New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-11
PERSONAL.

Turgeneff Is rapidly recovering his health and
expects soon to be able to revisit Russia.
President Eliot. OF Harvard, is taking his summer
vacation at Mount Desert
President Robinson, of Brown University, has
gone to Colorado for the remainder OF the summer.
P6re Hyaciuthe Loyson and wife will visit this
country in about month and will remain nearly
all the fall and winter
The Secretary OF War and the Postmaster-Gen-
eral. together with several other prominent otfi-
cials are sojourning At Hayemeyer Point, L.
Mr. w. w. Corcoran. of Washington, intends to
erect a monument over the grave of the late Bishop
Pinckney, of Maryland, In Oak Hill Cemetery.
MIA. s. Barnes, the well-known publisher of this
city, is a summer dweller at Cottage City. and has
lust presented set of prayer-books to Trinity
Church 1t that place.
The Rev. Dr. L. Heber Newton was not as annoy
ing reports have stated, delegate to the recent
Autobiography Convention in Chicago. He was at
the time in Philadelphia, and had nothing TO do
W tn the convention whatever
The granite shaft that for more than half CEN
fury marked the grave of Thomas Jefferson has
been given President S, s. Laws, of the Missouri
State University, who will place IL In the campus
OF that institution at Columbia
Ex-senator Simon Cameron is now staying at
Bedford Springs In his old age his faculties of
sight and hearing still remain almost unimpaired
and he walks about briskly and vigorously without
support other than q light stick
Punsters have builded better than they knew on
the name of Judge Foraker Republican candidate
for Governor of Ohio The fami ly name was. 1t is
said originally Fouracre and that form of spelling
is still retained by some OF the branches.
Governor Butler has had his yacht America thor
oughly repaired and renovated, and she is now
ready for q cruise He has invited the State COun-
ell TO take days outing in her with him as soon as
the sessions work Is ovor and the invitation has
been unanimously accepted.
Mr.. Harry Stevens, son of Mrs. Paran Stevens is
himself authority for the statement that his en-
gaCement with Miss Jones, daughter of the late
George +. Jones' is broken by mutual consent: Mrs.
Stevens and her son arrived from Europe on Satur-
day, and will 60 to Newport IN about a week.
In illustration of President GarGed's ability, as a
teacher to draw ont the latent faculties of his
pupils Professor Henry. of Marion, o. who was ono
of the students ut Hiram under Garields presi-
dency relates the following incident: " There was
q student who was good sort OF a fellow, but had
the name of being terribly dull and stupid. One
night Garfield happened to be passing along the
outside of the college building when he CHANGED to
notice a light burning in a room in the basement.
The hour was late and Garfield said to himself:
That boy in there must be student from the
country. / will go IN and see him. He did so, and
found The student above mentioned drubbing away
as hard as he could preparing his Lessons tor the
morrow He knew OF the boys thick -headedness
aud then and there gave him some good advice
Afterward when this young man became q teacher
the advice that Garfield gave him served its pur-
pose lie told him to read up in the subject he was
to recite upon and then 60 to the class and recite
what he had read, but not to lecture. Ever after
this advice of Garfelds was called putting spark
of fire into lump OF clay The spark kindled and
to-day that same young man is one of the deepest
thinkers and of the best orators in this part Of
the countrvu