The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-07-21
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.

'-~, HO~AOe'htOS oH AuCa Will me TO
connect twenty or thirty of the sketches
and make book of them. 1 have sew
eral notebooks full now"
A writer in the Pail Mall Bud1et
says of Grant Allen, the novelist, who is
at present in Algeria, for his health: ST
am sorry to say that he has not derived as
much benefit from the change as when
he first went ont. The climate inyieor
ated him wonderfully for time, but the
bad weather for the last month has
thrown him back, and he is now not able
to do any severe or continuous literary
work."
Some of the relatives Of the late
Barbara Fritchie in Frederick, Md re.
Gently sent to Whittier, the poet, a num-
Der of table articles which formerly be-
longed to Mrs. Fritchie. Mr.. Whittier
in his letter acknowledging the receipt
OF the articles, stated that he had become
convinced that his poem, entitled Barbara
Fritchie, was based upon supposed in
c1dent that had no foundation, but that
he was glad to know, nevertheless. that
he was loyal woman.
-Thackeray said that he read the
novels of the elder Dumas from sunrise to
sunset with the utmost contentment of
mind. 1t used to be the same with the Par.
isisne, but recent statistics show that the
author OF Monte Cristo is no longer the de-
delight, even of the common people, who
are generally the last to forsake a once
popular writer. A weekly journal that
made speciality of reproducing the
novels of Dumas and others, found that
its circulation did not increase.
Mr.. Frederick Villiers, the war cor
respondent and artist of the London
Graphic, was one day buying some old
helmets at public sale, and had veneer
able cooked hat, for which no bid could
be obtained, thrown in with his purchases
gratis When he came to examine the
hat closely he found written on the lin
ing, in concealed spot, this entry in an
unknown hand, which he believes, how
ever, to be authentic: "This hat was given
to me by the Duke of Wellington, May
81, 1851. He told me it was worn by
him at Waterloo"
David Gray, of Buffalo. whose
death was caused by an accident on the
Delaware, Lackswanna & Western Rail
way, recently, was poet of no mean
ability. His accomplishment was not, per-
haps, as great as might have been ex-
pected from his temperament and facul-
ty, but he was the author of a number of
graceful poems He made wide repu-
tation as editor of the Buffalo Courier.
although for th., past few years his
health had not - nitted his taking an
active part in that journals affairs.
Two gentlemen started for Europe
recently with rather uncommon projects
In their heads for spending the summer.
MIR. Thayer. of Hartford, setting out from
Glasgow, will make tour of Europe on
his bicycle. He has projected zigzag
route in order to take in the chief conti-
mental attractions. The other novelty
seeker is a smart Boston reporter, who
has his eye fixed on the little stream
north OF the Alps that becomes the mighty
Danube. He expects to launch a row
boat on the river in Bavaria, and float
down stream over 1900 miles to the Black
Sea, taking in the cspitols of four ma
tioDs, whose chief cities are built on the
banks of the blue Danube.
Mrs. 81. 81. Robinson, the sister of
our Rev. DR.. Hanson, who for a long
time has been connected with the wo-
mans suffrage movement in Maesachu-
sets, is brought up as proof that
''strong minded" women are not neces-
sariiy neglected. of their household du-
ties. Her kitchen is said to be model
OF all that kitchen should be, and to ap-
peal in its arrangements alike to the prac-
teal and the asthetic eye. 1t Is bnilt of
sheathed hard pine, with rafters over
head. A big closet at one end holds
earthern and stone vessels, and among
them stands two stone idols. which she
calls her Lares and Penates. On the
walls Of the kitchen the cooking utensils
are hung in artistic designs, and within
easy reach of the cook.
The late Emperor William only
used two swords and one saber through
out his long fighting career. The first
sword was his boyish weapon, carried
from 1910 to 1884, the second was a pres
emit from Gar Nicholas. which served
him from 1884 to the time of the war
with Austria in 1866. On the memorable
day of Sadowa the Emperor adopted an
infantry sabre, which he wore to the
last, and on which he had engraved the
names of all his victories in the Austria
and Franco-P russian campaigns. These
historical weapons are to be stored IN the
Berlin Museum, together with the saber
belonging to the Emperor's father, Fred
erick William Ill, which always stood
by the side of his writing table in his
study.
Illustrative of Mr.. Longfellow's