New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-06
PERSONAL.

General Hancock arrived in st. Louis on Tuesday
for weeks business visit.
DR.. Jowett the translator of PlatO's Dialogues"
and for some years past Master of Baio is named
as the probable successor of DIR. Evans in the
Vice CHARACTERISTIC of Oxford University.
Judge Stilwell. recently removed from the United
States judgeshIp in Arizona in the middle of his
term. receives warm notices from The Tucson Ariz)
Citizen and other Arizona papers on his retirement
from the bench. Judge Stilwell WAS at one time
private secretary to Collector Merritt III the Custom
House He remains in Tucson in the practice OF law
Sembratowicz, Greek Archbishop of Lemberg
who was dismissed by the Austrian Government for
not combating more effectually the Russophil
tendencies OF the clergy under his charge has been
offered by Leo Kill prominent place in the Con-
gregation de Propaganda Eide. His reply TO the
Austrian chars IS of dislOyalty was: " Christ had
only twelve apostles, but one OF them was JUDAS |
have under my orders more than two thousand
priests"
Joseph Arch the English agrarian agitator. is
stout man, with round, led, geUd-natured face,
and eyes that sparkle with merriment AS
speaker he often rises to vigorous eloquence,
though sometimes hesitatng aud becoming con-
fused, and almost always misplacing the asplrate
i'm a most amusing manrer. lie was formerly a
common hedger and dltcher-the best in Warwick
SHIRE it is said. He will make an effort to secure
seat in Parliament at the next general election.
Tegel Castle near Berlin, once the homo of Will
lam and Alexander Fon Humboldt and still earlier
the property of the Great Elector, is now in the
possession of the widow of Minister Won Bulow,
lady more than eighty years Old the third and only
living daughter of William Won Humboldt. Every
thing in and about the castle is religiously pre-
served Just as it during the residence there of
the illustrious brothers. One large awkward ma
hogany table is pointed out the one on which
William Won Humboldt wrote his most important
works and every room is stored with almost price
less relics Leaving the house and passing through
the garden, down a long avenue of trees whose
branches form thick roof overhead, INTO thick
wood, far from tho busy hum OF nte the visitor
finds the last home of the Humboldt family, and
reads on the PLAN marble slabs the world-famed
names of William and Alexander. There are no
urns, no monuments, no triumphant inscriptions,
but only beds of flowers green mounds, PLAIN white
labs, prlmeval forest trees and on lone marble
column "a snOwwhte figure OF Hope.
Not long ago, during the absence OF the Emperor.
An English visitor was shown through one of the
imperial castles near Berlin. He looked upon
everything with the most utter Cockney super
ciliousuess, until say the story-tellers, he came
across a collection of walking sticks, when one OF
these. a study piece vi hickory, quite captivated
bIs fancy. Long and longingly he gazed upon 1t
and handled it, nor lld hs admiration decrease when
his Guide the stewards daughter informed him
that il had been cut from the forest and fashioned
into shape by the Emperor's own hands. At last,
however, he was constrained TO tear himself away
from the object of his fancy, bat just as he was
leaving the castle his admiration of the stick
blazed forth beyond control. and drawing handful
Of soyereigns from his pocket he iatlmafed TO his
fair gude that by so much would she become richer
If She would allow him to bear away the coveted
.ane OF course she spurned the temptation indig-
nantiy. and he went away disconsolate. Well, the
Girl told her father about it, and he carried the
story to the Emperor his return to the castle,
weak later Aud when Kaiser Wilhelm heard IL
he laughed right royal laugh and exclaimed: I" III
the fellow had offered me much good gold for the
stck. would have taken it and turned il into the
fund for the invalid soldiers"