PERSONAL NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1875, 28 October 1887, Page 35

PERSONAL NOTES.

Miss Gabrielle M. Greely is the sole surviving member of Horace Greely's family. She resides on the old Chappaqua homestead in company with two lady friends, Madame Popp, the doyenne of Belgian journalists, for 50 years the editor of The Bruges Journal, has written to the present no less than 18,000 articles, each containing from 3000 to 4000 words. Miss Grace Howard, daughter of a wellknown New York journalist, has decided to labour for two years among the Red Indian girls with a view of civilising and educating them. Miss Howard will establish a school for this purpose at Crow Creek Agency, Dakota. WALT WHITMAN. There is something about the old man that commands attention and admiration at sight. It is not the snowy whiteness of his beard, nor the merry twinkle of his blue eye ; it is that indefinable magnetism which attracts and holds, and inspires respect even from the most unthinking. " Uncle Walt is a little short of 6ft in stature, and has a massive, bony framework. He' is slightly Stooped' how, and the flesh on his limbs is shrunken ; but it is plain to see t"har in' middle age he belonged to the class stalwart. His face is covered with a luxuriant growth of beard, wh'fch flows in snowy waves qver his shoulders. His features. j are large, pheek-bqnes prqrcinei}t, and phin square ; hjs eyes are small, keen, expressive, and shine constantly with a kindly light. It is one of his peculiarities to wear his broad-collared ghirt open at the throat, and to breasfc the breeze no matter how hard it may blow. He uses a stout staff in his walks abroad, and it is his favourite fad to stop frequently, and as he rests to gather about him a group of young men, and talk with them on everyday life. He lias no love for the man who either flatters him or seeks to display a knowledge of poets and poetry. It is far more to his liking, as he says himself, "to talk about potatoes," and he. does it in that quaint style that is all his own. Ho takes delight in the company of young people, on the plea that his own heart is 6tis youpg and that Jie loves the bud better than the blossom. Nobody who knows him ever addresses ln"m as "Mr Whitman ; " }t is either plain Quaker «'Walt" or ''{Jncle Walt "—indeed, the lowest citizen he meets feels privileged to be thus familiar. — American Magazine. A toilet luxury iv every reapecb, Ayer's Hair Vigor never fails to restore the youthful freshness and colour to faded ( and gray hair. It also eradicates dandruff and prevents the hair from falling.