New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-26
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PERSONAL

President Eliot Of Harvard is going abroad this
Summer.
Mrs. Shirley Brooks. the widow of the late novel.
ist and Editor of Punch, has Just died.
General ]. E. Johnston has just received at Nash.
Vile o beautiful gOd-mOunted cane, inscribed
From the Boys"
Mr.. Shelby NJ CullOm who has been renOminatPd
by the Illinois Republicans to the Office Of Gov
ernOr, is q native Of Kentucky.
General Lew Wallace. Governor Of New-Mexoo,
has written new novel called Ben Hur" The
scene is laid in Antioch and Jerusalem, and the
time is during the life OF Christ
Ex-President Woolsey will entertain at the COM
ing Yale Commencement the class Of 1920, of which
he was o member Only eight or nine Of the fifty
eight members of that GLASS are now living
Captain HowRate, the Arctic explorer. has Just
given quaint water-party near Washington. He
engaged q packet of the Chesapeake and Cumber-
land Canal and with three horses attached he con.
veyed his guests through some OF the most romantic
scenery in the country. Striped awnings protected
them from the glare. and table full of good things
helped to brighten the novel expedition TO the Great
Falls of the Potomac.
Judge Folger, it is recorded, saved the life of an
engineer who many years ago oarelessly ran his
train into another which was standing at the sta
tiOn at Genevannd caused the killing of one man
and the wounding of several. The indignation of
inc CTOWu btJS Inc UdbtftOWN OtSpdtOh, was so
great that they resolved to lynch the engineer, and
had dragged him from his engine when Judge
POlger, then a young aud very athletic man.
plunged into tho crowd, and throwing the rioters
right and left, took the engineer under his personal
charge and projected him from violence. The man
was in mortal fOar, and trembed like aspen leaf
HIS agony, too, on realizing the effects of his care
lessness was ptiable to behold.
The WEAKNESS of life which Prince Bismarck
manifested in his speech in the ReiChstag the other
day was noticeable also In his whole demeanOr,
which in its lasSitude was marked contrast to his
activity in past days. He walked into the House
with difficulty, heavily supporting himself on bis
stick His huge frame, showing manifest signs of
blOated unheatniness, almost trembled he slowly
advanced to his seat Toward the end of his speech
his words became almost inaudible. His nerves
were evidently highly excited, and he endcavored
to calm his inward emotion by frequent draughts
from tumbler Of cOgnaC and water constantly re-
he suffered intensely from the mental and physical
effects of his speech In public, and was obliged to
retire to bed Immediately on his return home. He
stayed at the Chancellery. and even excused him
self from paying his respects to the Emperor. The
ChancelOrs nervous irritability is said to exceed
oil bounds Any trihe IS sufficient to arouse his
anger and make him lose all self.cOmmand
ITHACA, N. Y. May 25.-Erastus Brooks. of New
York. began course of lectures tonight before thu
students Of Cornell University on the Rise aud Pro-
gress of journalism.
OTTAWA, Ont. May 25.-It is understood that the
Vcoregal party, accompanied by Prince Leopold
will visit the capital June before starting on their
fishing expedition