New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-06-26
PERSONAL.

Mrs Lanetry's father is reported to have had only
S25 when he died.
Mr. Louis G. Elson the well-known musical critic Of
Boston, Will sail for Europe on SATURDAY, 10 atenu
the Wagner Festival
Mr. Melville W. Fuller, who has been nominated for
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has gone to Maine
with his family on vacation
The departure of Professor E. B. Andrews from
Brown University to take chair at Cornell has made
necessary changes in tho faculty OF the former
institution Professor J. F. jameson OF Johns Hop
Rlns, takes the chair Of history He Is an Amherst
1875 graduate. Professor Henry ID. Gardner takes
tho chair of political economy
Marshal Lebocuf was soldier to tho end. His
last words were Let my regiment march past l
want to my artillerymen, every soldier OF then"
Among the middics in the italian Squadron at Bar
celopa SAYS Mr. Laboucheres "Truth,' were two
youths united by the closest friendship and OF con-
trasting ancestries One Of them, Luigi Amadeo OF
Savoy was born in that month OF January when inc
Spanish nobility carried out their plan OF boycottine
King Amadeo and his wife, who, few days after she
gavo birth to him, taken, in snow storm, rom
the Paaco Real to be brought By rail to Lisbon ana
thence transported to Italy with all her children She
died soon after Luigi Amadco is fifteen and has es-
capped the hereditary ugness of tho House OF savoy,
he being a handsome lad and tall for his age. What
OF his father who the moment he found the spaniards
did not want to have him. packed up to go away. Inc
Prince was entitled to place among the Royal per-
sonares who were at the opening OF the Barcelona Ex-
hIbitfon But he asked his uncle to relieve him from
ae Gy ~ ~ was II the roads Of baceons Neither
did the other lad-his messmate Giuseppe the son oi
Mcnotti Garibadl.
The Rev. Dr. Henry NJ. Field has gone to his sum-
mer home at Stockbndgc, Mass.
Mr. r. B. Anderson, Minister to Denmark has re-
ceIyed from the State University OF Wisconsin tine
honorary degree Of LII ID.
Nine. Meissonnier whose death is announced was
sister OF stenhe the painter of religious subjects.
She was much given 10 works OF charity
Mrs. Kendall the great English actress is the IN
ycntor and patentee OF lamp and candle shade from
the sales of which she derives handsome profit
Is called the " Egdan"-her own name reversed
Mr. whistler does not worry over the election OF
another man to his place president OF the Royai
Society of British Artists "A new government ne
says has come In, and as / told the members the
other night congratulate the society on tho result OF
their VOTE for longer can It BIO said that the rght
man Is In the wrong place. No doubt their prstihc
sense Of undisturbcd somnolence viii again settle upon
Them after tho exasperated mental condition arising
from the unnatural strain recently put upon the old
ship. My presidential career had in manner been
busy one. When l took charge of the ship found
her moro or less waterlogged Well put tho men
to the pumps, don't you understand, and Thoroughly
shook up you know, the old vessel; had her ferggeu
receaned and painted don't you see roval Standard
at the masthead and brought her iuly 70 the ioIe,
ready for action-as became q roy al ndssInP uoh
YOU see And as natural result, mutiny az once SCI
In ~ Tho conclusion OF the whoie haoii ,,;,h
Whistler adds is that tho Royal society OF nrIsn
Artists has been rent asunder. The " hftsIs nave
gone out, himself at the head; the BRITISH rolhaii
and peace and sweet obscunty are festoieu
Dr. David j. iii, Of Buckncn University Lewis
burg Penn In writing to friend IN this CITY OF his
recent unanimous election president of the univer
sty OF Rochester and respecting the question whether
or not he will accept the presidency, says; All the
same IL IS esteemed high honor to De named me sue
cessor OF such prince among euucd'ors as Maruh d.
Anderson"
President Adams of Cornell University, VIII trave
extensively IN tho United States this summer.
OF the late Emperor Frederick, early In her reign
Empress Eugene wrote as follows; Tho Prince u
tall and handsome, almost head taller than the En-
peror he Is slight and fair, with straw colorod mus
| tache German las Tacitus might describe hml OF
| chivalrous courtesy, with something OF tho Hamlet
about him His companion, General
Moltke Tor some such namc), is taoituin gentleman
but by no means a dreamer, and, being perpetualy on
the lookout takes one oy surprise Win MS pointed re
marks. They are imposing race these Germans
Louis calls them the race OF the future"
A notable circumstance at the recent Wellesley Col
lege commencement was the fact that the ex-rebe
Colonel Breckenridge delivered the commencement day
address, while his daughter sat among the graduates In
tho b. A. class. Another odd circumstance was The
presence there OF Mrs. Billiard, Of Kentucky, widow
of Major Eullard also OF rebel fame This same lady
only few seasons ago, received indignant rebuks
ter North be educated at Wellesley, he regarding
less than sur upon the schools OF tho south
which he thought afforded education sufficient inr ANY
woman