New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-17
PERSONAL.

MT. Dilllals Will paint q portrait of Sir Moses
MOntefOre.
monument is being erected at Smoiensk to tina
memory OF Glinka, the Russian composer.
Robert Browning has left Venice to visit Athens
| and thus realize q dream of his youth His son
sticks TO his sculptors studio III Paris.
Mrs. Howard widow of General B. C. Howard, of
the famous Howard family of Maryland, is still
enjoying health and strength at the age of eighty
three years.
The late Thomas Whitridge, of Baltimore, left
fortune of more than $3,000OOO to be divided
among relatives and friends with the exception of
$4,000 to the Baltimore Home for the Friendess
and 81, 900 to the American Unitarian Society
The Rev. DIR. Lambert has resigned the rector
ship of st. Johns CP. e. Church, Boston, after
.wenty-eight years of service there. He is moro
than seventy-ive years old, and is related to both
Senator Hale and Secretary Chandler
Mr. W. s. Gilbert, the dramatist, is said to receive
$4,000 a year from his copyrights. He once,
years ago. applied for a position captain in a
cavalry regiment, but, fortunately for himself and
the world was not able TO pass tie reqlled txanli-
nation.
Alexander JoniD, the Russian diplomat is a
slight, MISUNDERSTANDING man, though with
finely developed head. He has long beer a martyr
TO the fortunes of tic dOnoureux and angina pee
tors and Is only able to attend to business because
OF al indomitablo will power
Ex-senator McDonald's home in Indianapolis Is
plain twO-stOTy frame house, with a small lawn in
front, shaded by a single large fOrost-tree. II is
near the business centre Of the city, and is sur
rounded by a group of half-a- dozen churches. Mr..
Mcdonald is very toEd of driving out viii a team.
General Robert Toombs, of Georgia, was chris
tened and received into the Methodist Church by
Bishop Pierce. His brother, Gabriel Toonbs who
has Tor many years been an active church UIernGer
stood by his side during the impressive cere aOly,
and the church was crowded with an interested
congregation.
Mr.. George W. Cable, who has been in the city
experimenting the publication of editions OF his
" Old Creole Days " and The Grandissimes," will
read lecture before the Nineteenth Century Club
on December 6 on Tho Ideal Life and Art of the
Fictionst.' Next week he will 60 to Springfield
Mass, TO give reading from his works on the 2lst
inst. lie will also read in Boston on November 26
and % and December 1, giving in the last reading
some extracts from advance sheets of DR.. Sc er'
ms new story now app caring in The Century
An old scholar gives, in The st. Strpkea's Rerier,
this description of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain as q
Sunday school teacher: MIR. Chamberlain was a
teacher in tie Church OF the Messiah Sunday
schools for about two wears He taught the adult
class in the Sunday-schooS, and OuiGcted history
elias on Tuesday evenings He WAS at times very
eccentric, particularly so after the death Of his
first vito, and often came to the schools on
Sunday with the buttons of lis coat frayed
SKIRT cuffs and an old hat. He took tho
adult class through Paley's Theology. The lessons
were always very amusing, and he constantly told
humorous stories. On one occasion scholar was
reading about the battle of Bunker's Hill. Tho
reader dropped the IL in the word hill, and ,ro-
nounced the word ill., Mr.. Chamberlain CONFUSED
eye, and saying Poor old Bunker! What is the
matter with him?'D
WASHINGTON, Nov 16.-Sccretary Chandler re-
turned from Warner, n. H., last night and was on
duty at the Navy Department to-day.
BUFFALO, Nov. 18.-GeneTal Grant, the Hon.
Hamilton Fish. Burt w. Spencer, of the NewYork,
Lake Erie and Western Railroad, arrivedihere byil
special train from the West this evening ard took
rooms at tho Gencsee House. They will start for
The East c IN OrrOw.