New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-09
PERSONAL.

The Count Do Mores, of Dakota. whose life was
recently attempted by desperadoes. is thorough
practical man of business. lie has created a small
village on his land. and acts judge. ruler and
protector Of the little community, furnishing il
literally with many of the necessary adjuncts OF
civilization.
President Arthur, Secretaries Folgor, Lincoln and
Teller aud Postmaster-Ge General Gresham have &C.
ceptnd an invitation to visit Havemeyer's Point on
September 90 The arrangements were made BY
Secretary Lincoln, and the object of the trip IS 10
afford President Arthur few days fishing on the
Great south Bay.
II IL rumored that Mr.. Andrew Carnegie Is about
to offer himself a candidate for Parliament from
Wolverhampton and likewise for the hand of a
daughter of Mr. Gladstone Another rumor in The
fittsburg Post from the same source saws that Mr..
Carnegie has bought The London Echo and an inter-
est in certain WolVerhampton journals.
NJ de Billie the Danish Minister to the United
States, who has been making long trip in the far
West, reached Denver on Friday last. To o report
or who found him the next morning. he said: ut
~ strange that the Americans know little of their
own country. In the East they have no idea no
conception of hat is here to be seem They go off
to Europe simply for hdut ton. while their ntAl.
gence suffers the penalty. They talk of The Rocky
Mountains as If they were some misty thing to be
dismissed with the bare MENTION"
Having finished the book-"Ths Natural Genesis"
on which he has been working twelve hours day
for twelve years, Mr.. Gerald Massey is now contem-
plating a second lecturing tour through the United
States During his previous visit 10 this conuIry
Mr. Massey delivered fifty lee and was obliged
To leave thirty offers of engage ments unaccepted.
He takes credit to himself for beng almost he
ohly living English writer who has spent nine
months in this country and then omitted to write
book about IT.
Mrs CHAPLIN Avrton. the wife of Professor w. T..
Ayrton of England, who has just died at tho early
age of thrty-seven, was in many respects a remark
able woman. As Miss Chaplin. she was one of the
first England to advocate the professional educa-
ton of women and 1t was largely due to her
tions that the profession oil medicine was thrown
open to women She attended all the medical
classes open to women IN Edinburgh and IN 1879
obtained the degree of NJ. ID. at the Medical
King and Queens College of Physicians, ireland.
she thu only woman among large number of
candidates. but she came out first In tho examine
ton. She Is also known as an author through her
interesting book " Chld-Lite in japan" aud con-
tributions 10 various periodicals.
Mr. John l.. Dow, of Melbourne, member of the
Victorian Parliament for Kara Kara and agri-
cultural editor of The Melbourne Leader. who has
been travelling through this country suce last May
studying its agriculture, is about ready to start for
home. lie will return to San FRI ncisco via Kansas.
New Mexico, Texas and Southern Cali ornia and
sail thence on August 20. Mr. Dow writes to The
TRIBUNE: Altogether have found my trip grand
one. aad am delighted with the States and your
people. You are truly wonderful nation. 1 have
obtained tund of information. aud am sure my
visit will be profitable to our readers, as well as be-
ing probably interesting TO the increasing number
oil Americans who are opening up trade with
country, winch is on tine way to becoming u very
important nation.'
Arthur Sherburne Hardy. the author of the novel,
" But Yet Woman" is native of Andover Mass.,
and Is now thirty-slx years of age. lie spent mnch
Of his youth In Europe, especially Switzerland and
Spain. When the Civil War broke out he presented
himself rs volunteer. but was rejected on account
of his youth. He afterward entered West Point
Academy, from which he was graduated In 1859
with mathematical reputation which secured him
an election to scientific professorshp az Dart
mouth College. lie spent eighteen months In Pars
preparing himself for his new duties and on hs re-
turn published u college Textbook. The Elements
OF Quaternions," which has become standard book