The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-08
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences

author.
Among the New Years honors con-
ferred by Queen Victoria was the bes-
towal of knighthood on Major Lewis, of
Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.
This is the first time that the honor of
knighthood has been conferred on a
pure blooded negro.
MANY of those who talk reverently
about John Wesley" says Hugh Price
Hughes, "have no idea what sort of per.
son he was, what he taught and did.
And he concludes: 1.-THE more l study
his life the more convinced I am that
his methods of work are exactly what
we need today"
Professor Putnam, the expert in
American archaeology. proposes new
Indian for the Massachusetts coat of
arms. The extraordinary figure now
used hardly could do duty even for a
tobacco shop sign, and Professor Put
nam particularly objects to that Indians
holding his bow with his right hand and
his arrow with the left, instead OF vice
versa.
james Payn, writing in the Inde-
pendent, quotes remark made by Sgd
ney Smith with respect to the condition
of affairs in the Ottoman empire in 1843,
to the effect that 1.-The Turks are not to
be taught" and adds: "These are the
words of one of the most liberal and
broad minded of men and are,
fear as true today as when they were
written, in 1S43."
Pope Leo lives on what the Ameri-
cans would call the third floor of the
Vatican. Marion Crawford, writing of
Pope Leo XIII. and His Household" in
the February Century, says: ITO the
Pope's bedroom only his private valet
and his secretaries have access. 1t is of
small dimensions. and contains only
bed, in an alcove adorned with graceful
marble columns, writing table, an arm
chair and kneeling- stool, and one ward
robe"
The grave of Gilbert Stuart, the
famous painter, whose portrait of Wash.
ington is the one most familiar to the
world, has been found. The figures
mo. 81" alone, inclosed on the upper
surface of the iron fence curbstone which
oil
ground from the Boylston street walk in
Boston Common, are the only marks
above his resting place. which had been
lost sight of for more than half century.
Stuart died, neglected and poor, at the
age of p.
Thomas Curtis Clark, the new pres
ident OF the American Society of Civil
Engineers, built the second railway
bridge across the Mississippi River-the
one at Quincy, Ill. This bridge is mile
long, but it was completed within fifteen
months and is still an excellent example
Of architecture. 1t was one of the first
structures of the kind in this country in
which concrete was used for foundations.
Mr.. Clarke is brother of the celebrated
Boston clergyman. James Freeman
Clarke, who died some years ago.
The death is.announced at Parma of
Baron Achille Paganini, only son of the
famous violinist. Paganini died in 1910
but, not believing his end was near, he
refused to receive extreme JUNCTION, and
the bishop OF Nice consequently refused
to allow his burial in consecrated ground.
Accordingly. his body remained at the
Nice hospital, and was afterward re-
moved to Villa Franco. Achille Pagan
mi. however, after five years, appealed
direct to the pope, and the remains of the
great performer were inferred in village
church near Parma, whence they were
recently removed to cemetery. Baron
Achille Paganini inherited from his ia
theirs fortune of about S400 900.
Rude, when returned from Belgium
received an order from Theirs for the
four bas-reliefs Of the arc de Triomphe.
He said that he had not the time. and
his wife said to him: People will think
that you are incapable Of doing an i'm
portant work." She posed for the head
OF Victory, and the bas-relief which he
made Of it-her living portrait-brought
an income of 1900 francs. 1--WE are
rich!" he exclaimed. The Museum of
Dion gave him an order for a statue of
Love, and paid 10000 francs. Since we
have enough to live, with our income of
1900 francs. will you consent to buy
marble with the 10000 francs, 80 that l
may make the statue of Hebe?" She
consented. When he died he left to his
wife 10000 francs.
In the course of some "reminiscences
OF orators and preachers given in lee
ture on Platform and Pulpit During
the Last Fifty Years." at Clayham. re-
Gently, DIR. Guinness Rogers, of Eng
land, made reference to the way in
which apocryphal stories gather round
public men. He told several amusing
stories, in which he was said to have
figured, but which he declared to be
utterly false. Incidentally he repeated
a story which, although untrue, was al
ways told in connection with Rev. DR..