The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-01
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

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General Gordon, it may be interest.
ing to recall, wanted Cecil Rhodes to &C.
company him in old days to the Soudan.
Mrs. Flora Patterson, sister of Pro.
lessor Eugene Wambaugh of the Har.
ward Law School. has lately received the
appointment of assistant pathologist in
the Department of Agriculture in Wash
ington.
John H. Brown of Santa Cruz, CAL,
saw the first American flag raised in
San Francisco. 1t was fioated in May
1916, by Captain Watson and some other
officers of the United States warship
Portsmouth.
"A tablet in memory of Felice Orsini,
who tried to blow up Napoleon III. with
a bomb, has been placed on the house
near Placenza in which he lay concealed
from the police just before he made his
way to France.
The death of the eminent Japanese
biologist Hirota is announced by Nature,
which dwells on the merits of his re-
searches and publications, in the last of
which he disposed of an error in funda-
mentals, of which Western embryolo-
gists. studying the hens egg ad naus.
cam, had never dreamed"
Miss G. H. Lippincott, of Minneap-
oils, has for ten years carried on a sue
cessful flower seed business, extending \
all over this country and into Canada as
we'll. She was the pioneer woman seed
dealer of the country and has built up
ths largest exclusive fower-seed bust
ness in the United States.
MIR. Balfour, the leader of the house
OF commons, has been attacked by mem.
bers of his own party for his devotion
to athletics. A champion comes to his
defense with the statement that he plays
golf only on Saturday afternoons and
cycles "only for an hour or so each morn
ing" when he is in London.
TO Mr.. Morley. the great English
Liberal, book in a garden is an unsur.
passed delight. He has no amusements.
He cares neither for sport nor sports; the
idea of Mr.. Morley on bicycle is too
ludicrous to be entertained; but he is a
good walker, and not only walks home at
night, but sometimes wanders in quiet
suburb
Professor Roentgen, of tx" ray fame,
uAEur L. AL q L.
recently intended to spend few days in
Florence, but hardly had his arrival be.
come known when 200 students came to
salute him. He bluntly told them they
would have done better to attend their
lectures. Later on, hearing that other
demonstrations were planned, he took
the first train out of the city.
There are two known survivors of
the famous ball given by the duchess of
Richmond at Brussels on the eve of the
battle of Waterloo. They are English.
women, the ladies Louisa and Sophia
Tighe. In 1915 Lady Louisa was II and
Lady Sophia was years of age. They
were both looking on at the dancing of
the great duke of Wellington with their
elder sister, Lady De Ros, who died
only year or two ago.
Lii Hung Chang, who is now in Ger
many acting as the envoy Of China, de-
MES the existence of any secret treaty
between Russia and China, but admits
Russian railway will be built through
Manchuria. He is to begin negotiations
with Baron Won Marschall with refer
ence to commercial concessions sought
by Germany, and in the meantime is
being extensively entertained and shown
around by German officials.
George p Bidder. @. c., who died
recently at Manchester, Eng, was the
son of civil engineer who was known
in the early part OF the century as "the
calculating boy" The powers of the
father were inherited in marvellous de-
gree by the son, who could mentally
multiply figures by fifteen figures and
perform with apparent ease many SINH
lar feats. He was also successful as a
PHOTOGRAPHER and published some years
ago what is, perhaps, the only attempt
at a scientific method of analysis of
ciphsrs.
Helen Keller, the marvellous deaf,
dumb and blind child, will enter the
preparatory school for Radcliffe College
at the beginning of the fall term This
decision was reached last Saturday by
DR.. Gilman. Principal of the Gilman
Training School for Radcliffe, who for
some time has had under consideration
the proposition made to him by Miss
Annie Sullivan, the lifelong friend and
teacher of Helen, that her young charge
be admitted to the elementary course
that is the Introductory step in securing
the honors of an academic degree.
Mr.. Fraser Rae's recent biography
of Sheridan contains some acid illusions
to Croker, whom he blames for having
given publicity to George Tvs famous
or rather notorious deliverance on the
statesman whom he once treated with
affection. Now comes Mr.. Andrew Lang,
in HCosmopolie oand hints that Mr. Rae