New-York tribune., 1884-03-23
PERSONAL.

Senator and Mrs Eugene Hale have gone home
from Washington to Ellsworth, Me. to open the
costly new house which he has built on the NIL
overlooking that town. II has commanding view
of the Maine coast With Mount Desert ana other
islands.
William H. Fogg, vice-president OF the ChamDcr
of Commerce has been suffering from a severe at
tack of pneumonia since last Tuesday. He is dan
gerously i'll at his home, No. 319 Flfth-aVe., ann IL
is thought that he may die to-day.
Augustus Schell the well-knOwn Democratic
politician and president of the NewYOrk Historical
society has been seriously i'll with disease OF the
kidneys for seven weeks, at his home, No. y west
Thirty -f0urth-st. He has received the constant
at endance of DIR. Egbert Guernsey. Three days
ago he grew rapidly worse and has been hovermg
between life and death since then. DR.. Guernsey
said late last night that Mr.. Schel would probably
live at least twentyfOur hours longer, but that an
hope of his rallying bad been abandoned ana death
might take place at any moment.
Chess Is often mentioned as the favorite game OF
great generals diplomats and scholars; but the
simpler though perhaps not less pleasing game OF
checkers must have its innings on that score too.
Not only did Plato use it for philosophical llustra-
ton. and Cicero turn TO 1t for mental DIVERSION and
Frederick the Great spend hours over it, but in later
davs such leaders Of men as Lincoln and Garbaldi
prized it highly; and it is said that. as his name
sakes palace in Ithaca was the scene OF many
checkeT-cOntests, 50 General Grant used 10 cream
out the bows at West Point at ii, and indeed
ascribes much of his military to the training
of the siXty-fOuT squares.
DIR. Cox vicar of the ancient church of ST. Helen's
Bishopgate, London. tells the origin OF the fine
window that has just been placed in that ediice to
the memory of Shakespeare. He was one day show
ing a visitor about the church and telling him how
the great dramatist once played at the Bull lnn
BshOpgate-st., aud probably attended service now
and then i'm this very church. Then" cried the
stranger, why have you no WINDOW 10 Ms
memory w Because replied DR., Cox, we have
no funds" "Then | will put one IN myself, salO
the unknown and he has kept his word ms gen.
teman resoutely declines to allow his name 10 DC
diyulged: all that he wishes to be known IS that he
has profound love for Shakespeare ana thaI hl'
daughter has recently gone upon the stage, Whert
il is said she has met with favorable reception
There really appears to have been no ground toi
all the clatter of comment raised over Mile Neva
da's baptism and reception into the Roman
Catholic Church. She was not proselyte from
Professionalism. but had never been connected with
any church before and she made the choice OF faith
deliberately and entirely on her own account
Curiously the opera led her to the church. for II
was while rendering the rOe-ln La Perle du
Br6sil of a wild Indian girl who becomes con,
vert to Christianity, that she was finally prompted
to take that step herself in earnest. NJ G0unod al
first agreed to he her god father, but afterward de
clined. remembering that he had already stood az
sponsor twelve times and wishing not to have any
thing to do with the fateiul number thirteen
There seems to be reason, either, 10 lnslnuatt
unworthy motives in Miss WiXOm's choice of god
mother as Mrs Mackay had for many years been
her most intimate and trusted friend.