The herald., 1896-12-04
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

| George Frederick Watts has sent in
| his resignation as royal academician.
One of the Duke of Wellington's post :
| boys has, just died at the age of SO years.
| d. L. Moody, the evangelist. is to be
| gin series of revival meetings in Boston
| on January l.
| A boy born to Mr.. and Mrs. Prescott
| during the ringing of the curfew, at To
| peka, Kan. the other evening, has been
| named Charles Curfew Prescott.
| Barney Lloyd of Charlestown, w. Va,
| Is the last surviving member of the
| grand jury which in 1859 indicted John
J Brown for invasion and inciting insur-
| rection.
DR.. Nansen will lecture in London,
Edinburgh, Glasgow. Dundee. Aber-
deem Newcastle, Liverpool, Manches-
| ter, Birmingham, Belfast, Dublin and
| Swansea.
| Governor Robert L. Taylor, Of
Tennessee, is going to take the lecture
platform again and give his musicaIiy
interspersed lecture, The FOOLS Para
disc"
More than thirty members of the Chi
| cago bar are negroes. The first negro
to be admitted to the bar in the state
of Illinois was Lloyd G.. Wheeler, who
was admitted in 1869.
Ruskin has spent in good deeds for
tune of more than SI50,000, and his pres
ent income depends almost wholly on the
royalties of recent popular edition of
his works
There are 10 newspaper editors in the
house of commons, 4 tailors. stationers.
butchers, 3 hotel keepers tenant
farmers, coal merchant al Z cab pro-
prietor.
Kaiser Wilhelm is extending his idea
Of artistic collaboration. He is now
said to be at work on historical drama,
which young poet of Wiesbaden Will
put into German verse for him.
Queen Victoria, when she leaves
| Windsor for Balmorel. is provided with
| about dozen copies of a sort of way bill
! Of her journey, which contains list OF
all the people in the train. and the com
| partments in which they are.
| Frederick Nansen will receive a
| special gold medal from the Royal Geo.
| graphical society when he goes to Lon
| don as he has already received the So
| ciety's highest award, the gold medal,
| for his explorations in Greenland.
They say W. d. Howells orders clip
| pings on a phase of life and uses in
| cidents thus obtained for the foundation
| of his story. Here he walks in the
| footsteps of Charles Reade. who ex-
| planned his methods of work in that
much abused novel; "A Terrible Temp
| tation."
The famous Kelmscott Press, at Ham
| nersmith. on which the late William
| Morris expended such constant care and
personal attention, is about to be closed,
no one having been found to carry on
| his work. When the few books now i'll
| hand are worked off no more will be
| executed.
| Fifty-six of the seventy-two British
army survivors of Balaklava were en-
tertained recently at the Old Royal no
tel. Birmingham. A prominent feature
| of the gathering was the head in glass
| case, upon which Lord Cardigan was
| mounted in the daring charge.
It is stated that the languages used
by the czar and czarina in their private
intercourse are English and German
French and Italian being seldom spoken
| by their majesties when alone. The ear
| ina did not learn Russian till after her
betrothal. but, though she as yet speaks
it very slowly it Is with good accent
1 and great distinctness.
Gen. E. W. Pettus, who has been elect
ed a United States senator from Ala
| bama. to succeed senator Pugh, has been
identified with the state of Alabama for
fifty years. He was born in Limestone
county, Alabama, in 1921. In 1910 he be-
gan the practice of law and became
| prominent in politics. He took con-
spicuous part in the rebellion, being at
its close a confederate brigadier- gen
eral. He Is an uncompromising free sill
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