New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-11

of several days to his farm at Windsor, near Do
dalIa, Mo.
Mr.. Blaine has recovered entirely from his recent
Illness and will go to Washington to-day or TO-
| morrow.
| The Hon. Noah Fl. Swayne, ex-Justice OF tho
Supreme Court, is now in Washington with ms
daughter Mrs. Parsons He will spend the winter
nj her homo In this city.
The late DR.. Pusey was the first TO introduce the
surplce into the Channel Islands. where ne passed
some time during his suspension-1S13 to lS41--
from tho University pulpit, and 10 ~ SAID that MS
very surplice is still kept as relic at Sark
Gambetta intends, In the coming session of tho
French Parliament, to assume q most aggressive
attitude. He will closely watch and criticise the
acts the Ducerc Ministry, and, while he will not
at once press the Scrun dc Lise measure he expects
to see it adopted by the present Chamber for, nc
says, dissolution with Scrattn dATrondtssement
would be madness.
Someone was one day rallying Congressman Lee
fevre on his eccentric chirography. II ought to
write better that's a fact" he replied. why
some time ago wrote to man thanking him for
clipping cut from newspaper about Inc. and ask
ing the name and date of the paper and he re-
Piled : am much obliged for your advice, and
will follow it, believing that my claim VIII 90
through and will at last get my pension"
Mr. Herbert Spencer is now spending few days.
in Philadelphia after which he will return to this
city, and then as soon as possible, set sail for his
home in England. HIS health is so poor, and the
inevitable annOyances of travel are so great that
he has given all ideas OF visiting the Far west
In fact he is sOrely disappointed with his visit to
this country so far as its effect upon his health is
concerned. lie is scarcely as we'll as when lie
here. and this result he attributes, in great
part, to the Characteristic American spirit OF un-
rest and hurry and hustle with which he has been
Obliged to come in contact, especially in the large
cities. IIe considers, however, that tho American
people have been very kind In respecting his wishes
tor quiet and secluson.
One of the new rules OF the United States Treas
ury is designed to prevent employes-and officers,
too-frOm leaving the scene OF duty by private
door before the close of Office hours. The first
who tripped by this regulation was Controller
Knox himself. The other day. accompanied by
his wife, he started to leave the building time
before the close of business by the west door, where
his carriage was in waiting But the door-keeper
said. No. sir, you cannot 20 out here: My orders
to that effect are strict" REPRESENTATION and en-
treaty were of no avail, and Mr. Knox was obliged
to go to the main door at the other side of the build
ing, whore, after giving proper excuse for going
away SU early, he was allowed to depart.
When President Arthur was on his way from
Alexandria Bay to this city, two little girls age
ten and thirteen years, nieces of General Butter
field, were presented to him, they being passengers
in the same car. When they told him that they too
the glorious sport he had had on the St. Lawrence,
and asked: " How would you like to catch fifty
pound fish on light rod like yours, with tip al
most as slender as rye-straw That beats bass
fishing. You have to play with the fish an hour or
two, sometimes, and be careful not to allow him to
escape or to break your rod" " Why" said Miss
Thrteen-years0ld . little girl up to Carlton
caught a fonr-p pound bass and broke the pole right
of ~ "Ah," replied the President, 4" when she gets
older she Will soon learn to play larger fish than
that on light rod and land him, too"
Stirnbrand. the veteran German painter, whose
death at the age of nneUy-one recently an
nOunced at Stuttgart, had remarkable career.
When three years old he was rescued from the
waters of the Danube, into which his mother,
Croauan soldiers wife, had thrown him, by an
Austrian officer who brought him up with his
own children. He was named Stirnbrand on ac-
count of the scar Of burn on his forehead He
began his artistic a house painter, and
then as painter of tea-boards and other lacquered
wares which he decorated with portraits of prom
inent persons of the day. These portraits were so
good that they brought him into public notice |
and commissions from princes and kings began to |
come III. his house soon became q famous artistic |
and literary centre He never made fortune By |
his brush. however, nor attempted anything beside |
portrait painting, with the exception of o few |
ataI- pieces and genre pictures.
TORONTO, Oct. 1O.-Alexander Mackenzie, the ex. |
Premier. has been presented with an address and
purse containing $500 by his old constituents of
the County of LambtOn.
CITY OF MEXICO, Oct. 10-The lady who recently |
arrived in the United States and who is spoken of
by the American papers both the widow of Pres
ident Juarez and the wife of President Gonzales is
Mrs. Laura Manteean. She was married to Pres
ident Gonzales but has been separated from him for
more than six years. Mrs. Juarez died before her
husband did.