The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-01-21

thor OF many valuable books, besides
writing numerous articles in reviews and
magazines.
Andrew Carnegie, the iron prince.
who pays one of his foremen a salary of
Szo,OO0 year, did his first work in a
Plttsburg telegraph office for SO a week.
Rufus Hatch was once locomotive an
glneer' and is said to boast that he can
take apart and put together any locomo.
tive now in use.
Many OF our leading statesmen are
good French scholars, and some of them
have critical knowledge of the lam
guages. Senator Edmunds and Senator
Hoar have their libraries well stocked
with works In French, and the most at
tractlve means of recreation which Tbur.
man can find is to devour French novels
by the dozen. John Sherman has MANY
French financial books in his library
--Labouchere, the editor of London
truth, came to America when a young
man, and while hunting buffalo on the
prairie, saw in an old newspaper that he
had been appointed an attache to the
British Embassy at Washington. He
went to Washington at once and remain
ed there year, then returned to London.
married an actress and started Truth.
cornelius Vanderbilt is an out-and
out temperance man, and he is siren
uously opposed to the sale of LIQUORS
anywhere near railway station. He has
observed that if men have any time TO
wait for train they make bee line for
bar-room. "It had my way" said he,
Il would prohibit by law the sale of in
toxicants within an eighth of mile of a
railway station"
a few days ago Gen. Sheridan and
his wife succumbed to the Vaccinations of
nickel weighing machine and recorded
their respective weights on the dial be-
fore the eyes of a small crowd gathered
at q railroad station in Washington. Mrs.
Sheridan. who does not look as though
she weighed more than 100 pounds.
tipped the recording finger of the ma
chine until it registered 100. Her FAM
GUS husband, who wore heavy military
overcoat, was found to weigh 1874 pounds.
The Gordon memorial window Just
completed at the Manchester CEngland)
Cathedral consists of five lights and
tracery, and depicts Gordon's last days at
Khartoum. Gordon is the central figure
OF the composition, and is surrounded by
his fellow sufferers, who look appealingIy
to him, while his own gaze is turned to
the desert and the Nile, seeking vainlya
sign of human aid. Above and around
are angels bearing palms and crowns.
The bodies of the last emperor of
the French, Napoleon III, and his son,
the Prince Napoleon, were removed from
Chiselhu-st to Marlborough, Monday.
Jan. 8. Mgr. Goddard celebrated an
early mass of requiem, and at IL o'clock
the two collins, draped in the tri-color,
were removed to the station on gun car
riages, whence they were taken by special
train to Marlborough and escorted by the
Royal artillery to the mausoleum, where,
after brief service, they were consigned
to their last resting place.
Mrs. Dickens, the elder, had one
grievance which Lady Houghton remem.
bered. 1t was the conduct of her son
John - Charles father against whose
idleness and general incapacity she was
never tired of inveighing. There have
been many conjectures as to the source
from which Dickens derived his wonder
full gift as story. teller. 1t is hardly a
far-fetched fancy to suppose that he in
herited his special gift from the old
housekeeper at Crewe, who was noted in
that way,
speaking of George Washington
always reminds me of that good story of
how Evarts told Lord Coleridge, when
they were at Mount Vernon, the legend
Of Washington throwing a dollar across
The Rappahannock. "But," objected
"ths Rappahannock's a broad
stream" eyes," retorted Evarts, "but
you must remember that a dollar went
further in those days" At dinner par
ty not long ago, Evarts was chafed little
about the many stories attributed to him
by the newspapers, and incidentally this
one was praised as his best. "Oh" said
Evarts, modestly, 81 don't say all the
good things that are credited to me.
Every now and then some anonymous
newspaper Photographer says a wittier
hing than any of us. Now what might
have said to Lord Ooleridge was that it
was not SO strange that George Washing
on threw dollar across river since he
threw sovereign across the sea-" That
was certainly as bright as the other. Yet
Evarts begins to show the effects of his
seventy years. He repeats himself. He
has got off that witty remark originally
presented to the Glover Club, that like
Iome other great enterprises he lacked
terminal facilities, half dozen times.
I'M afraid be will never be President
Record.