JAN. 
THE BUBAL NEW-YOBKEB. 
PERSONAL ITEMS. 
Mr. Tllden will spend a part of tlie winter In 
Georgia and Florida. 
On the 1st of January, General Whiskycock- 
tallisklwas temporally superseded by General 
Swearoff, 
A farmer,on tlie fever and ague marshes of New 
Jersey, ba3 named his daughter “Malaria.” She 
win doubtless be “ great shakes” of a girl. 
Grant (to Vesuvius)—Do you object to smoking ? 
Vesuvius—Oh, no; not at all. Smoke away. I 
like it. I’m an incorrigible smoker myself. Puff! 
John B. Barliz of St. Louis, eighty-six years old, 
and totally blind, teaches music and dancing. It 
Is cheering to see so old a man so young in action. 
Hartlz In the right place. 
Dr. McMurtcyehas resigned Ills position as, 
chief chemist of the Department, of Agriculture 
In order to represent the interests of the Dep art. 
ment. at the Paris Exposition. 
Mr. Evarlscompares hlrnsclf to the Connecti¬ 
cut farmer’s stone wall, which was built four feet 
high and llv e feet thick, so that If It was blown 
over It would be higher than before. “ l have 
been patient enough," ho says, “ to come here on 
a salary of $8000 a year, and It I am tipped over, I 
will go back to a practice of $ 10,000 a year.” 
If. Is said that Osman Pasha was a close student 
ol' the campaigns of Gen. Lee and Gen. Joseph E. 
Johnston, and that he had all their reports and 
descript ions of thell military movements trans¬ 
lated specially for him; that, he delighted to com¬ 
ment on “Stonewall Jackson,” and spoke elo¬ 
quently of Sheridan. But Leo and Johnston wero 
his models, 
A picture of Prince Albert and Ills eldest 
daughter, then Just betrothed crown princess of 
Prussia, Is given in Ills own words: “ I am giv¬ 
ing Vicky, every evening, an hour for conversa¬ 
tion, in which our chief topic Is history. She 
knows a great deal. I also give her subjects 
Which she works out for me. Her Intellect Is 
quick and thoroughly sound In Its operation.” 
Judah P. Benjamin, formely a member of the 
Confederate Cabinet under Jeff Davis, and now 
one of the leading lawyers at the London bar, 
while pleading, begun an argument with the 
adjuration: “In tho naino of Heaven—” The 
Master of the Bolls Instantly stepped him, saying 
very quietly: “I do not see that Heaven has 
much to do In this ease, Mr, Benjamin;: the proper 
appeal is to the appellate court.” 
General “Bob”Toombs, of Georgia, la described 
as tlie possessor of a tlgure that Is a model of 
manly strength and beauty, and a bead that Na¬ 
ture left rough-cast. Grizzled, unkempt locks are 
piled In disorder over and around his broad, high 
forehead, and the dark skin of his massive fea¬ 
tures Is plowed by deep lines. When excited, his 
eyes glow, his arms are thrown rapidly and 
forcibly about, and ho speaks in a high, sharp 
voice. 
When Mark Twain lectured recently at a town 
In Massachusetts It was arranged that T. B. Aid- 
rich, the poet, should Introduce him. When Mr. 
Aldrich was about to step forward to perform 
his duty, Mark cheeked him. Th u advancing 
slowly to the edge of the platform, while tho 
amazed poet, resumed Ills chair, the humorist re¬ 
marked : “ Ladles and gentlemen, my friend Mr. 
Aldrich was going to tell you who 1 was, but I 
would rather not—he knows me too well,” 
The Czar of Russia was at Inlcbenltzer when 
an officer of the 1 ,'lilans brought the news of the 
fall of Plevna. His Majesty is said to have re¬ 
plied, “ But the war is not over, for all that.” The 
Emperor went to the army, greeted tlie troops, 
and kissed Prince Charles, calling him cousin. 
He then, embraced Todleben, the cliicf of the 
staff, I morel Insky and Granetzky, commanding 
tho Second Corps, saying to them, “This Is all 
due to you; abovo all to thee, Edward Ivunhoff 
Todleben.” 
A Washington coirespondent says Hayes has 
grown Healiy since Ills election and his face Is 
that, of a man at peace with his dinner and the 
world. There Is a look of greater refinement, 
too, about hJtu than there was two years ago, as 
though lie wero accustomed to better society as 
President of the United States than as Governor 
of Ohio. Ho appears to have lost a certain awk¬ 
wardness of manner that characterized hlmthen, 
and his relations with his hands and feet are far 
more amicable than t hey used to he. 
This Is related of the lato Mrs. Gen, Hooker: 
When she was the admired Miss Grocsbeek of 
Cincinnati, she was onco at an evening party, 
when a faslilonabte young dandy was asked if he 
would like to be presented to her. “Oh, yes,” 
said ne languidly, “trot her out.” The lady 
overheard the remark, and when he was present¬ 
ed, she adjusted her eye-glasses deliberately, and 
slowly scanned his clothing from boot to collar. 
The survey finished, sue waved her hand and 
carelessly said, “Trot hffn back; I have soon all 
there Is of him.” 
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