New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-05-05
PERSONAL.

General Alger is being talked OF out West a
possible Secretary Of War IN Mr.. Proctors place.
Justices Bradley and Field are the only members
OF the United states Supreme Court who have been
such more than fifteen years. The latter It IS thought
win hardly reslgn during Republican Administration
lest the political complexion OF the court be changed
judge Field Is a Democrat
That magnificent silver service, consisting of sixty
pieces Is to be presented 10 Senator German in Bal
mora next week Thursday.
No end OF stories are now being told Of Phillips
BroOks's younger days Of them belonging to the
period when he taught in the Boston Latin School
This is OF them, and is related by one who was
then pnpn: "Just up above tho school ON Bedford
st. there was tinshsD and every and then there
wonld be barrels Of refuse tin placed on the sidewalk
one morning there wsFo sOn0 OF these barrels Of In
out there and DOM remember who started IT, but
every boy in Brookss cot strip OF tin and made
pair OF eyeglasses. When tho ben rang We all took
our seats. Mr. Brooks came in and said: Good morn
ing and then put on his own eyeglasses TO read the
usual chapter In the New Testament When 10 looked
over his class he found every boy sitting bolt upright
staring at him through pair Of TIN eyeglasses I
thought he was mad then, but have since come TO
tho conclusion that he hurt at our making fun Of
his nfrnity, although don't believe a single boy
intended to do that. He stopped the devotional OK
ercse and told Us all TO bring those Eyeglasses up and
deposit them IN the waste basket. That receptacle
had been spirited away, and finally 10 TOLD us 10 put
them into the tall silk hat which ho placed on tie end
OF his desk. IL didn't take many OF the tins TO I'LL
the hat 10 overfovin2 and then OF the BOYS under
look 10 press tbs mass down. lie did 50 and pressed
tbs top OF The hat right ont, and OF course spilled The
TN all over the ioor Tie boy who did this injury TO
The hat pTofuse I'm his apologies and offered to
buy a new one, but that was not to be allowed"
Robert Christie, who has Just won the title OF the
English champion checker player is native of sun
derand and in his twenty-fourth year. In the conn
ties OF Durham aud Northumberland lie Is well known
as player Of the first rank, having natural mathe-
matca qualities which have stood him in good stead
In match playing As early seven years OF age he
showed a strong inclination for the game, which his
father gladly encouraged After school hours he
tenaciously pondered the board till ne mastered
the openings and the leading lines OF play in several
games lie has carried of prizes in four open t0urna-
ments in the North OF England. lie is Of quiet and
retiring disposition His performances in London have
heen q surprise 10 all TO those In the North Of
England.
Against the proposed REMOVAL OF the house in which
Hawthorne was born from Salem TO the Chicago Fair
site "The boston Herald" utters an earnest p oest
The paper says: Interesting As IL might be 20 the
people OF the country Of the sideshows Ct the
great fair it would be sckcnng spectacle TO those
authors"
Miss Kate Field Acknowledges herself a hero-wor-
shipper, like all women. adding ths unanswcrabc,
even IL not entirely satisfactory Justification II they
were not what would become Oi the men'