New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-09
PERSONAL.

Ex-Governor STAFFORD, of California is arranging
n magnificent arboretum, which is to occupy 300
acres of his farm. He intends to open 1t to the
public as soon as its growth justi6es that action.
Miss Leech, scientific Englishwoman, has been
elected member of the Pharmaceutical Society Of
Great Britain. of which body her father the Roch-
dale chemist Thomas Leech. one OF the earliest
members
The Rev. DIR. Courtney the assistant rector of St
Thomas in New-York, has accepted call to st.
James Church, IN Chicago at salary reported TO
be 81 3 900 per year he is to enter upon the duties
of his new charge at Easter
Queen Victoria is the ow6er Of a slver-gilt casket
in which are ocets containing locks of hair of thir
teen officers who fell at Isandula. Each locket IL
engraved with an In Memoriam" and the name Of
the officer together with the date of his death. The
souvenir ordered by the Queen.
After five trials Miss NJ. Louise Mclaughlin, Of
Cincinnati has at last succeeded in completing the
largest vase ever nodded IN this country. It ID
called the Ali Bahia Vase and measures 81 inches In
heiQhth and II inches in diameter. The vase IL
the wet clay measured Al inches in heighth and Is
inches IN diameter.
Ristor is 10 have a magnificent new house IN Rome
which the Marquis, her husband Is now building
for her in the Via Nazlonale. The worilmen. in dig.
gng almost the last spadefu of the foundations the
other day. came upon a very large deposit OF ancient
bronzes-some beautiful Greek and Roman status
ettes-which are important and valuable.
Mr. w. G. Turner the sculptor. now in Florence.
has made says The Times of Chicago. dainty
figure of "Sabrina," from Millions COmus." repre-
senting her as lovely sprite floating over the sur
face of the water scarcely touching the lilies with
her feet. Aclump OF waving rushes supports the ap-
parently light and buoyant hgure.
The late NJ de st. Georges was In reality the au-
thor of the lIbretto of The Bohemian Girl" which
ba of Ia
Enchantress," composed by Bale, was similarly due
to NJ de St. Georges. winch did not prevent Mr.
Bum from claimingit as his own 1t Is said that,
apart from Wagners almost every fairly good
hbretto is of French origin.
Mr.. Ruskin has just printed pamphlet for PHI
vate circulation, in which he explains his sIlencs
respecting the projected restoration of st. Marks
Church in Venice. He says: 81 am now entirely
unable to take part in exciting business or even,
without grave danger, to allow my mind to dwell on
the subjects which, having been dearest to it.
are now the sources of acutes pain The illness which
almost killed me nearly two years ago. was not
brought on by overwork but by grief at the course
Of public affairs in England and by affairs, publio
and private alike, in Venice; the distress of many
an old and deeply-re0arded friend there among the
humber classes of the city being rs necessary
consequence of the modern system OF Capitalization
rs the destruction Of her ancient civil and religious
buildings"
Mr. Samuel wards reported intention 10 spend
the rest of his life England where he is ncgotat
ing for set of chambers in the Albany. pleasantly
commented upon by Edmund Yates in The London
Horld " Mr.. Ward" 1t says, "has the combined ca
pacities-Qualites much less frequently united than
is generally supposed-of enjoying life himself and
of giving enjoyment to others. Ii he permanently
pitches his tent among London will be the richer
and New-York the poorer. He will take his place
in that DISTINGUISHED list of cultured American;
who have found a congenial home in the old country
"a list which includes the names of Washington
Irving, Motley, Hawthorne, and TO which that Of
James Russell Lowell will in the future be added.
Names are not wanting with which ideas are asso-
ciated at once gentlcr and more dazzling. America
has gwen lis not only social accomplishments and
intellectual culture IL has enriched us with an
OVERLOOKING measure of feminine beauty. CynO-
sures of Transatlantic loneliness delight mnlttudes
in Hyde Park, and glow in the armament of London
drawing-ro0ms.
PARIS, Feb. S-Senator Cremeux is confined Ia
his bed by violent attack of bronchitis. His ill
ness excltes some uneaslness.