New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-06-09
PERSONAL

The British battle painter, Mrs. Butler-once
Mis-. Elizabeth ThOmps0n-ntends, it is said to paint
only religious pictures hereafter
Gov. :. NJ. CullOm of Illinois left Spring
sd on Tuesday for Washington with his wife and two
daughters lie spent day OF two in Chicago.
II is reported that Mr. Henry Ward Beecher
bas received from the Boston Lecture Association an
offer OF s25, 900 90 spend his vacation in California
Stephen Johnston, the GTeenback nominee
Tor Governor Of Ohio, is Of the late Col John
Johnston Of Pqua tie weil-known pioneer and famous
Indian agent o; generation OF TWO ago.
DR.. Philip Schaff. travelling in the East, was
nearly killed by the fanatca Moslems at Hebron, re-
Gently He wanted 10 20 into the cave Of Machpelah
where the pafrarchs lie buried and the pagans oJeceu
Prof. w. d. Wilson of Cornell has recently
been favored With an honorary election as member Of
the Philosophical Society Of Great Britain Only i've
Americans have been elected members OF thlS So
eiety.
Jefferson Davis now lives near Mississippi
6yv on the border Of PoutchartraIn between NeW-OT
leans and Mobile. He is writing his memoirs Is III eA-
ceept lealth and looks younger than he did ewyears
$50. =, ~
Miss Magin daughter of President Ma@ll
~ sarblore College, took the degree Of Pm d. at Bos
-, 1-riyersir, the Other day Among the gradu
ates who women one Is granddaughter OF III Cn
ming
Mr.. John G. Whittier is going to the yearly
eet,ur NJ Friends i'm Portland. Mrs Gertrude Cart
land of Newburypor who is clerk Of the yearly meet
,nr was once a teacher IN Portland, and is remembered
by her former pupils as GeItrude Nhi'tI'
Among the persons present at the Commence
,oeut eye, ses at Lincoln University, Chester County
penn was the Rev DR.. Pinney. who went to Africa 10
wears ago as missionary. He remained there mum
her II wears and was for time Governor OF Liberia
probably tine best and most accurately informed
man in this country regard to the condition and sur
,sinr Of the West Coast colonies, from which ne mas
lately returned There are ten native African students
In lincoln University ana also bright anu pods '
youth from toe L .e Indian tHoe
The Abb6 List may be said to admire with
enthusiasm the women of Poland He says OF them :
..Tv win upon us by these intOnations Of voice which
touch the heart and fl the eye with tender tears by
those sudden aud graceful impulses which recall the
spoptaneity ana beautiful timdty Of the gazeHe Intel
u,eut cultivated. comprehendng everything with "a
riditv sklul in The of an they E3No acquired thY
are tvertheless, superstition, ana stdluus a. the
lovely YET ignorant creatures adoIed by inc ARABIAN
proph T."
II is said that a fve-year-Od girl, named
Comma Cuuior Is q star az OF the Fiorent me thea
ters She l. lovely, and plays marvelousy, walking the
stage with or much freedom If she had trod II All Ter
life Poets have written verses in her nonor rie we OF
salvui the tragedIan. made her gin Of precious
necklace and the Princess ROYAL Marghe1a expressed
ber pprcci,ton in a beautiful and valuable present
CavaeYe R1ss. the tragedan predic Tor Lef spenu
career, ana That she VII htlICNT Mn s AZ ~
comes the greatest actress TIE "Ollu ndS 0Nui ''I
Monsieur Theirs has a beautiful library
urbted from the top where he sits at work with some
% 600 volumes massed around him. His 80 years have
hardly sackened the rateof his labor He is mp al tie
first peep o.. daylight and brews his own coffee and Is
closeted with Mr Barthe envy Saint-illalre Wien the
busv quarter round about him is still silent He Is sveat
economist Of his time AID health and sleeps regularly
t1ye I'm the course Of the day. His drinks milk and
coffee, and he eats plain meats NHeR ne %aal5 o 10
gather Myth for long enorl ID the tribune cOIous
glass Of coffee appears before NM
public banquet has been given at Sydney
70 Nr Augustus Morris. the Commissioner for New
soutb Wales az Philadelphia and Mr. Charles Robinson.
the cretdry Of The Commission. There we're over zoo
guests at the banquet. and annex at the exhibition
was thrown omen for the affair Both gentlemen made
speeches aud enthusiastic III regard to the United
states Mr. Morris said more generous, more
kindly and more talented does not exist than the
people OF the United states, and they are blessed with
vomanhood beautiful and pure and cultivated perhaps
beyond that OF any other uation;' also, the people
have elected to Presidential chair man as fautiess
a. King Arthur" Mr. Robinson said that nobody could
20 10 America without finding out that II Is great
country. In fact, both gentlemen seem 10 nave ciul
back with them the most cordial memories u t"eH 'SlV
here.
II is said of Charles Dickens that he reached
point OF absolute perfection in aitedinDer speaking
AL" saws The London World, was polished with that
concealed skill which is the greatest skl all was neat
dexterous pointed, and naturally antitheiical Humor
and pathos were alternately conveyed in the subtle nhec
tons OF the voice Whatever the OCCASION whatever the
company whatever the comparisons which the company
might provoke Dickens failed TO taze III Lis per
Torrance the standard of c0nsummate excellence. His
last speech in public. tnat at the Academy dinner OF
1870 WAS perhaps his best What could be more OK
ousite than such touch thisi Since first entered
the public lists, very young man indeed, 1t has been
my constant fortune To number among my nearest and
dearest friends members Of the Royal Academy who
have been grace and pride. They have so dropped
from my side one by one that already begin 70 feel like
The Spanish monk Of whom Wiie tells, who had grown
10 believe that the only realities around him were the
rtc5res which he loved and that all the moving life he
- or ever had seen. shadow and dream
However mixed however select his audience, OhIles
pickeu. al raVs Xed Its delighted attention"