New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-20
PERSONAL.

IT = tts,nz NJ Pittsburg who gave 10000 to the
Kansas city University some time ago. has just
given it $4,000 more.
Booker r. Washington is to be the guest Of the
colored citizens Of Chicago at big demonstration
to be held on June %
Prince de la Moskowa, n grandson OF Marshai
Ney has been elected president OF the re" cup !"
Paris. the Petit Chateau.
Governor Black will deliver an address on ihe
State and Education" at the opening session OF
the University Convocation In Albany on the ever
Ing Of June 2S.
General Edward s. Bragg, Of Wisconsin, mas
offered to his life insured for $4,000 In pehaif
OF the Fond du Lac Home for the Friendess, pro-
vided one will pay the premium
President Andrew s. Draper, Of the University OF
Illinois loaned his commencement address 10
reporter, but as the latter failed to return II IN
time the President was obliged to deliver an en-
tirely different address
1t is announced that Miss Elizabeth Harwood
Key. the granddaughter Of Francis Scott Key, has
been appointed to a clerkship in the Department
of Agriculture She formerly held clerkship In
the Pension Department, but was dismissed Toi"
II by Commissioner Lochren.
II remember Mckinley" says one of his Oldest
friends, quoted in THE st. Louis Gobe-Democrat
"as n man with his full share Of impulsiveness
The time was when he gave way as other men DO
under strain or provocation. Do you want 10
know what wrought the change? For twenty-five
years this man has stood between his wife ana al
that might give her the slightest worry NO maj.
ter what the load he bearing. he mas never
failed to wear into her presence smiling iacs.
Whatever emotions might be surgng underneath
he has appeared calm and placid on the surface
This frail being her life to his shieldahg
care. Self-control was born OF that twenty -nsc
years of devotion. There you have the whole ex-
PLANTATION of what Is admirable In Mckinley
character"
AS every one knows, Mark Twain ilves III
Hartford This fact gives much interest to an
article in THE Hartford Times" of Friday IN
which It says that the attempt to raise fund
for him because of his poverty must be
huge Joke Some OF those" it says, VINO
have been regarded the most intimate friends
of Mr. Clemens are greatly puzzled by the
continued talk about his poverty. More OF his
friends would be very glad to swap incomes with
him to-day Let 1t be understood, once for all,
then that Mark Twain is neither actually poor
nor in Distress is 1t conceivable that ne pro-
poses to accept a dollar of gift money from any,
BODY II is true that he Is somewhat burdened
with debt and It Is also true that the amount ne IL
likely to receive from the proceeds or MS forth-
coming work be published by the American
Publishing Company of this city Will more than
in receipt Through his wife, of the income from
the sale Of his twenty or more copyrighted WORKS,
amounting to several thousand dollars a year lie
has an offer of a very large sum for lecture TOUT
in this country His wife Is possessed or consld-
era BILE property. including two or three handsome
residences. They are travelling In Europe with TWO
or three servants at the present time