New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-22
PERSONAL.

Senator Eugene Hale Will spend the summer at
Mt. Desert.
Major Ben Pcrley Poore has rcgained his health,
which had been seriously ailing for some time.
The British Minister at Washington will give a
dinner party to n number Of gentlemen on Wedncs-
day, the anniversary of Queen NIct0ria's BIRTH
President White, of Cornell University, will de-
liver the annual address before the Adelphi Union
at the commencement exercises of Williams College
next month.
The exiled Princess DolgOrouki. mOrganatic
widow Of the late Gar, now lives i'll retirement in
Paris She is described as being tall, slight and
graceful, with a bright fresh face that looks much
younger than the thirty years with which she Is
charged by the birth register.
George l., King of Greece is perhaps the most I'M
popular monarch in Europe. lie seldom visits any
public assembly or institution or manifcsts any in
tercst in public affairs. but gives almost undivided
attention TO hi, farm and horses. His subjects
think that he regards Greece merely rs q rented es
tate out of which il striving to make as much
money as possible while his tenure lasts.
The old st banker west of the Alleshanies is Tru-
man Z. Handy, president of the Merchants, Ma
tiona Bank Of Cleveland. Ohio, who last week cele
brated the sem-ccntennial anniversary of his entry
into the banking business in that city The Occa-
sion was marked by a complimentary dinner ten
derrd him by the directors of the bank, winch, APP
prOpiIately enough. was given III the Union CluO
House a building erected by Mr.. Handy for his own
residence fOrty-hye years ago.
Speaking of the approachngsess of the Concord
Summer school of Philosophy, at which he will de-
liver four lectures on The Personal Generic and
Individual Mind" in addition to the salutatorY and
yaledictory addresses Mr. Alcott says that he Will
principally discuss mans growth toward the spir-
itna life: how that life may br lived here how AL
true life II love, and love Is lie; ANA how he who
would accomplish worthy deeds must dlvest objects
of their matcTallty thus adding the force OF SpIG
TO material things.
Frau Materna visited fire engine house in Gin
cinnati the other day. and much interested in
all the arrangements but especially i'll the JOKER"
or electric knob which sounds the alarm-gong.
This innocent looking button she was induced TO
touch with no promotion of the result The
next instant" says one of the hremen " all the
doors aud traps banged open. the men up stairs
came flying down the waXed poles, and the horses
tore of their stalls into their places like mad.
thought the woman was gong To jump through the
ceiling but when the scare over they cIapped
their hands and shouted and laughed and then
had to do II all over again"
At the monthly banquet of tse Social Temperance
Union Boston, last Friday, the Rev. Phillips Brooks
spoke forcibly on the subject of proIbiory egisa-
tion tnan which, lie urged, there is one thing far
more important, namely, the preservation of that
and grow Everything which makes it possible for
d poor man to find some healthy stimulus outside the
grog-shop will have an inestnlhle influence III
bringing about total abstinence. We may close our
aTog-,hOps Just as completely rs we can, but if we
do not open places where the poor hard-worklng,
unfortunate people resort, they viii ind places
of their own III spite OF all the laws that can be
made"
Prince Frederick William Nicholas Charles, who
is said to have become engaged to the Princess
Beatrice of England, is twenty-eight years old, re-
markabe for his mental dunesS, heir to the few
remaining hOnOrs and many increasing debts of the
House of HesSe- Cassel and de>cendent of the
Elector who hired his subjects 10 the King OF
England for the American colonists to shoot down
in their war for Independence Some doubt is eX-
pressed in England concerning the truth of the Ell
gagemcnt story as Beatrice. the Queens youngest
fastldiOus of the royal family; she has often
ayowcd her in entlOn of remaining unmarried
during the lifetime of her widowed mother, TO
whom she is passiOnatey devoted aud she has al
re dy declined several far brilliant alliances
than that with the brOken-down House of llesSe-
Cassel. She is now twenty-SX years 0Id-oder
than the nuptal-age Of any OF her sisters the
Princess Victoria having been married at eighteen,
the late Princess Alice at nineteen, the Princess
Helena AT twenty, and the Princess Louise at
twcnty-three.
BERLIN May 21.-General Loris MekoT has gone
to 81. Petersburg.
WASHINGTON, May 2l.-SenatOr Logan returned
to Washington to-day from the Hot Springs OF
Arkansas IN excellent health. He will Resume his
place in the Senate tomorrow.