The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-12-20
Personal.

Senator Beck declares his ticket TO. be
" Mcdonald and Slocum."
Mr.. Irving's engagements take him to
Baltimore for Christmas week.
A bust OF Mary Anderson is now being
made for the Princess OF Wales.
The Empress OF Austria devotes her
leisure time to the composition OF poetry.
Mr.. Min, tragedian and ex-preacher, is
drawing so poorly in the West that his
slim houses are matter for remark
Ex-Governor English, OF Connecticut,
who started out in life as a carpenter. is
now worth S6,000,0 900. and is the richest
man in his State.
Chairman Sabin, Of the Republican Ma
tiOnal Committee, has one weakness. 1t is
boots. He has twenty-eisht pairs in his
room in Washington.
VI. Alphonse Daudet is man of forty,
with long black locks Of hair, like an artist,
and serene, evangelical look. He is
short-sighted and slightly lame
SIR Moses Montefore has written to
Benjamin f. Ulman, OF Baltimore, thank
ing him and other Americans for kind
expressions upon his ninety-ninth birth
day.
Alfred de Rothschild, now living at Hal.
ton, England, has had his carriage lighted
by electricity, in order that he may be able
to read during his evening drives from the
station.
Mr.. G.. w. Cable, the novelist. never
smokes. He turns down his wineglass al
table. Schuyler Colfax used to put his
hand over his wineglass. TO the great dan
ger of his cuffs.
Peter Cooper hardly was i'm the grave be
fore the New Workers started a fund tn,
object OF which was the erection Of
5000 statue. The amount collected sc
far is Sf,6l7, and the project langushes.
Dio Lewis has accepted a challenge from
Mr.. Finch to debate in the presence o.
Ohio audiences the relative value OF pro
hibition and temperance. Mr.. Finch i
the champion OF prohibition in its mos
sweeping form.
Mr.. Bennett, the owner OF the New
York Herald. is said by persons who have
seen him in Paris lately TO have becom
"prematurely old. His hair is turning
gray, and he Is as slow and precise il
movement as an old man."
Miss Marie Brown, the American an
thoress, who has devoted herself chiefly t
| scandinavian literature and wit, is about
| to publish, at Stockholm, under the pa
tronage OF King Oscar, a description o
Sweden, under the title -" The sum!
North"
NJ Bechamp terminated a recent lecture
in Paris by saying that ii the thousandtl
part Of the sum expended for warlike pur
poses were devoted to rendering town
and cities healthy, legiOns OF lives woul,
| be saved. and riches and strength thu
multiplied beyond calculation.
Albert Jay Jones, OF Providence. VIII,
has lived long in Italy, proposes TO give Il
the Government Of the United State
Monte Badrine. an estate Of fifteen acre
| in the suburbs VI Rome. The building /
beautifully situated. and contains NOR
than fifty rooms. 1t is valued at about $40,
600. It is proposed to establish an Ameri
| can academy OF the fine arts in Rome.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the no
yelist, who bad her thirty-fOurth blrthda
lust before Thanksgiving. is a lady Of tol
cradle petite stature. trile given to en-
bOnpoiat. Her hair is OF a reddish tinge
Her features are large and expressive. Il
conversation she is most yiyaclous and en-
tertaining, and people who have talke'
with her 90 away with the impression tina
she is a charming person. Her dresses ar
a marvel OF the mOdiste's art.
| FL Mahdi, as an Austrian missionsr
saws. is about forty years old, tall, and OF
coppery-red complexion. An emissar
| sent TO interview him some time ago fo9n'
| the Mahdi at Abba, surrounded by 900 o
900 followers, all OF them naked, with iron
chain belts round their waists and wit
broad drawn swords in their hands. Th
Mahdi occupied a raised seat in their midst
and in his right hand he held prophet
staff.