New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-29
PERSONAL.

Senator ingalls,. OF Kansas, spent last week IN
Boston, visiting his relatives.
Mr. William D. Howells will return to the United
states in August.
senator Anthony rode ont on Saturday, and re-
turned home feeling much refreshed.
The Hon. George NJ Robson, Of New-Jersey, mas
leased a summer cottage at Rye Beach for term Oh
years.
Miss Laura Bridgman will occupy seat on inc
platform at tho commencement exercises OF the
Perkins Institute for the Blind in fremont Temple
Boston, this afternoon.
Malaria they say, Is what ais Jefferson Davis lie
caught it while visiting some of his overlooked
lands on the Yazoo and then stuDboInly refused to
take quinine until he was seriously jill. lie Is now
convalescent.
An address commemorative Of the late Hon.
George Perkins Marsh. long United States Minister
to Italy and great benefactor Of American litera-
ture and education. will 10 delivered before the
faculty and students of Dartmouth College next
Tuesday afternoon by the Rev. 5. q. Brown, Lid
Mrs. Annie Besant the Malthusian apostle and
editorial colleague of Charles Bradlaugh, Is now
about forty years old. ana is of Irish birth. Wheh
young she was famed for her beauty, but an attack
of brain fever destroyed the charms of her counte-
nance She Is now large, well proportional woman
with dark brown har and dark gray eyes full OF
fire. Her face is leOnne, energetic, restless III
expression. She Is finely educated ana mas ID
particularly logical mind. She is planning to come
to America soon on q lccturns tour
Francis Alexandra, of +. Alexandra & Sons, own
ers of the New York, Havana and Mexico Steam
ship Line, will sail to-day on the Gulon steamship
Arizona, to visit his birth place at St. Heller, on
the Island of Jersey. Mr. Alexandra is a large land
owner on the island, and has always kept the house
in which he was born more than seventy years ago.
1 t. :ot.L -, T,I, mad
"The New-York villa" in the best state of pres
eryatiOn. Mr. Alexandra will be absent ABOUT
four months and he IS personally acquainted
with the relatives and friends of Mrs Langtry, he
Will anticipate the many inquiries concerning neI
by taking with him Il large file of newspapers ana
numerous clippings concerning her career in this
country.
Nine. Jenny Lind Godschmidt does not seem to
be growing old gracefully. Now at the age OF
slxty-thrce she is described as possessing ron tho
crown o. her bewgged head to the sole of her No.
, shoe not one line OF grace or beauty Her form
Is angular her face hard her Q, es are dull and pas
slonless her features irregular and lnharmOnlOuS:
But hen she speaks. the plalnness OF her lace anu
form is forgotten. for her tones are stu those OF
the Swedish nightingale" and her features light
up ID sympathy with the music of her voice. She
lives in a big house III South kehslDgtOn surround
ell by spacious and wel-shaded lawns. She seldom
Sings now-Only occasionally nj Royal request. or
for the Bach choir, OF which her husband was the
founder.
One of the most disting uished audiences seen III
London theatre for a lvng time that at the first
night of" Fedora There was john Ruskin, pale,
thoughtful and earnes-loOklng, in one OF tho 'front.'
row of stalls Charles lieade and Wilkie Collins
side by side III abOx; the Baroness Burdett-CouUs
in a proscenium box Mrs. Craik Miss Muockl,
Mrs. Maxwell Miss }raddonl, Edmund Yates, Will
lam Black. and ". Clark Russell IN an upper box
Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone in a proscenlum box ana
scattered through the house appeared Mr.: and Mrs
Iaboucherc, Lady Florence Dixie. Justin Met arthy
Mr. Lawson of The Telegraph, James Payn, sir
Henry llaveiuck- Allan, N.C Richard Bentley, the
publisher: a host OF playwTights such as Pinero,
Rowe Sims Buchanan, Merritt and Pettl', ana III
fact almost every person of note who was not In
yited TO the Royal Academy banquet.
The now homo of NJ. Delaunay, the great French
actor is among green lawns and shadowing trees
in one of the quetest novks in the quiet old city of
Versailles The house is IA comfortable old-faSh
ioned two-story structure, crowded within with
pictures books, cabinets statuary and thousand
ard one treasures and tokens from admlrlng Trends
In an adjoining building Is the bliard-room, that
gamo being Delaunay's sole recreation when the
weather keeps him indoors But as soon as the
storm is he losses aside the cue, and with bis
dog Duke at ms heels goes out for tramp In the
forest After twelye-mle ramhle he returns
fresh and happy, dimes like man with robust
stomach and approving conscience and goes upon
the stage with all the youthful lire OF twenty years
ago. his son is artist. pupil OF Cabanel; his
daughter n-luW Is "a faYOrte singer AT the opera
Comque and his wife Is an able artist aud teacher
The only shadow that has fallen upon his life is
the loss of his eight yearod daughter whose death
after many years, he still mourns with neon
solabe grief.
Providence, r. l., May 2s.-Goycrnor-elect
Bourn is no better this morning Senator
Anthonys condition is still encouraging.
HARTFORD, Conn, May 2S.-Thc Rev. George W.
Smith ID. d.. of Brooklyn. n. Y, has accepted the
presidency of Trinity College. to succeed President
Pynchon who il to retain his connection with the
college as a professor.