New-York tribune., 1895-12-28
PERSONAL.
in quantity

Tho nr,ze OF 800 offered as; June TO the student
OF johns Hopkins University who should write the
best essay on the "Reaiions OF chsmIstry and IL TIE
irseful Arts" has been awarded to f.: Emmet Red,
~ Virginia, a graduate Of Richmond College.
PA B. Widener Of Philadelphia. gave recep-
ton to Henry Irving the other evening.
Miss Emma c. sckles, who achieved considerable
renutat!on for the courageous part she played in the
Indian uprising at Pine Ridge Agency IN 1880 has
received gold me ial from a society In France
whose motto is "To save or to perish. Miss
slck-cs was a teacher in the Indian school at Pine
Ridge Agency. and was well acquainted with all the
Indians When the uprising occurred In 1880 she
volunteered her services az a mediator 10 the War
Department Secretary Proctor and General seho-
ned sanctioned her ehterprse Sec Inanaseed at at
hostile Indians, and although The ntssacre OF
Wounded Knee ooA place shs mas ,,,e n,nran ann
ton Of the intentions subsequent to that she avertei
a wholesale slaughter az the agency.
Monsignor Merry Del VAL private chamberlain
TO Pope Leo XIII, writes to the LONDON STAND
ard" denying the widely published statement that
a book written by the Pope when he was Cardinal
pecci was placed on the Index Expurgatorius by
Plus TX. where Il row Is he says ,nai ."e ocSn Ss
bood n Of the Virgin Mary was written by the Rev.
carlo Pas.etti. pious but eccentric priest OF tAe
diocese Of Perugia
OF the fourteen new stars discovered during he
last 200 wears Mrs fleming OF the Harvard o.
servotorv. has dlscove red four namely. in the
constellation Of Perseus in 1881; one in Norma. in
1898 and one each in Carina and CeHtaurus' during
the present year
(; Is said that the Rev. Joel jewell. wao recently
died in Troy Penn. originated the wo-d "teetoial"
The story goes tha; at pubic Temperance meet.
ing in Hector y. Y, IN 1898 he introduced Into
the nedyc the letters go. p" fer "old pledge"
which pledged against distilled liquors and 'r'
for "tota." including both distilled and fermsned
,.cuors When names were being taken "ouns
nan in the gallery said: "AGd my name and
IT. for am 'T'-;otalcr'" NJ. Jewell adopted the
word in speeches aal writings. Some four years
later An Engllsh:nan named D.ck Turner employed
Inc word and its origin has o=en ascr.oed 10 him,
Mr. Iews.. was born in Dunham, Greene County.
r. Y February II, 1898, and became reVlValist
and temperance worker al Al early age. For over
0f;y wears he was an active Presbyier c.ergy-
man. although not ordained uatN he was fory
George w Dillingham; the publisher. is seriously
ii, az his home in the Bou.evari. in summit, y. j.
He Is suffering from a complication OF diseases, and
sight hopes OF his recovery are entertained
It Is not often. evsn In England. that three
generations OF one family sit In Parliament at the
same time. This t. the case. h3wevsr. with one
family, since Lord Warkworth was chosen to rep
resent the South Kens.ng;on Gondon District In
the House OF Ccr,mcns. His grandfather. the Earl
~ Northumberland. now eighty five years o.d, is
naturally a member OF the HoLse )f Lords, while
his father Lord Percy, represents the BERWICK
District In the House Of Commons. Lord NarA-
worth is on.y twenty-f0ur years cd