The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-02
ERSONAL.

N"AANt ~''NNNN No. 47 Bishop street have gone to Bris- tol, Conn, to be away until the 1st of September.
 Dr. w. P. J. Burke has removed his office to 6S7 Grand avenue, over the Rothchild store.
 John Day Jackson, business manager of the Register has gone to Canada for a two weeks vacation.
 Senator Hawley's family have arriv- the senator will join them as soon as congress adjourns.
 The Illustrated American for this week, for sale at Pease's, has a good picture of Professor Hastings of Yale, and says of him.
 Professor Charles Sheldon Hastings of the scientific school of Yale college has made discovery of great impor- tance in applied optics. It consists of the avoidance of the secondary chro- matic alteration, otherwise the pris- matic colors, which lessen the power of telescope lenses. The so-called achro- matic lenses have never been entirely true to name. A telescope which he has constructed for use with the spec | troscope shows the solar spectrum with all secondary chromatic alteration eliminated and the method is applica- ble to telescopes of all sizes, adding at least 10 per cent. to the actual power of an object lens of any diameter. This is a gain of immense practical impor- af 4l. ] ments and size-limitation of large lenses are considered. Optics, with practical reference to astronomy, has been Professor Hastings special study | for many years"
 The same paper, under the heading Salon Honors for an American Girl,' | had recently the following regarding l the brilliant artistic success of Miss Lucy Trowbridge of this city: American girls have been noted abroad for many years for their beauty | and vivacity. Lately they have at | tracted European attention on account of their triumphs in various intellectual | pursuits. Of all the art centers, Paris | is the Mecca toward which all longing 1 art-pilgrims turn their eyes and | thoughts and, if fortunate enough, their | steps.
 l Miss Lucy Parkman Trowbridge is l the daughter of the late Professor | Trowbridge of Yale and Columbia uni versailles. Gifted from her youth with an artistic perception, it was the earn est hope, and realized wish, of her friends that she should have the ad- vantages resulting from study abroad l y,arbo c11ita Y1o11oI, s may be learned here at home, but one loses the valuable environment of the Paris studios.
 Miss Trowbridge has more than full filled what was expected of her. Leav.
 ing her home in New Haven, Conn.
 only about year ago. she has succeed
 ed in accomplishing her aim with re.
 markable celerity and success.
 Miss Trowbridge's special metier i!
 the painting of miniatures, and to hi!
 walk of art life, less crowded than oth
 CT highways, she has devoted her at
 tention.
 Our American Kaufman, Mis-,
 Trowbridge, became the pupil of Mac
 monnies, the sculptor of worlds fail fame. and also entered the atelier O | Armand Jean.
 At the recent Salon of the Champ:
 de Mars, Miss Trowbridge exhibited
 three miniatures. At this Salon nC
 medals are given, or honorable mention made; but pictures are numbered ac
 cording to merit, those marked One
 ranking as first-medal productions.
 -Four thousand pictures were enter
 ed for this contest. Of this large mum
 Der but twelve received Number One,
 and Miss Trowbridge's miniatures O
 Mrs. Denton, Miss Catherine Caldwell
 and Howard Hart were of these twelve
 chosen art apostles. Miss Trowbridge:
 achievements will doubtless live as tru
 ly as have the examples of her mos noted predecessors.
 } That these miniatures obtained thi place d'honneur was unique happen ing in the annals of the Salon. Mum bers are seldom given, except to larg. pictures, and these generally the worl 2 of well known artists. But in the cas- i of Miss Lucy Trowbridge the judge were unanimous and enthusiastic il
 their verdict, laying particular stres
 upon the fact that the miniatures wer , not in the least photogra phic in tech .. nique.
 . MT. Macmonnies was so enthusiast
 that a pupil of his should have gaine,
 such recognition that he congratulate Miss Trowbridge before the whole clas . on the unusual honor won by her"