New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-09
engers on the yacht Ruth during its cruise with tho
New-York Yacht Club.
PERSONAL.

General George B. Mcclellan and family, the Hon.
B. II. Brstow and family. and Judge Stanley Mat
thews are now at the Profile House, White Noun
tains
Professor Boyesen has recently returned to this
country from Europe, after visiting Norway. That
country, it is said, he believes will soon become
Republic
DR.. Franz Hoffman. whose story books delighted
two generations of GenOan children, has Justeo III
Dresden Several of his books were translated INTO
English. The University of Leipsic conferred on
him the degree OF Doctor OF Philosophy
marble bust Of Frank Buckland, tho lamented
naturalist has been placed at the entrance OF inc
Fish Museum, South Kensington, London. The
bust was carved by J. Warrington Wood. OF the
Villa Campagna, Rome. and IS said to be an eA-
cellent portrait OF Mr.. Buckland
John Bright received a large company OF Amerl-
cans at his home in London on July "a The COM
pany consisted of twenty-five young men and
women chosen from the various departments OF
Jordon & Marsh's dry-goods store in Boston Inc
firm have arranged to send at, their own expense
twenty-five OF the persons employed ny Iheh yetlIy
10 Europe. The aim il tn famillaTlZe tne persohS
selected with the manners customs and institutions
of the Old World.
Several of the remarkable pictures exhibited IN
this years Salon by English and American artists
are now on exhibition in the rooms OF the tlne ATT
Society of London. In the opinion of critics the
most original aud worthy of remark is " III JaIeo'D
by young American Mr. Sargent 2 pupil OF
Carolus Duran. 1t is n large canvas; Inc subject
is a Spanish girl dancing with abandon upon
stage at the back of which sit row OF players upon
guitars and castanets.
A large Photographic likeness OF Colonel Emmons
Clark of the 9TH Regiment, in full uniform, was
recently found to be the chief decoration of poor
widows room in West Side alley. to which the
occurrence of suicide had brought reporter. The
woman paid Colonel Clark handsome compliment
| She said that she did not know whose picture 1t
might be. but having found il, had put 1t up " be-
cause he is such handsome man, Sir"
| Thomas Hughes having accepted County Court
| Jndgeship in England is considered TO have retired
| from active political life. During his political
career he took prominent part IN amending the
laws against labor organizations. Twice elected to
| Parliament he yet did not win prominent
place in that body and since 1874 has failed TO gain
a seat His strong anti-D establishment opinions
and his connection with the cooperative movement
at different times told powerfully against his pros
| poets.
| Ex-Nlayor Wickham is known at Long Beach,
| where he resides in the summer, as " the biggest
| boy in the crowd" All the youngsters know him.
and treat him as one Of themselves. lie makes II
his business to introduce all the newcomers anon
the lads to those who well acquainted with the
place so that the strangers soon made to appear
| at hone He has no bows of his own, Dut mas inIte
adonted SONS orphan children OF bis wlfes sister,
| who as often call HIM father as uncle, ana AIA''
| Wickham passes as " mother or Aunt Lou.
Wellington W. Gardner is now at work in st.
LOuis upon the statue Of General Frank L. BAR
which will be erected in that city. The statue VIII
be made of bronze, from cannon voted by Congress-
and will be Of colossal size, ten feet in height The
model of clayis nearly completed. 1t represents
| General Blair standing erect with his lett hand
which hangs at his side grasping scroll, while
| the right hand cenched is extended slightly iron
his right side. The likeness Is an adullIaOie o'
| No one could fail TO recognize the feature OF Ih'
| dead man in the large mead and brlsIy moustaGItt
| the heavy eyebrows, the low 1OIehodu anu lno H"A
| brushed severely back.
| Colonel r. G. Ingersolrs cottage at Long Beach Is
snoken of as the cage of the happy family" The
| family is n numerous one, always surrounding HIN
| when at home. and all as happy lively and chlrpy
n birds They battle together in front OF the cot
| tage every morning, and as his seven or eight
Young girls accompany Mr.. Ingersoll to or from the
train. passing the hotel front they are pleasantly
snoken of as " Ingersoll's Sunday-school process
sion" The family never tais 10 DC az tie qv dt
guests recently, &" IL Is the happicst family eve
saw except Beechers"
MIST w-etched indeed must be the life of thu
Czar. if even 1.-THE of tho stories related b.
usually Trustworthy st. Petersburg correspondent
nay be credited. In the harbor at Peterhof all tn
vessels have, it is said, frequently been alarmed
and searched three times in single night, Will
the Imperial yachts are constantly kept will
anchors weighed ana steam up, to facilitate the IN
.tantaneons flight of the Romanoff family if occa
siop demanded And the belief is current that tn
Car has ordered all his movable property, of ever
sort to be moved and safely l1dged IN some foreign
Land Meanwhile the Boyar arstocracy. zealou
odh.rents TO the Romanoh throne. increasingly urg
the necessity of immediate coronation. ms cere
monv. they say. would alay the uneaslness IN TIT
nruyinces stop disafection IN the Army and Navy
| on1 oreatlv add to the EmperOrs prestige amOn
1ha masses " no will regard his authority as haV
i,,S rims received the stamp OF Divine recognition
So impressed is Alexander by these argnm ents. IL
sad that he is secretly preparing Tor sudden COZ
onafion either in the kasan Cathedral, 81. refers
hurc or in the Palace Chapel, Petarhof, the an
| nonnoements regarding coronation ~ MOSCOW ne
| inc made merely to throw the NlhilIsts on Tn
| track The reception of almost endless gIatuatOr
| denutations after the coronation Is also source
ter,or tn tho Gar aud IL is reported tnab tbeSe
| Le nostpoued until u sale place aud Time eau
| found.
OTTAWA. Aug. S.-Sir Charles Upper Is at Parr'
boro Nova Scotia The state OF his health cause
great anxiety TO his friends
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GENERAL NOTES.