New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-27
PERSONAL.

Senator Eugene Hale, of Maine, is preparing to
erect n fine residence, surrounded by 4 spacious
park, at Ellsworth. Me.
Miss Susan 3. Anthony has returned from her lee
ture tour In the West and after taking few weeks
rest at her home in Rochester will go to Washington
for the winter.
San ALI Brah Burmese nObleman who has been
living in this country twelve years, and has been
graduated from three American colleges, is lectur
ing IN the South under the auspices of the Young
Mems Christian Association.
Senator David Davis lives in n veritable palace,
in the centre of a handsome and spacious park, just
outside the city limits of BLOOMINGTON, III.
From the lofty turret that 4urmounts his mansion
he can view fertile fields that all his own, eX-
tending almost TO the horizon, to the north and
east
Theodore y. Weld, the veteran worker with Will
lam Lloyd Garrison in the abolition movement en-
tered the ranks of the Octogenarans last Thursday
with his mental vigor not abated and his physical
health seemingly as sturdy as it was when he was
only half his present age.
William Wilkeson whose death in Buffalo has al
ready been announced. was one of the party that
made the memorable first tIip through the Erie
Canal from the lake 10 the sea. During the late
war he a devoted uphOlder of the Union, and
spent his time and money freely in raising and send
ing forward troops and supplies for the Federal
army
Mr.. Whistler, the well-knOwn London artist rot
long ago had the l-uck to be sold ont by the Sher
iii. Away went the blue and yellow chairs the
nckety embroidered curtains and the dainty Oren-
tai bric-a- brac of the room which Mr. Oscar Wilde
has described as very joyous" But when he saw
it stripped and bare the artist seized his brush and
cried Now, to prevent this unpleasant catastrophe
occurring again mean to have something strictly
permanent" And thereupOn he painted chars ana
tables upon the walls. ana flowing curtains. pictures
upon eaSelS. luxurious dlVanS anu quaint cabinets,
aud thus again made OF his room harmony III
blue and gold"
Since the death of Thurlow Weed, Chauncey
Morse, of Canandagua, Is SAID TO be the senior
printer III this State Born in 1894 he became in
ISL an apprentice in the Office Of The Ontario Re
pository at Canaudagua. The late Lewis IL. Red
field had entered the same Office Just four years be-
fore. Aftprward MessrS. Morse and R"dheld were
partners in publishing The ORtari0 hegistr. Since
1871 Mr.. Mors- has been connected with various
newspapers in variouFulaces, aud has only recently
returned TO spend the late afternoon OF his lies
long day in Canandaigua. His faculties are
scarcely whit impaired, and bis health is hale and
hearty.
Further details are given in the German papers Of
the proDaTatIOns being made for the coronation
of the Car IN May next. The order for the corona
ton medals has already been signed. Formerly such
medals only bore the portrait of tine Car, but Alex
ander Ill. insists that upon these the prOiiles of
himself and wife shall be exhibited side by side
a token of the moral and social emancipation of
Russian women. The other side of the medal will
bear the arms of the empire and the motto, "S'nami
Bog" God with us The medal is to BE- coined in
two sizcs OF the larger there will be 500 in gold
anu 1600 IN silver; OF the smaller 900 IN gold aud
1000 in silver OF the "JetOn.' or coronation
medal for thu people, made of bronze and scattered
among the crowd after the cerem nv, $4,000 copies
Will be struck. The "JotOi" bears no image of the
Car, but merely the initials "A.' and NJ" under
tie imperial crown. aud the other side the words
" Koronowany W Moskwe, 1888" Crowned at Mos
COW, 1888
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2G.-Professor w. b. Snyder,
Of the nigh School Observatory of Philadelphia,
who performed some valuable astronomical work on
the occasion of the transit of Mercury in 1873, is
visiting the Naval Obs ryatOry in this city, with
view to making observ l)ns mere upon the transit
of Venus Oh the 9TH pTOXmO