New-York tribune., 1883-03-11

ing other improvements on his property, that ir,i-
cate his intention to spend the remainder Of his .rs
there.
| Official information directed to Count Wilczell,
honorary president of the International Electric
Exhibition to DO held this year in Vienna.
nOunces that His Imperial Hlghness the Crown
Prince, Archduke Rudolph OF Austria. has
gracOusy condescended to assume the patronage of
the exhibition and to express the warmest interest
in the enterprise.
Mr.. Carl Nehaus, tho Cincinnati artist who has
the contract fiom the State of Ohio for a statue OF
Garfield, has placed plaster cast of his design on
exhibition in the Governors Office at Columbus
The Dispatch Of that city says there is some doubt
concerning its acceptance by the State Commission
ers One OF them, who says all his colleagues agree
with him, prOnOunces it an execrable ehgy. bow
legged. sway-backed, and stoop-shouldered
"Why" said he, " cOud take q shovel and slap
up better statue than that"
Mr. Morrison Heady. the blind and deaf Kentucky
poet, has been visiting NewOreans and astuDIsh
ing his acquaintance q ere by his extraordinary
skill as a chess player. lie plays upon board 80
contrved that the pieces fit iuto sockets and by tho
aid of touch alone he plans ingenious campaigns.
pulses attacks, anal the most intricate stua-
tons A glove upon his hand with the alphabet
prIuted upon 1t, is the medium by which he receives
oommuilIcation7. To converse with HIM one must
spell out his words by touching the letters on the
glove
paragraph has been going the rounds to the
effect that in view of the extinction in the near fu.
ture Of Wellingtons heirs the property granted to
him in Belgium will revert to the people of that
country. The present duke childless, but his
brother, Lord Charles Wellesley. left two sons the
eldest of whom married last March to Miss VIII
iams sister of the wife of his cousin, Lord Dangan
eldest son OF Lord COwleyD and Of Lady Ayesford.
VINO has hgsred 80 conspicuoIsly III the divorce
court. The marriage, which was very quiet. took
place at the cOuntryseat of the ladyS brother the
late Dean Wellesley officiating.
Hooton Hall, the seat for Eve centuries of the
elder branch of the Stanley family. was alenated
some thirty years ago by the oxtravagance OF Nh.
Massey Stanley, and now belongs to Mr. Naylor,
son OF a Liverpool millionaire broker. whose part
neIs son owns the ancient seat of another ancient
family in Northumberland. and has an estate OF
100000 a year. The head of the Stauleys now is
Sir John Stanley Errln9.on. bnt he Is chdless and
at his death the head-hip will devOlve his niece,
who IS married the eldest Of the Earl OF Mex
borough. and has one sister wife OF Major Barring.
Finance member of the Council of India. LUrd
Derby represents Junior branch.
Professor Henry j. S. Smith, of Oxford. whose
death has already been announced. was precociOus
student in childhood. He was sDle to read English
at two years of age and at four he began unaided,
the study OF Greek. From then until his eleventh
year his only tutor was his mother. He entered
Rugby at fifteen. in the last year of DR.. Arnolds
Head Mastership. ami at once placed IN tho
next 20 the highest FORM and would have been
placed in the highest had the rules Of the school al
lowed a student that rank. At eighteen he
gained the Balliol scholarship and in spite of year
of Illness carried off the ireland scholarship. aud
took his degree old-fashioned Double First" at
the age of twenty four His vigor and activity OF
intellect never waned. Says Nature (LondOn): "Of
some it is said that they were never young. OF
Others that they became old while their contempo-
rares were still lads and it has been stated that IN
scientific thought the best aud most original ideas
have always been conceived before tue age OF
thirty. But Henry Smith young and Sigor-
Ous in intellect the age of hftysix, the limit to
" hch he attained. as he when he gained tie
first of his many university honors. 1t was his
freshness or mind his vivid appreciation aud intel
ligenJ enjoyment OF everything going on, not only
IN SCIENCE but also in lIfe She her social polt-
ica which map forget thst his years were pass
ing away IL his genial presence, his sympa-
thetic attention. his ready counsel. his sound Jnd2
ment. his happy mode OF dealing with both nien aud
things. which make us already feel loss which we
cannot as yet iully Appreciate but which we can
never hope completely To replace"