The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-07-18
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

can explorer, is seriously i'll in London.
DIR. Jameson and his associates in
the Transvaal raid were indicted in Lon
don on June % for violation of the
Foreign Enlistment act"
George Vanderbilt opens his memoir.
ial church at Biltmore, N. c., on July
10. He will take select party of friends
South with him. and has been looking
after choir singers, who will be imported
for the purpose from the North.
Mics Eva Blantyre Simpson, the
only surviving daughter of the late Sir
James Simpson, intends to mark the
approaching jubilee of her fathers dis.
covery of the application of chloroform
for anesthetic purposes, by the issue of
his biography.
August Belmont, of New York, a
man with at fortune estimated at close
to 100000, has few leisure hours. He
is at his office at 9 in the morning and
leaves it only when work for the day is
over. Sometimes that is as late as or 8
o'clock in the evening.
ID. L. Moody is credited with saying
of his family "Our mother made us 60
regularly to church. And it did not
turn us against going to church. 1t sci.
dom does, any more than sending boys
and girls to school turns them against
education, or requiring them to practice
on the piano turns them against music"
Pope Leo XIII. has the old school
habit of taking snuff, and it is interest
ing to Americans to learn that all he
uses goes to him from this country. 1t
is made in Baltimore, from the finest
Virginia and Kentucky tobacco, is
favored with altar of roses, and by the
time the duties upon it have been paid
to the italian government it is the high
est-priced snuff in the world.
1t is asserted that of the long list of
philanthropists who have given $1,000
600 or more to the cause of higher edu-
cation in this country only one himself
was college graduate. The single ex-
ception is Seth Low. Girard, Peabody,
Cornell. Cooper, Rockefeller, Rich,
Packer, Hopkins, Clark, Drexel, Van
derbilt. De Paw, Lick. Stanford and
others had not the advantages of college
education.
Mrs. Talcott. who died recently at
her home near Hartford, Connecticut
was over one hundred and five years
old, and belonged to family noted for
its longevity. Her own mother lived to
be nearly one hundred. while her great
grandmother reached the age of one
hundred and seven. For three genera
lions the women of the family have lived
to be centenarians. Mrs. Talcott retained
her faculties until the last, ate what she
wanted, took care of her own room, and
attended to various small domestic du-
ties. Her memory was unimpair ed, and
she was fond of telling how she had
danced at ball given in Lafayettes
honor. She remembered, too, the fu-
neral of George Washington.
AT the SEVENTEEN commencement of
the Western Reserve University at
Cleveland, o., among the honorary de-
grees conferred was that Of LII D. upon
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the emil
nent American historian of Boston,
Harvard College bestowed the degree of
A. M. upon Booker T. Washington, the
able and devoted President of Tuske-
gee University. at the same time that
Tufts College honored Mrs. Livermore.
When Mr.. Washington's name was
called by President Eliot. and the black
man, born slave. stood up in the midst
of all that distinguished company to re-
ceive his degree. the whole assemblage
impulsively joined in great outburst
of applause. His address later at the
alumni dinner is characterized as the
most forceful and eloquent of the occa-
sion.
The statement is again going the
rounds of the press that Isaac Rich gave
Boston University two millions of dol
lars. ITO prevent misapprehensions of a
serious kind" writes President Warren,
sit is necessary to explain that while he
hoped and had good reason to hope. that
what he bequeathed to the university
would be fully worth two millions of
dollars by the time it should come into
the hands of the corporation, as mat
ter of fact the great fire of 1872, and the
great panic of 1873. and the loss of the
real estate belonging to Mr.. Rich in
Brooklyn, N. Y, but not capable under
New York statutes of being devised to
foreign corporation, so reduced the gift
that at the expiration of the ten years.
term fixed in the will the whole amount
received by the University was less than
seven hundred thousand dollars"
The Boston Transcript says of the
monument erected in Boston, Mass, to
the memory of john Hancock: "For 103
years the tomb of John Hancock in the
Old Granary burying ground has been
marked only by the name Hancock"
The bronze marker of the Sons of the
American Revolution was placed in
front of the tomb several years ago, and
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