New-York tribune., 1884-01-23
PERSONAL.

Ex-senator Reuben Z. Feuton, of jamestown, is
in the city for medical treatment.
Senator Kenna, of West yirgiana, is said to bear
a strong personal resemblance to Henry Clay.
They say that Miss Ellen Terry went into Chi
caQo store the other day, looked over some photo
graphs and then picked up one of herself and asked
the clerk who IL was.
General James II. wilson, formerly president of
the New-York and New-Engand Railroad, is en-
gagged in preparing volume of criticisms and mill
tary ESSAYS. the productions of his pen during the
last twenty years.
The Rev. DIR. w. F. Morgan, rector of ST. Thomas's
Protestant Episcopal Church, will sail for FLORIDA
Tomorrow He is suffering from heavy cod, but
said last night that he was not H. as had been re-
ported lie will return home before Lent.
The world may never know exactly what Mr..
Henry Irving thinks of Mr. George C.. Min, bnt
some people may be interested to learn that Mr..
Min quite approves of Mr.. Irving. Indeed, he
considers him to be, in some heldS of dramatic
activity the greatest man upon the stage to-day.
Monsignor Corcoran, of Philadelphia, who has
lately come from Rome, says that the Popes coun-
tenance shows his strength of character. " He is
so thin that no seems tall though in reality he is
not 80. His capacity for hard labor is un59unded,
lie speuds half tho night i'm work. He is discreet
even in his charities. He wastes nothing. tie gives
generously but judiclously."
Like Saul of Tarsus, he is of mean presence
writes a Lirorpool Nercurg correspondent of Henry
George as he appeared at St. Jamess Hail. London.
But he does not hesitate, and he Is very decided
AZ 10 his meaning Heinduges in very few Ameri-
canisIns When he said that America would shortly
adopt Free Ira lc. the meeting began t0dOuDt
whether he was American M an
The Rev. d. Stark. of Podltney. VT, is one of the
oldest preachers in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
His sevepty-ifth birthday was recently celebrated
at the home of relative in this city. DIR. Stark is
still in vigorous health and breaches occasionally
he was licensed 10 preach In $780, and Joined
Methodist Conference the following year. fOf slA-
teen years he was % preStdlng eitor'
The fine lately imposed upon NJ. Clovis Hugues by
the French Chamber of Deputies calls to mind the
case of Grassot, of the Palais Royal Theatre. At
that house there was rule that bad language
shonld be punished with fine. Grassot came late
to rehearsal one day and was roundy scoded by the
director NJ. Dormeuil. Suddenly he interrupted
the lecture with Pardon me, Monsieur le Di-
reotouF: but how much would 1t cost me 10 call you
an idiot Z DOrmeui, boiling with fury, undered,
4" You would be lined twenty trancsH " !pcRty
francsV muTmurcd the other softly, and with a
sigh: All, me 1t is too much; too much! can
not m the present state of my finances afford the
pleasure. But if il had been only five trancS-!
Prince Albert Victor's recent entry upon his
twenty first year reminds The ST. JanesS Gazette that
never vet has the eldest son of a Prince of Wales
come of age during his fathers lifetime and before
his fathers accession to the throne " Frederick,
son OF George IL, who came nearest to doing 50,
wasp it says. twenty years aud few months Of d
when, in 1927, the latter became King. 1t would,
however be misleading to compare the status OF
Prince Albert Victor with that of mis- ancestor who
never set foot in England till year aud half after
he had succeeded the position of heirapparent to
the crown. Prince Frederick, indeed. received the
Garter in his tenth year and a peerage with the
title of Duke of Ednburghl in his twentieth; but
scarcely any other official cOgniZance was taken OF
his existence "a an English prince. No eldest son
of a Prince of Wales beng such, has married; ana
there is only one instance of marriage beng con-
tracted by daughter OF Prince OF W MaIes; II,
thea Queen Victoria lives aud reigns after the Sth
of January next and both her eldest son ana ms
eldest son are likewise then living the British far,
lament will truly have case unprecedehteu
upon its hands in dealing with the question oI an
annuity and u separate establishment tor AlDert
| Victor.
In the trial Of James Mutt on Saturday. Senator
| Voorhees, attracted much attention. Wbon he came
in after the noon recess The iliSburg Dspaich re-
| lates. he sat down beside the prisoner and then
| suddenly got up again. a. though something harder
| than an ordinary thought had struck him. "Noor-
hees is going to speak nOw." the people whispered
! Bnt he didn't lie rose to the full six feet ana
more of his height, thrust his left hand INTO Ms
right coat-tail pocket and drew out large apple
| laid IL down on the table beside him and sat down
| to look at It. IL was not an especially hota
| above than below the medium size, ret
| toward the stem, yellowing, toward the
l. blossom aud treckle-chesked. There was mi