The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-13
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Secretary Evarts Is said 10 have spent
$40, 900 per year above his salary while
he has been in Washington, much of 1t
being for entertainments,
The Russian Emperor's new wife is
said to be remarkable for neither brain
nor tact-but nevertheless her power
over her husband Is absolute.
Mr.. Charles Coghlan, IL is complained
in London, now possesses that fearful
thing, an American accent, caught
during his long visit in New York.
Secretary Schurz' journalistic proper
ty in st Louis is said TO yield him Sl2,-
600 year. He is endeavorng to OBJ
tain suitable house there for his future
residence.
Taglioni, the famous ballet-dancer, is
living in London, giving lessons in
dancing, and has had the children of
the Prince OF Wales as her pupils. Fan
ny EIlsler is living in Austria.
Edwin Booth writes TO friend inBal-
timore: "The Public and the Brains Of
Britain are with me, but the critics
most of them-and many aesthetic asses
consider me antique in style"
A letter of Fernando Wood to Gov.
Wise has been published, in which be
urges the latter to commute the sentence
of John Brown, Harper's Ferry fame,
TO Imprisonment for life.
The marriage which has been AZ
ranged between the crown prince of
Mecklenburg- Swerin and the Princess
Marie WindisgrGtz has been broken
of, in consequence of insuperable diff
ficulties occasioned by their different
creeds.
Jesse G. Lindell, the last male scion
of the old Lindell family of st. Louis,
has just died in New Mexico This
Lindell and his two brothers, who also
died within the past ten years, compile
tely dissipated their portions of Peter
Lindelrs six millions.
Gen. Garfeld's two eldest sons are
described as bright, well-mannered
boys; enthusiastic when their fathers
name is spoken, but not too aggressively
conscious of his elevation. The general
is said to have written to their tutor
that he himself had exacted earnest
work from them, and relied on him to
exact the same.
A woman thus writes to the New Or
leans Times, in defense OF Sarah Bern
hardts leanness; "A woman or man
with such temperament, with such
passionate fire praying continually up
on the physique, can not be fat, can
not be plump. Happiness to such natures
is an exquisite pain. But who can COM
prehend this unless they have souls in
sympathy with it."
Mr.. Carlyle's prejudices in favor of
the South during the civil war are said
to have originated in the misleading
stories told to him by slave-owners con-
corning their patriarchal Arcadia in the
south. Mr.. Conway relates that an
American lady, whose son died while
in the northern army, sent to Carlyle
the memorial volume of the Harvard
students who had fallen in the war,
containing their letters, their biograph-
les, and an account Of their thoughts
and deeds during that great struggle
for liberty. The old man read the
book from first page to last page, and
some time afterward, when the Ameri-
can lady came to him in person, he
grasped her hand, and even with tears,
said: II have been mistaken"
The St. Louis Globe Democrat re-
lates the annexed incident concerning
the late Fernando Wood: "In the Thirty
eighth congress Mr.. Wood was the worst
of obstructionists. He was publicly
censured by vote of the house one day
for the use of indecorous language con-
cerning the body Of which he was amen
Der. Soon after this event he was seen
coming out of the white house late one
night, 1t was telegraphed to every
newspaper that Fernando Wood had
held long conference with Mr., Lincoln.
What passed between these two men
was never told by either, but Mr.. Woods
course on public questions was material
ly changed by the conversation which
took place. He was never afterward so
violent in his opposition to the war and
the war measures
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