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

| lung OHduS III september, Wlo1 Ule
latter visits the United States. General
Fosteris an in innate friend of the vice.
roy and served as his confidential advis-
or during the peace negotiations with
Japan.
| In an interview on the late Jules
Simon, Rochefort said: although he
was Minister several times. he accom-
plished the feat-a rarity. under the
circumstances, which deserves empha-
sizing-of acquiring no fortune and
dying poor"
Massachusetts has lost within two
years six of her Governors, all of them
OF national reputation-Ames, Banks,
Rice, Robinson, Greenhalge, and Russell.
Today she has left only four of her Gov
errors of the past-Long, Bracket, Olaf.
lin, and Boutwell,.
"A unique anniversary was celebra-
ted in Newport. N. H., last week 1t was
the Goth anniversary of the birth of
twin sisters, Mrs. Martha Brozee and
Mrs. Mary West. Both sisters are active
and in good health. Their father lived
to 80, and their mother SO.
Attorneys December and January
are two Nevada lawyers who are anus (
ing the Kansas people just now, where
they have gone on business. The two
men are distinguished lawyers in Ne
vada, and their firm style is January &
December, attorneys at law"
Cecil Piatt, the youngest son of
John ]. Piatt, the poet, is Secretary to
the United States Consul at Cork, and
recently rescued drowning yachtsman
at Queenstown. displaying heroism and
judgment which have called out words
Of praise from the English press.
Let man be nominated for an Of
fee and his antecedents will soon be
rooted out of the past. 1t has already
been discovered that the grandfather
OF Candidate Arthur Sewall, Samuel
Smith, was the Judge before whom some
of the Salem witches were tried and
convicted.
Lord Russell, of Killowen, Lord
Chief Justice of England, will deliver the
annual address before the nineteenth
annual meeting of the American Bar
Association, which will be held at Sara.
toga Springs, August 1921. Lord Rus.
sells subject will be international
Arbitration"
The sneers and filings of the London
World at Mrs. Stowe and her reputa-
ton seem to be due to prejudice. while
even the one concession which it makes
to her sincerity" is founded on ignor-
ance, as will be seen by it's statement:
There can, of course, be no question of
the sincerity which inspired her lurid
attack upon the iniquities of New Eng
land slavery!
"A new anecdote of Christopher
North has been put in circulation, one
that is not only new, but authentic. A
feminine enthusiast was talking to the
eccentric writer about his mobile hea j."
she told him about his frontal dev elop-
meht" and so on. Finally, Kit replied.
with result that can be imagined:
True, madam; in our village there was
only one head bigger than mine. and
that was the village idiots
When Theirs was President of the
French Republic he was about to issue
some important manifesto. and SUBJ
mitted the draft to critical friend
"Yee," said the critic, "the matter is
clearly expressed but l miss the ease and
fiuency of your usual style" "Ah" re-
piled Theirs, II have not worked those
in yet. The ease will cost me much
labor, and the fuencY l shall have to
drag in by the hair of it's head"
-"All Epglishmen," says the London
Chronicle, irrespective of party, will
read with pleasure the account of the
honors which Oxford has accorded to
Mr.. Bayard. We never reckon Ameri-
cans as foreigners. and Mr.. Bayard,
coming of stock that is bone of our
bone, is fifty honored by the university
where the intellectual and moral life of
the mother country has been 30 largely
nurtured."
The little book on his mother. which
Mr.. j. M. Barrie has just finished, and
which is to be published by the Messre.
Scribner under the title of "Marget
Ogilvy," is not biography in the Or I
binary sense. but gives aspects and in
cidents of his mothers life in the style
which Mr.. Barrie's readers know, keep
ing close throughout to facts. In the
opinion of the London Bookman, at is
perhaps the most beautiful and exquisite
piece of work he has yet accomplished.
Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coke, Bishop
of Western New York, one of the notable
| figures in the Episcopal church, died
recently. He had been prominent in
controversial theology, especially in re-
polling the claims of the Roman Catho-
lie church, for many years. He was
also we'll known as lecturer. and as
the editor of the American edition of
the Ante-Nicene Fathers. Though