New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-12
PERSONAL.

Francis Joseph Of Austria has horror Of CARL
playing and will allow the practice in only one ~
his palaces, his little hunting-chateau of Nenberg
.Mr. w. F. Wallet, the Queens jester-how many
people knew that such relic of the Dark Ages was
still retained at the British Court lhas just ccc-
brated his seventy sXth birthday.
Dante Gabriel Rossettis former home at Brching-
ton-on-Sea on the Isle of Thanet is now called Ros-
sett Bungalow, and an adjacent street has been
named Rossett Road. A monument designed by
Mr.. Ford MADDOX Brown IS to be placed above hS
grave, and stained glass window to his memory
will find Il place in the village church.
F." Roscoe Conkling," remarked the Hon. Hamilton
Spencer a prominent lawyer of Bloomington ILL.,,
the other day, read law in my Office in Utica n. Y
The firm was composed of my father, the lato
Joshua Spencer, Francis Herman, cx-Unitcd States
Senator from New-York, and myself. Conklng en-
tered our Office in 1916, and was quite young boy.
but large and tall for his age. He was rather
goOd-naturcd red-faced, wholesome-lOOking sort Of
fellow possessing very fine specimen of physical
manhood, WhlIe there was everything else about tho
young student to indicate good health and content
ment with the world. Although quick to learn and
possessing the, finest, talents, young ,C0nkling
was not regarded as being what is called a very
close student, but still his mind was capable OF
grasping eagerly the principles of the law, and his
elOquenCe at the bar won for him many important
suits"
ain these days of long life" says The 81. James,
III
William to survive the Iron Chancellor, as he has
survived so many of his old servants and friends
Prince Bsmarcks catarrh becomes increasingly
troublesome and he has had to give up his cigar aud
his glass of wine. The Emperor, it is said, was
never better, and still enjoys his wine and tobacco
1t is remarkable that, although he has long been
famous as one of the most vigorous men of his time
William /. was an exceedingly feeble child 1t was
not indeed, until he gave himself up to military
exercises that he became robust. The Kaiser has
always been very moderate man; and to this day
his dinner rarely consists of more than five Dishes
from which he makes choice Although the cellars
of the Imperial Palace at Berlin full of the finest
wines of all countries, including the Rhine vintages
of the famous years 1920 and 1880 of which the
bouquet alone is poem, the Emperor. rarely
touches them and usually contents himself with
glass or two of somewhat ordinary Mosellc"
The name MontefOre borne by the illustrious
Hebrew philanthrOpist who has just entered his
One-hundredth year. is derived says The JeIrish
Chronicle from small town on the eastern slope Of
the Apennines, formerly part of the Papal
Marshes Surnamcs derived from towns are not at
all uncommon either among Italian German
Jews. The grandfather of Sir Moses settled in Eng
land as a merchant, trading with Italy. He lived
and died IN Philpot Lane, but he had q country
treat in the then rural solitude of Bethnal Green.
One of his sons, Joseph Elias Montefore who had
married Rachel MOcatta, was an importer of Leg
horn straw bonnets. His wife accompanied him on
a commercial visit TO LeghOrn, and it then that
Sir Moses the eldest Of nine children, was born.
Young Moses was apprenticed to firm in the pro-
vision trade, but ultimately he went on the Stock
Exchange. Although member of the Sephardin.
or Spanish, Congregation, which at that time wssa
kind of Jewish aristocracy he married German
JeweSs Judith, the daughter of Levy Barrent CO.
hem q wealthy merchant I'm the City. 1t was in
memory of her that Sir Moses built the jewish Col
lege at RamSgate. The sister of Lady MOntefOre
married Mr. n. ~ ROthschild, the founder of tho
English house of that name 1t may interest those
Sir Moses Sustans nature almost entirely upon milk
sometimes varied by little soup and bread and
butter: but he has the old English love of generous
port, of which lie takes two or three glasses daily
HAVANA, Nov. 11.-JOhn Davis, Assistant Secre-
tary of State of the United States has sailed for
New-YOr on the steamship Saratoga