New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-21
PERSONAL.

Among the persons who will lecture before the
National Geographic Society in Washington this
winter are Rear-Admiral Meade DR. d. c. Gill
man. president OF Johns Hopkins University; En-
gincer Robert f. Peary. United States Navy Sec
rotary Norton General Richard Villafranca Com
modore u. l.. Tanner. United States Navy; Mrs
Fannt b. Ward Frank II. Cushing, OF the Bureau
OF American Ethnology; Controller Eckels. George
F. kunz of New-York. and Gardiner c. Hubbard.
The Queen Regent of Spain is a confirmed smoker
of cigarettes. and when at work is seldom without
between her lips or in box near at hand. 1t
Is the especial pleasure Of "Bubl, dis Catholic
Majesty. King Alfonso KID 10 light the cigarettes
for his mamma. Carmen SYLVIA the Queen OF
Rumania. is also an ardent cigarette smoker.
The Rev. DR.. +. f. Clark. president of the United
Societies OF Christian Endeavor, who has recently
travelled through Turkey. says in The Independ-
ent' that the common people of Turkey are manly
sta.wart and truth-loving, but that the governing
classes are rapacious boodthirsty and dishonest
As illustrating the espionage TO which foreigners
subjected he gives the following Incidents:
mo sooner had l set foot Turkish soil than
every scrap OF printed matter in my possession
was taken away from me-every book, pamphlet
and newspaper-and saw none OF them again until
had shaken the dust of Turkey from my feet.
Moreover as 1t was known that | to address
public audiences at various places throughout the
interior OF Asia Minor. cautioned that there
some words that must not use. such 'fel-
lowship. brotherhood union Christian En-
deavor, etc Very often my interpreter would tell
me that there was Turkish spy In the audience
and would imply In the polite language OF the ORR
entail that | must mind my ps and Us II | did not
wish to find myself In the inside Of a Turkish Ian
before night with half OF the congregation to whom
l was speaking.
Baron Nils Posse. who has just died in Boston.
introduced the Ling system Of gymnastics into this
country some ten years ago. The King OF Sweden
and Norway ennobled him In recognition OF his
eminence as Il teacher Of physical culture
DR.. Jervois A. Newman. the Anglican bishop OF
Moosonee. Canada. Is a man OF apostolic zeal He
thus describes a recent journey which he made in
his diocese: II have been travelling In and
open boat for over three months, sleeping In a
tent or in open boat without even that shelter for
the whole OF that time except for three weeks alto
gether at the different Hudsons Bay Company =
posts In almost tropical heat OF midsummer and
the frosty nights Of the autumn: sometimes plagued
with myriads OF mosquitoes and other venomous
flies: at other times the bay surrounded by vast
Ice foes from arctic regions; much OF the time wet
through from incessant rain from wading In
rivers and through swamps exposed sometimes to
the risks OF swift rapids at Others to the gales and
tides Of the bay; rising daily at or 40 a. m. and
retiring to my bed on the ground at 10 y. m but
throughout In perfect health and strength, and at
the close OF the journey perhaps In more perfect
Joyment Of health and spirits than for long time.