New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-19
PERSONAL.

A portrait Of the wife of Senator Mcpherson.
painted by Lehman, is on exhibition in Paris 1t is
three-quarters length life-size.
The Rev. DIR. j. Fl. Vincent, who has frequently
been heard a lecturer on That Boy" will hence
forth talk to his audiences about That Boys Sis
ter"
TurgenefFs brain weighed, it is said, 2,O12
grammes and was the heaviest human brain ever
weighed The average weight is 800 grammes
Cuyler's brain weighed 1900 grammes.
Governor Butler keeps up an awful thinking.
He told a correspondent in Washington last week
that il would take a whole newspaper page to tell
what he thought about the present political situa-
ton.
Ex-Governor COburn, of Maine, recently sold
$500, 900 worth of Western land in q single lot,
and it is said that it the largest sale of
try property ever made in the United States by a
single individual.
The committee of the Fairmount Park Art Asso-
citation having in charge the fund for monument
to General Meade will meet in Philadelphia to-day
TO take action relative TO having an equestrian
statue made. The fund on hand now amounts 10
$4,000.
NJ. de BlOwtz has been interviewing" that
clever representative of royalty, the Queen of
Roumania He addressed her in French She in
feigned surprise, asked him if he were a French
man. No, your Majesty; l am German BOhe-
mian." " Are you ashamed of your of your own
language, thenF p Whereat, says the chronicler-
and this il must be confessed is most difficult 10
believe-M. de BOwitz blushed!
Mr. James II. Heverin the wcl-known lawyer
of Philadelphia, is still suffering much from tho
recent injury to one of his eyes, and last week it
was runored that his life was in peril. His physi-
elan says such gloomy reports unfounded and
that far from losing his life, there is good ground
for expecting that the injured eye will be saved
and restored to usefulness.
A correspondent of The CniOaist- Gazette (Somcr-
vile. n j. cOntradicts the statement that the late
ex-senator Randolph was descended from the Ran
dOlph family of Roanoke Virginia. -" Governor
Randolph" he writes, was descendant of Eliza
beth Blossom and Edward Fitz-Randolph.
who fled with their parents from persc-
cutiOn III England Elizabeth came in
1920, Edward came in 1880. from Nottingham,
England They were married at Barnstable, Mass.
May TO- lG4G. About 1868, they removed to and
settled in Piscataway, MddleseX County, New
Jersey They had eight children. From them de-
scendcd the Northern RandOlphs. About thirty
years later. 1860 from the same town (Notting-
ham, England. William. son of Robert and brother
of Thomas, emigrated to Virginia.
writer in The Washington Post relates that when
Mr.. Rounds was first appointed Government
Printer his good nature made him an especial OBJ
ject for torment by people who had friends to be
cared for. For some months he knew no rest from
this kind of worry. One day correspondent asked
him for some special information. He at first de-
clincd to give it. Then when the correspondent
said he was going to the Committee on Printing,
Mr. Rounds said wait until tomorrow and per-
haps can accommodate you without that trouble
The next night Mr.. Rounds was seated in an arm
chair upon the Ebbitt House corner gasping for
breath of the breeze from the Potomac. The cor
respondent who was going home, saw him and CO.
ing up to him said d" How about that little matter
about which | spoke to you yesterday ?" Mr..
Rounds stared feebly at the questiOner and said
" I'll try and get you lady friend appointed as
soon as | can" But have no lady friend don't
want any appointment Mr.. Rounds at this
jumped from his chair, seized the correspondent by
the hand and walked him out into the full light OF
the gas-lamp on the corner as he said: =" want to
take "A good look Mt a man who lives in Washington
and who hasn't young lady friend whom he wants
appointed in the Government Printing ONCE