New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-29
PERSOVAL.

NJ Lecomtc dU Nouy. tho painter OF Oriental SUBJ
1ects. Is executing three large frescocs to adorn
chapel which IS being huiiI after the Greclan, style
known M Carmen sylvia.
brooklyn Is to have IFS last "Rrooklyn Day. IN
tho Common Council Chamber on December 81.
After that ihorc will be no more Brooklyn. ard as
BROOKLYN has fallea into tho habit OF putting for
ward 81 clair Hclfclway to represent her on all
"Erookyr days" tho municipal authorities and tho
committee OF citlzens haye followed tn, precedent
deliver nrooklyn's vaedictory rs she gradics Into
the CITY Of New-York Mr.. McKeway ranks high
predict that Brookyr's farewell gathering viii be
feast. not funeral
Lieutenant julien Viaud commanding the French
guntoat Javc.o has been relieved OF the command OF
that vessel now In service az Bidassoa the coast
at the boundary line between France and Spain
This fact gains In interest when II Is remembered
that this officer Is other than Pierre Lot md
that TO his soourn at Bidassoa due hls "Ra-
muntcho" and Figures ct Chascs qul Passaient."
Lieutenant Niauds recent service on the Javelot ~
his sccond-hls first having lasted eighteen months
In 1873; when be wrote 'Mateot;" Then he tray.
cllcd in Arabia pctrca ana Palestine, the result OF
which was "GaIlHe" and "Jtrusalem." Subsequently
r ~ n no ,oo or ~ , ~ h a. at hoc'e
1896. and kept 1t Till now.
William Harper. Chief OF tho Bureau OF Informa-
ton Of the Philadelphia Commercial Museums has
arrived home after a trip around the world taken ia
tho Interest OF the museums and the commercial or
ganzations OF Philadelphia
marble memorial tablet to Beethoven has been
put up by committee Of musical people IN one OF
his favoritc haunts at the Holomentha In Baden
where he spent much time In 1924 and 1875 4 vi
emma sculptor Is at work relief Of the composer
which will the stone. and the unwilling is cx-
pected TO take place next spring.
The alarming reports as to Munkacsy's health that
have recently been circulated denied by a Ger
man paper. The Hungarian artists condition has
remained practically unchanged since he entered
the insane asylum at Endcnich near Bonn (w.itre
Robert Schumann passed the last sad years Of his
liie). lie takes walks in good weather and talks
nationally In German to the people about him. That
his condition Is hopeless is declared untrue.
The late Miss Susan s. Clark, OF Hartford left
$4,000 each to Trinity College and the Hartford
Hospital. and 10000 to various religious and phlan-
thropc societies.
William f. Curtis tells curious story about the
late Senator Kenna. OF West Virginia. whose statue
Is to be placed in the Capitol. When he first came
to Congress a Mrs. Kearon. who lived In the same
boarding house, persuaded him 10 buy n ticket In a
rattle at church fair for a cooking stove and A
complete kitchen outfit His ticket turned out TO be
the lucky one. and he the goods to his home In
West Virginia. While he arranging for their |
shipment at the railway station he introduced |
TO the young lady who afterward became his Wife |
and )oculary invited her to become his cook. She
replied that she would bs very glad to do So The