The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-08-14
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Miss Caroline Hazard, OF Peace
dale, r. l., is writing memoir of that
noble man and ripe scholar, the late Prof.
Lewis Diman, of Brown University.
= 1t Is now just about eighty-six
years since Charles Stuart Parnell's
great-grandfather was dismissed from
the chancellorship of the Irish excheqner
for opposing the union with England.
"A remarkable man is Captain John
Grant, of New Orleans. He is ninety
years old, and claims 10 have shaken
hands with every President from Wash
ington down to Cleveland Washington
retired from the Presidency in 1897,
when John Grant was less than one year
old.
In their domestic relations the
Comte and Comtesse de Paris we're al
ways as good as they could be, writes
correspondent of London Truth. Both
OF them had and have strong family in
stincts. He took after his mother in his
love OF study and she after the Bourbons
of Spain and Naples in her love of hunt
ing and shooting.
An American lady, who attended
Remains last lecture this season at the
College de France, describes him as ga
little man, very stout, who looked, when
he walked in, as if he rolled in. His
head is large and rather fine, but his
whole aspect is not pleasant, neither is
his delivery pleasing. His audience
numbered twenty; the subject of his
lecture was the 10th Psalm"
- The police of Birmingham, En-
gland, arrested DR.. Vivian, of New York,
for theft. The doctor went to Birming-
ham apparently in needy circumstances,
but suddenly displayed great wealth, and
went to live in lavish style at the Queens
Hotel. Soon after he married, in fash
ionable church, Miss Wilkes, to whom
he presented valuable jewels. British
officers say he is convict just out after
ten years term. He protests innocence.
The late mad king of Bavaria ill.
treated his servants. For whole year
he made his valet wear black mask as
punishment for some imaginary offense.
Another servant was compelled to 90
about with black mark on his forehead
to indicate that his brain was out of order.
On one occasion the poor Bedlamite de-
clared war against the King of Saxony,
and professors of chemistry were sent for
from Munich to transform one of the
Hohenschwangau mountains into vol
cauo.
The Hon. David Dudley Field, now
in his eighty second year, but looking
not older than sixty, still rides horse
back daily, and is in perfect health.
This exercise, he said the other day, is
the best possible for old men, because it
produces the desired result with the least
exertion. Asked whether the chances of
a young lawyers success are as good now
in New York City as fifty years ago, he
replied: Just as good. Legal success
has always been difficult. What is need
ed are brains, attention and vitality
Mr.. Field is over six feet high and weighs
215 pounds.
= Rev. Joseph SCOTS waggish pro-
pensities are we'll known. He preached
at Trinity Church Sunday, and didn't get
to the pulpit till the people had finished
singing the opening doxology and re-
sumed their seats. He went through the
other preliminary exercises without any
reference to his delay, but as he came
forward to begin his sermon, he re-
marked: 81 am very seldom late at
church; my horse gave out this morning,
and l had to walk. You will find my
text in Psalms xxi, 8, Be ye not as the
horse or as the mule, who have no under
standing" Springfield Republican.
- When the Episcopalian Bishop
Huntington, Of central New York, went
to reside in Syracuse, the great Meth
odist University was fairly under way.
Soon after his arrival the bishop erected
small frame chapel at the foot of the
hill on which the university stands.
When Bishop Peck, the Methodist
bishop, came to Syracuse, Judge Com
stock invited the two bishops to dine.
Bishop Peck, addressing Bishop Hunt
ington, said: Bishop, why did you
build that little chapel at the foot of the
bill? Did you expect to catch our young
men as they go up to the university?
" No." replied the bishop, "we hope to
catch them when they come down"
General Adam Badeau, whose ac-
quaintance with English society is as
close as that OF any American, writes of
Queen Victoria, who he thinks has lived
a sad life: "The Queen of England ex-
hibits in her exalted sphere virtues
which the humblest man or woman in her
realm might initiate; virtues which endear
her personally to her subjects, and GER