New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-17
PERSONAL.

Senator Beck was In Florida last week examining
TIE system of jettiss at the mouth of the st. Johns
River.
Miss Emily Faithful, VINO is now In this city, mas
not vet decided whether to return to England this
spring or not Her friends here are urging ner 10
remain durng tho summer and lecture next winter;
She will lecture soon i'll Brooklyn on tne OnsIsoo
Position of Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Don Augustine de Yturbide, who arrived Dy the
steamer Germanic FROM Liverpool on Sunday le11
this city for Washington last night AFTER having
caIled on General Diaz Don Augustine is grand
son of that Yturbde who reigned for two turbulent
years as Emperor Of Mexico.
Alta recent sale in Leipzig autographs OF the per-
SON, named brought the following prices: mary,
Queen Of Scots 1913 marks; Marie Antoinette' 4ol
marks: Peter the Great, Ill marks; Wanensteln'
los marks: George Washington, 1l6 marks; DOT. DOT
waldsen. 80 marks; Guck. 200 Iparks Mozsr'' ,,J
marks Haydn. 81 marks Bach, 10 marhs' anu
Beethoven 335 marks.
Downing Vaux, the young gentleman whose en-
sagement to Edwin Booths daughter was an
nounced some time ago, has been seriously Ill ID
consequence of gas-poisoning. The gas in his room
was left burning low at night and pun OF WIND
extnguished it. For time the injury to his health
was thought to be permanent and alarming Dul ne
is now making steady Improvement, ana MS iiiohu'
expect complete recovery.
Gently wrote to the assistant ovcrseer OF the
borough of Newark Eng, " to hear that a dinner is
to be given to tho remaining sixteen OF the scot
lot yotsrs who were on the register when had my
first electoral campaign Newark, fifty years ago
Had had any hope of being free to attend wonld
certainly have begged the favor OF an invitation LOT
mysslf As this cannot he. ask that may be
allowed TO direct my cook to supply plum puduiIg
for the occasion. and beg To be informed OF inc
day. 20 that it may not arrive TOO soon OF too latc'
The French Academy has just awarded its great
mathematical prize of 900 TO the late Probes
sor Henry Smith-"Sver" Smith. as he was familiar
IL called Oxford for his dissertation on the repre-
scutatlon OF number the sum OF five squares Inc
complete solution OF the given problem had been OBJ
tanned by Professor Smith sixteen years before, and
published ty him, but without demonstration, as
part of far more general investigation. Inis lne
Academy strangely overlooked, aud so, when wear
ago it announced the subject OF composition tor the
prize he merely copied out his old demonstratiGn
and was successful over AL rSaS Ss bs 0 on
the Steiner prize of the Berlin Academy, 80 that
had no lived till now he would have enjoyed the
" laureateship' OF 10th Paris and Berlin
The idea that John Howard Payne vas victim
OF natures retrbuive justice will probably be
new one to a majority of readers. Yet it appears to
DO sincerely entertained by tho Rev. +. IL. Shep-
herd. Of shepton Mallet, Eng, the clergyman at
whose suggestion and through whose efforts, while
he was acting as British Chaplain at Tunis the
stained glass window in memory Of Payne was
placed in the English church there. In sermon
preached by him recently in his parish church at
Shepton Mallet, he referred follows to the dead
poet: Poor man, it wa, from the aching void of
hi, heart that he sang. There's no place ke home.
| Though he lived in palace. he was homeless.
| Though he roamed amid pleasures, he was an I'M
| happy mani Those who knew him well have told
me that IN spite OF his fine poetic instincts It was
pain to converse with him. he was so mlsanthroplc
Ana whyi In his youth he disrt garded the voice OF
| God and Nature It is not good for man TO DO
oone:' and ia his old age he found that, lett alone,
| the garden Of Eden is but barren wilderness to
| dwel1 in. Having failed TO make q nome for an
other by Just retrlbutiyo Nature he was deprived
| of home himself"