National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-19
PERSONALITIES.

Mrs. GARFIELD left last evening for
New York, where she will spend few days
Miss BLANCHE ROOSEVELT appears to be
growing steadily in favor as a concert singer.
LORD DUFFERIN has arrived at Berlin.
He has had a conference with Prince Bismarck.
LADY HERMIoNE DUNCoMBE has created
with her beauty decided sensation in London
| society.
Miss ARBUCKLE, daughter of the we'll
known cornetist, has recently made her debut as
vocalist, and report speaks well of her abilities.
THIS evening, at nine o'clock, the Presi-
dent will give reception to the members of the
National Academy of Science at the White
House.
PRINCES STEPHANIE will make her
| bridal entry into Vienna May in a splendid
chariot drawn by eight horses. Her marriage to
Rudolph viii take p'see the next day.
IT is understood that Sir A. B. Paget, at
present British ambassador at Rome, will succeed
Lord Dufferin at ST. Petersburg and that Sir Aus
| tin H. Layard viii succeed Sir A. B. Paget.
FANNY, a carp, died recently at Fon-
| tainebleau, aged four hrndred. She is the only
| member of the gentler sex who was willing to
acknowledge that she had passed twenty
The meeting of the Classical Society,
| appointed for Wednesday of this week, has been
postponed until the evening of April q, in conse-
| quence Of Miss Ransom's absence from the city.
THE President and members of the
| Cabinet have been invited to attend the one hun
dred and thirteenth anniversary dinner of the
| Chamber of Commerce on the evening of May 10,
at Delmonicos.
NINE. PEsCHKA LEUTNER,t the prima donna
| who created a sensation in Boston at the peace
jubilee several years ago. is engaged to return to
this country in June. She will take prominent
part in the Chicago sangerfest.
EDMUND YATES, who is not nervous
man, says that he never sirs in English theatre
without certain misgiviDg that, in case of fire. he
would not get out alive. The Paris theatres, iu
his opinion, are fifty times worse than the English
theatres.
GENERAL JoUBERT the Boer leader, said
to an Englishman not long ago: do not fight
as your soldiers and officers do for piece
of ribbon on the breast; we fight, though unwill
ingly, for our homes and liberty, and for the c0un
try which our ancestors fought, worked, and died
for before u.s."
THEODORE THOMAS is to be the recipient
of a complimentary benefit upon the Goth of this
month, rendered him by New York and Brooklyn
additional attraction TO those who expect to hear
the festival which opens in New York the follow
ing week.
asLADY MARIAN AFFORD says that the
Royal School of AIT Needlework gives permanent
employment to about 135 ladies, of whom ninety
are needewomen. An average worker earns about
twenty-five shillings a week, a very good one
about E2, and the lowest, sloweSt, or least able
worker no more than fifteen shillings. This can
hardly be called living, but it is better than no
occupation at ali.
ROBERT BURDETrE, who of all Ameri-
can humorous writers has perhaps the widest
range, has made the Burlington Hatckeye known
throughout the country. Within year the name
of the Brooklyn Eagle has been carried beyond the
bounds of local fame by a writer who works one
small stray vein of humor with peculiar skill,
and the Rabelaisian mirIh of the Derrick Dodd
papers has done the same Office for the San Fran
cisco Post, while the Atlanta Constitution has
tended its Southern reputation North, East, and
West by the publication of Mr.. Joel Chandler Har
ris' Uncle Remus Sketches "-ScribRer Magazine.