The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-08-11
NOTES.

BARON ALBERT RoTHcHILD has pre-
sented the Vienna Observatory with the
largest mirror telescope ever made in
Paris, costing $4,000
QUITE recently Miss Barnes, Of West.
bury, England, died, aged 1O2. There
can be little doubt about the correctness
OF these figures, as her mother died up
wards of 100 years ago.
IT is affirmed that there are in Leeds
about l, 400 Jews working under sweaters
in the tailoring trade, and also 500 Jew
eeses, who, however, are said to do only
the better class of work, the worst kind
being left for English girls.
AMONG the medals which were award
ed by the Massachusetts, Humane So
ciety last year, was one of bronze, given
in recognition of remarkable presence
of mind and courage In saving from
drowning Cora Robins, Dec. 16, 1887" 1t
bore the inscription "To Harold Novel;,
four years DID,"
ONE of the interesting and encourag-
ing incidents in the meeting OF the Prison
Association was the suggestion OF War
den Patten, OF Indiana, that the best way
to remove all the difficulties in regard to
the execution Of criminals is to abolish
capital punishment. Warden Coffin, of
Ohio, who was on the stand, cordially ex-
pressed his agreement; and the audience
ratified the sentiment with applause.
The keeper OF the Tillamook Rock
(Ore.) lighthouse reports to the light
house board wave which broke at
height of one hundred and sixty feet
above high water mark. His calculation
is made as follows: The rock upon which
the lighthouse tower stands rises ninety
six feet above high water, the focal plane
of the light itself is thirty. eight feet
above the base of the tower, and the
crest OF the wave was at least twenty-five
feet above the light. The windows OF
the tower were broken, and the lamp ex-
tinguished.
In answer to the question, Chow to be
an Orator." Rev. Robert Collyer, in the
New York Mail and Express, says: at
has fallen out often, indeed, that pro-
fessors Of elocution and oratory have
come along and wanted to teach me their
art; but lacked three things time to
learn, the money to pay them, and tho de-
sire to take lessons,-or else L suppose /
might have been able to answer the ques-
ton now to some purpose. how to be an
orator. All L know now I will tell
apart from the slightest claim to such
distinction. What may have to say I
try to say in the simplest words I can
find, and in happy moments I seem to
find these by instinct. Then I never
make up my mind how L will say them.
l leave all this to some swift intuition of
the instant, and the holy spirit of the
truth, and know beforehand that, if the
thing is well worth saying, and 1 can for
get Collyer, it will be all right when 1
am through"
THE German Emperor has kept his
promise to promote art and science by an
act of munifcence that will be remem-
bered for all time. He has presented to
the "Bibliosheca Palatina" at Heidelberg
the celebrated so. called Maueese Manu-
script, and his brother-in-law, Che Grand
Duke OF Baden, as the Rector Magnif-
centissimus" of that ancient seat of learn
ing, has acknowledged the receipt of the
truly regal gift. This famous manuscript,
named after the Councillor Rudiger Man
esse and his son, of Zurich, consists of a
collection Of medieval minne-songs of
the fourteenth century, written on parch-
ment, and containing on 429 leaves up
ward Of 1000 verses by 14O poets, to-
gether with 137 richly ornamented pages,
on which besides the portraits of the
earliest Minnesingers of princely and
knightly blood, is also represented the
historical Wartburg War The existence
of the precious tome became first known
toward the end of the sixteenth century,
when it was in the possession of a Baron
of Hohn-Sax, residing in his strong cas-
tie of Forsteck, near st. Gall, in Switzer-
land.