The herald., 1896-12-13
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Ex-Postmaster General John Wana-
maker has been reelected presiden Of
the Pennsylvania Sabbath School asso-
citation.
General Fitzhugh Lee is one of the
most popular men in Washington. An
observer saw him halted a dozen times
while walking half block by pedes-
trians who wanted to shake hands with
him.
Rev. DR.. S. ]. Barrows. editor of the
Christian Register, of Boston. who has
been elected to congress. speaks modern
Greek, and at recent meeting of Greeks
in Boston spoke to them in their native
tongue.
Austin Lee, secretary of the British
embassy in Paris. and one of the most
popular among English residents in that
city, has been appointed for the time be-
ing commissioner for Great Britain to
the universal exposition of 1900.
The ameer of Afghanistan has become
a victim of the cycling craze, but as he
is averse to using the energy necessary
to propel bicycle a London firm has
built him a machine on which he can
ride in comfort while two attendants
work the pedals.
A souvenir has recently been present
ed to Queen Victoria by Calcutta firm.
1t is an album containing fifty-seven
portraits of the ruling princes and
chiefs of India, and sixty-six views Of
their capitals and palaces. The photos
were taken especially for this work.
BY the will of the late John Hoffman
Collamore of Boston. $500 is given to each
of the charity funds of seventeen diff
ferent Masonic bodies and $4,000 to the
grand lodge of Massachusetts. This
sum is to be called the John M. Cola
more fund" and is to be for the relief
Of deserving Masons and their families.
A monument was recently unveiled in
Hanau in memory of the two brothers
Grimm, the great German philologists
who in pursuance of part of their work
collected among the common people of
Germany the fairy tales known by their
mony consisted of a parade by children
dressed to represent characters from
these fairy tales.
The monument to Empress Maria
Theresa of Austria, which is being erect
ed at the ancient coronation city of
Presburg, on the Danube, will be one OF
the handsomest raised to commemorate
the millennium. The work is approach
ing completion but the executive COM
mittee now fears that the date fixed
for unveilng will have to be postponed
until spring of next year.
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop has
been very i'll in Boston of pneumonia the
result of overwork and exposure in her
labors among the poor, which many a
day last from 5 o'clock in the morning
until II o'clock at night. 1t is question
whether her slight and delicate frame
can endure this life. which she has un-
dertaken with the spirit of a devotee,
but she is now recovering.
The following story is told of the late
Lord Ampthill: When he was junior
clerk in the foreign office Lord Palmer
ston. then foreign secretary introduced
an innovation whereby, instead of be-
ing solemnly summoned by a verbal
message. the clerks were expected to
answer his bell. Some naughty spirits
rebelled against being treated like foot
men and tried to organize resistance,
but Odo Russell, as he hen was, refused
to join the rebellious movement. say
ing that whatever method apprsed him
most quickly of Lord Palmerstons 8
wishes was the method which he pre-
ferred. The aggrieved clerks regarded
him as traitor to his order, but he died
an ambassador.