The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-02-01
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

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Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will deliver
lecture in the spring in Syracuse. N.
Y, on Personal "reminiscences of the
New England Poets.''
Alfred Rothschild keeps seven chefs,
one OF whom has nothing to do beyond
making curries. Rothschild rarely dimes
away from home. frankly declaring that
he prefers his own table to any other.
"A petition signed by 800 citizens of
Massachusetts was recently presented to
the Massachusetts, State Senate asking
that statue of Gen. Joseph Hooker,
who was native Of that State. be erec-
ted in some appropriate place.
Since Lord Glasgow was appointed
governor-general of New Zealand, four
years ago, he has been shipwrecked once,
participated 10 two railway collisions,
been thrown from horse and tossed by
bull-and is not all discouraged.
CONTRARY to general belief. the Mar
quis of Dufferin is not regarded as very
able or brilliant diplomatist by any one
save the general public. His retirement
few weeks hence from the post of
British ambassador at Paris, on the
ground Of age is hailed with satisfaction
by the London foreign office.
"A movement has been started in
Cincinnati to erect monument to the
memory Of General Zebulon Pike, the
discoverer Of Pixies Peak, who was killed
during the war of 1912 while leading an
attack on the British troops at Toronto,
at that time known as York. General
Pike was buried at Sackett's Harbor.
Lord Bennett, who recently con.
tracted a marriage with Miss Marter
OF Tacoma, WASH, and who is the son
and heir of the exceedingly aged Lord
Tankerville, enjoys the distinction of
being the first lord to become member
Of the Baptist church. He was recently
baptized by complete immersion by the
Rev. F. B. Meyer.
AT the election of Pope Plus TX, out
of sixty-one Cardinals only nine we're
not Italians; at his death there were
twenty four on-Italisns out of sixty
four. When Cardinal Persico died a
little while ago the members were equal,
thirty-two OF each, but the death of
Cardinal Melchers leaves the Italian
Cardinals in a majority of one.
Miss Williams. professor of English
at the Normal School of Sevres, has
founded Franco English Guild" the
object Of which is to make French girls
who have learned English acquainted
with the views of American and English
women through lectures and meetings
in Paris, or by correspondence. Mrs.
Potter Palmer has lectured before the
society on the work of women in the
United States.
-Passmore Edwards, editor Of the
London Echo. paper which the Spec
tator describes as "the most honest and
most faddy in the world,' gives away
thousands of pounds every month to
philanthropic undertakings of various
kinds. These he is said to select with
great judgment, but he always takes
care to exploit his good deeds at great
length in his own paper, and persistent
ly asks other journalists to do the same
in their own publications.
-Menelek ii. OF Abyssinia, who has
been giving good deal of trouble to the
Italians, is the son of an Amhara chief
tain who was dethroned in 1856. Meme
lex, then boy of IA, was carried off as
prisoner of war. Eight years later he
escaped, and after killing the Abysein-
ian Governor of Shoa, assumed the
office and powers of his victim. Later
he married the daughter of the Emperor
Of Abyssinia, and in 1889, upon the
death Of his father-in-law, assembled the
throne.
Says the Boston Transcript: "a
movement has been started at Amherst
to erect statue of Lord Amherst, from
whom the town, and thence the college,
received its name Amherst was named
after Jeffrey, the first Lord Amherst,
who was Commander of the British
army OF North America from 1853 to
1894. He was made Right of the Bath
in 1761. and was elevated to the peerage
in 1776. AS a patron of colonization in
America his name was used in establish
ing the Amherst colony"
The question who was the first Eng
lish Poet Laureate, Ike the question as
to who was the first Pope, is still an I'M
solved problem. There were probably
laureates from John Cain to Spencer,
and morally greater ones than Dryden,
who. as the gloiifier of Cromwell,
whipped around with the wind and did
not hesitate to compare Charles ii. to
the King of kings. There have, too
been inferior laureates now all unknown
as for example Whitehead and Warton.
In view of all which it does not signify
much that Alfred Austin, not too we'll
known anywhere, should be made Poet
Laureate. His verse is not over-well
known; and it is doubtless the truth