The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-06-13
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences,

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The first successful woman editor
and proprietor of newspaper in this
country was Miss Watson, who edited the
Hartford Courant 12O years ago. George
Washington was one Of her subscribers.
1t is announced that Mrs. Agnes
Smith Lewis, who discovered the Syriac
pallmpsest OF the four Gospels in the
Convent of st. Catherine, on Mount
Sinai. in 1892, has discovered a single
page of the original Hebrew of the Book
of Ecclesiastes.
Mise Catherine Lorillard Bruce, who
presented to Howard Astronomical Oh.
servatory the money necessary to pur-
chase twenty four inch telescope to be
devoted exclusively to Photographic
work, has placed considerable sum at
the disposal of Dr. Max Wolf, of Heidel
berg, an eminent German astronomer.
for similar purpose.
The contract for building the monu-
ment to perpetuate the memory of Elijah
2. Lovejoy, who was murdered at Alton.
Ill Nov. T. 1887, for maintaining the
right of free speech upon all subjects
has been awarded to the CuIeer Stone
Company of Springfield, ILL.,. for the sum
OF S24, 800, complete. The work will
probably be completed before Jan. l,
1897.
The Congregationalist notes the
fact that Professor George Adam Smith.
of the Free Church College, Glasgow,
Scotland. whom it describes as lone of
the leading scholars OF Christendom, and
one of the greatest preachers of Great
Britain" preached on recent Sunday
in the Old South Church, Boston, and
not paper in Boston had line about
him or his sermon.
Sir Philip Currie's visit to London
is regarded in diplomatic circles as pre-
liminary step to his retirement from the
embassy at Constantinople. 1t is already
rumored that when he returns he will
present his letter of recall to the Sultan,
and that his successor will be Sir Henry
Drummond Wolff, who is now in Mad.
rid, but who was sent to Constantinople
eleven years ago on a special mission to
the Sultan.
In consequence of the decision of
the courts in regard to the Leland Stan.
ford estate, Mre. Stanford has paid in
full to the trustees of the university the
S2,5OO,OO0 willed by her husband. During
these past years the university has suf-
fered severely from lack of funds. Mrs.
Stanford has cut down her personal
expenses to the very lowest degree, and
the officers have done the same, that the
university might not be closed.
Into certain Boston bookstore,
says the Boston Transcript, came a
man to buy book. He had seen in the
window large placard bearing the
words, Life of O. w. Holmes. by John
I. Morse, jr.," and he believed that this
was what he wanted. But when it was
given him and he had opened to the por-
trait OF the Autocrat. look of disap.
pointment, which would have delighted
DIR. Holmes, overspread the mans feat
ures This picture don't look bit like
the picture of him in the paper" he said,
in tone which indicated how relative
thing is fame. And so he departed. 1t
was another Holmes whose life" he
sought.
The Boer President, Dom Paul, was
especially indignant with the slanderous
pretence that Jameson and his outlaws
went "to protect the women and chill.
dren at Johannesburg" Everyone
knows" he said, "how careful the Boer
is of white women and children. When
we were discussing an attack on Jo-
hannesburg after the raid, the first thing
we considered was how to get all the
women and children out of the town if
the inhabitants persisted in defying US.
We arranged for six empty trains to be
ready to take them out before we even
considered our ultimatum. Tell that to
the English people, and they will have,
perhaps, a little better idea of the
Boers''
The unwilling of bust of Priestley,
the discoverer Of oxygen. in Philadelphia
the other day recalls the fact that he
was once member of the Philosophical
Society of that city. He came to this
country in 1894 on account of the fanati.
cal persecution to which he was sub.
iected in England. He delivered a
series of lectures in the Universalist
Church in Philadelphia and expressed
his sympathy with the doctrines taught
in that church. The Philosophical
Society in 1895 elected him member
along with James Madison. of Virginia.
atterward President Of the United
States. He continued to contribute i'm
portant papers for the society until his
death in 1904 at his home in Northum-
berland, Penn.
"A writer 10 the Ladies' Home Jour
nal thus describes Harriet Beecher
Stowe as she is: "At the patriarchal
age of eighty five, this woman, this great