New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-28
PERSONAL.

Representative Rockwell, OF Massachusetts, says that
agricultural colleges are proper enough. only they
have a tendency to draw young men away ifol' '"0
farms"
Madame Adam got, as Editor of La NoureHe Revue
$4,000 year salary and S2,Ooo year more ioI on'oi
tainIbent expenses. etc.
Mr. Edwin d. Meads lectures this season Will be on
&" Samuel Adams" "Glsdstone," "Lessing' "Puritan-
ism" ana "The Pilgrim Fathers
Senator r I. Gibson OF louisiana with his wife. has
been snendng the summer at Pier and sara
toga AT present he Is at High Cottage near liigh
n,tp.s The beantiful country home OF Mrs. Gibsons
ma,ssr Mira MONTGOMERY HIS old enemy. the govt
has lately gwen hun twist, bat he IS now ABOUT we'll
Miss Annie Lippncort daughter of Grace Green
wocd Ia recovering her voice and health and hopes 70
20 On the opera stage again this winter
Manton Marble formerly editor OF The World but en-
gagged for tho last year moro on special mis-
,o, from President Cleveland in studying the silver
question at home and abroad recently elected pres
dent OF the Manhattan Club. He was resting AZ Lsu
sanne Switzerland, when informed Oh Ills unoA poo'ou
election the club honOrs.
Mr. Arthur OConpo 10 ono OF the suggestive speakers
in Parliament He can start a general debate more
readily than any man In his party 10 prooe 'uo SUI
of every garrulous Engishman or scotoumah III INC
House." says The Freeman's Journal. me knows the
exact bait that OF them requres-whether IL 10
the linn worm or the nuttering fly The moment his
part OF the Is done he shrnks modesty INTO 'ho
hacseround When you hear ample and even ahi
mated debate going on between the two Sides leading
members getting from the front 0enches WITH ho"i' anu
shous and terrible hubbub you Will scarcely think that
the xoned, severe, and silent gentleman
with cold aud watchful eyes on the back pencnes was
tho agency which had set all those mariOnettes dancing
to mia music or sometimes when surveying tue scone no
his work able, as he retres 10 tne eIrace
M the House of Commons over cigar TO medtate on
the smallness OF the wisdom by which tpgishmon OF.
| ta,red n government The English members uoh'
rnnw what TO make OF him. His dry manner MS SERIOUS
air hs mastery OF detail exercise curious FASCINATION
over Them for these qualities which they are ac
cu.tomed 10 associate with their phegmatlc race
rabd Tories do not now and again REBEL put asa'ns
| Arthur u Common never
Professor r. H. Holmes, registrar OF the Chautauqua
ruiyerslty has been ordained preacher.
Ex-PresIdent White OF Cornell University Will Sal
from Bremen for home about October 10.
The venerable Dr. Mark Hopkins hopes to attend the
meeting OF the American Board OF Commissioners TOT
| Foreieu Missions at Des MONIES next month. lie Is
more than eghty years old, but has exoelont heaItn
| Having returned from Europe, Mr. Benjamin Harris
brewster, ex-Atorn-y General. will resum' MS Law
| practice III Phladephia-
| Dr. E. o. Shakespeare, who has returned from M
cholera-,tudyins mission in the Old WORLD will have
lender i Dy the medical profession OF that city.
Sir william White, succeeds Sir Edward Thornton
IA Great Brtain's representative ut Censtantinope
not only has an unrvaled knowledge OF Oriental anC
Russian dipom acy and politics. but Is also SUPER
lngust lie SPEAKS twenty-five dherest languages ah'
| dialects.