New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-08
PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs Theodore Weed Barnes have gone thoIf
summer home at Nantucket.
The illness which Miss Maud Ho is suffering at New
port is not Of an alarming.nature.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was Bostons representative
atthe complimentary dinner given to Professor Alfred
Sle in Philadelphia last week
Miss Clara Barton president of the Association of tho
Red Cross finished her relief work the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers in which she has been engaged about
four months.
Canon Farrar is total abstainer. He heard early In
life, horrible story of man afflicted with delirium
tremens and thereby inspired with an utter oahns
for all intoxicating drinks
Just before last amateur concert in Witch he took
part the late Duke Of Albany told that song he had
chosen was not well suited his voice Never mind"
he its author needs lift and he persisted in
his choice
IAN absence Of five years" writes a Springfield Repub-
hca correspondent had made my country strange TO
me- and we were all In need of comfort when In the
ton at Jersey City on way to Washington we were
introduced to gentleman aged about fifty. OF short
stature youhully dressed in clumsy clothing OF English
make that did not entirely conceal figure OF immense
muscular apower. His heavy mOustachc and Imperial
were white as .snow,his complexion brown aud glowi
with health his dark gray, or blue. brown eyes,
they varied with tho atmosphere, sparkled with
good humor On the little finger OF his large brown left
hand a sapphire like the Popc's emerald IN NE and
beauty He man OF new type; II wOnd not haYe
possible to say whence he came nor what ne was
looking This Sam ward, as ne looked IN mo
prime OF [life CTawford's description OF him IN Dr.
Cudus at Co. H. very gOOd but his partial nephew In
him with attributes and graccs he never possessed
lie was a very bad dresser always endeayoring with
loose heavy clothing conceal brawny figure not In
GOOD proportion His movement may have been like
king" if Bings move with bastng rapidly leaning for
ward firmly planting large feet rather splay in their
set and with arms OF uncommon length"
London Truth says of tho phenomenal musician, Bot
tesnl who has lately been heard in that city, Il re-
member the sensation lie created with his doubebass
when he az peared in England for the first time heard
him thirty years Ont OF the big hddle, over
which he stopped lovingly, with his exquisite, long
fingered hands like womans and his immovabe ana
Mcphistophean face, always gazing at the audience
came those weird, soft utelike notes, which thrilled
aul astonsed those who expected the gruntng scrape
of the usual vol recollect hm.one might playing
at the Old Surrey Geological Gardens. 1t was lovely
summer evening. Julien there with his enormous
white wastcoa his po1igous gold Throne OF fauteuil,
and his wide. pasty, gOod-humOred sentimental lace
Iis band had Just done the British Army quadres, ana
the great conductor had sunk back exhausted with lS
efforts, when suddenly there was movement III tho
band and SlgnOr BOttcsiD made his TO the front
donbe-bassJ It was all IN the Opentne fortress OF
Gibraltar was depicted the mimic lake, and the
mighty ships lay ready be blown TO bits an hour later
in the ircwOrk siegeaDd presently the liquid notes
noatcd the still evening alrsoIt ana long Drawn
ont as Nightmares and the hushed crowd stood and
listened and could hardly believe that the sounds they
heard came from the big fiddle"