New-York tribune., 1884-01-28
PERSONAL.


Robert Browning has ned from Venice and
is settled again IN his old London home.
Oscar Wilde told his Dublin audience that the
great American prairies were shockingly devoid OF
artistic decoration
Mr.. IS. Henning president Of the Florida Cen.
trail and Florida Transit Railroads with his family
left the Windsor Hotel 90 Thursday for Jackson
vile, where he will be at the St. James Hotel until
April TO-
The Rev. John s. Inskip, president of the Ma
| tional Camp Meeting Association and editor Of
The Christian Sdn6Grd IL not so dangerously IN as
was reported last week, and his attendants declare
his condition TO be by no means ala ming.
Canon Liddon. preaching under the dome Of ST.
Paufs, has much the look Of a man of the world.
He is of medium height and thickset, and has a
forid complexion. lie begins TO preach in a low
tone but soon raises his voice until it is perfectly
audible to all Of the ton thousand more persons
III the congregation.
Young Henri Rochefort has returned to Paris
physical wreck after his experience with NJ de
Brazza on the Congo African fevers have robbed
him of his hair and teeth bat in those respects his
father tells him. the wig-makers and the dentists
will soon make him good new. The young
man is disgmsted with VI. do BraZza, whom he re-
CARDS as q impracticable dreamer. He is trying
ROchefort says 10 win the favor of the savages
by fattery, which takes the form of imitation
Thus he goes without clothes, drinks only water
and lives Oh cocOanuts and bananas.
The quarters salary returned to the Government
by Governor Irwin, Of Idaho, because he had not
been able to perform the duties of his Office and
could not conscientiOusly accept the money, was
turned into the conscience fund" Governor
Irwin al wrote 10 Secretary Folger, Obiecting
to this disposition Of it, under the impression that
every item of that fund necessarily implies that
the sender has been guilty Of wrong-dolng winch
certainly not the case with him. The Secre-
tary will write TO him explaining that the " con-
science fund" does not necessarily imply repentance
of misdoings. bat includes all moneys returned as
not justly belonging to the persons to whom they
were Issued
"My Won Motke is silent in seven languages
says Kaiser Wilhelm and he does not eXaggerate
the rare linguistic accomplishments of the Field
Marshal, who in a gathering of representatives Of
all the great nations of Europe address every
man in his own tongue Just readily he can
converse III his own household at Kreisau. Despite
his taciturnity, which has become proverbal
throughout the Empire, Won Motkecano on occasions
show himself to be copious aud delightful con-
yersationalist, but such occasions are few, and be
usually keeps both words and emotions carefully
locked up within himself. The very day before his
departure for the seat of war in 1870 diplomat
met him on the Wihelmstrasse of Berlin and adj
dressed him apOlogencally, fearing to ntrude upon
his busy thoughts and preparation but OH said
the General, g have nothing to do" And another
who called upon him ut Versailles during the siege,
on the day when great sOrtie was expected, found
him quietly reading an English novel! Yet the un-
concerned silent Commander" has in hs ofliee q
detailed map OF every country and city and in,
portant town in Europe with plans of invasion and
occupation carefully marked down, aud minute
statements of the accommodation the invaders
would find in the way OF board and lodging! Thus
ready for peace or war at the age Of eighty-ye he
plays his rubber at whist every evening and deyoes
his days to botany and agriculture, at his quiet
Kreisau home, and remains silent III seven Ian
guages."
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 27.-Tke Press will announce
Tomorrow that Robert F. Porter, late secretary Of
the Tariff Commission, has joined its editorial staff