River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-15
Personal Matter.

Mr.. Gladstone generally dresses
plainly, but, like the aloe, blooms once
in the hundred years or SO. When that
event occurs the splendor of his bios
soming calls for detailed record. On
his first drive into Edinburg from Dali
many-the morning was bright and
sunuy-he flashed upon the town like
ray of light, and sat among his sombre
companions like bird of paradise in an
aviary of jackdaws, clothed, like Ten
nyson's party in the pool, 'in white sa-
mite" or what might have been coat
of that material; his waistcoat was also
white, his trousers a lovely lavender, his
tie the hue Of the pale primrose, while
in his buttonhole he sported rose
| larger than a caalihower, but less in
size than drumhead cabbage. Add to
this a hat of veritable white, not the
dubious drab which is the common wear,
| but as white as whitewash, and you
have the figure which showed in the
Scotch capital as TIE sun in Turner's
sea pieces shows from surrounding
! clouds.
Z Carlyle's portrait of Webster has been
printed already, but the following ver-
sion of it is somewhat new: 81 will
warrant him one of the stiffest logic
buffers and parliamentary athletes any
where to be met with in our world at
present. grim, tall, broad bottomed,
yellow-skinned man, with hrows like
precipitous cliffs and huge, black, dull,
wearied, yet unweariable- looking eyes
under them; amorphous projecting
nose and the angriest shut mouth /
I have anywhere seen. A droop on the
sides of the upper lip is quite mastiff-
like magnificent to look upon; it is so
4 quiet withaE / guess [ should like i'll
to be that mans niger However, he
is a right clever man in his way, and
/ has a husky sort of fun in him too;
drawls in handfast didactic manner
about our republic institutions &c,
and so plays his part. J"
l. In view of Arthur Orton's release,
/ October "a, one of his friends has set
tied upon him a life annuity of 9100,
/ in hopes of keeping him from exhibit
ing himself on the stage, as he has
| threatened. Exchange. Ii some of
\ the friends of the numerous ambitious
| lady operate and theatrical amateurs
4 would do the same for those stage
crazed females, grateful public will
/ hold them in kind emembrance.
Many of the principalcities of France
4 sent workmen out to America to visit
4 the Boston exposition Marseilles
+ among the number voted 6,000f to di
vide amongst three delegates. 1t now
/ appears that the latter group, instead
of embarking for America, stayed in
I Paris as q more preferable alternative
I than crossing the Atlantic and making
| excursions to Boston. One of the del
egates, it is assured, is so charmed with
1 the capital that he still remains with
/ in its boundaries.
! There are rumors of hard feeling
among the principals of the Emma
/ Abbott opera company, because theman
agement will not allow them to sing in
Italian. Sig Campobella (who is Mr..
4 CampbelD Sig Fabrini (who is a Mr..
/ Smythe), and Mile. Laura Bellini (who
is Miss Woolwine) are particularly out
of sorts, and are SAID to seriously con-
template leaving the Abbott organiza
ton and setting up q grand italian OPP
era company Of their own. Mr.. Charles
Pratt, one of the managers of the opera
company, tells us that the craze to sing
in italian is not confined to the princi
pals of the troupe, but extends to the
- 1,n
ga Miss Dusenberry, from Pelham,
Mass, Mr. Swartwout, from Meriden,
Conn. "a Mr.. Beanbloom, fromBainbridge
n. Y, and Mr.. Checkerbury, from
Walpole, VT, who had never been out
side their native villages and never sang
in anything but Sabbath-school con-
certs and cantatas Def ore they Joined us
this season, yet they bother us continu-
ally with their opportunities to be al
lowed to sing in italian.