The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-17
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
The portrait of Hawthorne in the
July Harper's is from photograph made
at MeyalPs studio, London, in 1860.
Only one sitting was given, and but one
negative developed.
Howard s. Free, living near Atti-
ca, ., who went upon the B. & o. track
on the night of the tornado and tagged
the fast train, preventing it from run
ming into large barn, has been offered
choice of $500 cash or life pass, by the
railroad.
Since the death of the unfortunate
King Ludwig, Of Bavaria, it is remem-
bered that he was the man who first pro-
posed the consolidation of the German
empire, the first to offer his army to Bis
marck against France in 1870, and con
slant and generous patron of Wagner.
-Cardinal Manning says he makes
it practice never to contradict what
may be said about him by the press. but
he wishes to depart from this rule for
the first time In order to deny the state
ment that he sought for the retention of
the Irish members at Westminster.
American literature has lost one of
its shining lights in the death of Mr.. E.
Z. Whipple, the critic and essayist, June
IL, at the age of nearly sixty-eight years.
Mr. Whipple was profound thinker and
a ripe scholar as well as brilliant writ
er, and in the department of criticism, he
had no peer in America.
-Ex-Marshal BazaiDe, "the Man of
Metz" is now seventy.fve years old,
white-haired, bloated and decrepid. He
never grows weary of cureing Marshal
MacMahon and throwing upon that gall
liant soldier the blame for all the reyerees
OF the terrible year." His wife is now
in Mexico trying to rake together some
remains of his former property there.
Mr.. Gladstone's face is said to be
deeply lined, though his eyes are as
young as ever in their piercing keenness.
He dresses in quaint and rather peculiar
manner. His seat is usually in the center
OF the ministerial front bench, and seated
on it through the debate; when his face is
most colorless and unlifelike is when he
is apt to be most wide awake. He hears
everything and is ready to answer any
thing.
Mr.. Henry Larkin, young man
who used to help Carlyle in his indexes.
summaries, copyings, sortings, and miscel-
lanies of every kind. and for ten years
was daily by his side, writes that the
philosophers ambition was to be doing
something rather than to be eloquently
talking about it, and that, little as his
critics imagined it, his heart was sick of
perpetually exhorting and admonishing
In his last volume of poems, Mr..
Whittier pays the following well deserv-
ed tribute to the memory of the late
Elisha Milford:
Unnoted as the setting of star
He passed; and sect and party scarcely knew
When from their midst sage and seer with
drew
To filter audience, where the great dead are
In Gods republic of the heart and mind,
Leaving no noblerg purer soul behind.
Miss Kate Stonemap, the first wo-
man ever admitted to practice in the
courts of New York State, is the sister of
Judge Stoneman of the Supreme Court of
Illinois, and of Governor Stoneman, of
California. She is only thirty three, and
has had long public career as an advo-
cate OF woman suffrage. Her presence
is prepossessing, ard her social gifts are
rare. She has been studying for three
years In lawyers Office.
"A writer in the Revue DIES DeuG
Mondes speaks of the late William Cullen
Bryant as an ideal type of Republican,
whose youth was without reproach, whose
old age was without feebleness, who
adored the right and liberty, who faith
fully preserved lofty reverence for re-
ligion, and who, uninhuenced by pes
simism, neither illuminated existence
nor cursed it. ga majestic simplicity
was the distinctive sign of his character
and his verses"
Won Ranke was rather more strong
minded or hard hearted than is DIR.
Holmes regarding the demand of CORE
spondents. In the course of one Of his
visits to England, he expressed himself
strongly on this head to friend who was