The evening times., 1895-08-14
Purely Personal.

Tho DUO d.AutnaIe is credited with the
intention or ing the historic chateau
Of Anboise and using 1t as soldiers
home for the bepefit OF such Of his old COM
panions- in-arms n Africa as may need it
In his address before the British Medical
AssOciation's Congress Henry Morris said
that the anatomy of the brain and nervous
system had been almost wholly rewritten
during the past ten years, all bocau OF the
new data established by modern scientific
investigation
Nine. Descamps, Oldest of the Paris
market-women,i is dead at the age OF ninety
four. She supplied the Tuileries with
vegetables in the days Of Charles K. nd
Napoleon III, and she had the impression
for years that the Emperor was In love with
her. To Mnie. Deschamps was attributed
the invention OF JuIienne soup, OF at least
of the proctice OF chipping the vegetables
usedinthats0up. Though hafanlouscha racter
she was buried without any funeral honors
from her associates.
Mile. Jeanne Benaben Is q young blue
stocking OF whose extraordinary attain
ments all France Is talking. This exceed
ingly scholarly young woman received
the college degree OF bachelor of arts two
years ago, when she was sixteen She
then became pofessor Of philosophy in q
women's college at Lyons. and this year
she was candida te at the sorbonne for the
important degree OF iicentiate in philoso-
ply. The examiners were prepared for
prodigy. but were nevertheless amazed at
tau <~f hor . tspv, nd bar
composure in dealing with the vexed
problems of Descartes, Kant and Comte.
She was third on a list OF 200 candidates.
all OF them older than herself and Is now q
lecturer on the science OF the mind In the
college OF Rouen II she does nosdevelope
an uniucky affair OF the Ba ashkirtseff or
KOvaievsky kind she has a great future.
Joaquin Afflicr's grandfather was a SOL
der under William Henry Harrison; but
his father was so much a man OF peace
that he lived seventy years with the In
dians and never fired q gun or used q
harsh word, II Is said The atayic mill
tary strain. however, rcappeared in the
poet. who. as early as 1855, was shot In
q skfrmish.
Count Maximilia n O'Donnell, whose
death occurred recently at Salzbarg. hap
pened In 1883 to be In attendance as
ie-de-camp on the young Emperor Francis
Joseph, of Austria, when the life of the
latter was attempted by Lasso Emenghi,
q discharged soldier. The miscreant had
inflicted a slight wound on the back Of
the Emperor's neck and was raising
his hand for more effec tive stroke
when O'Donncll. by a well-directed blow,
deprived him of his knife. The rescuer
received the title of count, many decora-
tions, ard stfIl more substantial rewards
John Mccullough, the Kansas boy who
has been Admitted to West Point, ap-
parently possesses the true spirit OF a
soldier, He Is n poor farmers son, born
In an out-of-he-way place, with no school,
in. whatever. simply educated by study
at odd hours He passed best among a
large numbct OF other applicants in
competitive examination for entry into
the Military Academy, driving 800 miles
across the prairie and campin: at night
to reach the place of examination The
Secretary of War, impressed by the
earncstness of this young man, held a
special final examination, so as 10 admit
him while he was still twehty-oDe,a as the law
requires-New York Tribune.