New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-20
PERSONAL.

The Hon. william ID. Kelley is now enjoying cap
ital health, and appears entirely to have recovered
from the serious lndispositlOn Of a year or more
ago.
Monsignor Capel to-day in Pittsburg will lay the
cornerstone Of the new Catholic college, and all
Catholic societies Of that city will unto in making
the occasion one of great splendor'
General George Washington GUSTS Lee, the eld-
est son of General Robert +. Lee, has tho reputa-
ton of being the handsOmest man in Virginia. His
bearing as he grows older is remarkably like that
of his father. The youngest son OF the family Is
quiet farmer near Richmond
In addition to his phenomenal prCwess as an in
terview oOmpounder, the Rev. Mr.. Snyder, Of ST.
Louis is said to be devotee Of the drama, and the
story goes that visiting the house where BILLY
Florence was playing he carelossly loft behind HIM
a valuable cane. This the janitOr found and turned
over TO the bOX-Olioe manager who In tuTn-when
it was not reclaimed after several days-gave Ii to
Florence and he at a dinner party with great gustO
presented II to General sherman as "A stick which
he had picked up among the pyramids of Egypt.
Then snyder put in an appearance, and there were
mutual explanations and apologies all around, some
more dinner with unlimited champagne, Florence
had his joke, and everyone was happy.
Pore Monsabre, who is probably the most elo
quent preacher in France, is thus described by Mr.
James Stephens in Tho Philadelphia Times; lie
looks to me to be a man of forty-hye years Of age
lie is well built. has a fine, open, healthy cOunte-
nance. and voice strong enough to fill the
cathedral and musical enough to charm the ear
Ho breaches in Notro Dame only six times In the
year-that is 70 say on the six Sundays Of Lent.
lie spends the remainder of the year in one of the
houses Of his order in Brittany OF Normandy, pre-
pariug his sermons, which he writes and rewrltes,
and commits well to memory. For each sermon he
receives the modest stipend of thousand francs,
which, of course according 10 the rules of the re-
ligious community to which he belongs. he hands
over Immediately 10 the bureau OF tLe DOmncans
for general use of the ORDER
James X. Randall, who wrote Maryland My
Mary land" Is described by o Philadelphia Record
correspondent as one of the most delightful men in
Washington. You find it," he says, difficult to
believe that this quiet, liberal broad minded man
wrote that narrow, passionate appeal. lie was
very young however lie is young STILL but wiser
and broader lie has como to that point whore he
Is willing To admit that that dsagreeable charac-
terization Northern scum in the last stanza was
simply put In for the sake OF the rhyme. He would
not write such q sOuZ now. Yet ho copies the old
song again and again IN response To requests that
come from the four corners of the earth, whittier
its fame has spread | saw "a true copy of II yeser-
day. 1t Is rarely printed correctly. 1t generally
mangled In quotation. aud II Is always mutilated
In the new spapers. | hear that Mr.. Randall con-
templates gathering IL and half n hundred other
lyrics IN volume 10 DO published shortly