New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-20
PERSONAL.
unjust scheme

Mr.. Edward Atkinson. Of Boston, will sail for Eu'
rope in a few days
The Rev. Edward Everett Halo, of Boston, Is
about to visit Mexico for an extended tour
Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard, is re-
covering from the illness that Frustrated him last
week.
The Rev Ut. Nicholson. of st. Marks Protestant
Episcopal Church, Philadelphia. has not yet decided
whether to accept decline the BIshOPr'c OF ln-
diana. to which lie as some time ago elected
| Senator Beck says that his son George is doing
finely in Wyoming Territory, where he has a ranch
of 400 acres and 200 sheep. lie now lives IN n
| house built of pine lumber. though when the SEN
ntor and Mrs Beck visited him last year he bad only
log cabin plas cred with mud. and with clay
| floor. But t healthy there that MIS- Beck,
vino was so nj before starting that the trip was de-
ayed from day to day. GOT we'll and felt such re-
duudancy of spirits that she took hold of tie house
hold matters and taught an Irish boy how to bake
bread and do all sorts of cooking for the nen on the
| ranch.
OF the late Joseph Iasigi, tho venerable Boston
| merchant n good story ia related by The Hinghdm
Journal to the following effect: One fine Sunday
morning the bark Sea Bird owned by the old firm
of Iasigi n Goddard. was hauling into the dock,
Just arrived from a voyage to the Mediterranean on
| which voyage she had beaten the famous clipper
| Race Horse. Learning that she was slgnalled be-
/ low, the TWO partners met CODBratuIdblou anu,
| attired in their Sunday clothes, repaired TO the
| wharf Everything in apple pie order. and
the bright paint and gttering rigging delighted the
two owners as well as the crowd of bystanders who
had gathered. As she drew near enough 20 the cap
sill to board the tide being low the distance TO her
deck was too great for Jump. and Mr. lasigi seized
| hold of backstay ana. clenching " tightly slid
nmbly 10 the deck but to his dismay the rigging
had been freshly tarred. and his hands were COM
petely embalmed. Quick as lightning he concealed
this. and when ladder was placed for his partner
To descend he stepped brskly 10 tire foot oil It, and
pretending to he one OF the newly arrived grasped he
| hand IF Mr.. Goddard with Good morning, Missur
Goddard make y0u much JOY" OF course transfer
IIng n largo part OF the black pitch To tue decate
wnite hand which his partner had readily extended
but which was Indignantly withd rawn when Mr.. l.
exclaimed, Mssur Goddard, takes noting from dis
bark | not share yls yOu.'
DR.. Lands whose rich gift Of rare and ancient re-
lgIoLs books to the Central University Louisville
KY. is Just now attracting much attention. lived
ana died n hermit and almost pauper. I" shall
never forget how the place looked" says Of the
gentlemen through whom the git was made. who
visited him on his supposed death-bed The house
was "A small frame with only two rooms in one OF
which he lived and wrote. This study WAS about
fifteen by twenty feet AMI lighted by couple of
small windows. From the floor To the ceiling his
books rose In solid wall of quaint and curious lit
erature. The floor was uncarpeted-in one end OF
tho room "A small rickety table where he wrote.
Near it was little bit OF musty stove III when
he made his tea and cooked his frugal meals. AT
the other end OF this extraordinary place was the
rccluse himself. He was magnificent specimen of
manhood over six feet tall and straight as an
arrow When we entered he lay upon his bed sm-
pie plank suppoi tod upon two rude trestes. His head
was uillOwed on venerable vellum-bOund Bible; d
scant blanket was drawn over his powerful frame.
When | spoke he raised himself bolt upright, and
looking at us keenly SAID, Brethren, expect TO
die to-day. | have sent Tor yOl Representative
OF Central University to give 10 Won this magnii-
cent library. which 1t has been my life work to col
lect' As he spoke he waved his hand with majestic
pride toward his books the treasures which even
the drest poverty had not been able to wrest from
him.