New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-04
PERSONAL.

1t was through the persuasion OF cousin, tnen
British Consul in Buffalo, that Mr. William Parsons,
whose death has Just been announced crossed the AT
lantic Unmistakable popularity was quickly won on
the platform Within tho first ten years no delivered
a thousand lectures In this country and he has con-
tinued In this career until the present time. Mr.;
Parsonss delivery was easy and graccni but RAPID
and earnest, while his style was simple yet foFcose
Mfr. A. J. Bcresford- Hope began his will with this
paragraph: 81 bequeath my soul to Almighty God,
humbly trusting for pardon through the merits of our
Blessed Lord dying a member Of is Holy Catholic
Churchn the Communion If the English branch there T.
and humby trusting that ere long the wGl1i dssen-
slons of the Universal Church may be healed.'
Dr. Asa Cray, tho illustn boanlst, who is now
In seriously Ill health. has always shown rich sense
of hunor In his scientific writings In one OF his
bot anIca treatlsrs speaking of the plant called hon.
esty.r he remarks: Common honesty Is not HUGH
found al this country"
Word has come of the death OF NJ. Rouget LIsle,
grandson of the writer of the "Marseillase Hymn
lie was Mayor of st. Mande, near Paris.
Mr.. W. L. Putnam, of Maine, the Fisheries Commits
sloner thinks Mr. Chamberlain tho most democratic
Englishman he ever met.
The late Sir william Macarthur left more than
$3.50 900 the Wesleyan societies Of England and pro-
vi cd for another and equal gift to them on the
death Of his widow
General Sheridan was invited to visit Boston to-day
as the guest tho loyal Legion but has writ that
ne cannot come " on account Of an invitation to the
White House, which, no says, us equivalent to an
order"
NJ. Maurice Bernhardt's wife Is said to be particu
larly pretty and a clever artist.
Baron Blanc, the new Italian Ambassador to Eng
land Is restless In habits and may be met at score OF
places IN the course of the day. Hence no has boon
nicknamod Blanc partout.'
Fifty years next month"; q Paris corre
spondent Of The Chicago Tribune" Milo. Guerin
came from the saons. to seek fortune In Paris. She
was twentythreo old pretty modest. virtuous.
Intelligent and endowed with that ndcHnabie quality
which We call taste. She got q situation for q few
francs week as saleswoman In o little shop on the
Rue do Bac. Il was . lgtle shop. the only other
employo being young man few wears her senior
named Arlstde Bouccaut For ten years the two
worked together In the little shop. Then thcy got
married month later their employer died. and By
selling few trnkes they managed to raise money
enough to buy the shop rom his executors. Thai was
the beginning Of tho Bon Marchc. Little by little II
grew. House after house purchased and added 70
II. until last tho onLlre SQUARE swallowed up
and tho Bon Marche Of TO-DAY attained It's growth.
with It's frontage four streets Every building In
Its entire block has been romodeled rebailt save
That u litio. dngy affair on the lipe do lao
II is boon religcuslS retained lust ~ dfty
years ago whom Mile Guelin and III. BUnccaut BEGAN
thoir 10 II together. n. Btuccsut always a.
tiibuted tholi Rres. his vtfo Her seccton
Of goods and ho attractive arrangonen Of them In the
| showcases and on tho counters made their shop .
fsvorite ono Indeed she iruo artist In this I'm
| pOrtsnt sphere She was. moreover. eniinontn
successful buyer srd iwsys N agcd 10 cot nov 1900
rom tho manufacturers before Of her com pett'or.
and 81 lower prices n. Boucicaut died aDonI ssn
ago. and spoo .h,n she has been sole psOpreoi
| Of tho Bon MsIcho. No change In the mNnsx'm cn
Wa to 10 observe. eseopiax ihsf she save mnen MOI
| ono 0tcsslon why this WA 'tsh' said she: \ am -
lons now. when n Bousicaut ives Twins there were