New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-19
pEesoaAL

Miss Marie Gordon late Mrs. John 7. Raym ondl.
So lis for ENGLAND to-day aboard the City of Berlin
Senator PhiIetus Sawyer. Of Wisconsin, is credited
with the possession Of seven millions OF dollars.
The Princess of Wales has been 50 pleased with
Mr. Burnands new play ridteuling the esthete
craze that she requested to have copy to readths
prompt" If she could get no other 80 as the Play
isn't printed, special copy was made for her.
There is a pleasant coincidence reccgdedi Ia Wash.
ington that just one hundred years ago our fret
Secretary of War was appointed and that that SEQ
rotary, like the present one bore the name Of Lin
coin" General Benjamin Lincoln's portrait hangs
upon the walls OF the Department, and Robert LIN
coins is to be placed beside 1t.
Prosper Merimeo was far from good looking, apd
knew it very well. In IT, midst Of fcte Que sum
mer day in Paris he care accidentally upon two
English ladies who were unable tofnd cab. AZ no
was politely helping them in their embarrassment,
he heard one of the ladies remark in English that he
was amiabe but dreadfully ugly Mermee. who
spoke English perfectly, turned round brisxy, took
mis- hat off, and said: Madame. lady 80 bealti-
full as you are ought to be more indulgcnt'
The Crown Prince Oscar Gnstavus Adolphus, Of
Sweden-whO will sooa. perhaps, be hng--Is tall.
dark fellow. now in his tweuty-third year. He Is
quiet, intelligent and mild in look and manner and
the military effect of his cuirassier uniform is
somewhat modified by the fact OF his wearing
spectacies. The young lady whom he is going to
maTry-Princess Sophie Marie Victoria of Baden
is nineteen years old.
Mr. Anthony Trollope is pleased to approve OF Mr..
Longfellow as a companion. He makes :" the British
stranger" say: "This s the pleasantcst man ever
met. He is first-class gentleman. But where Is
Longfellowf Where's the American poetP And
indeed adds Mr.. Trollope, he is pot at all like his
countrymen in this respect, among whom, as in
some other countries the man Of letters likes to
clam the respect which he believes to be due 70
him. Motley chose to be known as Motley; go did
Emerson. So also did my excellent friend. Oliver
Wendell Holmss-aud will 90 so long, let Us hope.
His children his cigars. the dihner he VIII give you
or more probably yourself-are the subjects which
are apt to come up with Longfellow in bis CONVEX
satiOn with you"
President Garfield is quoted by The Cjeretdnd
Leader as saying that for twenty after her hus
band died his mother scarcely ever had the comforts
much less the Injuries of life. "And now" added
the President. Z" 1t has been my study TO promote,
her happiness and comfort in every way possible In
order TO make up for the privation she suffered dur
ing my boyhood. She has the best room In my
house and there is nothing she wants but what she
ALWAYS has Whenever go to Mentor she always
accompanies me. When return to Washington she
al WAYS comes pack with Whenever she wishes to
90 TO -Hampshire to visit her relatives she goes
and always go with her. In that manner am try
ing to make up TO her what she was deprived OF DUR
ing the days of her sore poverty"