The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-02-11
NOTED P%RRSONAGEY
General Garihaldi's body, below the
waist, is almost insensible.

General Garihaldi's body, below the
waist, is almost insensible.
Herr Wilhelm is quoted as saying
that he will return to his home On the
Rhine next May. His concert tour will
end in California in April.
The Marques OF Landsdowne, believ-
ing himself endangered on his Irish
estates, has fed to England. He is
under secretary of state for India.
Archibald Forbes, the well-known
correspondent, is pleased with American
humor, and is laying up a stock Of good
and funny stories TO tell when he goes
home.
General Nelson A. Miles says that Sit
ting Bull is one of the best specimens of
a crafty and unrelenting savage he has
ever meta mar who is cunning rather
than diplomatic.
Mr.. Richard Stockton, son Of ex-
Senator John P. Stockton, of New Jer-
sey, has received the gold medal pro-
vided by act of Congress for rescuing
drowning persons.
Hayes and Garfield were both rejected
by Bedford, o., girls, their first loves,
according to the Cleveland Herald, be-
cause in each case the parents thought
the suitors to poor.
Mr.. Clarence King, director of the
United States geological survey, in his
annual report says $500, 900 per year will
be sufficient to carry on all the work that
is desirable over the whole United States,
and submits that so small an appropria-
ton as this would not be an excessive
contribution toward the development of
50 vast a field of American enterprise.
When the late Professor Watson, the
eminent American astronomer, was a
young man at college, and in doubt as to
whaS his future calling should be, he
tossed up a cent to see whether it should
be medicine or astronomy, to both of
which studies he was partial. Astron-
omy won, anil Watson afterward be.
came one of the worlds famous astrono-
mers.
Abdul Hamid, the sultan of Turkey,
is a little under the average height, with
a sallow, anxious face and thin black
beard, and with deep crows feet and
forehead wrinkles. He wears a long
blue coat of very a%ntiquated cut, black
trousers with a broad red stripe, the
single star of the Osmanli, and a broad
green and red ribbon crosswise on his
chest.
Next to Mr.. Marsh, our minister TO
Italy, the Oldest American representative
abroad by consecutive years of service
is Mr.. Bingham, minister to Japan,
whose appointment dates from May,
1873. Mr.. Marsh wss appointed in
1861; Mr.. Delaplaine, secretary of
legation in Vienna, was appointed in
1869 and Mr.. Wurts, secretary in Rome,
in the same year.
M. Gerome, the celebrated French
artist, is about sixty years old, but as
diligent a worker as ever. In personal
appearance he presents an admirable
type for a picture ofDon Quixote. The
spare, upright figure, the keen eyes, the
heavy gray mustache and imperial, the
attenuated, weil-cut features, and,
withal, something martial in his bear
ing, something chivalrous in his general
aspect, combine to make of this great
iavorite a very excellent representative,
so far as physical proclivities 60, of the
gentle knight portrayed by Cervantes.
During the cold weather a visitor to his
studio is apt to find him arrayed in a
wadded silk suit, which is not beauti-
full, neither is it becoming, but it must
be exceedingly comfortable.