The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-09
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

fact that the late Baron de Hirsch
founded and maintained many schools in
Egypt and European and Asiatic Tur-
key.
Mother" Stewart of Piketon, Ohio,
with whose name the now historic wo
mans crusade against the liquor traffic
is associated, celebrated her eightieth
birthday April %.
Prof. George Adam Smith, previous
to lecturing at the University of Chicago,
will lecture before Johns Hopkins Uni
versity at Baltimore. He will be heard
also at Chautauqua. The subject of his
lectures is the Hebrew Poets"
Lucy Stone is to be commemorated
by tablet at Somerset Park, the new
camping and cottage resort in the Rocky
Mountains, which seems destined to be-
come Western resort not unlike Green
acre in this part of the country.
Miss Jane Adams has left the city
for a four months tour in Europe.
health and recreation being the object
sought. That sbe will gain both is the
universal wish of the inhabitants OF the
city she honors by her residence.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward says women
have been hampered heretofore as
writer's OF fiction owing to the fact that
they could not travel and explore with.
out escorts. She expects great things of
women in literature now that the old
prejudices are passing away.
The ex Empress Eugene, who is
still engaged on her memoirs, uses a
penholder that is set with diamonds.
This was employed by the fourteen rep
resentatives in signing the treaty of the
peace of Paris in 1856, and was presented
to the ex Empress as memento. a
Clara Barton is surprised to find
that any one is interested is her. She
says: II have no mission. have never
had mission. But have always had
more work than could do lying around
my feet, and / try hard to get it out Of
the way 30 as to go on and do the next
1t is somewhat remarkable, says the
Bookman, that Mrs. Oliphant invented
the name "Thrums" and used it in one
OF her early novels. Mr.. Barrie rein
vented it in total ignorance of his pre-.
decessors book. His first choice of a
fictitious name for Kirriemuir was
"Whins."
For some months. trouble has ex-
isted between Rev. William N. Cleve-
land, pastor, and the congregation of the
Presbyterian church of Chaumont, N.
Y. The pastoral relation has now been
dissolved by the Presbytery. and Mr..
Cleveland, who is brother of President
Cleveland, will seek another charge.
-Rosela Babcock a strong girl of if
teen, is an important factor in the mail
service at Palmasola, Fla. Twice every
weekday, wind or calm, rain or shine,
she rows a mile to deliver the mail to the
river boat, Tarpon. On the 500 per
month that she earns by this work, she
supports mother and younger sister.
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, the noted
traveller, arrived at Seoul. Corea, short
time ago. and is the guest of Mr.. Hitler,
the British consul. Although an inva.
lid, Mrs. Bishop is preparing for soil
tary trip across to Pekin. The passion
for travel which distinguishes this
woman. and her endurance, though always
i'll, may be said to be little short of the
marvellous.
In his "reminiscences of the late Am
broise Thomas, Jules Simon tells an in
teresting story. After the war of 1870
M. Thomas returned to his villa, expect
ing to find everything topsy-turvy, as it
had been occupied by Prussian soldiers.
Instead of which everything was intact,
and on the hall table was a card bearing
the name of the officer, and underneath
the words Nephew of Meyerbeer."
South Africa now claims to have
the richest man in the world, Mr.. John
B. Robinson. Mr.. r 1binson is estimated
to be worth s34O0O0000. In 1878 he
was struggling hard to make living out
of grocery store in the Orange Free
State, but not succeeding, he and his
wife begged their way to Kimberly, 300
miles distant. Here he struck big
diamond at the start and went rapidly up
t. his enormous fortune.
Mrs. Tyndall is said to be making
good progress in the preparation of her
husbands biography. She has at last
systematic ed the enormous correspond
ance at her disposal, and has put most
OF her other material in ord err The
book can hardly be expec ted, however,
for year or more. Tyndall's fascinat-
ing Glaciers of the Alps" which has
been out of print for long time. is soon
to be reissued by the Longmans. Mrs.
Tyndall has written preface for it.
"A. Kruger, of Phoenixville, Pa, a
cousin of President Kruger. of the
Transvaal Republic, denies the story that
Paul Kruger or his parents ever lived
in America. The presidents parents,
ha savs wara horn and livad oil thar