The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-25

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
- Bjornstjerne Bjornson has gjorn
black towards NORWAY, where he EXPECTS
to spjend the Summer. Don't STOP him.
Bottom Record.
DR.. T. w. Parsons, the poet, is
sixty-seven years old, and lives very
quietly in Boston. He still poss esses
handsome face and an athletic appear
ance. His Lines on a Bust of Dante"
are classed among our finer modern
poems.
The Current announces that Henry
Nj. Stanley will lecture in this country
the coming season. He has not visited
America since he discovered Livingstone.
His life has been filled with events, a re-
cital of which the people of this country
will gladly listen to-
Jesuit priest who for some twelve years
past has labored among the lepers at
Molokai, has himself been stricken with
the terrible malady. Self-sacrificing de-
votion in the Masters cause is ever to be
honored in Catholic or Protestant.
- The famous English novelist
Rhoda Broughton, is thin, with sharp
features, but is said to possess most fas-
cinating manners. She is proud of the
society of men, and has an unusual pow
er of captivating the opposite sex In
her numerous refusals of marriage she is
surpassed only by "Ouida."
Mrs. Catharine v. Waite was re-
Gently admitted to the Illinois bar by the
Supreme Court at Springfield. More
than twenty years ago, Mrs. Waite ap-
piled to one of the medical colleges OF
Chicago for admission as a student of
medicine, and she was refused on the
ground that she was woman.
When Mr.. Jay Gould was taking q
mountain ramble lately at Mount Des-
ert, he was accosted by an old farmer,
who came up to him and exclaimed:
"Wall! So you be Jay Gould, be your
Why, you don't look as if you were worth
five hundred dawlers Mr.. Gould
laughed, and answering. Perhaps that's
the best way to look, my friend" strobe
smiling away.
After Queen Victoria became en-
gagged to Prince Albert she saw the
Duchess of Gloucester, and told her that
she was to make her declaration before
the Council the next day. The Duchess
asked her if it was not a nervous thing to
do. She said, " Yes; bnt did much
more nervous thing little while ago"
"What was that?" az proposed to my
Prince Albert"
A smart American woman lives In
Washington Territory, and her name is
Mrs. Annette Wynne. This lady is the
proprietress of fine farm, which con-
tains 420 acres, much of it in a state of
cultivation. Here she conducts stock
and dairy business, all the work being
done under her supervision. She is also
owner of a large number of town lots in
Tacoma, the business connected with
which she personally attends to.
A correspondent of the Com9rega-
tionalist, among other instances of Prof.
Stoves wit and humor, gives the follow
ing: "When one of his students, in
| quizzing mood, interrupted the lecture
to inquire how it happened that John,
who was only fisherman, obtained such
a ready entrance into the high priests
house on the night of the trial, quick as
a fash came the answer: 1 don't know.
Perhaps he sold him fish,"
1t is announced that the firm of
| Charles Scrbner's Sons are about to
|
as Scribner's Magazine. The first num-
Der will appear. Jan. l, 1887. The editor
will be Mr.. e. l. Burlingame, son of Mr..
Arson Burlingame, for long time Amer
lean minister to China. He has been
for many years connected with the house
as literary adviser. 1t is understood that
the new publication is not to be in any
sense a revival of Scribner's Monthly.
1t is now said that the Rev. Henry
| Ward Beecher's brother James, who shot
himself in fit of insanity, was another OF
those misplaced men whose work is
burden and source of annoyance to
them rather than pleasure. In his
early days he wanted to follow the sea,
but his father could not bear to have even
one of his sons miss of being a clergy
man, and James yielded to his desire.
But il is an old truth that man in q
profession for which he has no real bent
| ia Draffv aura 10 ha q failura