The morning news., 1889-04-25
personal,

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE WHARTON,
| who took the oath of office recently, is a Har-
ward graduate, an enthusiastic protectionist and
| loyal Blaine man. He and Representative
| Henry Cabot Lodge were prominent among the
very few members Of the Somerset Club of
| Boston, who resisted the mugwump wave of
| 1887, MI. Wharton is a society man, quiet cul-
tured, full of tact, and possessing a certain
coldness peculiar to his character a Bos tonan
| and Harvard man.
By the Hamilton turnpike, in Hamilton
| county, Ohio, aud on the way from College Hill
| stands a large sycamore tree that was plated
| there in 1892 by Alice and Phoebe Cary. They
| we're then and IL years old, and coming home
! from school one day they saw small tree a
farmer had gruboed and thrown away in the
| road. This they planted and cared for as
| children will, and now the tree tiourishes. aud
every one who passes by stops under it for a
| moments shade and whenever the Cary sisters
| went to that part OF tho couotry they paid a
| visit to their tree.
DIR. Won BuLow is very nervous man, as
| every one knows, and as most artists are. At a
| recent performance in New York, relates the
CrittC, II was noticed that he left the stage in
the middle Of the piece, and returned with a
stalH art mechanic. who moved the piano some
di' tance 10 the left and that lle then sat down
! and finished the performance / have learned
| since what the difficulty was The day was
warm and the thea Ter warmer, and a lady who
sat directly 10 the range or his vision was fan
uins herself vigorously against tins! He said
| that II she had only Kept Time with the music
he could have stood II. but her false beat nearly
| drove him frantic.
| ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO ! was talking with
| Mr. Bright in the smoking room of the House of
Commons relates Henry Laboucbere. He was
going 10 speak later ou In the evening, and he
had a large roll ut notes which he was looking
\ through Il never learnt speech but once :"
he said, land then did not remember It Nut
consider that no one ought TO address the House
/ on ar important issue without thoroughly get
| ting the sublec into his head and knowing how
| he intends 10 treat IT - You write down some
passageS,' said pointing 20 the uOtes. Yes. 80
| he replied, 81 a.. otherwise might say more
| than had lntend, d. y And then hs weut on to
eXpsio that ms greatest difficulty IN mastering <
| The art Of which he mad become such a mast or
had oeea 70 acquire the habit oil speaEin;
| slowly You should not make pauses between
| words and sentences" ne wont on to say, but
| pronounce clearly and distinctly every syla-
| bic -
| TWENTY EIGHT YEARS AGO. when Charles Dick
ems was invited to stand for Firsbury. he replied
tia nothing would induce him 70 oficr himself
| as a parliamentary representative CT that place
| or OF any Otner under the Bun, adding, II de-
clare that, aS to all matters on tue face OF this
te1ming earth. i appears g me tnat the House
/ OF Commons and parliament Altogether ia be
| come Just the dreariest failure and nuisance
| tdat ever bothered this much bothered world "
/ a good many Englishmen OF the present day
| are W the same opinion. Not 50, however tue
| great nuvellst's youngest son, Mr. Edward Bul-
| wer LYttOn Dickens, Who according To recent
i advices from New South Wales Is by this time
member Of parliament at the antipodes The
| contrast between father and son II strongly
marked, IN more than one respect. Charles
| Dickens repeatedly gave expression 10 the nope
| that he should make "every man In England
| feel something OF the contempt for parliament
that he had"