The Critic and record., 1891-05-11
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Josiah Royce of Harvard, Mass, is re-
ported to have accepted the professorship
of philosophy at the Leland Stanford, ir.,
University in California.
Mr.. r. Il. Tarsney ex.Congressman
from the Eighth Michigan ditrict, has
been taken to q retreat by his friends.
His passion for liquor has gained complete
mastery over him.
Miss Winnie Davis will unveil the JefTer-
son Davis Monument erected by the
Ladies Confederate Monument Associa-
ton of Mississippi on June 3.
NJ Bowler, the French minister Of
finance, is still a young man. who has
already made a reputation for eXtraordi-
nary ability as a statesman and tinancier,
He is regarded as one of the coming men
IN France.
The Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, who was
elected Bishop of Massachusetts by the
recent Diocesan Convention at Boston, has
addressed a letter to the secretary of the
convention, the Rev. DIR. w. II. Brooks,
accepting the election, providing the stand
ing committees and the House Of Bishops
approve of the same.
The sleep-fasting contest in San Fran
cisco, begun but week ago with twenty
entries, has come to an end, w. G. Wood
ford, the only remaining contestant, hav-
ing been forced by the management to re-
in 1853 hours and 40 minutes. There was
great danger of his becoming a maniac,
but he may regain his reason. He broke
the Detroit record of la hours and 20
minutes and will get only $l00as his share
Of the receipts,
A st. Petersburg lady of fashion has in
vented an improvement in her turnout
which, the local papers say, is likely to
become popular with all the ladies of her
rank Shn has "a mirror fagfpnnH N fhn
girdle of her driver when she takes
drive. This enables her not only to see
whether her headgear and dress are in per-
feet order, but even to notice the carriages
and the people who are coming up behind
her vehicle.
Michael Davitt and wife sail from Liver
pool for Quebec on the 18th instant on
their journey to California. Mr.. Davtt
will stop at Winnipeg to inspect the crofter
colony in that vicinity. He goes thence
to Idaho and later to San Francisco.
Alice Woodward of Shelton, Conn, the
l3.year old girl who hiccoughed for nearly
five weeks last winter, and who lay almost
at the point of death when relief was OBJ
tanned, is slowly but surely recovering.
Senator George of Mississippi is de-
scribed as a big, hearty, careless man,
whose style of dress suggests the farmer
rather than the statesman.
Judge Stephen, who recently resigned
from the High Court of Justice on &C
count of alleged mental incapacity, will
get a pension of G3, 800.
Last Sunday, by order of Bishop Nc
Quaid of Rochester, a pastoral condemn
ing the Catholic Union and Times of Buff
falo, weekly edited by the Rev. Patrick
Cronin, one Of the best-known priests in
the United States, was read in every
church in the Rochester diocese.
Lord Rothschild Sir Julian Goldsmid
and Samuel Montagu form 1.-THE English
committee to concert with Baron Hirsch
and other Continental Jews means to
assist the Russian Jews. No definite
scheme OF emigration has been arranged.
Those awful, awful newspaper men in
San Francisco say that Sarah Bernhardt
took with her on sailing for Australia
eighty.one cases of champagne, brandy
and other various beverages.
President Jordan of the Leland Stanford
University has returned to Indiana, after
a preliminary visit to California. He says
that he has been asked to conduct a maya
zine in connection with the university and
believes the enterprise will be carried
magazine one of high literary order.
Secretary Tracy told me in Washing
tom said ex-senator Warner Miller,
strated the military necessity of the
! Nicaragua Canal to this country. we
must the Secretary said, either maintain
| two navies-one in the Atlantic and one
| in the Pacific-or else we must build the
Nicaragua Canal. To maintain two navies
| would be much more expensive than to
| build the canal