New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-30

| ture He at once makes the caller feel thoroughly
| at homo and listens to what Is said with marked
| attention Now and then he makes notes with care
and elaboration, and he expresses opinions slowly
| but empnatically. He never fails to draw out
his visitor, and get him to tell all ms story e
LOOKS like man who really enjoys hie-har Work
and all Usually he dresses in dark PLAN clo.hes'
and never makes any attempt at posing. Ills ihan-
ners are unaffected, and his kindness Is genuine
Mrs. MeikehAm tho only surviving grand
daughter of Thomas Jefferson, to whom congress
refused to grant pension last winter. is living IN
poverty in Washington. Speaking OF the nnonu-
ment to be dedicated at Monticello on July hoA''
she said few days ago: 1" | am almost inciiheu u
regret that it is to be done hope some of these
DAYS to be able to remove the bodies OF lhomas
Jefferson and his wife and my mother and father,
it'll the Others who buried there, 10 some safer
place II grieves mo to think hat the last resting.
place should be exhibited to curious VISITORS aI mai
a dollar per head 1t is enough to make my grant
father TEST uneasily in his grave. have already
selected n LOT IN Glenwood Cemetery in this city.
1t is spot that reminded me the first time sa" IL
of Monticello
IL is not perhaps generally known that Mr.
Whistler. the London artist who has become fam
ous through his nocturnes" and symphonies In
color. is an American by birth. Such, however, is
the case and the quiet rocky old town of Stonlng-
ton ia Connecticut claim the honor of being MS
birthplace. The Hdrttord Post caustically observes
If he had remained III StoningtOn and insisted
upon such queer personal appearance. and upon
his symphonies,' nocturnes' and arrangements
he would have doubtless been considered crank
AS it is. he preferred to go to London, where ne
has established the new school of decorative art
aud earned the right to be as eccentric as he
pleascS."
writer in Temple Bar gives some pleasant anec-
dotes about the late Dean Galsford: al have my
doubts about the Thirty nine Articles, SIR said
tou conscientious Christ Churchmsn to him on the
eve of taking his degree. The Dean looked at the
troubled one in hard sardonic way: q" How much
do you weigh sirY1 About ten stone, think,
sir" was the astonished answer "And how tall
are you to half an inch y {" really don't know to
half an inch" "Aud how old are yOu 10 an hourT
The dubious one speeches.. Well. you are
IN doubt about everything that relates 10 yourself
cried the Dean trumphantly, sand vet yon walk
about saying: | am twenty years Old welgn ten
stone land am five feet elght inches high TO- sign the
Articles: it will be a long Time before You ma
anything that suggests no doubts" 1t was DIS
practice to throw all the letters that came
to him by post into basket and open the lot once
a month Just as Prince laileyTand Is said 10 nave
done In this way hr SAID that he had TO wrte FEWER
answers OF thr business TO Which the letters
referred would SETTLE itself without his lnterler-
ence.
AprOros Of the approaching decoration of statue |
of Dumas pe:o Paris paper relates the following: |
Dumas pcre always insisted that his son should DC
present az his first representations. He attached |
an almost Super,titOus importance TO his presence.
The idea seems to have taken pvssessi, of him
early for, as the author of Dame aux Camea >
relates he took part in the first representation of
Henri Ill. ct 81 Cour'; lie then five years old.
)" was even writes the son, " the first and sole
person who Missed Henri ILL.," | was IN the first
row of the orchestra chairs with my mother. There
was in the third act scene winch tired ME eX-
trrluey with lis icrOcty. Hitherto ] had only at
tended iD eaus and pictures of maTTiOne ties, and
bad noticed in them that every time hearty,
diCious aud OppOrtuue hiss made Itself heard,
he picture was changed Recalling this. the
bought occurred to that If | began to hiss when
-hl, ObnoXiOu, scene was pui on. would und0nDt-
IDLY SuCctcl IN having II changed. 80 suddenly
md quite alone in the midst of this general silence
began 10 hiss with all ny might. The whole audi
nee jumped to their feet to protest against the dis
.onteutcd spectator An uproar followed. Ny
mother gave me whipping, and, IS you may guess,
lie scene was not changed
LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 20.-Walter Evans. Com
missioner o, Internal Revenue, lett this city tor
Washington this afternoon
BosroN, May 29.-fhe venerable Row Dr. Hop
ms, cx-pre,dcnt of Williams COLLEGE. is very i'll,
Nd his friends are alarmed AZ has condition.
CmCAGO Nav 29.-Peuy II. Smith. of the
7eatbie>t residents of this city, who has been in
he Madison. Wis, Insane Asylum. has been
rclarel couyaesccnt and Is at present at his
lmMcT homo IN Wisconsin.