New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-28
PERSONAL.


The Emperor William shed many tears at the
funeral mass held in Berlin the other day on the
anniversary of the Cars assassination. He sat
throughout with bowed head, aud when all were
gone fingered TO pray alone III the chapel
Worldly mutation never had more powerful il
lustration than in the death in London, the other
night, of Lady Agnes MacLean She was the
daughter of an English Marquis, the widow first of
the COmte de Montmorency, and afterward of n
clergyman named MacLean; and she was elected
from her poor tenement III London, and died IN the
waIting-roOm OF ST. PancraS NorkhOuse.
Mr. O. b. rockingham is said by the Boston cor
respondent of The Hartford CoWdatt to have renewed
his connection with his fathers church, which is
Orthodox Unitarian The correspondent says :
"The pastor of this church is the Rev. Rufus Ellis
and he is one of the most orthodox in his tendencies
of any of our Unitarian preachers. Mr.. FrOthing-
ham Is constant attendant on his ministry lie
takes part in the social meetings of the church Also
and frequently addresses then.'
The Rev. DIR. Frederick Courtney, rector of St.
James's Protestant Episcopal Church in Chicago,
has decided to accept call from st. Peters Church
in Boston. Dr. Courtney was for three years the
assistant minister in st. ThOmas's Church in this
city. having been called from Glasgow, Scotland
He has been two years in Chicago, and was recently
mentioned in connection with the vacant rectOrshp
of the Church of the Ascension, to succeed DR..
Smith, but no did not receive call from that
church.
Mr. Lowell at the London banquet commemorate
ing the Smoke Abatement Exhibition made an
amusing suggestion for improving the atmosphere
Of the great city. He said that he remembered
little story he heard of neghbOr of his who in
vented something for increasing the draught of his
chimney which he put on to the flue of his break
fast-room; but he did not remain in the room while
the machine was being applied. He looked, how
ever, through IA crack in the door, and the first OBJ
iect he saw was his Teycred mother in-aw and then
his beloved wife mounting the Hue ike witches on
broomsticks and then he saw the family cat drawn
backward across the carpet, yainly cllnging with
her fOre-paWs, and disputlng every inch OF ground
when he turned and fled. He could not help think
ING that if they were to build Chlmneys high enough
might have some effect on the smoke of London.
The Empress of Austria during her recent visit in
Paris accepted no invitations. She has no taste for
festivities. She is an early riser, and those accus
toned to take a morning ride in the avenues Of tho
Bots dc Boulogne have frequently met her riding
"NihllistD or "Molda," her two favorite horses
She is rarely TO be at the theatre her whole
pleasure is to be- found on horseback, riding TO
hounds or wandering through the tan gallops fol-
lowed by her dogs On her last visit but unfor-
tuuac English lady staying at the Hotel Bristol was
bitten 10y of the tour-fOOted companions OF the
Empress, and at Sapetot. where she stayed for the
benefit of the sea bathing, no one dared 10 venture
near the house, while the owner had, Ike most
Frenchmen, his revenge on Royalty by bringing IN
long bill for damages done 10 his salon by the four
footed body guard OF her Majesty.
Mr. +. IL. Underwood barely q fortnight ago
spent "a long evening with Mr. Longfellow. The
poet in spite Of his illness, came into the room wi "a