The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-14
WELL KNOWN PERSONS
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.


Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson the au-
thor of "Beulah,' has been in feeble
health since the death Of her husband,
FIVE years ago. She has left her coun-
try home, near Mobile, Ala, and now is
living in that city.
John Jacob Astor is a fireman.
Both he and Governor Morton are men,
bers of the Schell Hose Company, of
Rhinebeck. Mr.. Astor has a rubber
suit and fireman's hat, and, il fire
alarm should be rupg when he is at
Rhinebeck, he would be one of the first
to turn out.
The Curtis Club, of Ashfield, Mass
achusetts. the town where the late
George William Curtis made his sum-
mer home for twenty-seven years, has re-
Gently erected in the town hall brass
tablet ain grateful and affectionate re-
membrance of George William Curtis,
and as a memorial of his presence and
speech on many occasions in this hail."
The latest addition to the Carlyle
Museum in Cheyne Row Is the famous
red bedstead in which Mrs. Carlyle was
born. 1t has gone though a series of
vicissitudes since it was first brought
from Craigenputtoch to London, was
given away after Carlyle's death to his
honsekeeper, Mrs. Warren, and has only
recently become the property of the
Carlyle House trustees.
-Tennyson's aversion to autograph
seekers is we'll known. On one occasion
certain citizen Of Albion, N. Y. wrote
the poet request for an Autograph
and sentiment" Receiving no reply, he
wrote again. and, after a similar result,
wrote a third time. Then, however,
came sheet on which the great man
had written: ga Tennyson Sentiment,
Ask me no more. '"-Independent.
To Mrs. Thomas Hardy. if all re-
ports be true. the world owes her hug
bands novels, for it was through her
influence that he was induced to give up
architecture as a profession and adopt
literature in its stead. She copied out
his first novel in her own hand and her.
self sent it to the publishers, and she
makes it part Of her work to keep post
ed upon the literature of the day. in or
der that she may have a store of knowl.
edge at her husbands command.
AT Hyde Park, Mass, lives a real
daughter of the Revolution" Mrs. AIDE.
line Goulding. Her Father, Gen. Will
lam Hildreth. died at Concord in 1918,
when Mrs. Goulding was years old.
At Andover, Me-, there is another real
daughter" Mrs.. Catherine Montgomery
Poor. She. too, is SO years old. John
Alexander Montgomery, her father, was
a volunteer, and afterward an officer
under Washington, and at the close of
the war received ring from him as
token of recognition for meritorious con-
duct,
In his early days Lord Russell, of
Killowen, Chief Justice of England, had
a good deal to put up with from older
men and judges, who thought to prune
down his exuberance. One day Sir
Digby Seymour, @. c., kept up flow of
small talk when Russell was speaking.
II wish you would be quiet, Seymour"
said Russell. with his Irish accent. MY
name is Seymour, il you please" replied
the learned gentleman with mock dig
nifty. "Then wish you would see more
and say less" was the reioinder.-
Gazette.
1t was often said of M. Adrien Leon,
who has just died near Bayonne, France,
that he saved the republic by single
vote. On Feb. q, 1875, when the remod-
cling of the COZ stitution was debated.
M. Wallon's amendment fixing the con-
ditiops for the election of the President
was regarded as the crucial tests on
which the fate of France depended.
Leon, sitting in the right center. hest.
tated, but was persuaded by Gambetta
to support the Republicans at the last
moment, and the amendment was car
ried by majority Of one.
-Paganini's violin is still in existence,
preserved under seal in the municipal
building of Genoa. and the latest must
clan to be honored with the privilege
of playing on it is Leandro Campanari,
brother of the baritone and until re-
Gently professor at the College of Music,
Cincinnati. The case containing the
violin was opened to enable two new
strings to be fastened to the violin in the
presence OF committee OF municipal
legislators. Campanari played Pagan
ini's "Campanella," Schubert's Ave
Maria" and study by Bazzini.
Miss Mary Gwendolin Caldwell,
who was married to the Marquis de Mer-
inville. inherited from her father for
tune of more than s2,0O0.000. She gave
$4,000 to found the Catholic Univer-
sity in Washington, and it has been
several times rumored that she would
take the veil. A few years ago she was
to have married the aged and invalid
Prince Murat. grandson of the King of
Naples, but few days before the we'd
d;ro che puhliclv atatad that tho an