New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-06
PERSONAL.

At the celebration Of the University OF Bresiau'
held last month the faculty voted TO confer inc
honorary degree Of Doctor OF fnioSUps o ,gn,tion
Hereditary Prince OF SaXe-Meifiihgen, III ,ns
Of his efforts TO revive interest in Greek uiaiha
Professor Georg Ebers. more widely known as a
novelist than as en- Egyptologst in the faculty OF
the University OF Munich. celebrated his slxtietn
birthday recently He overwhelmed win &C IL,
gratulaons from all sides sent by NAM noyg potber
gifts he received festival compilation en'i NJ
"Aegyptica." containing seventeen essnS and dmdi
Gated to Ebers by his former pupils, among whoN'
are numbered six German university professors
The departure Of the Emperor Francis Joseph OF
Austria for st. Petersburg, to return the WISH OIL
the Car and Czarinl is fixed for April Is Inc xist
will last three four days. and the Emperor VIII pe
absent about n week In all
The Rev. Dr. r. r. Meredith, OF Brooklyn VIII
preach the annual sermon at the eshty-elghth
meeting OF tho American Board OF Commissioners
for Foreign Missions at New-Haven, Conn., on oc-
tober u.
Prince Heinrich XIV OF Reussk0strz recently
had n new symphony OF his composition
brought out at one OF the concerts OF ne fse"ah'
hGus in Leipzig. which he conducted niihseiA'
OF Captaln John x. Gowdy, Just appointed Con-
sul-General to Paris The Chicago Times-Herald
SAYS; Consul Gowdy has had an interest in the
Rtishville Ond) Graphic for fiye years one OK ms
rrmsd All those five years that Uncle Jack writes
better hand than did Horace Greeley put ne mas
made n
several pages OF copy and marked It Must : ne
paper was about to press and ne went r on
70 his farm with the consciousness or having lreu
a hot editorial shot that would save a township
When he returned he amazed 70 discover una.
his niece was not In the paper. the one printeII
eGuai 10 the task of solving his hen tracks MAO
yielded 10 bibulous impulses, as printers occasional
iv do And Uncle Jack was TOO mucn OF man ~
get mad when tho other printers nlnted ina Ms
oony had driven their .cllow-craftsman 70 urihA'
but the coveted township went against him.
1.-THE last days OF Professor Drummond" says
1.-THE Christian Commonwealth" seem TO have
boen extremely pathetic. He was quite helpless,
aid had 10 be wheeled about IN a Datn,cndr, IN
,ha occasion of his last visit Drummond gave "
Sia1ker A portrait of himself seated in the pam
cbair under which he had written The Descent OF
Man The pathos OF these words affected the DOC
deeply.
New-Hayen, Conn, April 5.-Professor G. W.
Gibbs who holds the chair of mathematical
nbvsics AZ Yale. has been elected a member OF tho
ROYAL Society at London. This IS an honor given
hSr;etofore 20 only six Americans, among whom
@ ppofesso II G; Newton and j. d. Dana, OF
vale MIR Gibbs was elected a professor at fale
IN ISL and eight years later was made a member
OF the National Academy.
rondon April 5-Mr Henry White. the secretary
81 the United States Embassy. who arrived IN Lon
don on Saturday last and formally presented MS
Credentials TO Sir Thomas Sanderson. the fernla-
nent Secretary Of the Foreign Office visited the
House OF Commons this afternoon accompanied ny
Ex-Governor Levi p Morton. Mr.. Bayard VIII sail
Or Now.York from Southampton on May ;.