New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-22
PERSONAL.

Mr. Blaine will not occupy his new house IN
Washington until next autumn.
The Precautionary of Sir Francis Drake is to be
celebrated and the Prince of Wales has contributed
to the fund.
Queen Victoria has q taste for birthday books,
and keeps little volume at hand wherein are col
lectcd the autographs OF many interesting people.
Princess Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt, the plain
but good-hearted daughter of the clever Princess
Alice of England, is going to marry the brother OF
the Princess Of Wales, Wademar of Denmark.
Clarence A. Seward, of this city, is spoken of as
likely to receive the offer of Judge Batchfords place
OH tho bench Of the United States Circuit Court in
the event of the appointment of Judge Blatchford
to the United States Supreme Court.
United States Assistant District-Attorncy Herrick
will leave tho city on Tuesday next, in company
with Senator Jones' Of Nevada, and others for Col
orado Mr. Herrick will be absent three four
weeks.
Professor Henry Draper succeeds his father, the
late Dr. j. w. Draper, in the Chair Of Chemistry III
the University of the City of New,fork The Rev.
NJ Maury q s)n-In-law OF DR.. Draper, has been
teaching in the University this year.
Ex-Governor Paul Dillingham;, of Vermont, at
eighty three years old, Is tall erect and handsome
man. who is still as active as many youths. lie
attends personally to o good share of the business
of his law office and as president of bank per-
forms many other duties
District-Attorney McKeon is suffering from sore
throat and appears at his office with his neck bound
I'D with an ample wrap. In view of the exposure TO
disease to which he is naturally subjected in the
performance of lis official duty, and as a pIeCau-
tonary measure he has also been yaccinated. But in
spite of these Affections and the inirmtles OF age
he is the most active man in his department.
memorial to Charles Kingsley is TO be erected
at westward 10, tho Dovonshre town which sup
piled title to one of his most charming stories, and
in the neighbOrhoOd of which he lived when boy
and for short time in his manhood This memo
rial is to take the form of institution to be called
the Kingsley College" The school Will nave
some unusual features-such rs separate room iOr
each boy, aud a French cook
Gambetta has given up his attempt to learn tho
German language, having found IL TOOK too much
of his time Frenchmen arc complaining that
there are about him too many people OF herman
antecedents NJ. Weiss. his new Minister, Is shown
by his very name to be of German origin. lilo Is
great reader of German poetry, has translated
Goethe's " Hermann and DOrOthes" and has even
published n commendatory essay upon that poem
Futher, Gambetta's secretary, Is. Gerard, was at
one time ,reader 10 the present herman Impress :
hi, literary lIeuteuants. SpuDer aud Renach. Doth
proclaim by their surnameS their leutonlc ancestry.
The Hon Robert c. Winthrop, in his addrcssson
the centennial anniversary of Webster's birth
gave q pleasant little sketch of u morning spent at
Marshheld d" His matchless form risos To my eye,'
he said "as he welcomed the British Minister and
myself at bis door a midsummer morning, clad
IN his iayorite rustic sut, with the broad-brmmed
white hat oy ershadOwing that Olymplan brow. lie
was a subject for Rembrandt on that morning and
Rembrandt never had subject more worthy oil his