The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-09-08
NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.

NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE.
Rosa Bonheur has been elected a
member Of the institute of Antwerp.
MissMildred Lee, daughter Of the
late Gen. Robert E. Lee, was to sail for
home from Liverpool Saturday, July 7.
A young woman at Beloit, Kan,
was recently paid the bounty on the
scalps OF nine young wolves which she
had captured while herding cattle.
Jesse Fl. Lippincoit, of New York.
has recently purchased all the rights of
the monograph for a million dollars. It
Will now be controlled by the same COM
pany that owns the graphophone, SINH
lar invention.
Miss Mary Tillinghast, who re ceived
s3oOOO for inventing the tapestry hang
ings in the Vanderbilt mansion, has been
recently engaged in the work of design
ing window for Grace church, New
York. 1t is a copy of Jacobs Dream"
by Murillo.
The Critic notes the fact that "On
the same day, in which we hear from across
the water that M. lola has been made a
Knight of the Legion of Honor, the re-
port comes from the West that the SELL
ers OF his works in Tennessee have been
arrested by the Wholesale and are under
trial, as purveyors of mde sent literature"
-'Ohrist on Calvary" in some
sense companion piece to the "Christ
before Plate" and by some considered
superior to it, has been purchased by
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, who
now owns these two famous works
by the great Hungarian. 1t is stated
that 100000 was paid also for this pict-
ure.
Two SONS of famous novelist are
engaged in the lucrative business of
"stock and station agents" in Victoria.
Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens manages
the Melbourne branch of the busin sss,
while Alfred Tennyson Dickens repre-
sents the firm in the important pastoral
center OF Hamilton. A son of Anthony
Trollope has sheep station in the
northern colony of Queensland.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie carried an
instantaneous detective camera on the
memorable trip just completed by the
Carnegie coach, taking Photographs of
principal objects of interest along the
road. She has also taken pictures of the.
distinguished party in all sorts of atti-
tudes, and has already enough photo
graphs to fill large-sizsd album.
1t was with love akin to reverence
that the son regarded his parents during
their lifetime, and the earthly paradise
which figures SO largely in all of MIR.
Roe's works was but reflection of the
home of his childhood. In Natures
Serial Story" MIR. and Mrs. Cliff ord are
faithful iikenesses OF his father and
mother, and "little John nis" was the pet
name of one OF his own.5eughters,
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The Icelsn0ic movement to Man..
toba still continues. Over 800 Icelanders
arrived at Winnipeg, July ID, and 43O
more were expected the next week. Mr..
Balwinson, who engineered the move
emit, Gays the inhabitants in the north
or Iceland were on the verge of starvation
when he left, and he fears many will die.
Iceland has been surrounded by polar
ice all the spring, and merchant ships
have been unable to land provisions,
consequently the people have had to de-
pend on local resources.
Matthew Arnold, in one OF his
papers on America, remarked that the
literary impulse of the country seemed
to be largely neutralized by the writings
of "a native author called Roe" Mr..
Roe accepted the de signstion, and one OF
his last writings was an autobiography
ical sketch entitled, "A Native Author
Called Roe,' which will appear in the
October Lippincott. Mr.. Roe finished
only the day before his death the serial
story, "Miss Lou" which is now appear
ing in the Cosmopolitan Magazine
1t is related of Michael Angelo
that while walking with some friends
through an obscure street in the city of
Florence, Italy, ne discovered fine
block of marble lying neglected in a
yard and half buried in dirt and rubbish.
Regardless of his holiday attire, he at
once fell to work upon it, cleaning away
the filth and striv ing to lift it from the
slime and mire in which it lay. His COM
panions asked him in astonishment what
he was doing, and what he wanted with
that worthless piece OF rock, ooh, there's
an angel in the ssonep was the answer
and l must get it out" He had the
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