The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-11
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.


sical scholars ever sent to Congress. 1t
is said that he knew the "Iliad" and the
great Greek tragedies almost by heart.
-Osman Dgna, who in the uprising
OF the Mahdi performed such prodigies
OF valor and was continually reported
dead. and is now reported leader in the
new holy war, is the son of French
nobleman, and was educated in the mill.
tary schools at Cairo.
Sir W. Foster, M. P. speaking at a
banquet, at Derby, said that if they had
MIR. Gladstone's clarion voice ringing
through the British Isles to-day. il
would scatter the bloody emblems OF
Turkey and make such atrocities as they
had heard of impossible of fulfillment.
MIR. Whistler" said the gushing
lady visitor to the cynical artist, why
do you never paint a storm at sea?"
My dear lady, I've often tried but un-
fortunately paint in oils and as soon as
l spread my colors the waves subside
and the sea becomes as calm as duck
pond"
-Nansen is described as type of the
ideal Norseman-a fine, stalwart fellow,
with rudy face, fair hair and the limbs
of giant. After his departure in
search of the north pole his wife quietly
settled down in Christiania to her duties
as teacher of vocal and instrumental
music. The Nansens are very popular
in Christiania.
sour fathers" says Pliny, regarded
little dogs as food so delicate that they
were frequently served as an expiatory
sacrifice. Today, even, the flesh of
young dogs is served in banquets made
in honor of the GODS" According to
Apicus, who has left to us curious
treatise on cooking, the Romans also ate
full-grown dogs, which they first fat
tened.
Cornell University is one of the
places where the memory of George
William Curtis is kept perennially green.
Curtis Day"--Mr. Curtis's birthday-is
celebrated annually. and was observed
last month in the usual fashion. Three
professors made addresses recalling Mr..
Curtis's interest in debating at Cornell,
and his public services as an editor and
in politics.
1T was fifty years on the Goth of Feb
ruary since the two poets, N. P. Willis
and George P. Morris started the Home
Journal Mr.. Willss poems everybody
knew at that time. and if they are not
much read now, at least everybody still
Knows who Willis was and that he wrote
them. The memory of Mr.. Morris's lit
erary reputation is less green, but he is
easily identified to moderns as the au-
thor Of "Woodman. spare that Tree"
"A meeting of the friends of the late
Sergius Stepniak has been held in Lon
don for the purpose of raising funds for
the memorial of him. The memorial is
to take the form of provision for Mme
Stepniak. Stepniak never saved any
money. His income from his literary
work was never large. and he was very
generous. Nine. Stepniak will write
life Of her husband.
The sale of the famous collection of
relics of Louis XVI and his family, be-
longing to M. de Clery. descendant Of
the Kings faithful servant, which took
place recently at Rouen. brought $4,000.
The shirt worn by His Majesty on Jan.
20. 1893, was sold for s572. A bunch of
hair from the head of Marie Antoinette,
brought 1888. The marriage robe of
Nine. Royale, Duchesse d'Angouleme.
was sold for 1922.
Rev. DR.. A. 7. Pierson has written
an explanatory letter to the religious
press Of Great Britain, in which he con-
cedes that his recent immersion, with
the address which he made concerning
it, was liable to misapprehension. and
that he had not the least thought of
ever assuming again pastoral charge.
This particularly refers to Spurgeon's
church for which the coed Doctor was
inferred to have "yearnings."
Rev. Fred w. Macdonald. writing of
Bishop Butler and John Wesley for the
Methodist Recorder, points some sharp
contrasts as follows: "In temperament
they were altogether dissimilar Each
was grave, but the gravity of Wesley
frightened habitually into cbeerfulness,
while that of Butler constantly deep
ened into gloom. Butler died worn
old man before completing his sixtieth
year. Wesley, on the other hand,
thanked God that he found himself as
strong to labor when over eighty years
of age as he had been forty years be-
FORE"
In 1914 an accident occurred which
made the erratic artist, Goya, flee from
Spain to Bordeaux for his safety. Well
ington was in Mardrid and sat for his
portrait to Goya. After the first sitting
the soldier presumed to criticise the
work. whereat Goys Selling a cutlass.
attacked him. causing the future hero
of Waterloo to flee for his life from the
mariacal fury of the painter. 1t is said
that later neace was made between the