New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-05
PERSONAL.

Governor Cleveland is enjoying his vacation at
his home IN Buffalo He is said TO be very fond OF
fishing and has become badly sunburncd in the pros
ecution of his favoritc sport.
Bishop O'Hara. of Scranton. Penn. who is re-
ported as likely to receive the paiium from Rome
as the successor of Archbishop Wood, has been In
the priesthood for forty-one years. He was conse-
Grated as the first Bishop of Scranton IN 1868
Pennsylvania was formerly part OF the province
of Baltimore but at the elevation OF ArchDisnop
Wood 10 the archiepiscopal char, the stare was
erected into separate province, with Philadelphia
as the metropolitan city.
P.D. Armour, the noted Speculation of Chicago. is
of sturdy Scotch Presby terrain stock When a boy
il was his sole ambition earn money enough some
day TO buy farm adjoining his fathers. And 70
when the gold fever broke out. he left his httie
home In the central part of Ohio and went To Cali
fornia. After some years OF hard work, ne saved
enough money TO buy the farm and went back TO
his native place to make the purchase ana settle
down as a farmer. But the place which had seemed
SO beautiful 10 his boyish eyes now seemed TO him
TO be small mean and dingy and under this reyui-
sion of feeling he left III disgust without buying the
farm
chaplain McCabe, whose singing and preach
ing combined have built many Methodist Church
in the West. went TO Saratoga few days for a
needed rest. But as luck would have it. Saratoga
lust the wrong place Tot uiui 10 20. TUT tnc
Methodist Church there had long been struggling
with a debt, until, as Que of the brethren SAID
:" they could see stars Aud hearing Of this Mr.
McCabo said. out Of the lulness of his generous
heart: Brethren please allow me to help you
little. fou have studied astronomy long enough
under difficulties Let me hello you to lift little
or the burden from YOU that the -tars may dis
appear for a space" HIS offer was gladly accepted
aud after the service last Sunday evening he sang
and preached the whole amount Of the debt out of
the peoples pockets IN less than an nour. ne
"Chap ain's friends say that it would DC useless
to send him for his vacation tn place where there
was no Methodist Church, AZ IN all probability he
would spend all his time in building one
Thomas Ball, the sculptor. has just arrived from
Florence italy, to pass the summer IN Boston, his
native town. II is we'll known that he passed his
earlier manhood in Boston as successful portrait
PAL nter and during those early ycars tho thought
of becoming a sculptor never once entered his head
But at last some latent power within him began to
make it's presence vaguely felt. "One day." he
SAYS, II had been painting picture that wcaried
me- and took it up aud scraped IL all out. For two
or three days | shut myself up IN my studio. did
not want to see any one or 40 anything. Then the
impulse came upon me to model, to form something
| went over to a scuptor's studio near and got
lump OF clay and began. My first attempt OF any
Importance was a miniature bust of Jenny Lind
She was thcn in the dawn OF her triumph here, and
the little portrait bust made great hit" For
the last few years he has lived in Florence. and has
enjoyed the SYMPATHETIC friendship of the sculptor
Powers. Among his IDEAL works are "The Ship
wrecked Sailor Boy,n Pandora" and several re-
ligious works which exhibit the true splnt of de-
votioual ART. His STATUE Of Edwin Forrest as
"Corolanus" is heroic in size, standing eight feet
In height and is considered one of his m0st striking
works Ii is in the AetorS Home at Pbiadelptia.
His bronze model for the statue of Paul Revere IL
now ON exhibition at his rooms IN Boston.
PALENvILLE, N. Y, July i.-Edward Lasker, the
eminent German statesman Is among the arrivals
at Inc stony Brook House. in the Catsklls-