The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-07-04
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

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The German Empress has during
the past year grown much stouter, and
she is seriously thinking of trying some
cure, as she has great horror of grow.
ing too fat
One of the most noted architects of
Boston, Mass, Dennis Reardon, has
been blind since his 9th year. He de-
signed the plans for the Boston Library,
the Natural History building and many
other prominent edifces.
Kate Gannett Wells, in her interest.
ing letter in the Boston Transcript upon
the recent Arbitration Conference held
at the Lake Mohonk Mountain House.
says: Bishop Foss of the Methodist
church spoke with apostolic fervor, and
DIR. Macarthur like an impassioned
Scotchman."
The University Hall work in London
inaugurated by Mrs. Humphrey Ward,
which may be characterized as
Thought settlement" mission of mind
has taken the name of "The Passmore
Edwards Settlement this gentleman
having contributed fifty thousand dol
lars toward the cost of the new build
ing.
Julia Ward Howe, gracious WON.
an. gifted with large intelligence and
wide sympathies, who has wrought her
name into the nations history, has Just
past her seventy seventh birthday. 1t
was at her SEVENTEEN birthday celebra.
ton DIR. Holmes said it was better ito
be seventy years young than forty years
DID,"
Prof. Wolfskoff has discovered, by
means of microscope, many interest.
ing details connected with the life of the
ancient Egyptians, in brick taken
from the ruins of the pyramid of Das-
hour. The brick itself is made of mud
from the Nile. chopped straw. and sand,
thus confirming what the Bible and
Herodotus had handed down to us as
the Egyptian method of brickmaking.
The recent gift of $4,000 by Rev.
Sheldon Jackson, D. D., to the Univer-
versity of Utah, recalls to the Evange-
list his splendid service, first just beyond
the Mississippi, and later in the great
Rocky Mountain region, when it was
costly and perilous to be pioneer mis-
sionary. and for his no less gallant dis
charge of most difficult and delicate
tasks in the administration of religious
and educational affairs in Alaska.
"A short time ago book was pub
lished which attempted to prove that
Marshal Ney was not shot in 1915, but
escaped to America, and became a
schoolmaster in North Carolina where,
as alleged, he lately died. To set at rest
all doubts in this matter, cousin of
Nine. Ney, who is now living in America,
contributes to the July Century fam
lily record Of Ney's execution, written by
Nine. Campan, who was the aunt of
Nine. Ney.
Clara Barton is surprisingly master
ing the forlorn situation in Armenie.
Agencies have been established in near
ly every province, some of which con-
tain as many as three hundred villages.
The men are at work in the fields and
are rebuilding the villages, while the
women, having been furnished with the
material, are clothing the members of
their households. Seeds are being dis
tributed. and two yokes of oxen are as
signed to each village. If the slaughter
is not renewed, the remaining Armeni
ans will be prepared to meet the next
winter. Miss Barton displays rare or
ganizing capacity.
There are people who are not in
clined to favor small causes, or the 80.
called day of small things or trivial
things. This is not the spirit of the text
mind not high things. but condescend."
Every one knows the story of Sir Isaac
Newton and the falling apple which was
quite as common an occurrence as the
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since the creation. but no one took to
rejecting upon 80 ordinary or small
matter. Newton opened the eyes of his
mind as he saw the apple descend, and
wandered from the orchard 10 vast fields
of science, The great central law of the
universe gravitation-was caught from
observing one of the most trivial events,
and the name of the discover has be-
come immortal.
"A letter. recently published. from
Bonaparte to his friend. Paul |, the EN-.
peror of Russia, shows that but for the
assassination of the latter in 1901 the
Suez Canal might have been cut many
years before 1869. Napoleon wrote that
the British threatened to invade Egypt.
and that their pride and insolence should
be rebuked. He added: "The Suez
Canal, which will unite the Mediterran-
can and the Indian ocean, is surveyed.
1t is work which can be finished with
in short time, and which would prove
tc be of incalculable benefit to Russian
commerce" 1t is interesting to note
that the diplomatic representative of
France in Egypt at that time was M. de
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