New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
PERSONAL.

Sir william Armstrong tho London shipouiIder
has accepted invitation from the Japanese MIN
stry of Marine to establish branch OF MS HTS
suka
KIplng's favorite pattim is golf; Conan Doyie .
cricket; Thomas Hardy finds his favorite pas
cycling moderate gait austin R1D59 Is one i Of
voted to gardening, and EgeTton Cas'io - W.
the best fencers in all Great BIltai"'
Henry c. Fri,k has given to Wooster University
at Wooster Ohio $4,000 in memory or ms Lno'
and who died there recently.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschld left iegacies 70 1lS
men and women who had done various things 10
benefit mankind These legatee! have puplsneo % q
book of eIlogies on the dead banker ana p'opoS0 -
erect monument to him IN PARIS
Charles w. Russell. who has just been mace
Assistant Attorney General rose from d '
in the Department OF Justice
Hubert Lyman Clark who for six years has oeeh
professor of biology at Olvet college, NIlciie
and who has been doing work with AleNdHueI
Agassiz in the line OF sea urchins Will 1 oin ' nY
Harvard staff on December / in the museum u
comparative zoology
The Empress Eugene devotes most OK her IeisHte
to writing her memoirs. As soon as page l.
finished she locks it up the work Is not 10 10
,,,T1sbad mill TWENTY-FIVE years after her death
Her majesty uses writing 1t diamond set pen
holder which employed by the IQurle Tfp Of
Paris in 1856 and which afterward given 10 her
memento.
Paul BARTLETT the sculptor. Is now IN Lnls County
to superintend the casting Of his equestrian statue
of Mcclellan for Philadelphia. He relates tha0
one day in the Luxembourg gardens his attehtloh
was directed to a party Of three American women
who were engaged in an animated and mutually I'M
Ineligible alteration with caonan AouIeS ing
the eldest woman evidently the cnapeEOn dlIu
spokesman of the party, he said: Madame, perhaps
l can be of some service to you spedk t-
Ciorgonizing him from head to foot with a stony
stare, his countrywoman sternly repLeo: 90 5 ~
IT, And the cabman. perceiving that the ~ U.s.
had been snubbed. closed the incidenI Dy PEOolail
ing from the box; Me spik Anglish
William Crooks, one of the labor members OF
Parliament. speaking the other day at the crystal
Palace on the radical difficulties of labor copart
nership, said they growl and say -, ave, we s0'
ter work as ard ourselves as we dlo Iei inc
nor% Yes ! say you're your own guy 1l"As A'O'
Get at IT, and work as hard as you can
William Rankin. the Oldest living graduate OF
Williams College recently celebrated the ninety
9Th anniversary of his birth. He retired from the
presidency of the Presbyterian BOARD o. E o
Missions in 1885, after filing the ONCE
years
Up to Che present there has been no memorial ~
commemorate Andrke and his unfortunate cal
tion The Geographical Society Of Stockholm now
aver has taken the matter in hand and mas COM
ro,ssioned Iondberg the Swedish engraVer' u
wake a large memorial medal. The artlst repre- Pre-
.anfs 4ndrSe's balloon rising from me lct.
explorer is looking anxtously iowa. l-IiIe an old
59oon locke toward the horizon doupt1uiiy. -
tLa date Juv IL 1897 On the ooVerSe aPpe anog -
nro6Ie NJ Andree with his name anu tIo H'4i9' "a
his COMPANIONS Sternberg and FraenKel