New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-16
one of them should be counted by the ofieaI
Boards OF Canvassers Is an absurdity.
PERSONAL.

Memorial services have just been held IN Chr,s
Cathedral. Reading. Penn, for the late Bhhos
Howe (E,piscopaD. Bishop Potter, Of this city A.
livered the address.
r,ournov Rivers Of Pulaski. Tenn, " writing
history OF the Fiournoy family in Europe ana
America which IL being published seria:ly in TIA
Virginia MAGAZINE OF History and Bogrsphy-
Laurent Flournoy. the Husuenot fed from persscu.
ton in Champagne, France. TO Geneva. Switzerland
IN 1882 His Sacos esme 9Th 81
Town on the James River. now Powhstan County
va His descendants are numerous and are scai.
tered all over the country
The English papers are telling stories ILLUSTRATES
the conceit OF Henry Reeve C. Is, once editor u
THE Edinburgh Review" who died the other dsy
ON one occasion he called forth the contemp, OF cas
Iyle The sage, In advanced fe. was dining os,
and Reeve was one OF the party. He wa. In vsy
didactlc mood that night and attracted Carlyys
auized with himself In words perfectly audible % IA
neshbors, "Eh. mon. you're puir' "ra,cAX
measurable cratur.
Dr. Henry c. Booming. has been elected profsss
Of anatomy In the Philadelphia Dental College
place OF the late DR.. J. f.. Garretson
on Thursday last John Lankenau. presiden; osns
German hospital OF Philadelphia. presented 70 he
officers Of that Institution the handsome new IRE
80 stoy nansn n IA one of the most comp etc bafG
lngs OF the kind In the country.
THE Chicago Evening POST tells number q
Characteristic stories about the late John B Dnka
for so many years proprietor Of the Grand Pasae
Hotel Chicago. on occasion travelling nan
saw him 20 into the little room behind the key
box frame and drink some water. az was Ms habit
and he accogted the little man; say. John. WIZ
don't YOU patronlze the bar-drnk mineral watss
cider or some such thing. instead OF tina, pain
water, II owned this place. Ia have he hsst
Won can bet" II had TO break the Ice out Of ne
water bucket winter morning. ana melt II 70 ct
a drink" replied Mr.. Drake. when was boz
and somehow just plain. clear water out ot white
been with John -. Drake. Henry asked a big
nolitcian of the parlor floor colore1 man. Thirty
years." said Henry Bradley. and ] hope ri 10
With him thirty years longer he always keeps hs
old hands" Henry was In the emp oy Ok Mr.
Drake 10 the time Of the hote-mans Death
I'VE are informed" says "Th, Boston Transcript"
that the heirs Of the poet Whiitier who are
his niece and cousins. would not b. backward Ia
doing their share toward the securing Of perma-
nent memorial In his honor The Amesbury News
makes the admirable suggestion that nov that the
Whittier homestead IL TO be vacated x Ia good
time 10 make n move 10 secure II as memorial
10 be kept In its present condition IL IL the house
where most OF Whttier's poetry Ha- written The
house at oak Knoll where he lived With his cousins
during his latest years i more picturesque IN oca-
ton and It's simple architecture tnan the one At
Amesbury. but that his own. his voting resi-
dence. and the chief haunt or his gentle Freea0fa-
loving Muse