New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-12
PERSONAL.

The Republican politicians OF Chicago are all agog
over the fact that the Hamilton club. OF that city.
has invited Governor Morton to deliver an address
at the annual dinner OF this club. which is to take
place on January 81. They are wondering II He
viii bring his boom along with him
The grave of Grimadi. the great English clown. IS
in ST Jamcss churchyard. Pentonvile. London
Nine Grimaldi his niece. has started movement
10 have "A monument erected over H.
II IS now discovered that Governor Jones. OF
Nevada. has cancer OF the stomach anu MS Pny-
sicans say he cannot recover
woman" Of London. says that the difficulty of
getting n fairly good likeness OF the Queen increases
every year. For thing Her Majesty Is pso-
verbally impatient OF the camera ana aoso'u'ey
refuse, 10 pose longer than a few seconds. Then
,h.rs il IN. difficulty OF making her look tall
u,ssibe and besides all this the photographer who
has been COMMANDED" never knows up 10 the last
moment when or where Her Majesty viii consent to
rrreivr him and "be taken" ON the other hand,
the Princess OF Wales makes the most gracious and
Interested OF sitters.
The Rev Charles T. Morgan. pastor Of the Spring
Garden Street Baptist Church. of Philadelphia. has
been called TO the pas.oratc OF the Penn Avenue
Baptist Church. OF Scranton. Penn.
His Serene Uighness Prince Raoul-Joseph Wrede
the new Austro- Hungarian Minister TO this country
who arrived In this city on Friday evening. was
born in Paris In 1913 He has been Austrian Coun-
cllor OF Legation at Berne, Switzerland. for some
time lie is "A widower, his wife, born Countess de
C'zapska having died IN 1873. The family Is of
Westphalian origin. but owes its prncey title ere
ated In 1910, to bavaria
Brass plates bearing appropriate inscriptions now
mark the sites OF the pews In old Christ Church
Philadelphia once occupied by Betsy Ross. maker OF
the first American flag Francis Hopkinson and his
SON. Joseph HopkInson. author OF the National
hymn "Ha. Columbia; the Penn family. Ben
iamn Franklin. and George and Martha Washing
ton
Word has reached Germany that Neufed, the only
German held prisoner by the Mahdi. has been
thrown into chains because he aided In the escape OF
the Italian Rossignoli. and the Austrian. Ohrwal-
der Neufeld had established a powder factory on
the ruins OF Khartoum, but his work has been
Interrupted. An effort Is being made TO get the Ger
man Government to interfere in Neufelds behalf.
THE Youths Companion tells OF little colored
baby In Washington which the mother. a re-
spectacle coored woman. asked permission to name
for Mrs Harriet Prescott Sporord. Mrs. Spofforl
cheerfuly granted the permission: but when. some
weeks later she went to call on the infant. she
was greatly surprised to hear 1t addressed by its
fond parent Geneveve. "Why, how Ia this she
asked. II thought the baby to be named Har-
rlet for me-" Mrs. Spoffords friends. 1t CHANGED.
had often remarked that her Christian name was
not suited her: II chilly, too prn. TOO
conventional n name Therefore. her amusement
all the greater when the smiling mother re.
the correctness OF her course would be manifest
consideration: "Oh. yes Mis- Point. but theI
Geneyeye 'spresses you great sight prtter II
Ha'yit does'
The bronze plate on the monument over the grave
OF President Monroe. In Hollywood Cemetery. Rich-
mord was stolen the other night probably ny
some conscence.sss relic hunter.