New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-15
PERSONAL.


secretary of the British Museum has been compelled to
! tender his resignation on account of ill-health
| The French Government has purchased
Vbers picture "The ADOtheOss Of Thiers, for 81 600
It will be hung in the Luxembourg Palace.
Professor Lewis Swift of Rochester, will
tell people OF that city tomorrow evening about his
observations of the late eclipse of the and how he
! found Vulcan.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Morrill, is tray-
cling in Colorado for health. He mas been appointed
TO M vacancy on the commission to negotiate a treaty
with some Of the Indian tribes.
Professor Tyndalr has been dwelling in tho
heart OF the Alps all SUMNER whittier he ordered
by his London physician. He has been compelled to
abandon his scientific researches for the present.
General Sterling Price, of rebel fame, will
soon have monument erected to his memory 10 one OF
the cemeteries OF St. LOUIS. Il win be OF Maine granite
thirty-two feet high, and be dedicated this Autumn
The portrait of President Lincoln, by the
artist Bicknel, which has been hanging for some time
the State House at Augusta, Me-, is said to be the
finest likeness OF that statesman ever
| painted
Miss Harriet Hosmer is an inventor as well
IA q sculptor She said have discovered mo-
tive power which she will shortly present to the world
She Is exhibiting in London her hne statue OF the
" POmpeian Sentinel"
! The Hon. f. b. Morgan proposes TO erect at
| once "A new building for Wells Female College at Au-
rora n. Y IL will contain the MUSHROOMS, the cab
NETS. chemical laboratory, lectmerooms an art gal
! lery and gymnasium.
Captain Robert NJ. A. Hawk, the Republican
candidate for Congress the With Illinois District
soldier IN the war Of the rebellion, and escaped unin
ured until the charge OF the last battle Of the
when his leg shattered so badly that It had to be
| Mr.. John Bright is very enthusiastic angler,
| hts fayorite diversion being salmon-hshing He re-
freshes himself thus his long legislative tolls
over and has great lie is not tall man. but
he can put out from twentyseyen thirty yards OF line
straight from the end OF his rod, AID manages hrs hsh
| with exceeding adroitness.
Alfred Tennysons two sisters, Mrs. Kerr
aud Mrs Jesse extremely cultivated and intellectual
women, now past middle age Mrs. Kerr is tall and
stout Mrs. Jesse short, wiry aud dark-haired Mrs.
Jesse ia the Emily" who engaged TO marry poor
young Arthur Hallam, whose early death ended for this
world much intellectual aspiration and 80 many
happy hopes.
Mr.. Gladstone surprised even his admirers
by the energy freshness aud ygor Of his speech on the
Berlin Treaty One of his listeners notes this remark
able fact ~ his voice really seems TO be improving
There was Of fatigue at the end OF Lis speech
He was "a clear aud well at the end he was nc the
beginning and ten years ago the range OF his voice
was not wider nor its depth fuller He speaks more
ike man the prime OF life than sepuugenarian."
Corot's delicate, weird, fanciful pictures, so
many OF them wearing twilight of and OF early
dawn are not 10 appreciated by people OF thoroughly
practical The last French Emperor. once on the
occasion OF the opening OF salon, stopped before
muchalScd-of painting Of this master OF poetic repre-
sentaton For a long time he gazud silently then turn
lug away said with bewildered look suppose That
have been up early enough In the morning To un-
derstand NJ. Corot."
Senator Christiancy is elderly even for his
years neither winsome rich Senators and has
many children; aud some Washington people think tnat
It was doubtful rise for his wife when she iorsOok her
brawny young lover and married him with her dOwry
youth aud good looks and young love- To her credit
1t said that she has not forgotten her Old mates IN the
Bureau Of Engraving aud Printing. Those YIN whom
she intimate in her working days stu visit her With
the old confidence and intimacy.
NJ. A. Cornu has been elected to fill the
vacancy in the physical section OF the French Academy
of Sciences by the death Of Becquere last Janu
airy. The new academican has made wide reputation
by his Investigations into such problems as the density
of the earth and the velocity Of light His recent
researches have been those On the Experimental De
lem" and on the Optical Polarization due to the Re
neclon Oh the Surface Of Transparent Bodies"
Of Captain Mackenzie, the American repre-
sentative IN the Parts Chess Tourney where he
carried off the fourth prize, Land and Wafer says;
Mackenzie in the Of his capacity, is inferior TO
not one OF the other entrants aud superior 10 most OF
them; the skill he displays, within certain limit is
most admirable, but there is the limit; and moreover
his style il somewhat old-iashioned He is evidently
not up TO the level Of latterday research. In word
he wants the depth Of BackburDe the arseeng acute
ness of Zukeror aud the scientific knowledge OF Wilma
wer II will be noticed, however, that the two chief
had TO lower their eolOrs TO him. while he
made score with Blaokburne." Zukertort,
WnaWer ana BackDurne won the nibt three prizes IN
the order named.
AlphonsO of Spain has decided to erect
magnificent baslica the tomb OF his late Queen,
and Will appropriate $4,000 year TO the purpose To
aid the project he asked his mother the exQneen Isa
BELLA sell hor jewels deposited in the Cathedral
of Aocha and received the following reply Son Of my
heI have Just received letters from the Duo de Mont
pensier. From Perusai OF your own see that. as
Catholic King aud gentleman. you bear up against
your Sorrows aud you think of Mercedes While taking
refuge IN God and desiring to benefit the capital you
desire above all deposit her remains al the feet OF the
Virgin under a magnificent temple. Your mother not
only authorizes the sale OF her Jewels at Aocha. but
gives you her blessing approves OF your intention
worthy OF King, Christian, and good husband In
that and In all things You can always rely on the love-
desires be known that afar she Is and VIII always
he tor Madrid, for Spain ana Tor It's King"
The jewels are worth about 100000
BosToN, Aug. 14.-Vice-P President William
A. Wheeler and party left for the Vineyard to-day.
AYINGToN, N. Y, Aug. lathe Hon. S. S.
Cox and wife spending a few days at Greenwood
Lake.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Aug. IA meeting of
prominent citizens tonight appointed COMMITTEES TO
prepare programme for a reception TO President
Hayes, on tho occasion of his visit to the Fair OF the
Minnesota Agricultural Society In ths city September g.
PARIS, Aug. 14.-Professor Andrew ID.
White, Of Cornell University. gave dinner Monday
evening 70 Messrs Fenton, Groesbeck and Walker the
delegates OF the United States 10 the International
Monetary Congress-. distinguished company was
present.
PARIS, Aug. Notwithstanding the various
contradictions Of the intended marriage Of the French