The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-28
WELL KNOWN PERSONS.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

the first teetotaler to sit on the throne of
Canterbury.
Julius Trolliet, a wealthy manufacture
err, has left the city of Milan legacy of
5000, 900 for the support of an institute for
orphans and foundlings.
Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, who has
just arrived home from Europe, remarks
that rumors that he was to be appointed
rector of the Catholic University at
Washington to succeed Arch bishop Keane
are false
The English government has engaged
Prof. Koch, the eminent German bacteri-
ologist, to proceed to South Africa for the
purpose of studying the rinderpest and
discovering remedy, if possible, for the
plague.
John w. Mackay will build magnifi-
cent mausoleum in Greenwood Cemetery,
Brooklyn, over the grave of his son. 1t
will cost about one hundred thousand dol
lars. The mausoleum will be built of
granite, while the interior will be of the
finest marble and onyx. 1t will have nu-
merous pieces of statuary and elegant
affairs for the celebration of mass, as the
family are Roman Catholics.
Mrs. Temple, the wife of the prelate
who has just been nominated by Queen
Victoria to the Primary of the Church of
England, is an ideal helpmate for an
Archbishop, and ever since her marriage
has identified herself with many good
works associated with the name of her
husband. In the sees of Exeter and Lon
don Mrs. Temple has been a great favo-
rite with all classes of society.
Elk Chief Justice William E. Miller,
the author of the Iowa code, who died in
Des Moines on Nov 8, for many years
was prominent figure in Iowa. He pos
sessed great mental attachments and his
indomitable energy and will power assist
ed him in accomplishing much that has
permanent value and which is left by him
as personal monument and as part of
the history of this State.
The Carlyle Museum in Cheyne Row
has been enriched with the famous red
bedstead in which Mrs. Carlyle was born.
1t was brought from Craigenputtock to
the Chelsea House in 1912 and used until
1870, when it was taken down and packed
away until 1880. Carlyle then had it
placed in it's own place for his own use,
to avoid climbing the stairs to his own
bedroom ON the second floor. In 1882 the
bed was presented to Mrs. Warren, Car
lyle's housekeeper. 1t was recently ac-
quired by the Carlyle House Trustees.
Mr.. Frederick Saunders, who has
been for nearly forty years connected
with the Astor Library, has been, at his
own request retired as chief librarian.
This action was due to his increasing
years and the additional burdens which
would be placed upon him by the CONSOLE
dation of the Astor with the Lenox and
Tilden Libraries. The Trustees, we are
glad to note, have voted to continue his
salary during his life time, a fitting rec
ognition of his long and efficient service.
Mr.. Saunders is now in his ninetieth
year.
There is pretty story told of Sir
Edward Burne Jones and his pet grand
son. The little fellows fits of childish
naughtiness are usually punished by the
time honored penalty of standing in the
corner with his face to the wall. Sir
Edward, who has the common grand
fatherly weakness in the matter of disci-
pine, hit upon an expedient to beguile
his favorite during his period of penance.
The next time the wee man was sent to
the invariable corner he found it charm
ingly decorated with fairies and elves,
flowers and trees, birds and Dummies. ''If
he has to go into the corner,o commented
Sir Edward, 'he shall at least have some
thing agreeable to look at while he is
there
Miss Ann Eliot Ticknor, who lately
died at Newport, r. l., was a daughter
of George Ticknor, the historian. She
was known not Only in Boston, her native
city, but in every part of the country
through the Society for Home Study,
which she established more than twenty
five years ago. She inherited love of
study and of books from her father and
her last years were devoted almost en-
tirely TO this plan for encouraging young
people who were unable to take a college
education, to make the most of theiI OPP
portunities and spare moments at home.
She was also appointed one of commits
sion to superintend the disposal of State
fund for establishing public libraries in
cities and towns where there are none
in her recently published autobiogra-
ply, "My Long Life says an exchange,
Mary Cowden Clarke describes Edmund
Kean's acting as Luke in "'Riches," an
adaptation of ''The City Madam of Mes
singer and other roles: II remember his
entrance while supposed to be desperately
poor-his head bent, his whole frame
STOPPING, his clothes of the meanest, and
bearing beneath his arms various bundles
he had been ordered to carry. OF his Sir
Giles Overreach l chiefly remember the
death scene Kean lay PROSTATE near to
the footlights, his face and figure clearly
visible to the audience and fearfully true
to the ebbing life was the picture they
presented In 'Othello' a striking point
was the mode in which he chung to the
side scene when uttering the words, Not
a jot, not jot! in act Ill, scene 3, as if
trying to steady himself against the heart
blow he was receiving
The late Hamilton Gibson, whose arti-
cles in the magazines on flowers and birds,
accompanied by his own illustrations, have
have received so much attention, had a
fo,. hi.Ac and