New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-22
PERSONAL.

General Grant it is said. will be the guest Of NJ
| W b. Dinsm0re, OF Staatsbur ..-On-tEe- Hudson
some time in September.
NJ Yoshida the japanese Minister, with his wife
and three children, has gone to the seashOrs near
Long Branch. He il an artist of considerable
skill and spent part Of the SIMMER sketehns IN
the Alleghauies aud the Cheat River Valley.
Mr. Proctor is now lecturing beneath the Southern
starry hemisphere and telling Melbourne audiences
how much better behaved they than thcr
notwithstanding cousins In London.
The Tarrytown Centennial celebration Sep.
TENDER % will include Grafton from Mr.. C6aun-
cey NJ. Depew, than whom no one knows better how
to touch upon the humorous side of the American
Eagles nature. without showing any dsrespect TOT
the traditional scream.
Mr. Spnrgeon, of the London Tabernacle, Is ms'
tyr to govt and is unable TO walk any considerable
distance He is described as being short and thick
In stature. and rs having broad face, large fat
nose, with wide nostris and thick lips. There's
homely magic IN his voice.
His Celestial HIghness Woo, of Hartford, who's
In charge of the Chinese students. in the United
States, sends his pupils home to be birched. Sew
era of them are about to go back in disgrace. the
chief culprt being T. z. Chung. graduate OF the
Norwich Free Academy, who committed the uDpa-
donable sin of cutting of his queue.
General Stewart L. Woodford is not the man to be
baffled in more than laudable ambition. lie
was making the tour ofthe locomotive works at ST.
Adams. under Governor Smiths guidance aud while
admirng large locomotive nearly completed,
gracefully limited 81 never had a boy TO give ny
name to (; / wonder if shall ever see it on ocomS
tiveW The new locomotive was named on the
spot General Stewart l.. WoOdford"
Henry Ward BeecheTs habit of reading when
travelling at railway speed. says The Hartford Post
fay hot nd brai Ha doe
pore over book constantly, but satisfies hImseI
with elsurey references to it. After reading not
exceed page and half he drops the book Dtohn
lap and rests in reflection and window gazing for a
few minutes before he resumes his reading. Tbs
process Of book study is gone with uniform ex
actness. When he has enough "Inwardly digested-
he goes into doze till refreshed aud bends to tho
book again.
Like father, like son" is specially applicablen
Sims Reeves, the great English tenor. and his son
Herbert. who made his first public appearance .
month ago. London correspondent says oil the
son " He Is q perfect copy Of his father. lie bas
his fathers features. long, black curly hair. whea
he also parts in the middle, and an affected gait
He bows, smiles. holds his music exactly like hs
father and has all his sef-possession de nas oeea
carefully trained and 80 successfully coached "
his father that If you shut your eyes during sue
singing of such composition rs Schuberts A,e
Maria by either Of them. You would be puzzled~
Herman Grimm, the author of "rhe Life and Times
OF Goethe" in a letter complimentlng Mrs. saraa
Holland Adams on the excellence Of her translation
Of his BIO ok. says: am very much indebted
America. Ican indeed say that no author WIZ
whose writings have lately become acquainea
has had such an influence upon me as Emerson
The manner OF writing of this man. whom hon~
be the greatest of all living authors, has reveas
to me q new way of expressing thought. Atnous.
l grew mp IN the study of Goethe, and had osa
much intercourse with those who have known h'~
personally, 1 am Indebted to Emerson for the o''
torical view of Goethe which taught ME 10 rssa''
him as the great phenomenon IN the universal 40
velOpment of mankind In this sense have sous"'
to represent him in these lectures. Should you Il"
this letter place in the Introduction TO your iran"
laton, permit me to add q few words when are ."
dressed to my countrymen in America. hsveoo'A
told that many Germans in America undef'A"'
their own language and read only English pooss
Without doubt II is right and necessary 10 sv
the language In which the fortunes oil tue oovvHs,s
are decided, wher, one lives and which one cam
But how much woald he lose VINO 49, 49,
thereby forget his own language Should NY al
as m English Translation, entsr the 1pom,Iv
such q German, II may he that he ana us i' nm
will learn what a man Goethe was, and wndi an -
estlmable benefit II Is t0 be able To read his "o ~
in his own language. May this book help 10 9TH
still nearer together tho two nations oil inc a.
that have before them the most GLORIOUS iu'ui'
WASHINGTON. Aug. 2l.-Colonel John Hay a,
sistant Secretary of State. who has been III io' Wv
Or three days is now better and expects TO resu"'
his duties on Monday. =.
RlCnMoND, Va. Aug. 21.-Bishop ID. ;. Dose's
Of the Mctho list Church. is seriously Ill ~ MS w.
ience in this city.