New-York tribune., 1878-05-31
Personal.

The Hon. +. b. Washburne is i'll IN San
Francisco.
DR.. J. Hammond Trumbull has been elected
president Of the Connecticut Hist ,rical Society.
Mr. II. c. Bowen intends, it is said. to hold
another political celebration Woodstock the com
ing 4h Of July General b. Buer is to be of the
speakers.
On the occasion Of the conservation of DR..
Chatard at Rome a. Bishop of vincennes Iud.,
ber OF adios Rome presented hun with magnificent
silver and stand and he received costly episcO
pal ring from Miss Macbrlde, formerly OF Ncw-Yofk
The Crown Princess of Denmark is said to
he six feet two inches height takes great pleas
ure 10 dancing but having strong Of the udicous
she will dance with partner who Is not tall also. 1t
said that the Prin OF Wales finds il somewhat diff
fcut her balls to provide suitable partners Tor her
si,tef-ii-laN
The Hon. John Scott Harrison. the last Of
President Harrson'. immediate family, ded at North
Bend saturday night He about seventy-four
wears old lie had lived for many ard died. upon
farm gwen him by his father n,t east OF the mouth OF
the Great Miami about two miles above Iawrenceburg
and nearly tye miles belO" the famous home ana tomb
OF General Harrison.
The well informed Roman correspondent Of
The L0ndoa Tablet says that there i, te slightest
foundation for the that the health OF Leo XIII
l. impaired IL Il not robust but he nas disease
any iuarmty except that OF He rises carly aud
goes bed late transacts business regularly and with
out much appearance Of fatigue eats and drinks
Eparncy. ana touches only the simplest yi1nds lie
take exercise from 20 IN the vatican gardens,
and sometimes says hS early IN the morn
ing, in a small chapel IN the gardens.
General Sherman writes TO The KdtORGk
Eeooy9er: IL am the perfume Of the fresh flow
ers strewn upon the graves OF heroes must rise 70
Heaven a. from the altar OF the pararths Of
old" Ex-Governor Seymour writes lie who has
passed through the awful scenes OF fire and blood, has
worked into his being what time nor events can cfscc
There viii live the memory Of the cause for which
he ptrilled life Of dying comrades; OF flag which
lie followed 10 the jaws OF death; and this
will give to his nature tnse and glow
Of nobility" Secretary Sherman says: q" Custom
can never stale the OF Marathon. aud the mound
which stil j. heaped above the dead on that antique
plain cannot be more dear and honorable to nanAlnd
than the grassy hocks which Dclose all tat Is mortal
OF the heroc. who laid down their lives that America.
greater than Greece might endiTc forever ana
General Garfield adds this love to believe that no
heroic sacrifice II ever lost that the OF .cn
moulded aud inspired Dy what Their fathers nave
done that treasured up in American souls are all the
unconscious influences OF the great deeds OF the Anglo
Saxon race from Agincourt to Bunker HiiL'
The late Professor Henry particularly liked
10 rise az daybreak. and. throwing dressnG-Sown
around his shoulders he would pass from the bedroom
70 bis study his Office aud write read and make notes
A. he read until the family called him to an O'Clock
breakfast IL IA said by friend, who bad known
him well for the last sixteen years. that In
that time Professor Henry never used harsh
Kind word 10 a person. dead living. Though lie was
al times when imposed upon, severe and dignhed in
bearing yet he repressed anything save the most couriy
language OF reprosch. A. boy he was an inyei"Hte
novel reader unt at sixteen English book OF setter
tie lectures happened fall into his hands. ii" VS. 20
Interested in IL that the owner presented 1t 10 "m'
and be kent II ever Afterwards among bis treasure.
On the neai this paragraph. written by MIN III 1851
This book although by no means profound work,
has. under Providence exert"h a Fem3iEabe
irfIenre on my lie. II accidentally fell into
ny hands when / about sixteen years OLD,
aud was the first book with the exception OF WORKS OIL
fiction that ever read with attention It Opened 10 me
new world OF thought and enjoyment, invested things
before uOticed with the highest interest nXtd
nv mind ou The study Of Nature. and caused me 10 re-
solve at jue OF reading II mat wond devote my
Lie to tse acquisition OF knowledge. JOsLPH HENRY