New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-15
PERSONAL.

Ex-senator Davis and wife of West Virginia. ara
the guests OF Senator Harrison, of Indiana.
Sergeant Mason still maintains his cheerfnInes,
in prison. and has little to say to his companions or
the prison officials.
Governor Ordway, of Dakota, who was Sergeant.
alarms in Congress when Collector Robertson was
q member in 1867 and 1868, called upon the Collec
tor at the Custom House yesterday They greeted
each other as heartily as brothers who had been
separated for many years William NJ Eyarts also
called upon MI. Robertson.
Mr.. Hugh J. Jewett, president of the New-YOrk,
Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company, is suf.
fering still from a severe cold which he caught
some three weeks ago when he was at MorristGwn,
n. J. He Las been much better at times, and has
made short trip over the roadSbut his physician
has forbidden him to take any active part in its
business affairs. He has been urged to go South for
the winter but is reluctant to accept the advice Of
either his doctor or his friends.
{" Some very rOseate pictures" says The CIereland
Leader appeared in several papers about the time
of General Steedman's funeral at Toledo, having
his home for subject. But the truth is a sad one
Steedman left young wife with five children to
care for, and property. Three of these children
were theirs, one infant. The other two wero
Steedman's grandchildren. His son Lewis was
soldier whose wife died some seven or eight years
ago: Lew died year later and left the children
TO the of their grandfather IL was then that l8
married to make home for them There Is no pro-
vision for them"
"The brilliant audience who listened to Matthew
Arnold at Horticultural Hail." says The Boston
Gazette were agrceably disappointed by the excel
lent manner in which he acquitted himself on tho
platform after the rather severe criticisms in tho
New-York papers of his first appearance there. Tho
fact that he appeared to better advantage here.
socially and OratOrically. is easily accounted for,
however A young gentleman in this city took tho
distinguished visitor IN hand Immediately on his ar
rival here, and persuaded him TO give a private
reading of his lecture in the hall where ne was 10
hold forth The young gentleman sat IA tho back
part of the hall and interrupted the lecturer ~
often as it became necessary to correct ms faults:
In this way Mr.. Arnod's elocuton was improved
and his voice brought to the proper pitch
Blaze dc Bury relates that when Alexandra
Dumas pere was experimenting the first rehearsal
of "Lcs Mousquetaires," member of the fire brig
ale of Paris was stationed in of the wings. Tho
fireman watched the first six scenes attentyely, but
during the seventh shrugged his shoulders and
StrOed away. AT the close of the scene Dumas
went after him and asked him why he had gone.
Tho fireman, not recognizing the author, replied
bluntly that that scene didn't amuse him as much
as the Others had done. Dumas instantly rushed to
the managers room. threw Oft his coat waotcOat,
braces. neCktic and cOlar,-aS he was IN the habit
of doing when he worked and asked for copy OF
the seventh tabcau. Ii was given hun, he tore 1t
at once and threw az IN ire hlt. - lidl arc
YOU d0ingt" cried the manager. 1t did not
amusc the fireman that is why tore 1t mp. see
what is wanting And, s@lRce tedatg, lac wrote tho
whole of the tablcau over again.
AT one time" says The Nelc Free Press Of Vienna,
speaking of the Russian Gar, "whcn Alexander
resided as hcir-apparcnt in the AntclkOf Palace,
he sought for popularity with youthful zeal but
all that seems to be past The burden of the crown
keeps down his energies and the fear of revolution
banishcs him from society. Nobody knows what
he wants, and perhaps he does not know it himself.
Two years and half he has now held the sceptre;
six months ago he was crown ed; and yet, speaking
Of Russia we might almost bc persuaded to initiate
the Emperor Nicholas when he spoke about France.
As if there were 10 King at Paris, Nicholas never
mentioned Louis Philippe, but spoke only Of his
Ministers Since the coronation nothing has
changed the remembrance Of II gives rise to the
thoughts of no reform, and no higher Will has at
tcmpted tC bring light into RuSSias situation among
the European Powers. The Emperor went 10 COpcn-
hagen ard optimsts accompanied the journey with
the hope that at the Court of his father n-aw no
Nould learn to know that constitutional monarch
lives happier and safer than AN absolute ruler
whose people vchemently demand reform. The
heart OF optimism is large as the world but ITS
brains are small rs a nutshell. Alexander III:
is a mystic figure to the Russian pcoplc--a masked
form which now and then appears for one short
moment then again disappears in the darkness OF
a remote residence difficult of access and lhIlslDlo
TO the out side world