New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-06
PERSONAL.

Mr. Tennyson's health is not now good. and IL hat
obliged him TO refuse an invitation to attend the
Welsh NATIONAL EisteddfOd.
Senator Far is a muscular man of medium stature
with brown hair blue eyes, ruddy checks and o mai
of iron-grav whskers. Ills manners quiet, and
his expression that of O man Of strong determine
ton.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts it is stated by The
London Echo, has been seriously i'll at Incledon.
where she is staying with her husband. Dr. Wilkes,
the Duchess Of EdinburgPs physician, attended
the Baroness, who rs now somewhat better.
The Empress of Austria is picturesque woman in
her hunting-dress Her dark blue habit, having
trimming Of fur round the collar is perfection. fit
ting her elegant figure with the utmost precision.
Not crease or a wrinkle is to be seen. She rides
maOn,fcently. with yielding suppenesS at every
stride of her horse and with hand as light as silk
but as strong as IRON.
Tho Hereditary Princess Caroline of Denmark.
great granddaughter of Frederic Prince of Wales,
and the oldest member of the English Royal
family. is very i'll at Copenhagen. She IS eighty
eight years old. She is the widow of ferdinand.
Hereditary Prince of Denmark. Queen Victoria Is
fine granddaughter of King George Ill; the Princess
Caroline is granddaughter of the youngest sister of
George Ill.
The late Lord William Lenuox is said TO have
been the last survivor Of those who witnessed the
exciting scene at the Duchess Of Richmonds ball at
Brussels. Lord Williams father, then Duke of
Richmond. was asked by Wellington for a map. and
took him into an outer room to show him one.
There tie great captain, after studying il some
moments made q sudden mark with his thumb.nail
saving 81 shall fight him thereP The map with
the mark has, of course, been reverently preserved
The Empress Eugenie has had IN all her life no
more devoted friend than the late Prosper Merimee.
He loved her in her babyhoOG. friend of his one
dav met him 10 the Rue de Ia Pax leading by the
hand a girl about three years old, with beautiful
complexion and charming blue eyes, and asked him
where he was going with his little charge. " am
taking the daughter of one of my friends to the
nastry cook,n replied Merimee, :" to buy her some
rrakrsp The fair blue ,yed child was the little
Eugene de Teba, the daughter OF the Countess de
MOntiio
lord Beacousfeld," says the London CORE
snondent of The Publishers WeekIy, has another
novel; which, it is possible may see the light ere
many months have elapsed 1t was. am given to
understand. planned aud partially written some
years ago, and is so near completion that it
might be prepared for publication almost imme-
diately. The story deals with political affairs. but
with circumstances more recent and, perhaps,
there fore more universally interesting than those
touched upon in 'Endymion'
correspondent of The Louisville COurier-JoHrnGl,
who was a pupil under Senator Malone at tho Rap
pahannock Military Academy in 1913, and who was
intimately associated with him for ten years, says:
81 we'll remember how he appeared the evening he
arrived ct the academy to take charge OF the scen
tific and military departments. II you can conceive
of a tarantula with green goggles on, you have the
effect made upon me by the first sight Of this re-
marxable man. Eighty or ninety pounds of animal
matter mostly covered with hair and green goggles
striking amazement and terror into the hearts of
the wondering, gazing boys, who had up to this
time been masters of the situation. At thS time In
formal social life no was as one paralyzed. He was
di6ident TO q degree of actual suffering. He Inn
parted moro information in q few mouths than
other teachers had done 10 years Z. saw him
sitting grl fashion, on hs horse ct Gettysburg just
as tho FIRST battle OF the general engagement was
about TO begin. lie was In a field alone, away from
his command, calmly regarding the enemy on the
opposite heights. Approaching, md General.
think we are on the eve Of great victory With