Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-05-12
PERSONAL.

Barnum is negotiating now to secure one
of the sacred white elephants of Siam.
The only child of Grace Greenwood, Miss
Lippincott, is to make her debut in opera
next winter in America.
A marriage is announced as arranged
between the daughter of Baron Gustave
de Rothschild and Mr.. Lambert, the agent
! to the house in Brussels.
| The daughter of the late Commodore
Maury, who assisted in the compilation of
his well.known geographical series, is a
| school teacher in Richmond, Va.
Not long before the death of DR.. Holland
he wrote to young correspondent "a
literary life is hard and difficult one; look
we'll before you choose life so full of diff
Guilty"
Ex-Secretary Evarts, who is increasing
the size of his Vermont farm, is the man
who, when asked by friend for some
thing from his pen, sent the gentleman
fine young porker.
Prince Bismarck received more than 500
birthday congratulations by post and tele-
graph this year. He has written to a
newspaper to say that he is deeply touched
by these signs of respect and affection.
j. C. Landreau, from whom Shipherd
purchased his guano claim, is United States
Consul at Santiago, on the south shore of
| Cuba, and is said never to have had any
confidence in the property which Shipherd
estimates to be worth 81 600, 600, 900.
An association will be formed in Bos-
| ton, with John Russell Lowell as Presi-
dent, to provide a monument for Long
fellow. The payment of one dollar will
constitute honorary membership. An ap-
peal for contributions will be made.
| The Duke of Sutherland nearly lost his
/ life the other day when sailing on the lake
| before his own front door at Trentham hall.
| A gust of wind capsized his boat, throwing
| him into the water. He managed to keep
himself afoat until rescued by servant.
| Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson Butler, the
painter of the " Roll. call in the Crimea
and other military pictures, evidently gets
her talent from her mother, who has just
exhibited in London remarkable picture,
''The Resurrection Morning, representing
the risen Christ appearing to Mary Magda.
lene.
Madame Albani has three.year-old son
who is even handsomer than his mother.
He is sturdy little fellow with pink
cheeks and large blue eyes, and the prima
donna is devoted to him. Madame AL
bsni is mentioned as being greatly pleased
at the prospect of singing in America next
season.
Cheng Tsao Ju, the present Chinese EN-
bassador to the United States, Spain and
Peru, is rather corpulent man, of medium
hight, apparently about 80 years old, and
wears large spectacles. His cue, which
reaches almost to the ground, is slightly
streaked with gray, but his thin, dropping
mustache is as black as jet.
Nine. Christine Nilsson Rozaud is not
pleased to find her property, which her
husband had not lost, as she imagined,
must be divided between her husbands
relatives, the French law giving them two
thirds of it. This is rather discouraging,
yet if the lady does not lose heart, she can
easily accumulate another fortune.
Annie Louise Cary writes to her sister in
Portland that she has been confined to her
room for two weeks that she hadn't tried
to sing any, and on trying her voice the
other day made noise SO horrible that 1t
threw her into Mysteries. Her physician
thinks she will be able to sing at the May
festival, but she is not SO sanguine.
Ernest Longfellow. the poets artist son,
painted portraits of his father, George
Washington Greene, and Charles Sumner,
which are remarkable in themselves, in
their grouping, and from the associations
of the lifelong intimacy between these
three friends. They hang in the hall of
the old homestead, between the dining
room and library, by the stairway over
which MIR. Longfellow passed every night
to his room.
MIR. Longfellow in September, 1880, told
James Grant Wilson that of all his poetical
writings he preferred Evangeline," and
in letter addressed to General Wilson in
1859 the poet writes "You are wrong in
supposing Evangeline to have been sug-
gested by the Neutral French of Mrs.
Williams. the story was told to me-that
is, the bare outline of it-by a friend of
Hawthorne, who had been urging him to
write tale on the subject. l said to Haw.
thorne L wish you would give it to me
for a poem' He did 30 Immediately, not
seeming to care about it. nor desiring to
write on the theme"