New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-07
PERSONAL.

Owing to the recent retirement OF Captain Leitch, OF
the Inman steamer City of Chicago there have been sew
eral changes OF the captains OF that line Captain Lech
made $40 trips and has Deen maze shore supei"
tendent.
The descendants OF the family of William Penn now
living bear the various branches OF the family the
names OF Fell RawllEs. Newoombe Barrow, Comm
Gaskll. Baker. Coates Hall, Read, Alexander, walker
Con, Clayton and Raynter.
Pere Bernard who has Just been chosen Superior Gen.
eral OF the Cawichns is sixty years Old ana was tne
favorlte candidate foreigners especially sFrencnen
One hundred and forty representatives Of the order came
from all parts Of the world TO vote ut the first election Vi
chief in thirty-two years.
Captain Robert W. Andrews, Of Sumter s. e., was Id
Washington this week. making pedestrian journey 10
the home OF his I'm Boston. He stopped III "ashng
ton day or two, to rest and TO shake hands with the
President He claims to have talked with every Pres-
dent from Washington down, excepting Garieh nv 10
making the journey just for pleasure WIN no %
but a little black dog and the ROAD the WalkS dpVut
twenty five miles day which Is pretty goOu uisGmoo
for veteran OF nlnety-three.
Captain Eads. who has spared enough time from en-
cheering enterprises afford opportunity FOR the graz
fcation of his literary tasess great admifcr OF fo"h
Arnold, and has committd to memory many me P'S''s
from his popms The Hines Democrat (New-orealisl
relates that at dinner in London at which many e'h-
nent engineers and others were present DeiilS ca
for recitation Captain Eads gave one u lu"'n
Arnod's short poems It heartily appIaaoeo, ail"
several persons asked the name or its author' i'"
Arnold WAS the reply of the most Eorlgnai poctS
von haye:~ and Never heard of him was the startling
reioinder Then Captan Eads determined TO enuShteh
them As TO his favOrite poet, and next day went W
boot,tore TO yet half dozen copies OF Edwin Ahou
noen,s for distribution. You mean Matthew Armour
observed the clerk "No, mean Edwin Arnold author
NJ The LIGHT OF Asia you know, said Captain Eads
Don't know" answered the clerk " never hetIu "
him The Times Democrat says that captain T.d5 .
INQUIRIES at numerous London bookstores llcl WIN -
nfD
tic sarcastic remark: My dear sir, you nave i.''
poets in America that do not hear OF III England
Lars Olsen Smith the former brandy king OF swed en-
Jaws he used to sell about three-quaIers OF all the
brandy consumed in that country and was taxed on an
income Of more than S25O0O0 year He built Lp that
enormous business almost from nothing by MS own
energy But the business" he says. brought me much
responsibility and serious thought when reflected upon
the sin and misery and disease occaoned by drinking 80
much alcohol The more thought the more uncomfort-
able became found that the chief cause OF trouble
WAS not the alcohol bat the fuse oil 1t contained Ihch
the oucston arose how to get rid Of It, invented after
much study system for extracting the fusel OH from
spirits and erected in Sweden seven rtetyng factories
for the PURPOSE which cost about FlOOOOOO anu arc inc
establishments OF tue knd III SWeuoh' III
smith then had long and desperate struggle WIN tue
old d.fIlers who had less than l13.l2l factories III
the KINGDOM But last he won. his lecthed spirits
with the result tbat IN pace Oh
500 there are now les, tan 100 of alcoholism III
stoclholm annually He Is dey0ting hllllseI ell
tirclv TO the restriction and reformation or the liquor
traffic / would" he says. say 10 the publican lou
have sold hitherto bad drink at nigh price teceloi IL
YOU must sell good drink ut low picequaity ana price
fixed by nw-and pay also heavy license fee; Or you
must quit the business