The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-04-14


fine looking woman with bright eyes and
rosy cheeks. She was Miss Anna Cheese
borough, and her father was New York
merchant who had moved West to At
Gibson. Mrs. Ingalls, has many of the
qualities of mind and heart that make
Mrs. John A. Logan SO popular.
Taking the English roysl family to-
gether, it is found that the present eover-
eign, the good Queen Victoria, with her
aunts and numerous progeny, has cost
the British nation in the neighborhood
of $175000,000. In the hundred years of
national life, closing with the present ad-
ministratioD, the American people have
paid their presidents as salaries, $4,000
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-Apropos Of Oliver Wendell Holmes,
there is good new story which calls to
mind what he said of Boston as "the hub
of the Universe An American tomb
stone agent was conversing with lady
on the subject Of suitable epitaph for
her deceased husband. ~ would suggest,
madam" he said, "such an inscription
as He's gone to better place. ""But,
sir" said the widow, she lived in Bos-
tom"
Senator Ingalls, is popularity be-
heved to be more or less of crank and a
man with a good deal of vinegar in his
composition; but the fact that after thir-
ty years in public life and fifteen years
in the Senate, he is comparatively poor
man speaks we'll for his honesty. Since
the burning of his home the Senator and
his daughter have begun writing for the
newspapers, the proceeds going into a
sinking fund for new house.
H. J. Bonfield, an Euglishman,
claims to have penetrated further into
the dangerous and secluded parts of
India than any other white man. For
his personal safety he was several times
espoused to royal women, from each of
whom he finally succeeded in making his
offered him an enormous salary if he will
return to India on secret and somewhat e
perilous mission, but he has declined
with the emphatic declaration that he
has already had experiences enough OF
that kind.
john Ruskin has given his great
diamond and superb ruby to the British
Natural History Museum, on condition
that the labels that accompany them be
always retained. The inscription for the
diamond is this: "The Colenso Diamond,
presented by John Ruskin in honor of
his friend, the loyalty and patiently ada
mantine First Bishop of Natal" The
ruby is thus described: "The Edwards
Ruby, presented by John Ruskin In hon.
or Of the invincible soldiership and low
ing equity of Sir Herbert Edwards's
rule by the shores of the Indus"
1t is a strange phenomenon, that
characteristic of men of genius as of or
binary mortals, of having contradictory
bents in youth and in mature years. IL
Illustrative of this fact Thomas w. Hig-
ginson, in recent lecture, narrated the
following: "a gentleman said to Profess
sor Agassiz, What does your son care
for most = biology?' No; mathematics'
very curious that should come up in his
blood Not at ALL said Professor Agas-
siz, 'at his age 1 cared only for msthe-
matics; my taste for biology developed
later in life.'" This makes the education
of the child a great problem to the
thoughtful parent.
Mr.. Frank Stockton, according to
a Springfield Republican writer, seems
never to sleep or to dream or to rest. Ner-
vous intellect and physical energy are at
a constant warfare in which the latter is
invariably worsted. Frank Stockton, in
room full Of people, would at first glance
be described as small, dark, thin and
shy. Dark and thin he certainly is, and
shy to genuine modesty. Large, dark
eyes, smooth dark hair, with few white
lines, and face patient rather than con-
tented, is his portrait in repose But Just
one word, and this portrait is out of re-
pose and is the face of quite another
man.
Historian Bancroft has abandoned
rse-back riding, and is said to be per-
ceptibly failing, but his heart is still
young and full of sentiment, and he con-
tinues to take upmixed delight in his
rose garden. 1t is not long ago that
young woman called on Mr.. Bancroft to
get word of information in regard to a
particular historical fact. Mr.. Bancroft
was engaged, and sent his regrets by the
with the request to call again,
naming the time for the visit. But that
was not all. The servant held full rose
in her hand, sweet and fresh from the
bush. ''And Mr.. Bancroft begs you will
accept rose, one he picked this morning
in his own garden"
The late Henry Bergh was, says
he Tribune, one of the oddest-looking
nenin New York. Though his dress, from
he top of his comfortable silk hat to the
'oles of his fashionable shoes was always
aultless, yet there was something about