The Washington bee., 1895-09-07
MEN AND WOMEN.

| Prof. s. w. Burnham, of Chicago
has been awarded a gold medal by the
| Royal Astronomical Society of Eng,
land for his discoveries of double stars
Robert L. Stein. Of the Geological
| Survey in Washington, is making ma
terial progress in the preparation of
| the expedition which he is to conduct
| into the Arctic regions in the spring.
The wife of President Dole, Of Ha-
wall, is a Maine woman. Mrs. Dole ;
| maiden name was Anna Prentiss Cate
She is the daughter of the late Charles
Adam Cate and the granddaughter OF
Thomas Adams, of Cactine, Me.
Mrs. Hannah Martin, of Simcoe.
Ont, over 100 years Of age, is visiting
In Toronto. Her eye is keen and ler
hand steady enough to thread IL;
smallest needle She can recall events
that happered in 1901.
Lord Dunraven has told Mr.. Kersey
of the White Star line, that he is com
ing over in May to race the Vallyric
against one of our big sloops. As III
example of hope triumphing over e.
perience his lordship is equal to the
man who concludes to marry for the
fourth time.
Miss Frances E. Willard suggests Z
Christian theatre, one conducted, as
She says, in such a way that religious
papers could advertise and recommend
It, to which young girl might be
taken without fear of anything on the
stage that would bring a blush to her
cheek
Charles Ridabock, who in 1923 went
to the Pacific coast as sailor ami
there married the daughter Of a MeXi-
can rancher, from whom he received
the ground that is now occupied lis
the site of San Francisco, obtained ad
mission to the poorhouse in that city
recently. He is aged ninety-one.
Sir Benjamin Richardson. in an adj
dress on athletic Life" says that alb
stinence from alcoholic fluids is aDso-
lutely necessary. LAS long as you
are in course of training, don't touch
The hurtful thing 1t will undermine
all the qualities on which you depend
tor success, will injure your precision.
your decision. your presence OF mind
and your endurance"
Harriet Hosmer, the American sculD-
or, who has long lived abroad, is in
San Francisco, to superintend the cree
ion Of her statue of Queen Isabella u
he MidWinter Fair. This statue was
Intended for the Worlds Fair, but ow-
ng to a disagreement between the
Board of Lady Managers and the Isl
DELLA Society as to the site it was not
exhibited there
Ephraim Bull. the originator of the
Concord grape, is dying at his home
Concord, Mass. from injuries re
:eived last autumn by fall from Il
adder. Though eighty-seven years old.
he was active until this injury over
,ook him. He is poor, having lost all
lis fortune in trying to introduce Il
lew grape that he originated several
ears ago, and his friends are caring
or him.
Col. Albert A. Pope. of Boston, will |
soon issue Il volume containing a list !
If all the errors in schoolboolls to |
which attention has been called through |
he publicity invited by Col Pope. |
They number thousands and it is said |
hat some of the publishers who are
hardest hit are fighting hard to pre-
cent any further publication of the |
acts. The list of errors which have
been transmitted to one schoolbo0k |
publishing house aggregate over LOO.
Mr.. Gladstone is not quite the father
If the House Of Commons. Mr.. Vii
iers (ninety-one) is older, and 50 is
Sir Isaac Holden (eighty-seven. But
Mr.. Gladstone has been at Westmin-
ter SiXty-One years. having been elect
81 for Newark in December, 1882. He
leld his first otiice-as Il Junior lord of
he treasury before Mr.. Morley. Mr..
iSQuith, Mr.. Balfour and Mr.. Chamb l.
ain were born, and when even Sir
William Harcourt was only a child Of
even.