New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-24

PERNONAL.


Ncssrs Moody and Sankey will hold two-weeks'
serios of services in Paris. beginning October D.
NJ. Erckmann, the wel-Inown literary partner of
NJ Chatrnn has onl, Just recovered from most Sc
riOus and alarming illness.
According to the Norddeutsche AUgemcae Zeitung
Prince Bismarck's health is in such an unsatsiac-
tory state that he is forced to abstain from all Du5
ness
IL is reported in Philadelphia that the successor
TO the late President Allen of Grard College Will be
Judge Allison of the Common Pleas Court of that
city.
The Rev. Edward Abbott. Editor of The Literary
Uoyd reached his home in Cambridge Mass, last
week, after a threeE tour III England, Scot
land, rance and SwltleIiand
The friends of the Hon. Alexander II. stephens, of
Georgia fear that he will Oyertax his strength by
making personal canvass of the state during the
present campaign. He has already delivered adj
dresses a several places, and by 50 doing has scr-
Ousy fatlgucd himself
The Rev Mr. Dodds. assistant 10 the Rev. r. w.
Mccall Of the Belloville Mission, Paris, Was fatally
poisoned, recently, by eating some fungi which he
had mistaken for mushrooms lie was sOn-in- law
of the Rev. DR.. lIoratius Bonar
Miss Minnie Hau< will sail for America on Sep
tember 30 on tho steamship Sueyia from IIayre.
Her husband, Herr Won IIesse-W artegg has Just ar
rived in New York on his way to Central America.
Before leaving Europe he was the guest of King
Leopold of Belgium. at LackeD, and received the
Kings portrait bearing his MaestyS autograph
An eyewitness of the baptism ana confirmation
of Fraulen Bertha Won Rothschild just before
her marriage to Prince Alexander OF Wagram, say =
that she wept bitterly while going through the
ceremony of renouucng the faith of her fathers. At
the marriage only thirty persons were present all OF
whom friends OF tho groom save Nine. de
ROthschld and the Duchess dc GTammont, mother
and sister OF the bride.
Mr. George Makepcace TOwle. of Boston. will
deliver lectures this season on Victoria, Queen OF
England" Victor Hugo" - John Bright" Caste
lar " The Empress Eugene" Ireland Struggle,
" Gar and NIhilist" and Garibaldl" IN addition
to his former lectures on Beaconsheld," Bis
marck." Gladstone and " GamI9,eLta ne Las
Washington. Salem, South Boston, and several
other places.
Miss Marianne North will soon make material adj
ditons to her UNIQUE and valuable gallery of pic
lures of plants and their homes" at Kew. She is
hard at work skctching and painting in South
Africa whence she will proceed TO MaurtiuS and
Madagascar, returning to England next year by the
way of Zanzibar aud Alden. The last-named place.
however Is not likely to prove fruitful fold for
botanical research. They speak There of u man
who kecps tree " very much as people here speak
of one who keeps a carriage"
Tho death or sir GcOrBO Trey mas Drought worry
near the extinction of u notable party of English
statesmen lie Of the group that carried the
Reform Bill although he himself did not take ofice
until after its passage, and almost the last sur
vivor. In 1889 he became Judge Advocate. and in
1911, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under
Lord Melbourne's administration. In 1915 he
became Home Secretary and Will be n marked man
in history account of the GOODNESS and discretion
with which he dealt with the formidable Chartst
agitation of 1915 HIS official career extended over
period CT f0rty-twO years beginning with his cleo
tion for Davenport in 1882 aud ending with the
general election of lS7i
According to the Paris Figaro Pope Leo XIII. iIe-
quenty finds diversion from the of his Office
in the sport of brd-catching which The used also to
practise much when he Bishop. ut the Villa
Passgnani. on the shore OF Lake Trasymenc. The
pontcal ird. trap is called RoccOlo" and is after
this fashion: Ia n suitable part of the Vatican
Gardens have been planted two cOncentric circles Of
trees. Among the branches of the inner circle aro
hung numerous cages containing song birds of
various KINDS, which serve rs decOys Between the
two rings arc large network snaros, and in these
the BIRDS allured by the Gagged sOngsteTs, are
stricken with implements resembling enormous
battledOres the hunters. who conceal themselves
beneath the outer circle OF trees.
4" A gentleman came into the car" saws Western
writer, 81. settled down, threw back his head
crushing his slVuched hat into still more uncsthetic
proportions and appeared to try to sleep. With his
nose thus In the air. and his eyes closed. ho was
very ordinary looking passenger. -. When the
tram stopped he went out and inspected the loco
motive and bIakes, if he knew sonnet ng about
railroads, ana talked "a little with the brakeman.
Now and then no would spend little time on the
platform, and appeared Interested IN observing the
country. lilo remained several houIs and finally