National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
PERSONALITIES.

PRINCESS LOUISE will visit Saratoga
Springs this summer.
SOME "irreverent ribald has denomi-
mated the schurz dinner an Indian meal affair.
GENERAL Tom THUMB and 12O members
of Barnums circus are stopping at the Imperial.
THE man who wrote the hbretto of
"Billee Taylor" is reporter on the London Times
THE Duke of Sutherland and the Mar
qus of Stafford are coming to Canada to shoot buff
falo, yaw knaw.
THE new Car is a confirmed trombone
player. We now understand why so many people
in Russia are Nihilists.
SAID Byron: 81 hatea dumpy woman"
He meant to say that he hated to see good thing
cut short. That was ALL
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, jr., is engagedto
marry Miss Alice Smith, daughter of William
Henry Smith, of Chicago.
Mrs. o. LEAH MARGARINE has arrived
in the CITY, Her friends think her the creme de Ia
creme butter enemies think differently.
IT is reported that Mary Anderson is
engaged to George Riddle, Boston reader. Is it
possible that the divine actress is about to become
an ordinary conundrum?
IT is stated positively that Adelina
Patti has signed an engagement for America with
Belveau, and that the diva and the new impress
sario viii sail in October
W. ]. FLORENCE has received decora-
ton for merit from the King of Italy. Mr.. and
Mrs. Florence are now in Rome. The latter is al
ready knight of the garter.
CARLYLE said that Washington was a
wooden head and land -jobber." We wish George
was alive 1t would be just too sweet for any
thing to see him storm around and allude to Car
lyle as a semi educated horse-thief and other
things.
Miss EMMA G. THURsBY on Friday re-
ceived in Paris an offer of an engagement to sing
at st. Stephens Cathedral Vienna, on the occasion
of Prince Rudolphe's marriage She was obliged
to Decline as her engagements call her to Spain
this week.
SOPHIE PIEoFFSKY, the young lady hung
in st. Petersburg Friday for her share in the
assassination of the Car, was pretty and refined in
appearance, and was exceedingly well educated.
She has near relative now aide de- camp to the
Grand Duke Alexis.
Ex-Governor JOEL PARKER, of the
Monmouth battle monument organization, New
jersey, reports that $4,000 in subscriptions have
been received, which, with $4,000 appropriated by
the State, swells the fund to $4,000 An appropria-
ton will be asked from Congress.
ALTHOUGH Ayoob Khan and Abdurrah-
man Khan and the Gakwar of something or other
are all engaged in the row at Candahar, they don't
seem to bring matters to a focus 1t looks though
Hjalmer Bornsterne Bjornsen, the Ahkoond of
Swet and Captain Hanneman would have to be
sent for before the trouble is over.
In noticing Scribner & Co.'s announce
ment Saturday the types made us say that " Mrs.
Jnlia Schuyler" was engaged upon new novel.
The lady we intended to speak of was Mrs. Julia
Schayer, the charming and accomplished writer of
this city, whose delightful contributions to Serb
ner's have been so widely read and favorably COM
mented upon.
Mr.. EvARTs' party arrived in London
Thursday night. They have not seen any mem
bers of the Government and are not likely to- as
the ministers are all out of town. Sir Alexander
T. Gait called on the party. Sir A. t. Gait will
probably watch the proceedings of the conference
on behalf of Canada. The Evarts party will go to
Paris at once.
Hon. GEORGE B. WRIGHT, of the Third
Auditors Office, has been invited to deliver the
address on the occasion of the decoration of the
soldiers graves at Cleves Ohio Mr. Wrights ora
ton at Urbana, Ohio in the initial year of the
Inauguration of the beautiful custom was much
commended at the time and has since been fire.
quently quoted and praised.
Mr.. ISAAC P. MOVES, of this city, pre-
sents very interesting paper in the April number
of the Kansas Rerie,U upon " The Storm Centre and
Weather Prophets" showing the non-fulfllment
of many of Vennor's predictions, and claiming
that it is absurd to attempt to guess at the weather
months, or even weeks, in advance. He compli-
ments the Signal Service on the accuracy of its
indications, but suggests that it should advance
one step further, and issue sub-indications which
shall predict the weather for three four days
ahead-not to claim certainty, but only prob
ability for their correctness.