New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-26
PERSONAL.

Bishop Littlejohn, of Long Island, is at Nice,
looking after the affairs of the American Protestant
Episcopal Church there.
Among Americans now visiting Rome are DR..
Marion Sims and family, of this city, and the widow
ofGeneral Custer.
The late General ChaDsy, 1t will be remembered,
was arrested by the Communists in March, 1871,
and imprisoned for week 1t is related that he
was, at the time Ut his arrest, In company with the
Prince de Joinville and the Due de Charities, who
only escaped probably worse fate than hls by not
being recognized by the Communist soldiers.
Nlessrs. Robert B. Roosevelt and Seth Green ar
rived at Jacksonville. Fla. on Monday, In the
Yacht Heartsease. After spending few days in
Jacksonville they will 60 some distance up the st.
Johns River collecting data regarding the spawn.
ing and migration OF shad. Then they Will go down
the Atlantic coast to Indian River, aud possibly
continue their cruise into the Gulf.
The Committee Of the Overseers Of Harvard Col.
lege. X. NJ. Hodges ~ D., Henry Lee and Morrill,
WymaD. NJ. D., have reported in favor of appoint
ing Oliver Wendell Holmes Emeritus Professor of
Anatomy. In concluding the report the committee
said "The retirement of q Professor whose
reputation has contributed Inuch to that
Of the University calls for an expression Of profound
regret and for the fullest academic recognition Of
his long aud jealous devotion to its interests"
Even In defeat, Ex-Governor St. John. of Kansas,
Is to be honored with triumph. Next NOM he is
to visit Boston, and arrangements are now actively
being made for giving him most imposing public
reception. The event will occupy the entire day
and evening of Washingtons Birthday, and the
large building of the Massachusetts Mechanics AS
soclaion on Huntingdon ave.. is to be gwen up to
it, The Committee OF Arrangements includes
Governor Long, Lieutensnt-Governo Ames, and
the Hon. Messrs. r. X. Bishop. E. s. Tobey. Robert
Treat Paine. jr., L. $. Converse D. w. GoOch,
Joseph A. Harwood, and Others The Governors of
all the New England States and their stats, will
be among the invited guests The programme in.
oludes an az ernoOn chll ren's entertainment, for
which 10000 tickets VIII be- distributed in tn, pub
lie schools and in the evening concert opened By
choral Of welcome written for the occasion and
performed by an orches ra of fifty and chorus of
60 The address oil welcome will be made by ex-
Governor Long aud Mr. 1t. John will deliver an
GRAFTON covering the history OF the three years
temperance campaign IN Kansas.
Mr.. Reginald WiIberforce's life of his father, the
late Bishop WHEREFORE, has not only provoked
much criticism but has set in circulation many
anecdotes of that famous preate. One Of his best
puns was st the expense Of the Rev. DR.. Curme. a
vehement Evangelical. and sharp thorn in the
Episcopal side. On this clergyman assailiug him in
public the Bishop crushed him with the ready
repartee "Cur ne qUereiiS erdninds tasV Not al
ways however, was 10 so fortunate IN VerDal tilt
lie once took Mr. Burgess TO task for hun ing
But" expostulated the other hunting is not
more unclerlcal than dancing; and noticed your
lOrdship's name of those present at the last
State ball" True" SAID the Bishop, "but was
not in the same room with the dancers" "A para-
lei ca,e to mlne my lord" replied Mr. Burgess, 'Ior
| ride such inferior animalc that am never in the
same field with the houndsp The Bishop caught
IL badly, too, when he was lnveighing rather n-
temporarily to the Qneen. in her youDger days.
against DR.. Hampden's book. When he had finished
his fierce TRADE she quietly asked: My lord. have
you read DR. Hampden's book I" Actually he ha'in't;
and so BIO tired TO apologize, aed. and then be-
took himself to badly demoraized flight