with diagrams regarding his four years ex
perience in the Polar seas and amid Polar scenes
DR.. Hayes is magnetic speaker and full of en-
thusinsm upon his theme, and he will undoubtedl!
make great success throughout the Union will
his amusing entertainment
Mr.. JOHN McCULLoUGu began his fourtl
week at the Finh Avenue Theatre, New York
yesterday evening, appearing as Spdrtdcus, In Di
, Birds tragedy of "The Gladiator" which wa
written for Edwin Forrest Mr.. Mccullough
physical powers fit this character as well as MI
Forests did, and he seems to the auditors to be in
deed the ThrGcian captive who successfully van
quished Roman generals. In the tender scene
with his dramatic wife Mr.. McCullough's voic
was soft and touching, and 1t was exceedingly ef
fective also In passionate defamation. Tn
character is one excellcntly adapted to Mr.. Nc
Culough. Mr.. Edmund Collier was the Phdsariu,
and at the end of the second act he received, will
Mr.. Mccullough, o recall.
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