The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-06-07
EMPORIA NEWS
FRIDAY. JUNE 7. 1878.
Personal

son OF q widow.
Miss g. w. Conant, an Anne rican
artist who adds persistence to ex-
talent, and who is now
living at that paradise of paint
ers, Ecouen, near Paris, has just
had picture accepted for the
Paris Salon. 1t was marked F'No.
q" which means exceedingly
good" and is to be hung on the
line. It is pleasant to chronicle
this success of an American, and an
industrious and devoted artist.
General Mcclellan is strong in
muscle. Once while conversing
with q party of friends on the sub
ject of physical strength, he took a
silver quarter of q dollar from his
pocket and bent 1t between his fore |
finger and thumb.
The Earl of Derby will be fifty |
two years of age in July next. He
has all his life been one of the neat |
est of dressers. His stove-pipe hats |
have always been made on the same |
block-no curve in the brim,
straight all around.
Mr.. Emerson deprecates adjec-
tiyes. In his lecture in Boston a
few days since he made strong
appeal for temperance in language.
"Superlatives," he said, "are dlmin-.
utiVe, and weaken. The positive is
the sinew of speech, the superla-
tive the fat"
Mr.. Arthur Arnold has written
an article in the Nineteenth Centu-
ry, in which he states with great
stiffness that If the Church of Eng
land were disestablished it would
retain q surplus of $600,000,O00 af-
ter meeting all claims and that is
q good deal of money.
Devoe Bailey, of New Castle,
Westchester county, is probably
the oldest Mason in America. He
is q native of the county, and was
ninety-seven years old in February
last. He Joined the fraternity when
twenty-five years old, and has there
fore been q member seYenty-five
years. He is as healthey as such an
old Mason ought to be.
William Harvey, the ilIustrious
discoverer of the circulation of the
blood, was born at Folkestone, Eng
land, on the 1st of April, 1878, and
a celebration of the tercentenary OF
his birth has just been had in his
native town. He was a great bene-
factor to the College of Physicians,
and an Grafton in his honor is an
nually delivered in the college; but
this is primarily in memory of his
gifts to the institution rather than
of his labors in the cause of suffer-
ing humanity, or of his great DIS
covery, by which he laid the foan-
dations of the whole of the modern
sciences of physiology and medi-
cine.
Colonel ForneY is describing the
notabilities of England just as they
strike the mind of q close observer
like himself, who for a lifetime has
been in constant personal inter-
course with the strongest intellects
of his own country. After q din
ner given by the Metropolitan
Board of Public Works, he says !:
"Many notabilities were present !;
first the cousin of Queen Victoria,
the Duke of Cambridge, Field
marshal, Commander-in-chi of
the British forces, fiftY-eight years
old, heavy, stOlid man, with an
apoplectic face, who made heavy,
apoplectic speech; the speaker of
the House of Commons, Hon. Mr..
Bland, aged sixty-four, who was
loudly greeted, and made a very
weak address; the Duke of We'll
lington, son of the great Duke, 8
little man with q big nose, who
made very poor and little speech.
The nobility present, rated by their
rent-rolls, was very heavy in mon
ey, and, by their titles, very old in
years: but / noticed they were We
rV much like other human beings,
and enjoy ed their victuals consum-
edly." The fact is that the orators
of England may be counted on
ones fiuger-tips, while as for after
dinner speakers and preachers, we
have probably the best article in
the market.
A recent English magazine con-
tains this personal" Of the Bar
ings: "Francis Barring, Lutheran
minister, came to England about a
century ago, and his grandsons es.
tablished themselves in business in
London. The younger brother
Francis, had the chief management
Of the concern, aud SO successful
was he that Lord Shelburne, WHO
called him the prince of merchants,
recommended him for q bsronetcy
Sir Francis left the business to his
sons, and It ultimately conferred il
the second one, Alexander, whose
financial influence over the Cont
mental cabinets was SO potent tina
the Due de Richellieu called hin
one Of the great powers of Europe,
~ In - hAw he a q
miliar title oftAlexander the Great.
While still at the head of his housl
of business he was created Lore
Ashburton, and became famous q
the British representative at Wash
ington In 1872, when the treaty wa
negotiated which bears his name
Nor was this the only title that tn
family gained, for the third barone
was created Baron Northbrook Il
1856, and his son, the late Vicero
of India, has recently been raised t
the dignity OF an earldom. So tina
the titles of Ashbnrton and North
brook have both been derived di
rectly from the mercantile success
Of the great house of Barings."
Captain Bates thinks that me
and women are not deteriorating i
physique, and he ought to know
for he is the tallest man in tn
world and his wife the tallest VIC
man. They were st the Palme
House, Chicago, the other day; an
how those Chicago people did loo
at theml Captain Bates is q Ken
tuckiAn, z feet 1lH inches higl
weighs 496 pounds, measures
inches around the chest, wears
No. hat, = 26-inch collar, q No.
boot, aud is 80 years of age. II
dresses neatly in black, wears
massive gold chain, attached {
which IL gigantic wateh-a pres
emit from Queen Victorla-wears
massive diamond in his shirt bosom
and fashionable collar and scarf
has . ruddy, healthy complexion,
pleasant smile, and is ready talkel
Altogether, he is, as the reader ca
very well zee, an extraordinary q
ant, tor your mammoth mea ar
generally slovenly, dull, ignorar
fellows. Mrs. Bates is q native Z
Nova Scotia, Of Scotch descent. He
heighth IL exactly the same as this
Of her husband. Her weight Is 40
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