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Show PERSONAL Mrs. Sartoris is in Paris. Mrs. Secretary Ramsey is very handsome. Mrs. Dinah Muloch Craik had an attack of measles while in Rome. Queen Victoria amused herself recently sketching in the Black Forest. Mr. Columbus Delano is a model farmer, and owns the finest horses and cattle in Knox county, Ohio. M. Renan is not a scientist or a metaphysician, but a man of strong religious sympathies and poetic nature. Mr. S.C. Hall has received a pension of $750 from Queen Victoria in recognition of his services to art and literature. Secretary Schulz is said to be engaged in marriage to a Miss Irish, of Washington, who, like Mr. Schurz is a skillful piano player. Mme [Madame] Thiers has sent to Vice-President Wheeler a handsomely bound set of her late husband's works, to be placed in the library of the Senate. Mr. Herbert Gladstone, who comes into the new Parliament with his father, is said to be "not only a strong, calm, and lucid reasoner, but has that gaiety and playfulness in him which a British audience most loves." Gen. [General] John A. Sutter, the German "forty-niner" to whom Gen. Sherman once said, "more than any other single person are we indebted for the conquest of California with all its treasures," is living in Pennsylvania, ill and poor. Alexandre Dumas' daughter Jeanne (Colette) will be married this month to M. Maurice Lappman. The bride and her father are Catholics; her mother (Princess Narischkine) belongs to the Greek Church; her future husband is an Israelite. Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb kisses all the children presented to her with complacency, if without pleasure. A few days ago her placid face clouded for a moment as a little boy refused to be caressed, declaring that he "didn't kiss little girls." Mrs. Valorous Kibbe, a descendant of Thomas Cushman and Mary Allerton, passengers in the Mayflower, reached her ninetieth birthday last Saturday, and was congratulated by ninety of her descendants at her home in Ellington, Conn. [Connecticut] Miss Emily Faithful, whose coming visit to this country has been already announced, is the daughter of a clergyman, and is forty-five years of age. She at one time enjoyed the pleasures of fashionable life, but soon became devoted to improving the condition of workingwomen. She is a favorite of the Queen Victoria. Louise Josephine-Eugenie, Princess Royal of Sweden and Norway, and Crown Princess of Denmark, is one of the handsomest princesses in Europe. She is full of life and spirits, and a model wife and mother. She has a very large private fortune, and will be one of the richest women in the world. She owns the purest and largest diamonds known. Mrs. Gladstone, according to a London correspondent, is a clever, pleasant, earnest woman, but she dressed badly; her bonnets are of the dowdiest. Mr. Gladstone wears trowsers [trousers] that are baggy at the knees; his coats never fit him; his gloves are always too long at the fingers; but when he goes down to the House of Commons prepared to make an important speech, he is always well-brushed, his hair is oiled and he wears a flower in his button hole. Mrs. Gladstone always revises him before he leaves home on important occasions. Mrs. Fremont, according to a Washington correspondent, is still a remarkable looking woman. She is stout in figure and her gray-hair is abundant. She has a kind, benevolent expression and is a fluent talker. Her style of dress is quite unique. It consists of a skirt made out of a camel's hair shawl, which was once magnificent; a black cashmere polonaise is worn with this Oriental skirt. Mrs. Fremont is the constant companion of her husband, acting as a friend, private secretary and counselor. She has a masculine mind for the details of business, and has more than once straightened out the General's affairs. |