New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-11
PERSONAL NOTES.

Professor Hermann v. Hilprecht the explorer and
authority on the excavations OF ancient Babylona
returned TO this country Tuesday on the steamer
Kaiser Friedrich der Crosse. after a. absence ~
a year and half. He has been Btsily employed
IN examining and deciphering tablets secured from
the ruins of the ancient city of Nippur bv an ex
petition sent out by the University Of Pennsylvania
Many Of these antiquities were stored in the In
P SiT,lal Ottoman Museum at Constantinople and DIT
section by request of the sultan In the library OF
Thousand tablets They ali belong 10 a period !,
the history q the world of which there no other
In the Old Testament. The ancient library the
tHlns OF Wnch We're hrst discovered by Professor
Elamites about 22SO years before Christ Professor
Babylonian and Semitic sections OF the department
or archaeology Of the University Of Pennsylvania
he will announce the result of his discoveries in
series of lectures.
Captain w. L. Rice. who has been Mayor Of
Bristol Tenn, ever since that place became
city, resigned the other day, pleading that. being
seventy years old. he getting too old prop
eriy 70 hH the place
The Peabody Historical Society. of Peabo5,,
Mass has Just dedicated a monument and tablet
20 me memory OF John Proctor a victim OF the
"l'chcrait prosecutions in Salem in 1892
Mrs. Thomas Ruggles Kitson the Boston artist
has lust finished two bass-rellefs Of japanese
artists which are 10 be cast in bronze and placed
IN the Museum Of Arts at Toxic.
The memory of the late Prince Henri Of Orleans
Is to be honored by the erection OF a monument
IN Cochin-China. The prince died while on an
expedition in the Far East.
General John r. Casteman. a noted Kentuckv
horse lover and whip. has filed in Washington a
proposal 10 carry the mails between his home
peasant EtlL and Burgin, distance of six miles
Provided he gets the contract he will do the work
and positions. in olden day style only Ken
lucky thoroughbreds will be used
Hoe Vow. Chinese consul at San Francisco and
chief consul Of his country in this country has
learned American ways. He has organized an
IRON and steel company. with a capital Of s2G0O0
20 DO business In China. and will soon go there 10
start IL IN active operation
Professor Jerome X. Schneider the oldest mem
Der Of the TUFTS College faculty had his seventy
eighth anniversary celebrated last week He is
stl In active service at the head Of the Greek de-
i'artment. and maintains three courses. Dr.
Schneider is a native OF Switzerland and came
"A short time IN ls5S he served as instructor in
modern languages and Latin at Amherst College
while Professor Tyler absent in Europe ard
thence he Went TO Tufts and has been member
or the faculty ever since.
DR.. j. Colling Warren. of Boston has In his mu-
scum the most nearly perfect example in the world
OF the osseous formation of the extinct mastodon.
II only lacks couple of toes Of being absO-
luteiy complete.
Hohsan Sanjiro Shimizu. to whom has Just been
awarded the Catherine NJ White scholarship for
excellence in the engineering department OF the
Armour Institute of Technology, is a young Jap
anese student who entered the institute four years
ago, bringing nom his home In Toxic a scholarship
Tor excellence and nigh awards of honor He Is tC
receive The degree of bachelor of science next June
and purposes % settle in this country for the prac-
tice OF his profession Of engineering.