The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-18
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
- They are discussing President
CREWS state Of health again, in France.
He suffers from no especial malady, but
is steadily growing weaker.
II Prof. Ruskin is 30 much better
that his friends are beginning to hope he
will be able to finish his autobiography
In which many chapters are wanting.
The King of Portugal went about
London recently In an unfashionably cut
frock coat, and had a cane ornamented
with tassels after the fashion of the
fourth George.
Bishop Spsulding, of Peoria, is
talked OF as the probable president of the
the new Roman Catholic University at
Washington. He is young man Of
great social gifts, and has reputation
as fine after-dinner talker.
CHARLES Lamb relnquished in early
youth all dreams of love, all thoughts of
marriage, and gave his whole life and in
cessant care to beloved sister who was
afflicted with periodical fits of insanity,
in one of which she killed their mother.
The bath in which the infamous
Marat was when Charlotte Corday rid the
world of him has been sold by priest OF
the diocese of Vannes to q Paris wax
work Snowman. The price was $1,000,
which will be devoted to the uses of a
religious school.
The skeleton of Bishop Courtepsy,
Edward Tvs lord privy seal, has been
discovered in coffin built up in masonry
in the crypt of Winchester Cathedral
Courtenay, it will be remembered, was at
Bosworih, and is mentioned by Shakes
peare in " Richard Ill"
A man has died in the almshouse
at st. Petersburg at the age of one hun
dred and twenty-five years. He had
been an inmate since 1918, and was in
good health, physically and mentally,
until four years before his death, when a
general failure set in.
Miss Ellice Hopkins, the founder
of the White Gross movement in En-
gland, has accepted an invitation from
Miss Frances E. Willard to visit Amer
lea and to attend the annual meeting of
the national Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, to be held at Mime.
apolis, MIMI, in October.
A Buffalo paper says that just be-
fore the opening session of the savants in
that city, Bishop Coke remarked to re-
porter: 81 should like to correct the
proof sheet OF my prayer. You news
paper men and the printers are SO un-
familiar with prayer that you're pretty
certain to bungle it up badly"
The great Lord Bacon was refused
by lovely young widow, Lady Hatton,
who accepted in his stead Attorney Gem
eral Coke, widower of forty-six, with
ten children and an immense fortune. It
is believed that this marriage was con-
cocted by Sir Thomas Cecil, father of the
lady, who was at enmity with Bacon.
On the balustrade of a little stair
case, in small, three-story stone front
building, built in Cincinnati in the early
fifties, with smaIl-paned windows and
ornate paneled doors, one can still read
the little sign, IS. P. Chase and Flamen
Ball, Attorneys at Law" No one has re-
moved it, and in the little office it directs
one to where the famous lawyer did some
OF his mort wonderful legal work.
The poet Whittier, although very
grave man, has humorous impulse now
and then. An instance Of this appeared
when gentleman wrote to him, asking il
he had copy of the poem called "Maud
Mullsr's Reply" His answa, was es fol-
lows:
saw or heard of maud Muler's Reply" I
am glad that the poor soul could speak for
herself. Thine truly. JOHN G. WHITTIER
The widow of John B. Cough has
received at her home in Massachusetts
letter Of coincidence from the Grand
Lodge OF the Independent Order of Good
Templars Of New South Wales. This
order comprises 1900 persons. Mr..
N. T. Collins, who presented the letter in
person, is a member of the executive
board Of the Good Templars Of Australia
and is an American by birth.
- The following story OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Agassiz is endorsed as truthful by
good authority: Mrs. Agassiz found one
in one of her slippers cold,
shiny, little snake, one of six sent
the day before to her scientific spouse,
and carefully set aside by him for
safety under the bed. She screamed,