New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-15
PERSONAL

The Hon. Robert c. winthrop marked tho Close Of
his eghtieth year last Saturday by making contiou'
ton, No e2e9 to the Egypt Exploration Fund
Alexander s. Webb and the Rev Arthur Brooks.
sooator Brown Is getting we'll.
Tho Hon. Chauncsy NJ Depsw will mako the annual
address this year at tho Yale Law School commence
uent
al am going to Europe this summer with lsrS"
party said the Rev. DR.. Phillips BROOKS the other
day "McVickAr and myself he added
Mrs Frank leslie sails for Enrops to-day:
The Anglican Bishop Of Rochester is decidedly strict
IN his requirements concerning confirmation dresses
To wear imitation pearls white satin slippers semi
brdAI veils or anything Of that SORT nsures the eanu
dates being Sent homo 10 dress docentiy'
Senator Culiom Is In Boston:
Herr Josef Ritter Won werndl, the great Austrian
rife inventor and manufacturer, gained his knowledge
OF firearms in America, and then nom small DO
a announeement of his death stuck IN the concern
fcI 10 per cent showing tho Importance IN which his
personality was held.
Jefferson Davis wrote ten years ago his recollec-
tons OF old General Harvey who has Just died and
whom he knew IN 1899. 4" lie WINS then,' said Davis,
Sphysc ally the finest man ever saw. TALL straight.
muscular broad.ehested and gam WASTED, no ono
OF tho class which TrelRwney describes as natures
noblemen' against whom the plague In the Fast never
nade an attack Had he lived in the time OF Homer
he would have robbed Achilles OF his sobriqut OF
swift footen, for he would faster than white
man, farther tlan an Indian, and IN both showed
that man organized be master Of tho beast To
elcidae tho last clause OF the preceding paragraph
requires the recital OF anecdOte. Captain Harvey
carefully attended 10 his company's garden, which on
the frontier necessary for the comfort we'll
tho health Of the men. The beds had been carefully
spaded and ruped, when one OF the numerous dogs,
half grown mOngrcl hound, came walking across the
carefully prepared ground and the Captain, stormug
At him in tones and language rot suited TO the pulpit
frightened the dog so that instead Of gtinS out by
the walk he across the bed toward q gap m the
teEce. The Captain started In full after the dog.
which had to Jump the fence and theu OF it-fata
disparity 10 tho dog for tho Captain cleared tho fence
a. bound, which brought him q Jump nearer TO the
dog, and then he began an even up the long
slope which led 10 the fort, before rcaching which
Harvey mastered the dog and Rover suffered In pro
was also q bold horseman. fond of the chase a good
boatmsu and Sklm IN the usO Of spear a. hshcr
man. Neither drinking nor gaming. no was clear
o, those roc Ks and shoals OF life frontier garrison
and Is doubt indebted 10 this abstinence for much
OF tho vgor be has possessed 10 his present advanced
ago"
New-Havcn, Conn.,, May ID SpeciaD. Professor
Charles Hastings, OF the Sheffield Scientific School.
sails on Thursday for Paris. He IS ono Of tho dele
gates Of Che National Academy OF Sciences TO the Paris
Exposition, and Is Of tho judges Of the scientific
exhibition During his stay abroad he Will pursue
his studies In optics, IN which he has recently made
important discoveries.