New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-16
PERSONAL

President seclye Of Amherst College, Is said 10
have truly phenomenal memory of names and faces
Mr.. Estes. of the firm of Estes Laurat. sailed for
Europe last week
Mr.. Herbert Spencer has been staying at Bourne
mouth His health Is improving but no still suffers
from insomnia and nervous exhaustion Since 1870
he has been q victim of slecplcssncss He IS now
doing very little work. and never expects 10 40 muoh
more, though his doctors are moro hopeiuL
General A. W. Greedy Will spend the summer at
Plttsfcld massachusetts, and 1t is intimated that Mr.
and nsi' MIS-. Cleveland WI visit him there.
When In Paris NJ lola Is the most taciturn OF men,
but at his country homo he terrible chatterer and
talks his visitors almost to desth
DR.. Callaudet, president of tho College for Deaf
Mutes ut washington, has gone to Hartford conn,
and will not return TO his duties until next iaii
Senator Sherman Is said to be a capital hand at
playing ten-pns.
ain fashionable salons,n says the Paris core
suondent of tho "Novoe Vremya" at the reception
Of Minister'S in the palace Of the President OF the
Republic at all concerts and first performances you
will always observe . gentleman OF middle height
thin, about fifty years Of age. He wears Snort
beard Of pepper and-salt ceor and from undor his
shaggy eyebrows look out two rather SMALL humorous
and honest eyes, These eyes are very keen anu 90
servant forming a remarkable contrast to their
owners quiet and unassuming face. One special
TACT moreover, is to be noticed about this gentle
mans personal appearance Though always f TO-
necktie, Which sometimes slips down, sometime,
DRIFTS off Sideways though IT were playing az si
mans buzz WITH ,h Asts have FROM TO- do on with literary
man and. in fact we have before Mr. Campbell
Clarke tho correspondent Of The London Daily Iole-
graph
Oscar II. King of Sweden and Norway Ii described
as having on intellectual, thoughtful eountensnee
with eyes that are almost pensIve In their expression
| 8Ia, ha &c accumulated
and has translated Goethes "Fsust' into Swedish,
nublshed q book OF travels and several volumes OF
poems and is the author Of monograph on "Charies
XII considered as King, Warrior and Man. super
sous people might have sagursd tr01eis9 regn IN
the Stor Church at Stockholm In pouring ram on ts
day Of his coronation in May, 1873 but on the ofn9r
hand n was gloYiousiy fine weather when In the July
following he was crowned King of Norway at Dront-
helm.
The German Emperor has kept his promise 10 pro
| mote art and science by an act OF muhncence enc
will be remembered for all time. He has presehte'
to the Rbllotheea Paatlnap at Heidelberg the cee
brated soc allied Msnesse Manuscript and his brother
| inlaw the Grand Duke of Baden, as the - ecto
ntissuusn Of that ancient seat OF learnins
has acknowledged tho rccept OF the truly regal gin
| This famous manuscript named after the Couhchlo
Rudipsr Manesso and his son, Of Zurich, consists
| n collection of med aeval mime songs OF the iouf
tsenth century written parchment, and contsinin
on 4eo leaves upward Of 600 verses by 40 poets
together with 1877 richly ornamsnted pages, on whic
besides the portraits Of the earliest Minnesngers
prinoely and knishty blood is also represented IN
historical wartburg War The existence Of tho prociou
toms became first known toward tho end Of the siS
| tecnth century, when 1t was In Tho possession oi
| Baron of Hohn-Sax, residing In his strong eastie
FOrstock near St Gall, IN switzerland In !ooI Mai
guard Freher bought IT for tho Palatine Library tt
Heidelberg whence, during the turmoil OF the Ihrt
Years war, in manor thus Tar uneS planned It cana
into the possession Of Partisan 3ibophe, VINO Pr
sented it to the Bibotbequo Rationale In that cry
For nearly two csnt9'es the Gcrmans nave yam am
| and 1871 they failed to recover the treasure IL
owing to the opergy and earcumspecloa OF iierr
| manuscript has finally been restored to us Gerns
owner. Herr Truebner acquired number OF sauss
for no less sum than $4,000, and through neSot'
tons with the Dibothe9ue Rationale Enper freas u
precious manuscript, which, 1t is hoped, may new
agan disappear from the shelf on which his mum noene
| and Herr Truebners foresight nave III tho cho ou
| ceeded In replacing it.