National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-28
PERSONALITIES

Ills HOLINESS THE POPE mas wisely SnuC
up the bogus relic factory in Rome.
BRET HARTE denies that he is snob,
which shows he has some sense left.
THE King Of the Belgians is one of the
most scientific geographers of our generation.
GENERAL JAMES B. STEEDMAN was nomi-
mated Saturday as the Democratic candidate for
mayor of Toledo, Ohio.
JACKSON" says the Boston Post, knew
how to bounce an Office e-seeker." But didn't the
Office seekers finally get even? Where is Jackson
now?
COUNT Won MoLTKE is often called in
Berlin the Great Silent One" He is said to show
in company conSummate courtesy of manner and
rare modesty.
WAsHINGToNIAN gastronomic inference
=" Can you tell me where the Treasurer of the
United States usually dines?" "Oh, yes, I've often
seen Gilfillan. ."-COuTier- Journal.
"FLoRENCE PERCY" the author of Rock
Ne to Sleep, Mother" now lives in Maine and edits
a paper there. One of her daughters has for a
name her mothers nom de plume of Florence
Percy.
WILLIAM BEACH LAWRENCE, the eminent
jurist and statesman, died at the Albemare Hotel,
New York at an early hour yesterday morning.
He was best known as the editor of Wheaton's In
ternational Law.
OF the four defeated Democratic presi
dental candidates living, Mr.. Tilden is the most
solemn, Mr.. Seymour the most oracular, General
Hancock the most complacent, and General Nc
Clellan the most jocular.
Mr.. RICHARD E. WHITsITT, the weathiest
citizen of Denver, died last week. He was one of
the pixies Peak Gold Hunters" and one of the
founders of Denver. At the opening of the rebel
lion he raised the first regiment of Colorado troops
The German residents of New York
treated exSecretary of the Interior Carl Schurz to
a banquet at Delmonico's Saturday evening The
interior of the dining room tastefully deco
rated with German and American flags and the
arms of Missouri, Mr.. schurz adopted State.
BARON MAYR, who has been Austrian
Minister Washington for several years, will soon
take his leave, not to return. He is officer of
the Hungarian hussars, and on occasions when the
diplomatic corps have appeared in court dress his
uniform has been thought the handsomest seen.
THE portrait of Milton, which was once
owned by Charles Lamb, has just been bought in
London by Mr. Quaritch for 81 ,775 1t was painted
about 1910, when the poet was still distinguished
by that physical beauty of which the world has
heard so much, but which is missing in all his
other portraits.
Mr. JOHN T. RAYMOND is again to ven-
ture on the sea of matrimony and his fair partner
for this trip will be Miss Rose Courtney Barnes.
The ceremony will take place at the Continental
Hotel, Philadelphia on Monday, April II, and will
be matinee performance, so to speak, beginning
at eleven Il. IN.
UPoN complaint of John r. French,
dean of the faculty of the Syracuse University,
New York, warrants were issued Saturday after
noon for the arrest of Harry c. Hedden, Edward F.
Burke Myron c. Merriman, jr., and Paran F. Rice,
all students, on charge of assault and battery in
hazing Ezra S. Tipple, q freshman
Or the late General Ney as a ten-year-
old child Ernest Legouye tells a characteristic
story. The boy was walking with his tutor in the
Tuileries Garden, clad in costume of some odd
cut or color, that provoked the rdicule of some
passerby with an eye for the comic. The young
Ney quilted his tutor walked up to the laugher,
and, looking him straight in the eye. remarked:
"You are coward to ridicule child who cannot
challenge you"
THE late Emperor of Russia, when
child, was we'll beloved by the people. A CORE
spondent writes thus: when in Russia in 1926,
he was handsome little boy, and used to walk
the streets of ST. Petersburg with guard or two,
the people following in crowds and trying to kiss
the hem of his garments, have seen peasants
run before him and PROSTATE themselves on the
pavement, so that he had to step side for fear
of ftrampling on them
IT IS said in disparagenent of Colonel
Forney's new novel that it is chiefly remarkable
for its eccentric grammar. There was similar
peculiarity in the famous Life of Hancock" but
nobody ever called it blemish. 1t was one of the
great beauties of that remarkable work A vol
canic genius under the spell of artculate inspira
tion," cannot afford to bother himself about so
commonplace thing as correct grammar. Any
pedant can write correct grammar, but only For
ney can emit articulate inspiration Tribune.
JOSEPH HOLT, once shining light of
the bar of Mississippi and afterward Judge-Advo-
cate General is now living in Paris, France, in
poor health and over seventy years of age
Graphic. No such thing. Ex-Judge- Advocate
General Holt is in pretty good health comfortable
circumstances, and is living at his old residence
on Capitol Hill. Moreover, he was once shining
light of the bar of Kentucky, Commissioner of
Patents, Postmaster General and Secretary of the
Navy. He is splendid old gentleman and Stall