New-York tribune., 1896-01-21
PERSONAL.
any crisis.

c. f. Dillon. the instructor In sculpture at the
Drexel Institute. Philadelphia. has completed the
statue Of Sir Isaac Newton which is 10 be placed
the rotunda OF the new Congressional Library at
Washington
Baron Achilie Paganinl the only son OF the great
vloinist who died recently at Parma. himself
a good amateur musician. BY a special appeal to
Plus IX he obtained permission to have his father.
who died without the sacraineHts buried III conse-
Grated ground.
Judge Culherson. OF Texas now a Congressman.
has defended ll0 charged with murder in the
first degree. and has never had client sentenced
10 death.
Sir John Christopher Woughby, Bart. now
prisoner In the Transvaal. Is the author of three
books on Africa The first. published In 1889. is
titled East Africa and Its Big Game the Nara
tive Of a Sporting Trip from Zanzibar to the Bor-
ders Of the Nasal" In 1893 he published "A Mar
ratve OF Further Excavations at Zimbabye. Mash
onaland,' and in the following year he wrote an
account OF the close of the campaign In Matabele
land and the downfall OF Lobengua.
When ex-senator Ransom appointed Minister
TO Mexico. an old colored In North Carolina
who knew him said: And dey has pinted Mars
Matt "A minister. has dey? Well Use ston.shed at
dat. Oh de gen'ral am a good man. and I
amt got nothin to say against him. but still It
days But he's powerful talker Mars Matt is.
| and ri bet all de cotton raise dis year dat he'll
convert wagon load or sinners eber time he gifts
into de pulpit
The Rev. Father A. A. Lambing. OF Williamsburg.
president OF the Western Pennsylvania Historical
Society. writes thus to The Pittsburg Commercial
Gazette: ''The oldest Bible have seen reported
so far was printed In l522. Now. | can beat that by
Just forty -four years. | have Bible In my pos
session that printed in l47s, and II has long
been waiting for an older friend OF the same species
with whom TO have talk about the deeds OF the
days of other years but has so far waited In vain.
1t $ a large folio volume printed in Gothic type
on handmade paper. Is bound In calfskn with heavy
board sides. with clasps. centre and corner pieces.
and Is In a good state OF preservation. 1t Is the
Latin Vulgae. and is richly illuminated. A GER
tain educational institution OF this country offered
$3.50 for IT, but that Is no price Those old books
had tit.e page. but In the end they had colo
phon the style OF which will be seen below.
The printers of those days believed that the
| eran reads thus. translated from the Latin: In
the year OF the incarnation of the Lord. thou
sand four hundred and seventy elght. the fourth
ides OF November November lO, this very re-
| with the canons and the concordance OF the Cos
pels. printed. TO the honor and glory OF the
| holy and undivided Trinity and of the undeiiled
and virgin. Mary In the town OF Nurnburg. by
| Anthony Coburger, citizen OF that town. through
| whose untring industry the work was brought TO
happy conclusion Now. Martin Luther was
born November ). iisa; hence 1t VIII be seen that
this Bible was printed just five years before he
! born. | have a number OF other old books for ex-
ample the complete works Of st. Augustine in fye
volumes. printed IN l5oe; the works OF 81. John
/ tain works OF Cardinal Belarmine, In four volumes
printed in 1903. These are In Latin. | have also
| THE Sermons before the King, a small quarto
volume In English, dating from l69o to 1909 Bes des
since l722"