Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-08-13
Personal.

Sir Lercl Griffin is mentioned in \ French
paper rs ga lurid English dyspcptIc.'
George Sand was honored in the unycil.
ing Of 4 statue at La CLatre, France, on
Sunday.
The Duke and Duchess OF Sutherland.
who have gone to their seat at Dunrobin,
entertain the Prince and Princess OF Wales.
Tie great Washington statue in Union
Square, New York, has new crop Of hair
green moss lately grown on the hOEored
crown.
General Beaurcgard, the first great COM
mander Of the Southern Conlcdcracy. is TO-
day one OF the siraigbtost figures on Canal
street, New orleans. lie is Of short sta
mre, with white hair, moustachc and i'm
perial, and Notwithstanding his advanced
years, Is as nimble and cheerful as many
men years his junior.
Rosa BOnheur keeps her name as much
as possible out OF the Paris newspapers,
and lives very quietly and happily ut By,
which is by Fontainbleau. When she con-
sents TO receive visitors she puts on. with
pride, the dress on which Eugene, with
her own hands, pinned Rosa's decoration
OF the Legion Of Honor.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes appears to have
made an example OF the high bailifT of the
Macclesfcld County Court, England. who
figures as trustee in bankruptcy which
has been open since 1871. Besides d.sal-
lowing his remuneration, Mr.. Hughes has
ordered him 10 refund clio received from
the estate, and 70 file an account.
For her recent visit to Heidelberg the
Empress Of Austria engaged the whole OF
the well-knOwn and expensive Schloss IIo-
tel for month, brought a suite OF seventy
persons Including four fencng-masters,
with whom her Majesty practiced for two
hours daily, and spent several thousands
Of forms In the town.
Lieutenant Greedy weighs forty pound.
more now than he ever before weighed.
lie is so weak. however. that he can barely
crawl up stairs, and his muscles refuse to
harden. The other day some comrades OF
his youth crowded around him, and he
greeted them with "IIow are YOU, Char
ley?" GOOD for you, john; but he kept
his arms folded. and remarked a. he saw
their outstretched palms, I'm not shaking
hands. boys; the doctor made me promise
i wouldn't"
A correspondent writes TO Truth Lon
dom: i 10 not like Lord Randolph
Churchill's politics, but do admire his dress
and protest against the injustice done 10
him in the new Tussaud Exhibition by the
ungaiDiy and iIl-fitting clothes In which he
there stands, waxing elOqucntly in q rather
ungraoeiul attitude. While on this sub
iect let me add that the habiliments Of the
cfiigy Of Charles Dickens, in the same ex-
hIbitioB, would shame even the shabby Al
fred Jingle, II the latter wore them.
Emile Angler, the dramatist. was the
schoolmate at the College Henry ". OF the
Duke DAumalc. Their intimacy led az
forwards TO his appointment as librarian 10
the Duke, post which he held for many
years. He is said 10 be Disconnected with
his career, and TO claim that he has been
the victim Of hostile eliques. lie is, never
theless, reported 10 have made considara-
be money by his writings, a. much. some
say, as 100000 francs. His face is rathe,
Teutonic in form and feature, but he Is in
character thorough Partisan, who Is ir-
reyocaby convinced that no other city In
the world is iii for an artist or scholar 70
hye in