New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-06-08
PERSONAL.

Mr. ROebuck, NJ. p, was knocked down by
cab recently has been quite i'll IN consequence
Gov Bede of New-Jersey has been seri-
ousy i'll at his re sidence Jersey city for week past
Mr. Alexander C.. Botkin, editor of The MI
raukee Sentinel. will deliver the Grafton before the
Alumni OF Wisconsin University on the 2Oth INST.
The German author, Ferdinand GregOr0vius
whose history OF " Rome in the Middle Ages" ranks
beside Gibbons great work. has been made an honorary
citizen or Rome
Prof. James Russell Lowell has been invited
TO prepare poem tho Fourth OF July celebration at
Taunton Mass. in connection with the Grafton OF MI
Charles Francis Adams.
Prof. J. l.. Diman of the chair of History
and Political Economy at Brown University VIII deliver
the Grafton before the PM Beta Kappa Society OF Har-
ward College durilS commencement week.
The Rev. Morgan Dix will preach the Bac-
calaureate sermon and the Rev. John Cotton 9th VIII
deliver the annual Grafton before the PHI Beta Kappa
Society the coming commencement at HoDart college
james Lorimer Graham, jr., Late American
Consul Florence is buried III the Protestant Cemetery
OF that city. His widow. Mrs Josephine Garner Graham,
has commissioned Mr.. Launt Thom Json the sculptor,
resides In Florence nj present. to design an appr9
pirate monument
At meeting of the Chicago ministers last
Monday afternoon 1t agreed that Mr.. Moody should
begin revival services in that city in October He said
that FOR two years and months he had preached an
average Of four sermons day. aud he e that he ought
worK az once A petition signed by over 900 names
will soon be sent him from New-Hayen. Conn, asking
uiii to labor in that city.
Mrs Jane Grey Swisshelm, in letter from
Germany to The chicago Tribune. deprvcs American
smokers what it,e comfor, thoy have derived from
tho prevalence OF this habit among the residents Of that
country She says 1.-THE habit OF smoking appears TO
be un,s ua among German men, and was told that It
would DC impossible for me 10 live or travel in Germany
on account the Illness which tobacco smoke always
causes me; but have found that IN all the smoke there
il a. little tobacco that IL gives me no Inconvenience
OBI LIE
weed made o paper stepped III weak solution OF 10
rious from ITS Those VINO quote tie
German habit smoking 10 prove that the use OF To-
premises The Germans SMOKE, smoke, ana smoke.
by the hour, but they do not smoke tobacco"
The steam engine in the Womans Pavilion
at the Centennial Exhibition under the charge Of Miss
Allison. Some interesting particulars about her
are given in The Philadelphia Press: "she
brought up in little place ST. GATHERINGS. In Onta
RIO aud from child lover OF machinery, and spent
much ot time l. the large saw and grist mills which
her father then owned she received thorough scen-
tc education and learned much from her brother who
had made engineering profession, sac learned tue
methoh OF operating lie engine used a. te monans "a
from starting the fre In tue nornng to blowing on steam
ns sws pn To enne m 20 tH ho
she said that there thousands of small engines In
in various parts OF the country and that there was
no reason whatever why should not be employed
them The work less tedious than almost
OF the usual avocatons adopted by women, and an
engine required far less tontion than any woman gives
daily To q child under her care"
PARIS, June THE health Of NJ. Casimir-
Perier ID improving.
PARIS, June THE state of George Sands
health Ia precarious.
LONDON, June lord NorthbrOok, late
Governor General OF India, has been created Earl
LONDON. June THE King of Greece, who
sick at Copenhagen with attack Of gastric
foyer, has recovered.
OTTAWA, Canada, June THE Governor
General and Countess Duffern and suite left this
ing for High Falls II is understood that the yice-regal
parry will visit Philadelphia toward the close OF the
month
MONTREAL, June 7.-Dom Pedro and party
drove about the city to-day visiting the principal places
He aftcrward attended religious services ut the French
Church. and left here as o'clock for Boston and
the New-England States.