New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-21
PERSONAL.

The Berlin Locksmltls' Guild in making Prince Dis
marck It's Honorary Master declared him be Ger
nanys greatest artistic ochsmith who made the key
that opened the lock of the kyiihaenser and handed
it to the Empero: william the FIRST"
Much satisfaction is expressed at TIC appointment
of Captain Kane the hero OF the Caope at Apia, to
the command OF the InfeXblc one Of the largest and
most powerful baIte-shipS IN the English navy.
The Democrats of Eastern Massachusetts, have been
trying to persuade the Hon. George NJ searns to run
for Congress, bat he declines TO do so.
As memorial Of Nelson the parish church Of Burn
ham Thorpe is 10 be restored and bcautied. Nelson
spent his boyhood in that parish and MS iather was
rector OF that church for forty-sM years
At meeting of the committee of subscribers for the
statue of Arago, at Paris, it unanimously decided,
OH the motion of Admiral Mouchez, that the statue
should be erected the line Of the meridian in the
Observatory gardens, facing south. The state VIII De
requested TO furnish marble for the PEDESTAL Tie date
Of the unwilling will not be fixed for several months,
but it has already been decided that Admiral MoIchez
Floquet on the part which lie took in the establish
ment ol universal oulrase and a. Fzeau. member OK
the Institute and former cOabC itOr of Ardgo. on
the Importance OF his discoveries in physical science
Colorado College has called DR.. sylvester Primer to
its chair of modern languages. lie is Harvard
aumnus and has studied for years at strasburg
ana Leipzig.
General Kossuth was recently asked where he would
touching on a delicate point, but ashamed to
confess my poverty cannot always afford TO change
my residence with the season. Nevertheless, like ID
stroll about the country during the summer, bit 1
avoid places where other thrOng / prefer 5ol-
tary nature in the mountains. she, any rate,
not deceive Here in Turin lead a perfectly
secluded life. visit Italians and receive scarcely
any visitors. As rule, am at home 10 10 one For
many years have sought forge;funess in work. This
is no longer possible. | am brokendown old man.
Work fatigues me- and the painful wrvchednesS OF
solitude weighs daily more and more upon me. am
alone with my memories, alone win nv bitter eA-
perieucc5 l formerly unable to compass my aims
without helpful fellow workers. ana uleu Iearheu 20
understand mankind. Plato Is right, lie l. no bless
ing. GIT bat duty no gain. but rather los.
Nen on the Drihk OF tle crave "A man MAKES up ils
account the balance IS always on the wrong SIDE,
only comfort remains to me- have perslstenty fol-
lowed duty
81 should like TO see Scotland again. said DR.. Nc
Gosh the other day. Dear old Scotland, with all her
great associations and grand and noble men can
never forget her. In memory revisit her every day Of
my life. had my ticket bought not long ago for
voyage 10 her shores. But was not able when TING
time came to CO. ocoland-I hope yet TO see scotland
once more
President Carnot is said to be the most tastefully
dressed public man in France.
The phonograph figured at wedding for the first
time at the marriage Of Miss Tenant and Mr. stanley.
Three Of them placed in Westminster Abbey dur
Ing the service. one was placed IN the tower, TO
record the full sound of The wedding bells. The see
ond phOnograph placed by the Orgah 10 note the
music and the wedding march The third was placed
In the choir, 10 give the HYMN as sung by the voices
These records have been presented by Colonel GOuIdud
Mr. and Mrs STANLEY, 30 that at any time ngeaItef
the wedding bells the olgan and the voices Will sound
IS on tie Eth Of JAY, lraO.
The Rev Dr. w. F. Nichols, the new Assistant
Bishop Protestant Episcopal Of California, IS said TO
be busyng himself far more with missions than with
cathedras, far more with attentions t. the SICK ana
in prison" than % the eastward position, ana lar
less with genuhection5 and the sign oil the cross lah
with the saving OF SOILS
Two commemorative tablets have been placed on
two villas at Scstine san fedora, between Genoa
and sampicrdarcna. in which for some time lived
Joseph Mazzni and Aurela safh. In the largest and
oldest Of the villas Mazzni dictated the famous Com
pact Of brotherhood. The following is the text in
scrbcd on the tablet to Nazlini: From within
these was-the asylum OF tle pI&ScriOiIG- % 1
dictated the Compact OF Br0iherhood-uhiV OF uo.-
rnc and action L. the Republican operative societies,
Ammo MDCCCLXXI. The Genoese Confederation
vcaler of the religion OF italy. mil juno
MDCCCXC."
Dr. John Macintosh author Of the History Of
scotland which Mr.. Fisher Unwin is about to pub
ish. is a secondhand bookseller at Aberdeen. He Is
a regular drya-dust, and pores over the books. HIS
customers used to wonder what he was always doing.
rs il turned out. he writing his excellent MS
tory Of Civilization in scotland for when the Uni
ver,itv of his native town conferred on him ts
degree Of IL. d.
speaking OF the late Rev. Henry Bernard Carpenter,
a writer in The Boston Advertiser says: He not
ONLY found delight in the cOmpdnonshp OF MS friends,
but In that Of his books. To him books were almost
buman and one Of his greatest pleasures was found in
their collection preservation and perusal 1t Is re-
lated OF famous NewYor divine thar If in the course
Of composition he desires quotation he Will cut
il ruthes,y from the book in which 1t occurs and toss
the remaining fragment away. cannot imagine Mr..
Carpenter thus LAYING violent hands upon book l
think he would quite have done violence to one
~ his own household. His books covered tie walls
Of more than Of his rooms, and they were ever
increasing in number And yet he was not hncuu
hook collector lIc was fond OF good editions and good
bindings but he loved books for their contents and nos
f1r ann fictitious value which had been placed upon
,h,rn their rarity. Iii, Is An excellent WoFhhls
library filed with volumes Of practical vaue-pTe-
rsely the IDEAL library of an active Literary man. he
N,s lover too Of art In its best sense EngaVlnSs,
paintings, photographs adorn his walls all selected oy
iirfue If an Inherent meaning. None are, perhaps,
Of great cost but all bcspeak the rare taste te nPe
Scholarship the poetic nature of him who placed them