New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-01
PERSONAL.

.,.o-, s,anch Republican OF Louis
u,o \ Y said the other day; My hrst vote w"s
.rromon. and freedom: an! II any one snail
over think 1t worth while TO write s ny ne TSi.a fr
49,, ! mos, wish they would say u ~" $50,
M Tahn {. Fremont and twice for Abraham Lno'''
rho Roy G. A. Garter. OF st. Mary's church
IIvcrnool. England has baptized l4oi' 'n,an's
during the last seventeen years an average u DIN
teen Il week.
=. William Seward Webb. who. by-the-way. Is
rnown as Colonel IN Vermont. being member OF
49,. i,,,orv STAN ~ the Green Mountain state. mas
hnor elected Governor OF the Society OF Coiohias
Wars in Vermont
p,~on Iodislas Yengelmter Won Hcnerrvar' Inc
Aus,ro- Hungarian Minister to the United States
r,cently paid a visit to Salt Lake Guy ana eS-
messed himself az greatly pleased Win H.
TIL. annual course OF lectures before the Epsco-
nal Church Club will be given this year IN the
church 81 the Transportation. In this city on the
afternoons OF five sundays. beginning April L. The
general theme OF the course VII be "Lauda Sion
and the lectures will be delivered In the following
order: l. The Psalms" by the Rev. John p.
Peters ID. D.. Ph d. 2. The DAILY ONCE Hymns
BY the Right Rev John Hazen White, d. d.,
bishop OF Indiana. g. The Euchar.stic Hymns
BY the Right Rev A.'h HYMN. Of FAX the 6rdna Sl
Other Offices" by the Right Rev Henry g Potter
!" "re ;, Dcu irn IGudamus" by the Rev. William r.
Huntington. d. D.. d. g /"
William Crookes. who's" tubes have recently come
,r,o .uch general notice was born In London in
1872 and at an early age turned MS attention 10
photography. When he was seventeen years old
no gained the Ashburton scholarship In the Royal
College OF Chemistry. At the age or twenty-five he
WAS APPOINTED superintendent OF the meteorological
department OF the Radcliffe Observatory. at Oxford
In 1851 while examining the resldues from a sui
phuric acid works he discovered the new metallic
element thall,um. This followed by his election
as n fellow Of the Royal Society. In paper before
he ate succeeded N
obtaining a vacuum nearly approaching per-
lection that the pressure in 1t was only 4 milIionth
OF an atmosphere" These experiments led to very
extreme vacuum gases pass into an ultra-gaseous
state which Professor Crookes termed state OF
"radant matter" and. further. these extreme vacua
opened up the way for the incandescent lamI
DR.. Floto OF San Francisco. who Is ninety four
wears old - still in the active practice OF his pro-
feseion lie believes that he Is the oldest practising
physician In the country.
Monsignor Agostino Caprara Canon OF ST. Peters
Rome who died the other day. was popularity known
as an advocate OF the devil. because In the proc
csses for beatiicat lions he the person Of
ncieI.v designated to urge objections to the reality
OF the miracles attributed to the candidate for saint
ship. He was of humble origin. his father being
tune the whole OF which he left to the Pope. A
few weeks ago His Holiness inherited another
large fortune. that OF the late Commentators
Tongorgi, the last Minister OF Finance under
the Papai Government. in italy, as well as abroad
these nheritances OF Leo XIII have increased
great deal in late years. and In the eighteen years
OF his pontihcate the present Pope has perhaps
surpassed any OF his predecessors