New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-10
PERSONAL.

When he In Atlanta the other day Henry
Watterson said: Il am out of the knock down and
drag-ou politics which factlonalism and favoritism
and selfish. personal ambition have projected upon
the country. 1 have never had any stomach for
the concrete things Of political lie. | regard
Office as a kind of bribery. AS long 1t seemed
that moral forces and organized ideas objec-
tive points was ready to do my part. But great
policies have yielded to petty wrangles. After my
lecture season Is over am going abroad with my
family for a year. Perhaps, when the inevitable
result OF the prevailing overflow OF rant and fustian
has been reached the Democratic party may begin
rise from the dead he could not restore order to
this chaos. We have In fact no Democratic party
at all-merely agglomeratio of quiddites
thrown together by the upheaval Of the tmes-a
wilderness OF political incertude."
Oscar Wdes creditors are said to receive about
500 day as the income from his works.
The Philadelphia Record" says DIR James r
Love, who used to be a noted physician here and
who was one Of the corps OF doctors who attended
ex- President Garfield after the assassin Guiteau
had fired his fatal bullet has broken a bicycle
record in the land Of the lotos. well-known Phia
delphie physician. who corresponds with DR.. Love-
says that his last letter describes in graphic
language a bicycle race from Alexandria TO the
pyramids. in which the American came OFF
Cairo during President Clevelands first Administra,
ton and liked the country 50 much that after his
or the khedve whose physician he U.s. The
letter Describes a bicycle race on a wager the
doctors rivals being three officers OF the English
French aid German armies. DIR. Love the
German was second. the Englishman third and the
Frenchman last
The third man to join the proposed balloon ex-
petition to the North Pole, under the Swede Andre
10 Nieis Strindberg. OF Stockholm The expedition
Will start next year.
Among my school adventures at Mount Vernon
was one which i heartily regret" says Senator
Sherman In his 'Recolectons" I'VE had a tea cher
by the name Of Lord He was a small. man and nor
able to cope with several OF the boys in the school
We called him 'Bunty Lord One evening after
school four boys. Of whom one while playing
on the commons found dead sheep 1t was s,g-
gested that carry the sheep into the schoolroom
and place It on Lords This was promptly
done and wrote Latin couplet. purportnx that
this was very worthy sacrifice to a very poor Lord
and placed It on the head OF the sheep The next
morning Lord found the sheep and made a great
cutlery against the indignity. Efforts were at once
made to ascertain the actors In this farce and
proof was soon obtained My handwriting dis
closed my part In the case, and tho result was a
prompt discharge OF the culprts from school but
poor Lord lost his place because OF his manifest in
ability TO govern his unruly pupils
over 1900 has been subscribed for a monument 10
tho memory OF Hans Bllow in Hamburg
The following story. showing General Robert e.
Lees msgnanmity. Is told. Early In the war be-
fore he had proved his pre-emnence as a general he
was severely criticised on more than one occasion