The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-09-15
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.

NOAEO ABDUL FEUFLE.
Gen. Beauregard, now seventy one
years old, lays down the official cares
that he has been bearing in New Orleans,
In order to enjoy tour through Europe.
The eldest son of King John of
Abyssinia has just married Princess
Maria. The bride wore curious crown,
made centuries before Christ, and is de.
clared to be the disdem which King Sol
ONION gave to the Queen Of Sheba.
Calvin 8. Brice, who is now re-
puted to be worth s2O,0OOOOO, being a
recognized leader in American financial
and railway circles. was an Ohio lawyer
with no fortune but keen mind and in
dustry only bare dozen years ago.
Queen Victoria imports new car
60 of Indian servants every month or
two, whereat the rest of the English
royal household are much displeased,
while the British lsckeys at Osborne and
Balmoral are in high dudgeon over sights
thus imposed.
james r. Keer Q, whose failure, in
volving many millions of dollars, gave
Wall street panic few yeare ago, is
forging to the front as an influential
speculator again. Stock E xchange Cos
sips insist that he is on the verge of be-
ing millionaire again.
1t is said that in one day, just be-
fore Governor Hill committed the death
sentence OF Chiara Cignarale to life i'm
priscnment, over 5000 worth of flowers
we're received at sne Tod. 90 Tor her, ne
gifts OF sentimental sympsthizere, not
one OF whom ever saw the italian MUIR
deress
-Portland, Ore, has caught the few
or, too. Not content with merely elect
ing women representatives to the local
School Board, that town has made Miss
Ella Q. Sabin the City Superintendent
OF Education. Miss Sabin has been a
public-school teacher hitherto, and thus
was politics and male domination put to
rout by experience and femininity.
The dying request of Edward E.
Munich was curious one. He not only
desired that his body should be inciner-
ated at the Long Island Crematorium.
but he asked that his ashes be scattered
over the flower beds beside the retort.
His wish has been complied with, and for
days this last sign of his mortality was
plainly discernible on the leaves and
blooms of the flowers there.
The appointment of the Rev. War
rem A. Gambler, at the age of thirty-two
years as the President of Emory College,
in Georgia, prompted the remark in a re-
cent issue that he was perhaps the
youngest college president in the world"
This distinction rightfully belongs to the
Rev. De Witt Hyde, President of Bow
dom University. He is under thirty
years of age and has held his present
post for over three years.
Heirs OF William Penn in England
have brought suit to gain possession of
The public park of Easton, Pennsylva-
nia. The Square" was given by Penn
Tor the purpose of erecting thereon a
"snd for no other purpose"
As the years have gone by, the court
house has been aband oned, and hand
some public park created. The English
Penns now demand possession, on the
ground of violation of the contract vest
ng the title in the town. The square
low has large money value.
Cardinal Lavigerie, Archbishop of
Algiers and Carthage" who has been en-
ragged for more than twenty years in mis-
ion work among the Arabs of Algeria
nd Tunie, preached to a vast audience in
Paris on q recent Sunday afternoon, tax
ng for bis subject, "The Northern and
central African Slave Trade" He said
The horrors OF the trade are little
nown in Europe, and are difficult even
0 imagine. The poor wretches who have
ouls like our own, are hunted like wild
'easts and far more are destroyed than
re sold. When caught, the unmsrketa-
lie ones are either killed or left to die of
unger. The women are usually violat-
d and then burnt" The number of
laves sold annually he declared to be
ct less than 100000; and to capture
lese at least 100000 are massacred. AFT
his is allowed to 60 on the Continent of
.frica will soon be depopulated. There
regular human flesh market" be
Md, "at Morocco, and another in Egypt
n the north of the Red Sea-" He is now
! England.