New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-20
PERSONAL,

The Qucen of Italy has a nice sense of the pictur-
esque, and in summer never wears a bonnet if she
can help it. She takes her afternoon drives with
her beautiful head covered Ouy by the mantllla or
black lace veil.
President Porter, of Yale, had comic, if unpleas-
ant exper ence on Wednesday evening He was
padding IN canoe on Lake Whitney with Profess
sor Russell and when in landing the Professor
sprang out the frail craft capsiZed and Mr.. Porter
fell into the water. Fortunately 1t was not over
lis heat, and the consequences wereno worse than
thorough ducking and possible cold from long
walk home in his wet clothing.
A. H. Stephens ankle is fast recovering from the
wrench given it in his recent accident Curiously
enough the similar fall which he had two years ago
brought a compensation with it. A tumor had been
forming for some time Oh of his knees. 1t had
grown serious enough to demand surgical attention,
and an operation for il had been determined on.
The fall, however, gave nature chance to remove
it. 1t burst and went completely away.
Some of the amusing opinions about Wordsworth
entertained by the poor folks about Rydal were re-
hearsed at the recent meeting in London of the
Wordsworth Society. Wordsworth, they thought
was a poor creature beside lille Hartley little
Hartley Coleridge "the philosopher" as he was
called. The poet never went into public house
and made himself at home with his neighbors
whereas lille Hartley" was the oracle of all the
publics in the district. Wordsworth used to go
cumming and cumming" but no one there read
his poetry; his real line was " chimleys he had
ideas about their being built round-an trees,
which he did not like TO be cut down. He also OBJ
jected to stones beng broken up or moved lie was
no good at wrestling, or any other sport EXCEPT
skating and generally of not much account.
His wife was - terrible sharp on the butcherng-
book" His sister used to put down the scraps OF
his "pomes" as he bummed 'em out"
Mr.. Herman Mervale, author of "FOrget-Me-
Not and other popular plays, was educated at
Baliol College, Oxford, and at Harrow School. OF
which his great grandfather Dr. Drury--a scion OF
an ancient decayed family from whose abode Drury
Lane derives its name-was head master when
Byron was a pupil. Byron was personal friend of
the first Herman Meriyale, to whom more than one
friendly reference occurs in his biography The
present Mr.. Merivale's father was for many years
Under Secretary of State for India, and also lead
inc contributor to The Pal Mall Gazette. Quarterly
and Edinburqh Rerielcs and other erudite pubhca-
tons AT his house the most eminent literary men
of the day were for many years wont TO assemble.
Al very early age his evinced his pariiaty
for the drama He visited this country few years
ago. when the husband of his brilliant sister Mrs.
Peere Freeman, so well known at Washington, was
attached to the British Legation there
CHICAGO, May Ex-senator Logan is in this
city.
BERLIN. May 19-General Loris Mehkolf, who
arrived here this week from Baden on his way to
81. Petersburg is detained here by illness. He is
suffering IRON attack of rheumatic fever.
There is the best authority that Miss Clara
Louise Kellogg has broken her engagement with L. b.
whitney 1eE gUon ne sced Tor rnnn "h han
after marriage. The public may congratulate itself
upon the probable return to the stage OF fayorte artist
and there It's concern III the matter lpha
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