New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-14

June next, plaster cast six mouths later. and thu
nnal copy In Italian marble within two years from
/ the present date. Tho figure will 10 seven And 4
half feet high In ordinary Dress
Nothing In these degenerate days seems safe from
imitation, not even prize beauty. PaIisisns h.vs
| for weeks been admiring the Hungarian Venus VIM
won the prize in last summers contest OF beautv an
Pesth, and she has been gathering In the shske. AZ
famous rate. But lo Herr szskely. father
of the successful beauty of Pestb. writes to the
papers to say that his daughter is and has peen.
modestly resting on her laUrsls at home wiki M
idea of making apublic show Of herself And Il
leaks out that the counterfeit Hungarian tx native
| and old habitue OF the QUARTER Latin.
In conversation on literary topics the other day.
Governor Alexander II. Stephens, of Georgia. vas
asked who was his fAvorite poet. 81 have no
tavorte." he said " my favorites are Shakespeare
Milton, Pope. Burns. and Byron / don't thing
much Of Tennysop. / can't Say that l like any.
thipg about LonRfelow. Bryant I appreciate
Henry Wilde: Hubner, of this city tAtlsntal, and
Tichnor, of Columbus, l regard two of the best
| poets produced by the South"
When Senator David Davis was on the judicial
| bench in illinois, he was once interviewed about
one Of his decisions, and his conversation tai on
| down IN shorthand. After the news-gatherer had
copied his notes ont Ia long-han he submitted
them to the Judge, and asked him If they were
rect. Tho Judge read them through carefully and
replied with fatherly smile: my son. II you
had written this In Choctaw the subject of rails
ing hens you could not have gotten further off tho
track. You have jumbled up the words 30 that no
man understand them. Otherwise the report 10
very correct"
A correspondent of Life tLondon) denies entirely
tho ofttod tale of Bi6rnsterne Bjornsons chslIeng
ing King Oscar to fight duel. and his consequens
a.1A i0ht Iron tha
country. The facts are, he writes, that Some few
years ago Bj6rnson heard that Oscar had said some
personal and dlsparagina things about him. aud
wrvte to Swedish paper censuring the King severe
ly for doing 50. There was challenge, sentence
fight. With the exception of tour In America.
Bj0rnsOn has lived at home, doyotpg most OF his
time TO tho promotion Of liberal political and social
doctrines He has now gone to Paris, whsre he will
live tor couple OF years. applying himself Strictiy
to literary work.
Scores of characteristic stories are recalled Of
Louis Blanc. One night he invited To dinner
by London millionaire famous for his sumptuous
banquets. But Blanc and William Hepworth
Dixon got side by side and plunged deep into poiti-
cal discussion to the utter neglect of the elaborate
| menu and to the evaporation Of their host, who
finally roared out Look at those twol They
might as well be eating mutton chops and drinking
teerl" Another instance of his unworldly snd IN
Paris young lady from England, and shs expressed
a desire to go to the opera. At once he sent Tor
tickets for her, Mime. Blanc and himself. without
the remotest notion of what sort of performance
they were going to. Their theatre proved to 10
the Boufics Parisieuues and no sooner were they
settled IN their box than the curtain rDse on La
TInlbaie d. Argent" play that was said TO be
CAPABLE OF making bronze statue blush. Natu-
rally the trio He'd incontnenty. But NJ Blanc actn-
ally had never heard vf the play before, which
had then reached its 500th night and was the talk
of the town."
When the drama fails and art becomes burden
Nine Bernhsrdt- Damala can, as final resort, give
lessons in the science Of pulling. And be sdre no
pateut- medicine man could rival her therein. Here
is a recent example of her genius weekly Illus
trated paper in Paris called Pdnrrge, announced
that it would, the next week give full account OF
q Fedora" NJ. Sardou, and Sarah Forthwith she
sent a messenger to the editor, saying that she
heard they were going to publish drawing which
was an exact copy of the photograph che
hal taken Of herself in her coihn, and
that If they did she would invoke the law and
have the edition oOnfiscated. or course.
she hadn't heard any such yarn, nor had they In
ten ded doing any such thing. But true TO ner
word she had the police there, ready to seize the
whole issue of the paper In 10 contained the
picture-which Ii did not However the affalr 0os
into all the papers, set ell the boulevardiors agog
with curiosity and their tongues wsgging, ana gave
Sarah a tremendously big free advcrtisement-an
end that GRO wned her work to her supreme satiS
| faction.