New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-10
PERSONAL

The late David Hunter Strother. best known "a
Porte Crayon," venerable looking man. with
hugo white whskers and mnsache covering all the
lower part Of his face and quiet, almost dreamy, eyes
looking out from under noble forehead. HIS us
position was genial, but modest and retiring A
wear and half ago. when no celebrated his seventeen
birthday, he said TO friend Il weigh 100 pounds In
my summer toggery, walk my five miles without
fatigue aud not conscious OF any palms; scaes or
years and ten, but labor and sorrow have
come upon me- for my days pass IN cnee' ta
late war with distinction tho loyal side, though
nearly all his hnsmen were rebels
Mr. John Boyle o'ReIy will deliver an address
at Bellows Falls Vermont next saturday the occasion
being Irish Nationalist demonstration
NJ Bouguereau has one Of the planest studios In
Paris big room with window and skylsht.
clock some old tapestry, q bronze statue. three or
four easels and ot OF unfinished pictures and blank
canvaSes leaning against me wall
DR.. Asa Gray left his copyrights and his valuable
collections OF photographs to Harvard University
The Rev Dr. Phillips Brooks will speak at the
opening OF the Massachusetts, Home Fair ID Boston
next Monday evening.
There Is a vigorous renewal Of talk at Baltimore
about erecting a monumental statue OF Johns Hopkns
senior CASTELAR, is a loose and struggling writer,
and does get than seven or eight limos on
page Of letter paper
Mr. Robert [. Carruthers. the illustrous baseball
player. who will prominently assist In winning honors
for the Brooklyn nine this year. has Just got married
and set out bridal tour which VIII iast until
tho ball season opens.
Mrs Leland stanford has recently given fine
memorial chapel to Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church, San Francisco.
Mr. Bjornstjcrnc Bjornson has been organizing In
Norway a popular crusade against tho Mormon ennis
safes who aiv seeking their prey there He Is an
uncompromisng foe OF Russian tyranny and thinks
that America England and scandinavia ought TO form
a grand federation to protect the civzcd world from
the encroachng waves of Russian barbarism.
In his early years Mr. A. Bronson Alcott was sort
OF transcendenta Anarchist, opposed to government
Taxes no specially dsbelieved in and for time per-
sisently refused to pay any, He was once imprisoned
for non payment OF taxes, and owed his release to
Mr. Samuel Iioar father Of the present Senator who
paid them for him.
DR.. Morcll Mackenzie Is friendly TO reporters, In
which respect as well as others no differs from his
colleague, DR.. Bergman, who, when recently APP
proac he'd by a wOuldbe interviewer said abruptly,
Get out! or I'll have you arrested"
In Les Lettrcs ct les Arts' NJ Jules simon gives
rccolecons OF his schoodays at the Normal School,
at Paris, which he entered as a bnrsar In 1898 At
that time he says, Victor Hugo had no higher am
bon than to obtain post professor In the nSti-
tuition. When Ampere retired Hugo presented him
self as candidate for the vacant chair: but Cuz0.
with whom the disposition of 1t rested gave it to his
secretary VI Nisard, and NJ. Simon pronounces the
choice an eminently wise one. lie Is probably right
In saying that the great poet would have shirked
his PROFESSIONAL duties and that X he had cOndesccnded
give regular lectures tn hi GLASS the subject ma ter OF
them all would have been Victor Hugo In one aspect
or another