The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-22
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

Joseph Cook, who has been for some
time at his summer home, Cliff Seat,
Ticonderoga, N. Y, is steadily gaining
in health.
The Indian social reformer and poet,
Behraniii Malabari, is visiting London.
When he was editor of "The Indian
Spectator" he vigorously attacked the
practice OF child marriages and enforced
widowhood.
FIR. Quandel, the new abbot of the
great Benedictine monastery on Monte
Casino, was formerly an officer in the
Neapolitan army, having reached the
rank OF colonel at the time OF the siege
OF Gaeta. After the fall of the Bourbons
he became monk.
-Wilfred Laurier, the new premier of
Canada, is fine type of the educated
French Canadian. He looks younger
than his fifty-fve years, and is slender.
active, and handsome. His eloquence
and magnetism make him man of great
personal popularity.
John Hardy, the inventor of tn
vacuum brake. died recently in Vienna,
where for many years he had been en-
ployed by the State railroads. He was
born in 1920, worked for time under
George Stephenson, and is believed to
have been the last survivor of his assis-
tants.
Dom. Paul Kruger, the shrewd old
Boer statesman, so detests the English
that when the law compelling the study
of English in the Transvaal schools was
passed, this inexorable old man had a
tomb like monument erected to the
Dutch language. He understands Eng
lish perfectly, but can rarely be per-
suaded to speak it.
Mrs. Matilda B. Carse, founder of
the Temperance Temple, of this city, &C
companied by Miss Eva Shontz, a tai
ented elocutionist, is planning tour of
this country in the interest of the Tenn
pie enterprise. Mrs. Carse will give a
history of the Temples past and plead
for its future. The campaign will begin
in Evanston, September 16.
Here and there in Scotland and
England are old ruins and houses with
windowpanes which have been written
upon in idle or fanciful moments by
celebrated people; and not very long
since small pane on which Robert
Burns had inscribed verse, and which
had been brought from Dumfries, sold
in London auction room for 70 gum
cas-.
Prince Bismarck is said to possess
the doctors degree from every university
in the empire. He was made doctor of
philosophy by Halle on June 81, 1867;
doctor of laws, Gottingen. March IS,
1867, and by Erlangen April l, 1885;
doctor OF political sciences. Tubingen,
April l. 1885; doctor of theology, Gies-
sen, Nov. IS, 1888. and doctor of medicine,
jena, July 16, 1896.
-Menelek, the Emperor of Ethiopia
and Negus of Abyssinia. has promul-
gated several sumptuary laws. Among
them is one forbidding any woman to
wear jewels Of gold. This privilege is
reserved exclusively to Empress Taitu.
Another law prohibits tobacco smoking.
iC iain hu ha 20 hot
elek noticed one day that tobacco plant
had grown over the grave of one of his
ancestors.
DIR. Samuel G. Bartlett, formerly
president of Dartmouth College; DIR.
Claudius B. Webster. of Concord, N H.,
for many years United States Consul at
Sheffie Did, and the Rsv. DR.. Leonard
Parker, of Cambridge, Mass, were grad
uated at Dartmouthin 1886. and are the
only survivors of their class. They met
last June at commencement time and
INDUCED in appropriate "reminiscences
and sentiment. This is the first instance
of such gathering in Hanover sixty
years after graduation.
THE London Sketch" says that Sir
Henry Irving once entered train in
London and found that four passengers
already occupied the corners of the car
riage. and had appropriated the rest of
the seats for their portmanteaus. AS no
one moved, Sir Henry continued to stand,
holding on to the hatrail. After while
one of the passengers sulkily began to
move his luggage from the seat. seeing
which the actor remarked 10 his bland.
est tone: ooh, please don't let me dis.
turb you. I'm getting out at Scotland
-"Longfellow," says Mr.. Howells in
the August Harper's. twas patient of all
things, and gentle beyond all mere
gentlemanliness. But it would have
been great mistake to mistake his
mildness for softness. 1t was most
manly and firm; and of course it was
braced with the New England con-
science he was born to- II he did not
find it we'll to assert himself, he was
prompt in behalf of his friends, and one
of the fine things told of him was his
reaentinp soma things said of Sumnar at