Her complexion is soft and fair, her
figure matronly, her manners placid
and her gait like that of the Duchess
Edinburgh, Her children, of whom
she takes the most tender care, grow
fas’. Although the eldest is only 13,
he is already a young giant. They
are all called jouriewsky, anameheld
by some Russians to be more illustri
ous than that that of Romanoff. It
has in any case only national associa
tions. A brother of the Princess was
with Skobeleff through Central Asia,
and is of an adventurous spirit. -The
Czur took care that his second family
should not feel the pinch of poverty.
At the establishment of the Rue Las
Cases there is an sir of the greatest
opulence, but there is also much that
is suggestive of easy’ going Russian
ways. Literati are not seen to the
greatest advantage at a salon where
the lady of the house must assume an
air of soft reserve. They must pos*.
ture. At the Princess Maihilde's they
are threated en bon comarade, which
explains why h*r soirees are so agree
able.
Lincoln Disappointed.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Tribune says: Among
the crowd on the streets on inaugur
ation eve a good many queer things
might have been jolted down. Asa
White, who was in the interior De
partnaent from the lime Tom Ewing
the elder became the first Sscretary
there, rema; ked to seme office-seekers:
“ Never mind gentlemen I have
seen Abraham Lincoln just as anx
ious as you.’’ ‘ How is that?’ - asked
one.
