New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-12
PERSONAL.

Prof. Hayden was recently elected member
OF the Imperial Society of Naturasts OF Moscow Russia
| The Baptists of Connecticut have collected
$4,000 toward the proposed Centennial fund Of $780,,
| 900 for sufeld Institute
! The reported founding of q Chinese profes.
sorsbp az Yale and the appointment OF Mr.. s. W. VIII
liams to he chair, Is pronounced incorrect
Presidcnt-elect PradO of Peru left the city
last evening for Niagara Falls. lie will return to New
York ON Friday or Saturday Of this week.
One of the trustees of Wesleyan University,
whose name has not been made public Las given $4,000
toward the 100000 endowment fund of that instit-
tion
A manuscript copy of the Koran, copied by
the Caph Osman the third after the prophet Mohammed
Is in the Imperial Library at st. Petersburg It formed
q part Of tho library OF Samarcand, is 200 years old
and bears traces OF the blood that spued on It's pages
when Osman stabbed while reading It,
A gentleman who has visited Mr.. Alexander
H. stephens writes to TIE Columbus Ga) Times that his
condition is not so favorable has been reported lie
has sat up only when propped in be to take his meals
His physicians believe that ho will gradually recover.
but Mr. stephens does not ehare III their hopes lie a
pears believe that he will never recover and tnat lie
will not live much longer
The violin which once belonged to the Count
Fraumannsdorf Grand Equerry to the Emperor Charles
w. was sold at Dresden recently. 1t was purchased
from the celebrated maker Sa.ner on the following
singular conditions: The Count paid H. cash 65 golden
with good dinner every day 100 h0rns In specie every
MONTH new suit Of clothes With gold frogs every year.
as we'll as two casks OF beer lodging fring and lighting
and further II he should marry many bares as be
might want with two baskets OF fruit annually for him.
self and as many for his old nurse As stainer
lived I6 years aerward the violin must have cost the
Count 20 900 hOrns in cash. The instrument, which
was last the hands of Austrian nObenan was sold
to a Russian for $500 thalers-about $1,000.
Mr.. NJ. d. Conway in his first letter to Tho
Cincinnati Commercial after his return to London has
this bit Of gossip "An old scandal concerning tho
Queen recently been revived and it has been shown
to deeper hold the popular mind than had been
imagined On day before the Queen went in state TO
the East OF London. paraded Regent-st bear
Ing placard on which printed In large letters,
swill John Brown 20 to WhitechapelP The obnoxious
John Brown aid In prominent way, appear at the royal
ceremonial end though the regular newspapers did not
notice fact he eered at along the route by the
crowds. do mention this because believe there Is
any foundation for the scandal In question but only TO
additional evidence that the sentiment once
surrounding the throne in lhis country has distinctly
fallen. Her Majestys disappearance from public fe
lowered IT, and her recent occasional ppearanees lower
IL still In plain trr To, the Que Is very LONELY,
and she gets lovelier as and 1t Is question when
not even tho aStuteness - ner theatr CO Prime minister
can decide whether the lister OF tbs English throne Is
dinmed by her appe in state or b. her sec'