New-York tribune., 1878-11-26
Of The Springfield Repabhoan which first printed
these interesting "reminiscences, will now be in order.
PERSOY4L.

Mr. W. W. Story's statue of Josiah Qaacy,
The gift OF Mr.. T. q. Appleton and others 10 Harvard
now stands in Memorial Hall
Governor Hampton has been suffering greatly
from the Inflammation and fever consequent ugoa is
accident, but is now nuch better.
When Miss Brewster visited Heinas grave
| i'll Paris last year she saw something white stuck 10
! the metal leaves OF the garland; young friend
clambered up crafty her curiosity, aud drew out
! visiting card OF a German philosophical doctor. And
| actually" she says. one turned down
Il was II The man. not hndng The great dead author
at hpmc ASants Day, wished to testify that he
called IN person :"
Minister Bingham, who has come home upon
few months leave OF absence from his official duties in
Japan. that he will not be candidate for the Gov
ernorshp of Ohio next year. After twenty OF hard
work. public and private he add. that he Ia DO
stion OF quiet and while he Is bv unemployed
he has already somewhat rested himself and gained a
new lease of life. Mr. Bingham IS welpreseryed
OF sxtythree wlth gray lair white minister's piercing
steelblue eye and frank aud cordial manner
| OF Mr., Francis Bret Harte's Heather
Cinee" it is said that he wrote 1t in an hour of IDLE
and threw 1t carelessly into his desk. One day
months after. says writer in The San Francisco Gait
the printer of The OrerlGRd Monthly wanted copy enough
10 ill out page or two, and Mr.. Harte, searching
among his papers, happened to find these neglected
verses. They were printed with misgivng his
part-a very unnecessary misgiyng he found as soon
as the magazine appeared.
DIR. Burton, of Hartford, in an address upon
the placing of the Bushnell memorial tablet the other
day. said that Dr. Bushnell had wonderful way Of
working up his subject and while under the
spell of his words, do Jtrines obnoxious we're
accepted almost without objection In illustration OF
this the speaker related that parishiOner asked Dr.
Bushnell day, Doctor, what did you preaclc on
yesterday g. He replied that he sought to show that we
know more of the future than Of the past This may
seem of itself, an impOssbillty, yet such was his
earnestness and his wonderful influence over the mind
OF his hearers that they uncOnsciously led along
by MN IN own path although they felt that tney
could not agree with him. A marked characteristic
insI4tence In his voice. way which carried DIS
hearers with him. and almost forced one 10 accept his
views
When Sturgeon was still almost a lad
says The london Echo. he was sent down TO
preach for an aged Baptist minister in the coun-
try. On his arrival. the old man looked at hnl
as If he expected the world to TO end by
the mere force Of boys nipudence and instead Of
giving tie accustomed greeting, walked up and down
muttering enough be heard, Tut, cut, is 1t come
70 this boys for pupts children TO preach babies to
preach !" Mr.. SpurgeOn, too, mutered to himself but
not loud enough TO be heard, You shall pay for ths
old boy" So next morning he chose for his fist lesson
the sixteenth chapter of Proverbs and read until ho
came to the verse, hoary head Is a crown OF glory"
Looking up with air of surprise he exclaimed to tho
asOnishuen of the orthodox congregation, sol0mons
wrong there. hOary heads can't be civil to boy
WHO comes to preach for heB Rudeness gives no crown
of glory" Then, returning the book. ne added Win
On Sec SOOmOn's Ilg1t aiter all
the righteousness" The Od man was capeDt or
bearing joke even from the pulpit and. Wnen ne ser
mon WIS OYcr M the stairs ana, sIapphg lle ooy
prrach,r ou back exclaimed with delight, IDtcTJ
The sauc.est dog that ever barked in pulpit'