New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-07
PERSONAL.

Professor Swing is i'll, but he decilheS al "
az ~ a rest for four months and journey uo
Mrs. John T. Sargent, at whose nous NOUS 'a,r
-, ~. dtcal Club " of Boston once dlu meet "o'
Gives hosptaity to a SUNDAY eyenin srten Radical"
Heonle euriously called the - hihuei lie hoe
The Rev. Mr.. Pentecost inc eN"De - M.
80 ., GOOD fortune. Mrs Rogers VI 'ui''I'
had pec' % Tpou,n for her benevoence has Pre-
to"n 80, an hank book with comfortable SUN 10
~ lobr Brougham is expected 10 pup
al ,,ext Autumn volume OF "Rcconcc'ohS "a ~
s,.e aud very entertaining book II ough' " Do
,on ~ wit is full Of aueCdotc, and a"ohueiiu'
TeteHtiye memory -. 10 N;,,o
Governor Washburn has gone to mime
1t. u,.,. he intends Immediately to rebuild o'tA
,iul and elevator Iu spite Of DIS loss VI S'V''''''
~ ha inst selected at Madison The size i2E me
tory witch he has endowed ana o''0" "
NJ GEORGE Canning Hill became yesterday
-. q, .lisf OF The Boston Post, and Mr. Robert w.
x,ob Managing iitOr The former has ioE more wa"
,h,ten years been the writer OF most OF me FoSS Pa
ing articles and the latter has for SIX years "r'eh "
minor edit0Pials - -.
senator Herman is said to have long,
,octieal sensible nose Senator Conhllng handsome
arhting nose Senator Lamar an artistic nose OF gre"
nossibflities Senator Howe a long, triangular boS''
with share point Senator B9yard On aquiSI,Ne 6
= nnnrfeoug nose: Senator EdmundS "a nfm nose me
nose OF a guarded and knotted character ana Senato
Rarnum a. dashing and needless nose 90 EOS'ii' -
Washington writer, who thinks ne KNOWS al "po"' '
The President, the Presidents wife, and the
Presidents niece are happy people. They are saiu
never to seem at o loss for reply to any remark %"
d.esscd 70 thern and II is always rcoinder az once
snr,gbty and so wOrded TO make Inc hrsl sltihtI
~ some degree fattered by it, tal Is 20 say NC Oh
els "a II iu the presence Of one who without ever ~
,rc netropizinC was disposed 20 kindly appreciation
MIR. George Francis Train was unable 10
ve his proposed lecture Boston Oh Sunday III cohSy
,rorco If civic order forbiddng Sunday evening en-
terts,pments at any theatre. Tie lecturer immediately
left Tor this city, "vowng." says The Boston Fos ha'
- r,ount ~ money or influence could ever in0u"e lI
~ otsi, poston again. large crowd OF Mr. 1ljilns Hu
70 NlS - fathered TO witness his abrupt departure
e.,deavorcd to persuade him reconsider thls lsl
Termination ali TO no purpose anu rulsI - ma
oud waync il in the air he ejaCuheO FaTt"c"' Do s.
forever and disappeared
Mr.. Edison, the inventor, is said to dislike eat
ing and TO be very inpatient OF the time spent il tAa
pleasant exercise His friends say that when the frenzy OF
anew invention is upon him they obliged TO study lis
moods and put food ab0ut benches where he cannot
helm seeing IT, 81 hate this eating business" he l.
ouoted as saving al always avoid it when can" II
As working on an extremely cheap and efficient electro
motor especially designed to operate sowing machines
and light machinery. He is perfcctng the phonograph
and been able to reproduce words SPOKEN nteen ee
from the instrument. He has improved It so That words
spOken into the instrument IN the ordinary tone OF VOlc
BY any person perfectly recorded ana can DC repro
duced
LONDON, May 6.-General Grant and his
party have left Turin for DUOu and Paris.