New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-07
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Henry Bergh fell while getting of Fourth
ave. car yesterday afternoon, breaking bis collar
| BONE
Mr.. G. B. Lewis the IN. Quad" of The Detr0i!
Free Press goes to New Orleans next week. tosecure
material for sketches of every day life In that
part of the country.
Franklin Simmons, the Maine sculptor. will leave
his studio in Rome next month to spend the summer
| in this country, bringing with him his statue OF
Oliver p. Morton.
| Coming east from Utica the other day Mary
| Anderson and Mrs. Langtry travelled on the same
train the formers car being at the head and the
lattors at the rear Although so near together.
they were yet so far apart that Miss Anderson said
in response TO the question whether she had met
Mrs. Langtry: mo; have never seen the lady,
and hardly think we shall ever meet"
The frJt name on the list of Bowdoi1 prize men,
at Harvard, for 1928. is that of Mr George Pei
lew of the class of $780, and now of the law school,
no receives prize of 800 for dissertation en-
titled "A Critical Estimate of Miss Austen s
Novels" He is the son OF Mr. Henry Il. Peilew
well known and philosophical citizen OF New
York.
The widow of Moreau, the Paris art connolsseur,
has given to the Louvre Eugene Delscroixs famous
painting "The Shipwreck of Don JUAN" on condi-
ton that her husbands name be retained on the
frame, and that the picture be not hung among the
modern works npstairs. The sum OF 100000 was
few years ago offered for the hitting, which was
first exhibited In 1S41.
While Senator Beck was gazing into the clear
water at Glen Cove Springs Florida, the other day,
his QOld-framed eyeglasses slipped off, and as he
watched them sinking he saw huge catfish open
his jaws and swallow them As these were the
same glasses, adds The Louisville Courer-Journdl,
that Senator Beck looked through when porting over
an arnywagon load of tariff statistics, that fish Is
ffnHf IN Aah fha finn frtla in. TING f0r
revenue only.
General Diaz and party are expected in Boston
tomorrow. On Monday they will visit the State
House and be presented to Governor Butler. after
which they will inspect the Institute of Technol-
ogy, the High and Latin schools, and various public
institutions. In tho evening they will go to the
theatre Tuesday will be devoted to visiting Taun-
ton and other manufacturing towns and in the
evening reception will be rendered them by tho
Mayor and prominent citizens of Boston, They will
probably leave Boston on Thursday.
John w. Champlin, of Grand Rapids. Mich.
who has just been elected o judge of the
Supreme Court of Michigan the Fusion
ticket. will be the first Democrat to sit on
that bench for many years. He is thoroughly fitted
for the position to which he has been chosen, and
his legal attanments are such that he will grace a
bench which now boasts OF Judges Cooley and
Campbell. Mr. ChampliD was an intimate ac-
quaintance of Jay Gould when young man. and
helped him to prepare the map OF Delaware County,
this State, which no published at that time, and
copies of which are very rare now.
well-known incident in the life of Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu-her presentation to the Kit
Kat" club by her father, the Duke of Kingston
forms the theme of the principal picture exhibited
this year by Mr.. Yeames at the Royal Academy.
The picture is not large but its scale is sufficient to
give full scope TO its authors skill in arranging
the masses and combining the lines of his work
The little tenyear-old Lady Mary has been ushered
into the room by her father, and the members of
the club have mostly risen from their seats in well
come. The scene is low, panelied room, with the
famous half-length portraits hanging along the
walls: in the background stand "Kit Kat" him
self and one or two of the humber members of the
club; while in front Of long table with decanters
aud glasses aud white cioth-which should, per-
haps, have been the bare mahogany-Congre ADJ
Olson, and Sir Richard Steele look curously at the
little figure IN sacque and high headdress that has
appeared among them.
DETROIT, Mich. April 6.-Ex-Senator Ferry, ac-
companIed by his sister and nephew, is about to
sail for Europe for the benefit of his health. He
will be absent year.
WASHINGTON. April G-Secretary Folger is stead
lily gaining in strength, and his friends now regard
his restoration TO health as question OF time only