The Washington bee. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1884-1922, 1895-09-14
MEN AND WOMEN.

Prof. s. w. Burnham, of Chicago,
nas 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-
wlii, is a Maine woman Mrs. Dole'S
maiden name was Anna Prentiss Cate.
She is the daughter of the late Charles
.$tlam Cate and the granddaughte 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 her
Hand steady enough to thread the
smallest needle She can recall events
that happened in 1901.
Lord Dunraven has told Mr.. Kersey
Of the White Star line, that he is com
ing over in May to race the Valkyrie
against one of our big sloops. AS an
example of hope triumphing over ex-
perience his lordship is equal to the
man who concludes to marry for the
fourth time.
Miss Frances E. Willard suggests a
Christian theatre, one conducted, as
she says, in such a way that religious
papers could advertise and recommend
it, to which a young girl might be
taken without fear of anything on the
stage that would bring u blush to her
cheek.
Charles RidabOck, who in 1928 went
TO the Pacific coast as a sailor and
there married the daughter of a MeXi-
an rancher, from whom he received
rhe ground that is now occupied as
Ike site of San Francisco, obtained ad
mission to the poorhouse in that city
recently. He is aged ninety-one.
Sir Benjamin Richardson, in an ad-
1ress ON Athletic Life" says that alb
t;Itely necessary. LAS long as YOU
are in course of training, don't touch
Tie hurtful thing. 1t will undermine
I'll the qualities ON which you depend
for success, will injure your precision,
your decision, your presence OF mind
and your endurance"
Harriet HOSmer, the American Sculp-
ior, who has long lived abroad, is III
san Francisco, to superinterd the cree
ion of her statue of Queen Isabella at
The Midwinter Fair. This statue was
attended for the Worlds Fair, but ow-
rg to a disagreement between the
Board Of Lady Managers and the Isa-
bella Society as to the site it was not
exhibited there.
Ephraim Bull, the originator of the
Concord grape, is dying at his home
il Concord, Mass, from injuries re-
.eived last autumn by fall from
adder. Though eighty-seven years old,
re was active until this injury over
,ook him. He is poor, having lost all
lis fortune in trying to introduce Il
new grape that he originated several
ears ago, and his friends are caring
or him.
Col. Albert A. Pope, of Boston, will
If all the errors in schoolbooks 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-
7ent any further publication of the
acts. The list of errors which have
)een transmitted to one schoolbook
house aggregate over LOO.
Mr.. Gladstone is not quite the father
If the House of Commons. Mr. Vii |
iers ninety-One) is older, and so is |
Sir Isaac Holden (eighty-seven). But |
NJ. Gladstone has been at Westmin-
;ter siXty-one years, having been elect |
u for Newark in December. 1882 He |
lold his first otfice-as junior lord of |
he treasury before Mr.. Morley, Mr. |
Asquith, Mr.. Balfour and Mr.. Chamb r.
ain were born, and when even Sir |
William Harcourt was only a child Of |
seven.