The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-01-18
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences,

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The Emperor of Japan is an all
round sportsman, devoted to riding,
shooting, fishing, tennis, billiards and
football.
Queen Victoria's great-graudchil-
dreh. the first of whom arrived sixteen
years ago, now number twenty five-six-
teen boys and nine girls.
Carlyle was no friend of Turkish
tyranny. and the phrase "the unspeak-
able Turk" SO often attributed to Mr..
Gladstone, is really his.
Miss Isabel Hapgood, the translator
of Tolstoi's works, mastered the intrica-
cies of the Russian language with the
assistance of a testament and diction-
airy.
The present Lord Tenny son is to
publish in his life of his father juvenile
tale called "Mungo the American"
written by Alfred Tennyson at the age
of a.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth of
the famous German historian, Leopold
Won Ranke. was celebrated the other day
in jena, the old university town where
Schiller was once professor of history.
Ranke died in 1886. He was great ad-
mirer of America, married an Engish
woman, and was particular friend of
George Bancroft.
Nine. Faure, the French Presidents
wife, is as modest woman as ever be.
came the mistress of the Elysee. She
has ease of manner, good sense, kindi-
ness and dignity. and there is no trace
of either awkardness or pretension about
her. She has always dressed elegantly,
but without display, and is declared to
be thoroughly uudeserving of the storm
of scandal that has burst about her.
Archibald Campbell, nephew of
Burns Highland Mary" died recently
at the residence of his stepson, Captain
Kerr, in Gourock. He was in his SD
year, and remembered seeing in his
grandmother's house the box in which
Mary kept Burns letters. They we're
afterward destroyed by her brother
Robert, in the belief that any connection
with Burns reflected on the respectable
ity of the family, which was undoubte
ly true at that time.
There is no more romantic career in
fiction than that of the dowager Empress
OF China. Her parents we're destitute
peasants in the suburbs of Canton when
she was child. and rather than see
them starve she begged them to sell her
as slave. She was bought by a famous
General, who was so captivated by her
beauty and wit that he adopted her as
his daughter. He took her to Peking,
where she so charmed the Emperor that
he made her his wife,
"A French antiquarian has brought
to light some interesting dressmaker's
bills of the ladies of Napoleon's court
They are from the account books of Lee
roy, the Worth of his time. 1t appears
that Josephine's yearly bill was about
$4,000. and this was greater amount
than Marie Louise or Queen Hortense
dared or desired to spend. Napoleon's
mother was not patron OF Leroy, which
is explained by the fact that she prefer
red to receive her dresses from daught-
ers rather than purchase them herself.
Miss Helen Culver, of Chicago, has
given 100000 TO the University of
Chicago for use in the advancement of
biological science. Part of the money
may be used for purchasing land and
erecting suitable buildings for laborator-
les and experiment stations, while the
income of the remainder is to be used in
assisting research and publication and
providing instruction. The questions of
sanitation and of hygiene will be given
especial attention. University extern
sion lectures will be provided. Miss
Culver inherited several millions from
her uncle, the late Charles j. Hull, after
whom Hull House was named.
Charles B. Atwood, the well-known
architect, who died in Chicago recently.
designed many notable residen noes and
public buildings in various parts of the
country. He was best known, however,
as the designer in-chief of the Worlds
Columbian Exposition. The Boston
Transcript says: ITO him was due credit
for much of the architectural beauty of
the Columbian Exposition. From his
designs sprang the classic forms that
materialized into the fine arts palace, the
graceful perietyle, the terminal station
building, the forestry building and the
casino and music hall. He designed,
too, the bridges over the lagoons and the
architectural decorationso on the terraces.
There were 200 buildings, and Mr.. At
wood was called upon TO design all sorts
of structures
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