CLYDE.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2883, 13 May 1878, Page 2

CLYDE.

Haifey and mates banked 3ozs lldwts gold as the result of a crushing. -

GEORGE ELIOT AT HOME.

A correspondent says George Eliot's home life is a very charming one. She exercises an active supervision, and develops a most comprehensive management and exquisite taste in every detail of the household. In composition she is very slow and methodical, writing not more than from forty to sixty lines a day. When a book is completed she is in such a state of nervous exhaustion that her husband takes her to Italy or Southern France to recuperate. While writing she must be scrupulously arrayed as to person, while every detail of her surroundings must be in harmonious place. Her information is encyclopaedic in its extent, and exact as the sciences. She belongs to a materialistic school of thought. What the witty Mrs Trench once said of Mme. De Stael—that she is '« consolingly ugly "-^will apyly to George Eliot, with the reservation, however, that her plain features are so sanctified by her expresiion that she becomes a very beautiful woman. She is morbidly sensitive in regard to her appearance and certain phases of her life. She has been offered fabulous sums by London photographers if she would sit for her picture, but she has always refused. So far as I know there is net a picture of her in existence. She poes little or none in society, but has weekly receptions, to which only a certain class, is admitted. She may be often seen at the classical matines, given every Saturday at St. James' Hall, and occasionally she may te seen on' the street with.a pair of spankling bays, a very swell carriage-and liveried servants.

A man entered a- ticket-office in San Francisco lately, and asked for a ticket for " Destination." To prove that he was not mistaken, he pointed to a notice which read : " Passengers who intend going further than Yokohama are requested to purchase through tickets to destination.'