The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-06-27
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

Hansen. the Norwegian ski runner
Is going to the new Siberian islands to
inspect the depots of provisions left
there for Nansen and to search for
traces of the expedition.
For fifty years Mr.. Gladstone and
Punch lived side by side in England and
now they are about to publish life of
The Grand Old Man. in pictures
taken from his comic contemporary
Miss M. E. Garrett, of MARYLAND
has recently given the medical depart.
ment OF the Johns Hopkins University
prlnceiy endowment, on the express con.
dition that all its advantages shall for.
ever be shared by women.
This summer marks the twentv.
hfty anniversary of President Julius D.
Dreher's connection with the Roanoke
college, Salem, Va, and the board of
trustees have marked the event bv ad.
opting series of complimentary resoIu.
tions.
Inc widow of John S. G. Abbott.
the friend and teacher of the BOYS of a
past generation, has just died. 1t is
SAID that many of the fifty-fou books
which Dr. Abbott wrote were trans.
crioed and indexed by her with her own
hand.
-One OF the guests at the ceremony
OF unwilling the statue of General Will.
lam Henry Harrison in Cincinnati was
Bernard Mcdonald of Grant county Tn.
diana, now more than so years old, who
acted as pallbearer at the funeral of Gen.
eral Harrison.
Ivan Feodorovitch Kouzmin, Rus.
sian peasant whose baptismal record is
IN existence, is, according to the author
tues, l3S years old. His eyesight is per.
feet, and he is much more active tbon
his son of ninety. His case is said to
nave been examined and there is no
doubt of his identity with the record.
-Difficulties have arisen with regard
to the administration of Baron Hirscb's
estate. More than one of the executors
named by the testator have refused to
act and complications have also arisen
from the manner in which the will is
orawn. 1t is expected that the property
In England which will pay duty to the
chancellor of the exchequor will fall
little short of 100000.
The entertainment of loyalty is ex.
pensive. An English paper states that
the Earl of Lonsdale is known to have
spent close upon million dollars in con-
nectlon with four days visit which EN-
peror William paid him at Lowther
Castle last Autumn. They say that
Lady VIM. Beresford paid $4,000 to
entertain the Prince of Wales from Sat.
urday to Monday at Deepdeene.
Mr.. Quilliam, lawyer, of Liverpool.
follower of Mahomet, and the Sheik.
ul-Isiam (chief of the religion) of the
British Isles, has issued proclamation
In his journal, the Crescent. and has
had it translated into Arabian, Persian,
and Hindoostan, calling upon all the
faithful to decline to take part in the
Soudan expedition. He says that apy
Mahommedan who ever gives glass of
water to a soldier intending to war
against his fellow believers is not worthy
OF being counted among the faithful.
John James Piatt, the we'll known
poet, is now employed in the basement
OF the city postoffice at Washington. He
belongs in Ohio, was in the consular
service for nearly quarter of century,
but has found neither official life nor
poetry profitable. He is. however. prom
ised better job and expects to be placed
In charge OF the house of representatives
mails in the city postoffice. Mr.. Piatt
has recently returned from Ireland,
where he remained after leaving the
consular service, and from the press of
Archibald Constable of Edinburgh he
has just issued volume entitled The
Ghost Sentry and Other Poems" His
wife, Mrs. Sarah M. B. Platt, who is as
we'll known in the literary world, has al
SO recently had a volume, The Child's
World Ballads and Other Poeme," pub
lished by the same firm. Mr.. Piatt has
two sons in the consular service in Ire
land and was candidate for librarian
OF the house of representatives. Fai log
to secure that appointment, he accepts, d
his present position until something bet
ter could be provided for him.-Chicaqo
Record.
In the closing chapter of her Mem
cries" in The Atlantic May, Mrs Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop writes of her father:
at seemed to me terrible thing that
one so peculiarly strong. sentient, um-
inous. as my father should grow feebler
and fainter, and finally ghostly still and
white. Yet when his step was lettering
and his frame that of wrath, he wasas
dignified as in the days of greater pride,
holding himself, in military self COM
mand, even more erect than before. He
did not omit to come in his very best
black coat to the dinner table, where
the extremely prosaic fare had no effect