New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-10
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DR.. J. NJ Buckley Editor Of The New-York Christian
Advocate" win deliver the commencement sermon at
Vanderbilt University next Sunday
Bishop Doane of Albany has received double honors
while In England. To the degree Of LII. d. conferred
by Cambridge oxford has added that Of d. ID. The
London Telegraph" says that no previous American
preate has been similarly hOnored by both universities
Tschalkowsky admits the possibility of his bringing
Russian choir to this country. He says the church
music of his land is beautiful and thinks IL "Ouu
be appreciated In America
The Rev. Henry NJ. King has resigned the pastorate
Of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Albany, in order
to accept an offer from the First Baptist Society OF
Providence.
Dr. william Seward Webb, according to The Utica
Herald's" Lowvlle correspondent, has purchased
80 900 acres Of land besides the 1900 recently
secured for his private park in the Adrondacks The
whole amount obtained at about 30 or S6 al acre.
and includes several lakes, As safeguard ayain gains;
forest fires, belt 100 feet wide will be c0mpleteH
cleared all around the tG ana an open ~ To
the Of the sporting public, probably on certain
conditions.
The late DR.. Wilhelm Karl Nageli, keeper OF
the botanical museum and garden In Munich, VINO
had reached his seventy fourth year at the time OF
his recent death, a switzer by birth He was
for some years professor Of botany az the University
Of Zurich but In 1857 invited by King Macmillan
II to the post which he 50 long occupied he was
many sided man, great mathematician ana hi r
er0Hs. The new scientific movement called forth by
Darwin's great work found an energetic opponent In
Nagell
Ellen Terry played for several years under the man
sgement OF Charles Reade, whom she characterizcs In
ono sentence as dear lovabe, aggravatng childlke
crafty gentle, obstinate and entirely delightful and
interesting During the progress OF play MI.
Reade would sit and watch her. and between the acts
send her little notes pointing out what ne ueeieu le
defects and merits OF her work.
Colonel Nicholas Nebe inventor of the rife adopted
for the French army in 1887, who died this week at
the age of fifty three educated at ST. Cyr and was
captain in the Goth Regiment OF the Line when the
Franco Prussian war broke out In 1870 Whle Ill
rector Of the at Chalons IN lS5o 1oiSne
Nobel had access TO patterns OF dlnerent arS uSe1 ~
all civilized countries, and having sirOhe laNeneNo
genius turned his energies In the direetoh VI ~
wonderfully short time he produced the rifle tiat mas
since become word-renowned.
Miss Aimee Tourgee, the daughter OF the author OF
"A FOOLS Errand,' has been awarded the prize Tor
superior excellence in Illustration by the Philadelphia
School of Design for Women. This prize Is given by
George W. Childs, and consists of finely engraved
gold medal of the value of $50 Miss Tourgees paint
lngs exhibited at the Academy Of Fine Arts last winter
were highly spoken OF. She is an intelligent young
excellence as an artist She expects to study at the
Art League in this city the coming year. and then to
20 abroad for several years
touching story of Frederick Walkers last picture,
"The Unknown Land is told in the Macmillan
In his early years. while he was yet working at wood
engraving this artist had designed plate Tor once
a Weekn representing a vessel with enlgrants ABOUT
10 land on the shores OF their new country and in his
last days he sketched out large picture, In which
the same conception more fully developed :" Inc
bark says this account has left the ship, and the
sailors are rowing toward the distant shore All eyes
are turned In the direction and eager hands are
stretched out toward the unknown land one oil tIe
band has already left the boat and has plunged INTO
the sea to swim 10 shore: A great breaking OF lght