New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-10
PERSONAL.

Professor Franklin Carter has consented TO be"
come president Of Williams College.
Minister John A. Kasson has applied for aletter Of
recall. and expects 90 return tc tins country this
month.
1t is proposed in London to erect statue Of Car
lyle on the Thames Embankment opposite Cheyns
Row, and 10 place bust OF him IN westminster
Abbey.
MR. W. Mackey, of California, has been IN Rome
buying statues aud pictures right and left II is
even said that he thought of acquiring the Toriona
Collection. and talked with Prince Torlonia about
the price.
One popularity Of P0stmaster-G General james.
which will strike most persons coming In contact
with him, Is his good nature. He has the happy
faculty of doing business surrounded by bores with
out losing his graci0usness or bis temper, and he
can get rid Of an obnoxious visitor In such way a.
to make him think he is comforting favor when ne
is being literally edged out OF the room.
Mrs. Kendall. the distinguished English actress
has had serious accident. While on her way
to the theatre the other evening in cab the horse
bolted and the cab was dashed against lamppost
and shattered. One of Mrs.. KendalPs arms waa
pierced through by part of the wreck, and large
piece of the skin OF the forehead was displaced.
Miss Kate Pattison the clever young lady VINO once
visited this country Miss Emily falthfuirs secre
tary, took at moments notice Mrs. KendalPs part
IN the Money-Spinner"
The Imperial family of Germany Ia quite able 70
support itself. II the Crown Prince were deprived
Of his inheritance he could easily win bread and
butter by his skill a turner; while his eldest son.
Prince Wilhelm. is an excellent amateur artisan
On the Empsyors Cabinet are several samples OF his
dead grandson Waldemar's proficiency as book
binder This acquisition of trade Is IN accordance
with tho Evolutionary custom IN the royal family,
which prescribes that every Prince OF the blood snail
learn some useful handcraft so as to strengthen HE
loni,if Of iNda
actual contact with the material world.
One of the great secrets Of Mr.. Blaines popularity
is that he has long memory for names and deedA
A gentleman connected with journalism during the
war was introduced to Mr.. Blame thirteen years
after he had written account of battle 10 the
Far West. He was greatly astonished to find Mr..
Blaine drawing him aside with the remark, fou
are the man have been wishing to see for years.s
and then asking him II trivial incident mentioned
implied doubt conveyed no attront; the young man
was too much hattered by the fact that Speaker
Blaine had remembered him IS the author OF tho
story to feel the slightest insult.
Mr. Froude says of Cardinal Newman in his famous
days at Oxford: "Newman's mind was Worldwide.
Nothing was too large for him, nothing too trivial
if it threw light upon the central question. what
maa really was and what was his destiny. he was
careless about his personal prospects. He bad no
power. Still less bad pleasure any seductions for
him. His natural temperament was bright and
light; his senses, the commonest. were excep-
tonally delicate. was told that, though he rarely
drank wine he trusted to choose the yntaGesfof
the college cellar He could admire enthusiastically
any greatness of action and character, however
remote the sphere of it from his own. Gurwoods
Dispatches of the Duke of Wellington came Gus
Just then. Newman bad been reading the book. and
q friend asked him what he thought Of 1t. Ihinkr
he said it makes one burn TO have been 2
soldIerp He seemed always TO be better informed
on common topics of conversation than any ono else
who was present He was never condescending
with us. never ddactie authoritative: but what
he said carried conviction along with it. When We
were wrong he knew why we were wrong, and
rigbt Perhaps his supreme merit a. q talker was
that he never tried to be witty or to say strik1nf
things. Ironical he could be, but not ill-natured
Not a malicious anecdote was ever heard from him
ProsY he could not be- He was lightness itself-the
ightness of elastic strengthand he interesting
because he never talked for talkings saks. but be
cause be had something real TO say"