National Republican., 1882-12-08
GENERALLY PERSONAL.

"Whats banished but set freeY"--ArdH
! Tate PdshO.
new bridge was recently opened at Cork
aud named after Parnell.
MIR. Edison's patents now number 396 more
than were ever before granted to one man.
Springfield Union: We still believe that
Piesi lent Arthur carries pretty level head.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves Florida
orange groves yield her profit 1t is said of $500
year.
Mrs. Langtry seems to have as keen an ap-
probation of an advertisement as if she had b. en-
on the stage all her life.
If Mrs. Langtry tells tho truth VIII n
she says she has never read a New York cri,i-
cism on her attempts to act, she has lost heaps of
| fun.
| Elysa Illyne, Russian princess, welded M.
! Paoheco de Schafilin, of the Mexican legation In
the chapel Of the Russian embassy on Noyem,
! ber 10.
Leo XIII will celebrate the fiftieth anni-
vetsary of his ordination as priest on December
%. A mass for his Holiness will be said through
out Europe on that day.
| Miss Anna Dickinson threatens to return
to the stage and we trust she will stay there until
she succeeds. She should bear In mind however
| good management and matinee tickets.
Mr., Tennyson has little experience behind
tho scenes of theaters. During rehearsas Of
THE Promise of May" he was shown dressing
room at which he gazed muslngly, and remarked,
"Here, then, the ladies put on their neshings."
early determined in life," says A. Bron-
son Alcott not to be slave to things, not TO put
my life as pledge for fine furniture, for luxuries
for the material surroundings We elived simple
life, Mrs Alcott and /, and have never regretted
IT,"
Madame Adelina Patti was invested with
the Order of Kapiolani on Tuesday by the cham
berlain of King Kalakaua. The order is a star on
red and white striped ribbon, and was accom-
panied by letter on parchment from his
Majesty.
Socialist flag was recently captured in
Pisa. 1t was brought before the quaestor and un-
fured. The staff had hardly touched the ground
before there was q fearful explosion. It was
filed with dynamite. The students will prob
ably be sent home If any more Soeialistic mani
festations are made,
M. Piet, an actor of the Palais Royal, known
for his great powers of mimicry, has had the good
fortune to gain the 100000 francs prize in one Of
the drawings oftho Paris loan. Although drawn
on the 1st of May, NJ. Piet was ignorant of hisluck
until told by money changer on whom he had
Sarah Stokes, on trial lat Little Rock for
homicide, Is a professional beauty. She told re-
porter who viewed her in her cell that she was
not looking her best, as trouble had injured her
complexion and "expresson of girlish sweet
ness" but yet she impressed him as almost per-
feet and he has no doubt that she is, she claims,
the most beautiful woman in Arkansas.
The Elmira ADVERTISER published at the
home of Mayor Hill the lieutenant-go governor.
elect asserts that the governor elect long ago
as 1867 pnid his attention to Miss Mary Burln-
game, young lady of Holland Patent, little
town twelve milos north of Utica, and that it is
now expected that after his inauguration she will
become mistress Of the executive mansion.
Don Giuseppe Borghese, of princely Roman
family, married Donna stelanina statella, of the
| blood of the Princes of CaSsaro and Monglolino,
in Naples, on November 10. The official titles of
the newly-married couple is Principi de Mongio.
limo Cassaro They will reside partly at Rome in
the Borghese palace and partly in Naples. All the
Borgheses attended the marriage ceremony.
Postmaster General Howe, accompanied by
Third Assistant Postmaster General Hazen, arrived
at the Windsor Hotel, New York, at a late hour on
Tuesday night. Wednesday Mr.. Howe visited ths
press rooms of the American Bank Note Company
in the Cooper Institute and exam ined the way In
which the postage stamps are printed. His visit
was purely one for information, and was not Off
cial Heexpressed himself as well pleased with
what he saw, Mr. Howe expects to remain in
New York for a day or two.
Kaakaua is going to have first-elass core
nation, whether Alexander III does or not The
ceremony will take place at Honolulu on Feb
ruary l2 next, and Col. Judd, the royal cham
berlain, is now in London purchasing the crowns,
scepter and signet-ring. The crowns, for king
and queen, are to be alike, of imperial form, Of
solid gold, set with many precious gems, and en-
circled with wreaths of kalo leaves of gold, with
diamond dew drops The seepter is to be of sill
yer gilt, terminating in globe surmounted by
doye, The royal robes are very elaborate, of veil
vet MORE antique, Brussels lace, and gold en-
broidery.