New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-22
PERSONAL.

Mr. Bie:stadt is going TO build and occupy a
house on Canonicut Island, near that famous old
fort, the 4" Ddmplngs."
A report comes from Pennsylvania that Walt
Whitman is wing very sick ut the residence of Dr.
Buck, in London. ontario.
Every one will be glad to hear that Mr.. Peter
Cooper has so far recovered from bis recent illness
as to be able 70 go to the country.
II is announced that the daughter of Mr.. Andrew
ID. White, United States Minister to Germany. is
abont TO be married to Mr.. Theodore Stanton. The
ceremony will be performed at the American Lega-
ton IN Berlin.
Mr.. Mather, one of the recently returned repre-
sentatives of the United States at the Berlin Int
national Fishery Exhibition, has joined the staff of
Forest and Stream and will In future conduct its
fishery department.
magnificent banquet is to be given TO the King
of the Begians August 10, by tie town OF Brus-
ses The Mayor and Burgomaser and five .addi-
tional members of the municipality of every Euro
pean capital are invited.
Gambetta is said to be greatly annoyed by the es-
capades of man who so closely resembles him that
he is In daily fear of having set down to his account
exploits which would not be in the least creditable
to the President of the Chamber OF Deputies.
Mr.. James Dickson, Member of Parliament for
Dungannon, in place of his father, who was I'M
seated OH petition, is the youngest member Of tho
HOusc.
quenty has attained his majority since the general
election.
One of colony of artists of different naionalles
who have spent several years at POnt Aven, In Brit
tany is Mr. w. L. Picknell. of Boston. for whom o
brilliant future Is predicted by both friends and
critics. He has received an Honorable Mention for
two paintings exhibited at this years Paris Salon,
and the French journals have cordially commended
the award.
1t is probable that the next election Of Professor
of Poetry in the University of Oxford will arouse
unusual interest and competition IL is supposed
that the present incumbent Principal Sharp, OF the
University of st. Andrews. will offer himself Tor re-
election, but The Examiner states that he viii be
urgently opposed on account of his structures on
Burns. Mr.. Matthew Arnold will be asked to re-
sumo his old post and Mr.. Edmund w. Gosse Is also
spoken OF.
General Garfield is said to have q fine sense of
congruity and harmony, and sometimes tells q
little story which illustrates this. When only o
boy on the wide highway he one day met girl Of
twelve thirteen years, barefoot of course, wear
ing soied and torn tow" dress. repaired con-
spicuously with large flannel patch of unmatcl-
ing color; her face, sun-burnt and Drowned, COW
cred by a light silk VEIL The bare brown feet
kissed the earth none too tenderly but very prop.
that veil! She went her barefoot way that
patched and yelled maiden of twelve or thirteen,
the Orange woods of long ago; leaving her image,
not in the boys heart, but alas In his memory, TO
be n perpetual comparison. 1t never left him. 1t
has always stood with its lesson at his elbow.
/" This is my tow frocked, barefooted GIRL with tho
silk veil" "Ths is the silk veil for my flannel
patched. barefooted girl"
General Theodore Lyman says Of the late Count
de Pouriales the friend and associate of Agassiz
lie had not an enemy, and could not have had one
| for although firm and perseyering In temper. ho
possessed the gentleness of a child, and woman's
Kindness. His modesty amounted almost to q fault,
and people wondered why man who was master
of three languages should talk so little. But with
intimate friends he would speak freely. and never
without giving information and amusement. His
range of learning was very wide, and his command
OF II perfect nor was IL confined to mathematics
physics and zoology. He did not saorn novels and