New-York tribune., 1875-12-04
PERSONAL.
invites us.

Vice e-Prcsdent Wilson's property will not
exceed, 1t is thought, $4,000 in value.
Col. Forney has been quite sick in London.
but was recovering slowly at last accounts.
Senator Logans condition is improving, and.
unless relapse occurs, will delay his departure foe
Washington many days
Archbishop Bayley of Baltimore, formerly
Bishop OF the Diocese OF Newark the guest OF Vicar
General DOane In that city.
Mr.. Robert Mines, the only son of Lord
Houghton has just entered Trinity College, Canbridge
England wrote one Of the prize poems this year At
Harrow, and The Penn Monthly for December prints u
entire.
The Trustees Of the Connecticut Literary IN
stitute sueld said TO feel assured or raising their
proposed Centennial endowment fund OF 100000 They
have paid recently Tor halt for female students
costing 100000
An extremely sensible Presbyterian mer-
chant acting upon the personal solicitation Of President
McCosh has given five billiard tables to Princeton Cot
believes the students will have less Inducements 10
tie billiard saloons whore Intoxicating iquos are
sold.
Prof. Swing does not lack for friends who
have faith In him. He begins his an independ-
ent preacher in Mcvckers Theter Chicago. tomorrow
and that there may be failure of support 80 gentle
have guaranteed u 900 each TO pay all exPonsc,
Prot swings old church VIII follow him INTO his ne"
field
A man who was undoubtedly a native Of st.
Alton and in his will he lett $4,000 to be beid In trus.
until it should amount TO $4,000, when it should be
come the property OF Los Angeles County. IL that
county declines il Is to go any other county of any
other in tho Union except To that ia winch Chicago
is situated
An embarrassing incident happened TO
whitehall NewYork, clergyman recently. He married
couple aud when ho examined the fee found 10 was
500 bill. The next day the brIdegtoom teleg,rphcd
$40 bill. The clergyman replied that II was 700 late 70
rectify mistake, he had Joiuy used the nonoy W
hquidato long standing debt
Lonefellow was at one time professor in
Bowdoin College, and the college paper. The orient
calls an amusing anecdoe OF him, During French TO
citation no called upon student who had evidently
n1 s W nv adtby The profe tor gave no heed To
the prompting but let the student bnder through his
paragraph and when the young man was seated quietly
said: Your recitation reminds Of the Spanish thea
ter whore the promptcr performs more important part
than the actor"
Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman of Providence,
who.a name in ror1ncr years peasaaty associated
wih that of Edgar Allen Poe, has addressed to Miss
sarah Bico the leading spirit of the Poe Monument Com
Ce %s IT by f Ioon Gst Ssc. that
/" Blacks admirable edition OF Poes works was set up
macnitudc thus performed, and hence marking quito
epoch In printing, 80 far as Britain Is concerned.
Mr. William Winters poem read at tho
dedication of tho Poo Monument in Baltimore
Is described by Mr. William ID. o'conor, tn spnyate
letter lately published In The ProSidehcs Journal az
really noble and striking the right chord The Jopof
itself says OF 1t: MIR winters poem cannot Do over.
praised In exquisite truth and tenderness OF Ieennst
Is unsurpassed by any eezlac poem Ia the Language.
while The fourth and NTH verses IN the contased depth
aud spendor OF their imagery are wonderfully nne "nd
impressive
President Eliot of Harvard says in recent
letters The great educational need OF tho West and Of
the whole country, indeed, is good schools excusyey
devoted 10 lifting boys thoroughly for coleges OF high
standard The public high schools have different nc-
ton and the work OF lifting small proportion OF their
n,n sor college interfere- with the discharge Of their
rsry important legitimate function. Endowed schools.
managed by private corporaiion RECEIVING boys OF ten
ar wears aud keeping them until they are seven
teen or heen years old more needed In this ooun
try than any other class OF edncaons INSTITUTIONS, m
clear gain OF the ocalled coeges
and uni, could be converted Into such secondary
schools for vigorous school, doing its appropriate work
with thoroughness, much more useful Institution
thnn n lame college,"