New-York tribune., 1883-06-19
PERSONAL.

MissTNora Perry will spend the summer ct Bethle-
hem, N. H.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge IS summering among the
White Mountains, at IL o Intervale House.
Mr. James r. Osgood. who sailed for Europe last
Saturday expects to return TO this country early in
August
NJ Jules Verne is said to seeking election to tho
French Academy as the successor Of the late Jules
Sandeau
Mr.. John Sibley, Harvard's venerable librarian
emeritus is steadily rsgaining his health which was
recently SERIOUSLY impaired.
The announcement is made that Mr.. Edmund
Hudson and Mrs. Mary Clemmer. both well-known
newspaper correspondents to be married IN
Warrington today.
Ferdinand de Braekeleer the doyen OF the Belgian
painters is dead at the age Of nlnety-one years lie
was brother inlaw Of Baron Henri Legs and father
of prominent artist. NJ. Henri dc Braekeleer.
General Francis E. Spinner, whose queer signature
used TO adorn all United States currency, has left
his Florida plantation for time and is visiting
friends in Boston and elsewhere IN the North.
Captain Webb, the famous English swimmer. in
tends. il IS sad TO undertake swimming through the
whirlpc oil rapids and the dreaded maelstrom below
Niagara Falls, from which one has ever yet
emerged alive.
Mr. Reginald Cleveland Coke son of the Bishop
of Western Ncw-York, has Just returned home from
Europe after four years absence spent in studying
art at Paris under Bonnat the great French master
Mr.. Coke intends to live IN this city ana VIII open
studio here this fall.
writer in The Boston Herald gives the following
account of the first meeting, behind the scenes at
the Boston Museum, Of the late Adelaide Phillips
with her life long friend Mrs. NJ. H. Sanford. Miss
Phillips was about twelve years DID, and Just at the
dawn of her musical career, giving her stten-
ton to the panOforte. Mrs Sanford, knowing this
iact asked the privilege of looking at the tips OF
her fingers to sec if they had the musical sign; but
finding they turned up, which is considered an OBJ
stacle to execution. remarked no, dear, you VIII
never play" an opinion warmly resented by the
childs aunt who stood by her slde Mrs. SANFORD
quicRly added 4" But hear you sing do you Ike
TO sing ?" The little girl, who had her hoop in her
hand, held 1t up, and, with merry laugh ana
twinkle IN her eyes replied" " I'd rather roll my
hoop I'd ike to sing we'll enough If Mr. Conner
then the leader of the Museum orchestral wouldn't
mako me sing SO high. He makes me 90 up INTO
high tower and sing at the top OF my voice, sec
them acOming. i see ihem aeoming tillustratlng
III and Il hurts my throat" Sho at that time was
playing q male part In Blue Beard"
Dnring commencement season. when there is in
eyitably much hackneyed discussion as to whether
or not collegiate honors signify anything of import
ance a cursory review of the names OF those who
have taken prizes for English prose essays at Oxford
Commemorations may be of interest. Here are
some Of them Bishop PhilpottS, of Exeter; Bishop
Copleston, Of Llanda6 Reginald Heber !;
Richari Whately; John Keble; Sir John Taylor
Coleridge tho eminent Judge; Thomas Ar
mold of Rugby Henry Hart Milman; George
Anthony DenIson Herman Merivale James Bowl
ing Motley; Arthur Penrbyn Stanley James An
thony Froude Chichester Fortescue Lord CARING
ford; Goodwin smith; Edward st. John Parry.
Tls IL An imposing succession of honor-men, and 1t
ia supple mented in the list OF those who have taken
the English verse priZe by such names as HeDer,
AIilman and Stanley again; william seymour fltz-
gerald: : John Ruskin John Campbell Sharp !;
Matthew Arnold George Osborne Morgan and
William John Courthope. These young men were
hailed with thunders of applause by their fellow
as they stood blushng upou the stage OF the
Shedonian Theatre and that they well deserved the
since affirmed by the still louder applause OF the
great world outside the city on the Isis.
WASHINGTON, June 1S.-General Charles Ewing
is lying dangerously ill with pneumonia at his
home in this city and his death s hourly expected
General Ewing Is a brother of General Thomas
Ewing, Of Ohio, and relation by marriage Of
General sherman.
CITY OF MEXICO. June 19.-SeGor Mariscal, the
new Minister to England, sailed on the British
Empire, which will be due in Now-York on the
2Sth inst.
LONDON, June 1S-IIerr Lasker, the German
Liberal statesman, sailed on Thursday last from
Southampton by the steamer Werra for New-fork.
HALIFAX, N s., June 1S.-Sr Charles and Lady
Upper are among the passengers on the steamer
Caspian, which sailed to-day for Liverpool.