HE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
PERSONAL ITEMS. 
Dr. Carver's rifle brought him an Income of 
$ 00,000 last year. 
The Chinese Ambassador at Washington works 
from nine A. M, until six P. M. 
Butler has or.e hundred and two Republic 
oratora declaiming against him In the field, and 
still he is not happy. 
Dean Stanley says that tho Government build¬ 
ings In Washington are among the grandest 
structures In the world. 
Governor Bradley, the Democratic Governor of 
Nevada, la seventy-five years old, and Is known 
among tils people ns “ Old Broad Horns.” 
Mrs. Corbin of Elizabeth, N. J., slater of ex-Pree- 
ldent Grant, ba 3 taken the prize for the best 
home-made bread in that State at the State fair. 
Christopher Mann, of Independence, Mo., has 
just celebrated the one hundred and fifth anni¬ 
versary of his birth. He is the father of twenty- 
eight children. 
Lord Salisbury, urged on, like a second Mac¬ 
beth, by the ambition of his wife, Is determined 
to be l.ord Beaconslleld’s successor as prime min¬ 
ister of England. 
The Crown Princess of Prussia Is a sensible 
woman. When she visits an exhibition she goes 
in a simple black silk gown, with a straw hat 
with black band and a veil. 
The Duke of Edinburg, Queen Victoria’s son, 
and husband of the Emperor of Russia’s only 
daughter, will accompany the new Governor-Gen¬ 
eral of Canada to America. 
Emperor William of Germany has contributed 
$700 for the relief of the yellow fever sufferers, and 
United States Mlulster Noyes has sent $4,000 to 
Secretary Evarts from Paris tor the same purpose. 
The new preacher-Congressinan, Rev. Gilbert 
do la Martyr, or Indiana, elected by the Nation¬ 
als, Is fifty-three years old, and very tall, spare 
and angular. He ran for prison Inspector In New 
York in 1874. 
This was Thomas Carlyle’s estimate of Beacons- 
fleld a good many years ugo: “ lie’s Just a miser¬ 
able mountebank, who does everything with the 
rattle of that tongue of his, and has no convic¬ 
tions whatsoever.” 
William B. Astor’s country place on the Hud¬ 
son, near Khlnebeck, contains about eight hun¬ 
dred acres, and gives employment to forty men 
during the whole year. Ho baa one hundred and 
ten horses, or which thirty are road horses. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson abhors the presence of a 
reporter, and Boston reporters au pay deference 
to his wishes, and do not cherish any antipathy. 
On one occasion he stopped In the middle of a 
lecture, and would not resume until he had as¬ 
surances that the pencils should not follow him. 
The Intended husband of Fraulelu Maggy 
Rothscbi.d, a younger daughter of Baron Carl 
Rothschild, Is not the Due tie Guise, as errone¬ 
ously anuounced at Berlin on thevust lust , but 
the Due do Quiche, the eldest sou of the Due da 
Grammont —it ia a pleasure to correct a mistake 
about one’s friends. 
Prince Bismarck's big dog struck up quite a 
friendship with the Papal Nuncio. Mgr. Moselle, 
whom ho lollowed everywhere, l'awnlcg ou him 
aud licking his hands. •' Your flog seems to have 
taken a rauoy to me," said the Nuncio one day. 
“ lie is not the only member of the family that 
has done so," said the Prince courteously. 
The health of Mrs. Sherman, the wife of Gener¬ 
al Snerman, has received so severe a shock from 
her recent Illness that she la too feeble to under¬ 
go t'ae duties of society at Washington next win¬ 
ter, and for tlie purpose of recruiting ber strength 
and of educating ucr two youngest children 
under her personal supervision, she will pass the 
winter season In Ballmoro. 
Lord Lylton, poetically known as Owen Mere¬ 
dith, Viceioy of India, Is a genial man and a 
brilliant and delightful talker. Ilia wife is a 
stately and graceful lady, and admirable hostess, 
most sweet and courteous. Their palace at Cal¬ 
cutta Is a uijguUloent dwelling, and full of beau¬ 
ty and luxury. Lord Ly ttou a ofllce Is a very la- 
boilous one, but It has the compensation of pow¬ 
er and splendor. 
Senator Morton’s son, John M., has Just reached 
home from his lonely exile as United States reve¬ 
nue agent ou one of tho barren Alaska seal Isl¬ 
ands, but did uot learn of bis father’s death, a 
year ago, until ho reached San Francisco. About 
the time of the senator’s fatal Illness, John M. 
Morton was also thought to bo at tue point of 
death at t he Alaska station, and was unable to 
return by that year’s steamer, alter which he be¬ 
came ice-bound and could not leave until the re¬ 
turn of tho steamer this fall. 
The lino speeches of Lord Dufferln, which read 
as if they were delivered extemporaneously, are 
really prepared and committed to memory with 
the greatest care. He works out a speech gener¬ 
ally in the morning, ami dictates it to his shoit- 
hand writer, who then transcribes his notes upon 
large sheets of foolscap, writing on every second 
line, and leaving a margin of half the page. The 
extended manuscript Is then returned to Lord 
Dufferln, who Improves his composition until 
sometimes scarcely a word of the original concep¬ 
tion remains. Tho amended copy Is returned to 
the secretary, who makes a froali transcription. 
This In turn undergoes revision, and a third, and 
often a rourth and a fifth, transcription will be 
ordered, until Lord Dufferln Is satisfied. Then he 
reads and repeats his periods over slowly, walk¬ 
ing up and down, and reciting paragraph by para¬ 
graph. A reply in Greek which he made to tho 
professors or M’0111 University when he was given 
a degree, took him more thau a'week In its com¬ 
position. It exulted wonder and admiration in 
Canada and English learned circles as a piece of 
off-hand scholarship. 
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