New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-17

A worn and battered form gone to be recast more
beautiful and perfect"
recent visitor to the grave of s. s. Prentiss,
Natchez Miss. found it bearing evident marks
of neglect. 1t was overgrown with wild biiars and
weeds, and the little marble headstone was hardly
visible. while all around were magnificent and
carefully kept tOmbs of men whose names were
blanks in comparison with the fame of Prentlss
The Mansion House nondonl Committee Of tho
Rowland Hill Memorial Fund has completed its
work by erecting statue at the Royal Exchange
and memorial in Westminster Abbey, and has
handed over the remainder of the fund, amounting
TO more than 100000 to trustees, as nucleus for
a fund for the relief of aged and distressed postal
employees and their widows and orphans, through
out the kingdom.
If only all preachers and public speakers wonld
follow the example of the late Bishop Scott Once,
few years ago, he invited to preach a Thanks
giving Day sermon ut Odessa, Del. A large congre-
CATION attended, and an elaborate discourse was
expected. But TO everyone's surprise, he closed his
sermon after talking only fifteen minutes and to
the lnquirers who flocked about him afterward he
explained that he had said all he knew on the sub
Ject In hand, and had therefore stopped talking.
The announcement comes from Rome that the
Princess 3elgiojoso has resigned her Office of Lady
of Honor to the Queen of Italy, and has gone to her
own home, in Milan" and thereby hangs tale.
One evening not long ago. there was a reception at
the Quirinal, at which the King and Queen and many
mobiles present In the midst of general CONVEX
saton, the Princess Belgojoso turned TO the Duke
Sforza CesarinI and asked him where were the best
marionettes in Rome. He replied that they were to
be found at a certain theatre. Wrong" cried she
g they are here, in the Quirinal" The cOurtiers
stood aghast, and the Queen pale with suppressed
rage sald :" If the Princess BelgiOjOso thinks she
is here living in the midst of with some hestaton)
marionettes, she has nothing to do but to leave"
The Princess made 9 sharp reply, tore from heI
shoulder the badge o her office and left the room.
The entire court much disturbed by the scene.
and no one was able to explain the strange conduct
of the Princess INT to avoid scandal the report
was given ont that she had suddenly become insane
The French Academy awaits, probably not with
eagerness but certainly with much curiosity and
some little anxiety, the death of Edmond de Con
court the novelist and historian. For then the ven
cradle Society OF Immortals, founded by Richelieu
nearly a quarter of millennium ago, will have a
vigorous rval-the Academic GOncourt" NM
Edmond and Jules dc GoncOurt planned this instl
tuition twenty years ago, determined to leave theil
fortunes for its foundation, ard shaped their subse
quent lives with that end in view jules
de GoncOurt is dead, and Edmond
has recently announced that he has made
all preparations for the establishment o
the academy Immediately upon his own demise
| The Academic Goncourt," he says, will be purely
literary and conired in membership 70 prose writ
ers only poets artists, pol ticlans, lawyers, etc. be
| ing rigidly excluded. There will be only ten mem
! bers, ca ch of whom will receive an annuity o
| s; 200; and an annual prize of $1,000 will b.
awarded by the Academy 70 The writer prOducin
| the bost prose work The funds will come from th
| fortune # the brothers De GOncOurt, aud from tn
sale of their famous art collection. Among the frs
members will be lola, Neulllot and Alphonse Dau
def