New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-08
PERSONAL.
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Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell is still suffering Sc
vsrely from bronchial troubles.
Senator Garland is trout fishing and deer-bunting
III Arkansas.
The Rev. Dr. A. P. Putnam, of Brooklyn, is now
in Paris. enjoying greatly improved health.
Senator Palmer. of Michigan has g yen in advance
his first years salary to the city of Detroit to found
public museum OF art
The Rev Phillips Brooks writes from the Himalayas
that he has not seen ANYTHING 30 high as those
mountains since he last visited certain ultra
rtualistlc church In Boston.
The Duke of Edinburgh is responsible for the
latest English craze-mule- riding. He introduced
the fashion by himself riding one of the particular
~ fine mules which he obtained In Egypt.
He1 Imperial Majesty of Austria is a poet well
as "a fearless rider and hunter. And now she has
had a printing office set up in her palace. and is
learning to set type and manage press, IN order
that she may print her own poems
The statement that President Arthur was to spend
the 4th of July next in Woodstock, as the guest of
Henry c. Bowen. proves to be a mistake. 1t seems
that 1t is President Hayes who has accepted an
invitation to Woodstock.
John Bright, when his son was recently married
in an Anglican church by a canon Of Westminster
Abbey told the breakfast patty that weddings TO
HIM were always occasions of sadness. Since then
his nephew Walter McLaren, has been married, in
a Quaker meeting house, or winch, Oddly, Lord
Salisbury is ground-landIord.
Tie Comte de Paris recently sent to nursery
man in this country for some dOgwood trees, TO
plant about his villa at Cannes, One of his most
vivid recollectons OF this country is Of IA battle
fought by the Army OF the Potomac In the Virginia
swamps whom the woods for miles around were
white with dOgwOOd blossoms.
The one-time Reverend George c. Min is revisit
to The Chicago Tribune that he finds it changed in
startling degree but mostly in the right direction
lie says he thinks English users of profane language
are far behind their American brethren IN point OF
real ygor. That was OF his first Impressions
on reaching the British metropolis
Mr.. A. Bronson Acott is now too weak to do any
reading and has entirely given up all IDEAS of adj
dressing the School of Philosophy this summer
although he is much interested in talking about it
with Or. Harris and others lilo taxes great pleas
ure in listening to music, especially that of Walton
Ricketson, the sculptor, lson of Alcotts and Pho
reau's old friend, Daniel Ricketson, of New Bed
ford, who often plays for him on rhoreaus flute.
which was bequeathed to him. Mr.. Acotts most
alarming symptoms these indicating the prob
ability of an attack OF angina pectoris
Senator Beck was considerably annoyed while in
Washington last week by the solicitations of boot
blacks. The boys seemed to have formed comOi-
nation for the purpose of worrying him. and il was
| cold dav when he didn't have thrse or four of
them yelling Shine 'em up. boss y at his heels.
They beat the deck" he exclaimed one day TO n
friend. A" And they remind me of talk had with
Proctor Knott One day we were walking down
| the avenue and was bothered in the same fashion
| that am now. Proctor said Beck divide this
| city into two classos-one class like the other ]
detest' Who are they 2 | asked. Well said he,
class is tho boot blacks; they persist in remind
ing of my inferority by wanting to black my
boots at every street corner. hate EN-. Why can't
they let a fellow go on thinking ho looks welli
The other class is the newspaIe or men, They talk OF
ones mental superiority and make you feel good
generally. If you treat EN- right like newspaper
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WASHINGTON, May 7.-AdIutant-Gencral Drum
and Colonel Barr. who left here some days since II