New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-28
PERSONAL.

Mr. Clarence King. Of the United states oeo-
logical Survey, is travelling In Europe.
Octave Feuillet has recovered his health ana Is
working away again as theoretically as IN nus
younger years.
Mr. John II. Smyth the predecessor and successor
of the late Rev. II. II. Garnet as United states
Minister Liberia, will sail for his post OF duty
to-day
The Rev. Dr. Henry NJ. Field, who has lately re-
turned from three months journey through the
Holy Land. is now writing out his notes OF travel
for The Evangelist
The Rev. Dr. Hicks. who figured in a TRIBUNE
interview yesterday as giving a long and not
wholly unfavorable account Of Guiteau, was for
merly OF Florida, and was the only Clergyman
among the BOG at Chicago.
The grave of Lydia Maria Child, in the old moss
grown cemetery at Wayland Centre, Mass, IS
marked only by plain white marble slab, bearing
her name IN full, age date of death, and the words
- You call us dead We are not dead, but truly Nv
ing now"
Arab Pacha appears to divide his worship be-
tween Mars and Venus for few weeks ago, in the
midst of his troubles with the Khediye, he added to
his household third wife, the daughter OF one
Mustapha Pacha. and a lady OF rank and fortune
Visitors at Washington insist that the Hon.
"RicheeuD Robinson looks enough like Oscar
Wilde to be his grandfather. He does not, 1t is true
wear knee-breeches or sunfower, but he has big
mop of grayish- yellow hair that reaches almost to
his shoulders, and, when he is speaking losses bAe
the tawnY lions name Not the British hons
General Ignetief. who has recently resigned the
Ministry of the Interior in Russia, carried the spy
system, during his administration, to pitch previ-
ously unheard of and opened private letters IN the
most shameless way. TO visitor he said, one day.
" WHY have You not called on me before Your
rel have long
every letter they have written you"
The discrepancy that often, to the irritation and
despair Of art students exists between ancient like
nesses of the same person, each authentic beyond
dispute, was perhaps never more curiously and
strikingly displayed than by two portraits of Albert
Durer, by himself, which were placed side by side
at the Hamilton Palace sale. One represents man
Of mild, placid TeutOnic type, with slightly aqu-
line nose and vel ow hair and beard: The other
makes him a hawi-DOscd brgand, with Wild roll
ing eyes, hair of nondescrpt color, and coalb black
beard.
One of the principal objects of interest at the ap-
preaching coronation of the Gar will be the car
rage of the Czarna, which is the same that was
presented by Frederick the Great to the Empress
Elizabeth. 1t is a sort of double throne upon
wheels, and is hung, not upon springs, but upon
huge bands of velvet. Within, it is upholstered
with red velvet, and has a large mirror in front,
facing the occupant, framed with white satln.
The cOachmans seat accommodates four persons IL
is drawn by eight horses of purest white, wearing
harnesses Of crimson velvet encrusted with gold and
precious stones The cost of furnishing up the
twenty-three vehicles of which the cortege Is to
consist has amounted to Z3O,OOO ruDies or
$4,000.
Shortly after the Queens recent departure for
Bamoral, an inqusitive American newspaper cor
respondent in London asked Mr. Lowell, the Ameri-
can Minister to get her ticket to Her Majesty 5
tn apartruants at Windsor 4" What for ~ de-
manded he "You don't mean to say you would
write description of her upholstery ~ The cor
respondent admitted that such was her intention,
" because people are always interested in such
things" "Well," said Mr.. Lowell, with flashing
eyes, / would not write such things to please peo-
pie. l would starye first No, will not get you a
ticket to the Queens private apartments. do not
believe in such things. Write about the things you
see III the streets, write about anything or every
thing but leave upholstery and furniture alone"