The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-12
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NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.
GEORGE L. Perrin.

Our ancestors ate much more meat
than we do. says an English writer. In
Queen Elizabeth's time her maids of
honor were allowed three rump steaks
for breakfast. Mutton was not so much
used as beef, being looked upon as diet
rather for fastidious appetite than for
a woman in good health.
Pres dent Warren, lamenting the fact
that the Theological School of Boston
university had not single New England
man among its thirty eight graduates
this year. says: ut compels the thought
full to ask if New England Methodism
is unconsciously allowing her old time
leadership in the church and in the fields
of reform to pass to other hands,"
The saying ITO die in the last
ditch" may be ascribed to William of
Orange. When Buckingham urged the
inevitable destruction which hung over
the united provinces and asked him
whether he did not see that the common
wealth was ruined, the prince replied:
"There is one certain means by which |
can be sure never to see my country's
ruin-I will die in the last ditch"
The London Chronicle says that
"the Empress Eugene is now in much
better health than she has been for
years. Her tall, graceful figure, her
beautiful white hair and her very distin-
guished features render her conspicu-
GUS wherever she goes, and it may be
said with truth that as an old lady her
appearance is quite as charming in it's
way as it was beautiful a quarter Of a
century ago."
Miss Barbara Brady, who has just
obtained first class in the typical Ok
ford examination of the School of Literae
Humaniores, is the first Oxford woman
student who has gained first-class hon.
ors in two university examinations, both
being, in her case, classical. Lady Mar
garet Hall, from which Miss Brady
took both "moderations" and greats
claims priority of foundation among the
Oxford colleges for women.
Elizabeth Blackwell, M. D., who at
the age Of 70 has just published book
of photographed notes, entitled
"Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical
Profession to Women" was the first wo-
man to receive a medical diploma from
any medical college in this country or
Europe. Though she is native of
England. she is an American by adop-
ton, having taken her degree and pur-
sued the greater part of her medical
practice here.
Emperor William takes special in
terest in the building of the Church of
the Redeemer in Jerusalem, work On
which is progressing rapidly. The spire
is nearly finished, and the completion of
the interior of the church will shortly be
taken in hand. The designs for the por-
tico, the altar and the pulpit are &C.
copied, and it is stated that those for the
pulpit, as we'll as for the spire, were
O1 LILO I4upoTOT Qln66lI.
Henry Ward Beecher once said: II
tell you. if man come to that point
where he is content, he ought to be put
in his coffin, for a contented live man is
shaml IL a man has come to that
state in which he says, Il do not want to
know any more, or do any more. or be
any more he is in a state which he
ought to be changed into mummy. OF
all hideous things. mummies are the
most hideous, and of mummies those are
the most hideous that are running about
the streets and talking"
M. lola, when recently charged with
piracy from other writer's. frankly ad-
mitted having helped himself literally
from other authors, but he justified him
self in these words: II am not scholar,
nor an historian. but a novelist. All
that can be demanded of me is to start
from what is known to establish solidly
my basis. That is why fortify myself
with documents drawn from necessary
sources. My real work then begins, and
my business is to make life with the ma
terials have had to take where they
WERE"
MIR. Longfellow was fond of Italians
and was specially gratifed by the love and
honor accorded him in Italy. A letter
from an Italian admirer addressed to
"Mr. Greatest Poet Longfellow" amused
him greatly. 1t distressed him to refuse
the cross of San Lazzaro, the italian
literary decoration. which was offered
him by the king of Italy. but. though no
man was ever less bigot in things civil
or religious than he. he said firmly: 'Of
course, as republican and Protestant,
l can't accept a decoration from a
Catholic prince"
These are times when it is wise } oc-
casiona ly read John Wesley's adnoni-
ton: Condemn no man for not think
ing as you think. Let every one enjoy
the full and free liberty of thinking for
himself. Let every man use his own
judgment, since every man must give
an account of himself to God. Abhor
every approach, in any kind or degree, to
the spirit of persecution. you cannot
reason OF persuade men into the truth,