New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-25
PERSONAL.
Of the war"

Dr. Malcolm NJ Dana pastor OF Plymouth Church,
ST. Paul, and OF the prominent ministers OF tho
Northwest, has been called to the Jefferson Avenue
Presbyterian Church in Detroit DR.. Dana was widely
known In New England Congregational circles before
removing st. Paul ten years ago, having Decn not
only pastor In Norwich. Conn, but also an ape ana
frequent contributor to the religious press He con
tlnncs write for Tho Advance and other pu6ica
tons and is vice president OF the Minnesota State
Board of Charities and Corrections.
The Rev. r. Hcber Newton, who recently returned
to his church in this city after years absence In
Europe is in much better health than when he ar
rived and hopes to be as well as ever lie has
been mach gratfed at tho kindness Of his clerical
brethren whom they heard that he did not come back
In good health, Bishop Potter and several other prom
lnenl Episcopal clergymen having offered to preach
for him.
Chicago is Drop..tng to erect In Lincoln Park .
monument to IAnG,e U.s. similar to that recently erect
ed M StockholIu.
Mrs Don ". Dloinron IS said to be decided ac
QUESTION TO the Cabp.' social circle
Mr. George Meredith tho novelist, does all his worn
in little chalet whinh hc has built In his garden, ana
Sttb the 1lndows Spsn When he is sleepless no
wanders out TITO the woods
They say %. sarah BsrnhGIdts pct tiger kitten
killed by estius box Of anti fat pills which M
sarcey bad brought to tho actress for her own use
Mr. Laboucn.re wearlcs Of snarling at the
British Empire. which It is tho bright dream OF his
life to sec broken up and destroyed He says he
hops to live to Australia Canada, New-Zealand
and South Africa all oocOme Independent nations, aud
heartily wishes they could do so to morrow.
rho Duo d'Aumde banished from France not
because b, was all Orleans Prinoe but because no
did .ot treat NJ Grevy with tho profound rspect
,,ioh that bourgeois President deemed his duo Now,
therefore, that NJ Crevy has been degraded and re.
prdIated by France, there Is loud and wide demand
for the return Of tho lustrious and honoIed exilo
Sarah Bernhardt says she Is really ashamed OF her
self when she thinks that Il she had not been SO ex
travagant she might give her children a million
Instead OF q few hundred thousand francs.
NJ. Marcelln founder Of " La Vie Parslenne," 10
said to have died of heart disease, but a writer In
"Gallgnan's Messenger" thinks no died Of too much
Paris. For twenty years he scarcely got outside OF
the city walls and II he strayed far as rouvule IL
was simply going from ono Paris to another This
man. who lived In his journal, which was lncarnate
in him. could pre freely only tn air OF the Bouie-
varls and the Champs Elysees. He would sit FOR
hours in front Of cafc I'm order to catch new
faoo a now style in dress, new form OF carriage
,' nuu.u L. rUuuctd III duo season In tho col.
umns of his inmitaDe paper. Another passion Vi
his was to secure contributors among young felOWS
in [ ont OF college and especially a. ong women
who lnew nothing about writing a a profession lie
found new and original ideas her although ho always
reserved the right to rearrange and prune at VIII
their manuscripts. But his contributors wero not
limited to amatlor and society scrlbblers About and
Tame some lines aent copy 10 thelr ciassnies'
OF the famous Normal rch0Ol, for, oddly enough,
fbrAa in