Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-29
PERSONAL NOTES.

The French government has decided -
prosecute Arton, of Panama notorlety,
for having bribed deputy, although the
deputy has been tried for receiving the
bride and has been acquitted.
The popularity of foot ball at Harvard
college Is attested by the fact that in
electing class-day officers the senior class
recently took four out of the eighteen
officers from the foot ball team.
Cardinal Satolli declares that there Is
no truth whatever in the recent dis
patches from Rome, saying that he had
denounced Archbishop Ireland, Bishop
Keane and other American Catholics to
the pope.
The Partisan idea of canard is Illus
trated by the prominence given to the
story that Emperor William was in Paris
in disguise during the visit of the car,
and that his presence was known to the
French government
The moral about ill-gotten gains not
prospecting does not seem to apply to the
case of the ccnscience-strlciSen thief In
Oregon who on his death-bed handed
over to Louis Davenport the sum of S27,-
600, which represented the accumulations
OF $4,000 worth of gold dust stolen from
Davenport thirty years ago.
81 the viii of the late John Hoffman
Cola more OF Boston, $500 Is given to
each of the charity funds of seventeen
different Masonic bodies, and $50 900 to
the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts,. This
sum is to be called the John H. Cola
more Fund" and is to be for the relief of
deserving Masons and their families.
Mr. Arthur Sewall has talked even less
since the close of the presidential cam
paign than he did during it's progress.
About the only comment of his on the
result of the election that has found It's
way into print is a statement to the eff
feet that this country will remain in
the control OF trusts and injunctions for
the next four years"
The Chicago Record unselfishly sug-
gests that Joseph Medill, editor of the
Chicago Tribune, be Senator Palmer,s
successor. "Mr. Medill," it says, sis a
low-tariff republican, not an extreme
prCtectionist. In this economic princi-
pie he stands in harmony with other par
ty leaders, and with the position of the
party itself as 1t is defined by the re-
cent election.
DR.. Edmund Potts Christian. of Detroit,
who has just died, was one of the most
eminent physicians in Michigan. For
years he was one of the editors of 1.-THE
Peninsular Journal OF Medicine" He
was president of the Michigan state
medical society for many years, and in
1876 was a delegate to the International
Medical congress in Philadelphia, rep
resenting the University of Michigan.
He represented the Michigan state medi-
cal society at a. number of conventions,
and was a member of the board of vsi-
tors of the university of Michigan.
The delegates who attended in Paris
the congress of the International Coop
erative alliance, dedicated in the Square
des Epinettes the statue of Jean Leclaire,
who first, in 1912, applied to the institu-
ton he had founded the system of par
ticipation in profits of the various ven
lures carried on by the International Co
operative alliance. The statue Is of
bronze, erected upon a pedestal of Vosges
granite. Leclaire is represented as bend
ing over a. laborer in order to raise him
to his own level At his feet ere various
attributes Of the house-painter's profess
sion, to which he belonged.