New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-03
PERSONAL

Miss Nellie Cushman has become famous all over
Arizona as a mining expert She began the business
about nine years ago and since '"e" mas ~
and lost fortune several tiihes'
The English family OF Seymour Is related 70 'hat
~ the German Empress and the new Chancellor OF
A. German rmnire Prince Victor OF Hohenlohe-
Ianeenburg the youngest brother OF me mother,
OF the Empress married the daughter ., III. and
Seymour. OF England. In lso 1.,vPphhas ' w ~
assuming that OF Count Won "iei'"S'
Tho dinner given in honor OF Edward l.. Pierce.
., poa,on tho biographer OF Charles sumner on
Saturday evening" was notable anar' anu oIoNs"'
out many "reminiscences OF the s'ea' ON" 80,
lenders Mr. Pierce made a happy ad"'csS' i'o
which the following extract Is gwen WIN "
INV vears the next Fourth OF July that hrst sa"
charios sumner II was in fremont Temple. wheh
DO dei,v.r.d his Grafton the True Grandeur
=, Nauors, nm Grafton which first made MN
known to the world | was BOY OF s'N'oe" '
the country and passing the hohuas !" '"e
city mostly on the Common "here' "Ae o'"e'
=, NV ago p, INDUCED In cake and lemonade, and
exploded nrecrackers. spending In 'his i"oue VI
ce ebratIng the day the one or TWO "hepe"oeS
,,bich had been allowed me for pocket money. Al
ways Interested from boyhood In puphc speaking
| sought the Temple having heard casually Una.
an address was to be given there recall sun
,ha GENE the orator wearing a blue dresscoat
with gilt buttons. white waistcoat ana trousers
On bis right and left officers of the Army and
Nav in Uniform, and behind him choir OF 100
scbool girls clad In white. I heard his opening
sentences but the allurements or the Common
nrnvInr stronger with me than his voice, soon
left the hall Later | returned In time TO hear
his tender tribute to Sir Philip Sidney. which per
hams ( might now repeat with something OF his
tone and gesture. The vista OF the orators future
did not open before him at that hour ana least o.,
nil aid ne Imagine that near the entrance OF the
hall in perhaps, his youngest. certainly his
obscurest listener. was one who was hereafter TO
tell to mankind the story OF his career. Three
years later. In lsis. year which In the od World
ms i'm this. was to many IA new birth or Thought
and aspiration. | heard Sumner In Faneuil HAL.
as he took the chair at meeting called 10 ratify
and Joined In the applause as he finished. then CIV
ing my first open adhesion to the movement. by
this time had become an enthusiast Tor him, ana
lei pass no opportunity OF being present at his
addresses. / may say here that II Is difficult at
this day realize the power and inspiration that
ne was with the young men OF that period. This
came from the charm OF his personal presence.
the glow OF his rhetoric his melodious and Tar
reaching voice, his unmstakable sincerity, his
courage and his moral fervor-it was these which
then swayed ingenious youth.
Lord Rosebery, the English Premier is a great
student Of the Bible. In the speech which he made
n short time ago he quoted the Bible seven times
Shakespeare twice and Aristotle once.
Foreign papers say that the report that Mile
Helene Vacarescu. whose broken engagement with
wide attention. had been married Is erroneous II
seems that II her cousin. the daughter of the
Court Marshal 7. Vacarescu who became the wife
OF Paul Catargi.
Dr. F.. Buchanan Whyte. who died In Perth Scot
tsh botanlsts and biologists. lie gave names Il
mountain 0oWoPA