The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-26
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

VI OHopidiH IIloouJ lakes exception TO
the oft-repeated statement that no man
now living can read Eliot's Indian Bible.
She writes lions Herald that at the
Mohonk Indian conferences of 1894 she
heard Bishop Whipple say that it is
mistake to say it cannot be read, be-
cause the Ojibways Of Minnesota can
read it.
Mrs. Stowe once returned home.
after missing a train, to wait for the next
one. She had been seated about half an
hour when Prof. Stowe came in, looked
about him with a preoccupied air, but
did not speak to her. She thought his
behavior strange, and amused herself by
watching him. At last the situation be-
came 80 extraordinary that she began to
laugh. why" he exclaimed, with a
most astonished air, sis that you? |
thought it was one of my Visions"
Mr.. A. A. Low, of Brooklyn. has
completed the purchase of 10000 acres
of land in the Adirondacks, for which,
it is said, he paid 100000. The pur-
chase embraces fourteen miles of terri.
tory in the vicinity of the Fresh Pond
station of the Utica and Adirondack
branch OF the New York Central Rail-
road. Mr.. Low proposes to establish a
summer home on his newly acquired
land. The property is heavily wooded
with beech, maple, and other trees, and
includes several lakes,
According to Cyrus w. Field, as re-
corded in his biography, clergymen in
his boyhood used frequently to take
peculiar texts from the Old Testament,
the oldest of which was one from which
he heard the minister preach when he
was very small boy. He says it was
in Chron. 26: IS, and read: "At Parbar
westward, four at the causeway and two
at Parbar." The British Weekly is
moved thereupon to remark on the fact
as worth noting that the boy remem-
bered the text to old age and that, it
says, is undoubtedly the advantage of
taking peculiar texts when they can be
profitably treated.
Robert Louis Stevenson loved chill
dren and wrote them familiar letters.
In one addressed to Scotch child the
novelist writes: when you grow up and
write stories like me you will be able to
understand that there is scarcely any
thing more painful for an author to hold
than a pen. He has to do it so often
that his heart sickens and his fingers
ache at sight or touch of it." When
Stevenson was eleven he complained to
an acquaintance that the half crown a
week allowed him by his father for
pocket money was small; "but," he ad-
ded, "my father has little idea what vast
depths of iniquity can extract out of
half crown"
Some millionaires during their lives
appear to enjoy the luxury of preparing
at great expense the splendid mauso-
leums they wish to occupy after death.
M. Lalanne, wealthy Partisan, went to
the other extreme. He had horror
of anything like ostentatious funerals.
and after bequeathing over 100000
francs to various public institutions of
his native town he directed that his
body should be buried at the cheapest
possible rate-in fact, like that of
pauper. A shabby one horse vehicle
carried his remains to the fosse COM
mune. or common grave, and the cost of
the funeral was only six francs, or less
than five shillings = that being the
charge for the cheapest kind of funeral
under the French sys EN-, where the un-
takers business is a state monopoly.
An interesting discussion has lately
been in progress in the London news
of the tomb of Pocahontas. From this
it would appear That the American
princess was not buried, as has gener-
ally been supposed, in the parish church
of Graveeend. as the edifice was only
erected in 1870. The ancient parish
church was half mile from the river,
and, having been destroyed by fire in
1927, was never rebuilt. Doubts prevail
as to whether the remains of Pocahon-
tas lie somewhere among the ruins Of
this church, or whether they were trans
ferred to the ancient church of St. Mary,
where an elaborate search is now about
to be instituted.
-"In the life of the late Poet Laur-
cate, which the present Lord Tennyson
is preparing. it would be interesting"
writes correspondent of the Westmin-
ster Gazette, "if particulars were given
concerning the poets premonitions of
death. Just about year prior to his
decease the late Lord Selborne, Lady
Wolmer, wife of the present earl. and
other friends were visiting Aldworth
House, Breakdown. Tennyson and his
visitors we're admiring the beautiful
surroundings, and Lord Selborne turned
to his host, and said. You ought to be
happy here 'Ahp said the poet. L have
only year to live.' The company at.
tempted to dislodge the thought, but
Lord Tennyson stuck to his warning.
Subsequent events justified his reply"