The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-16
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences,

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1t is said that President Kruger of
the Transvaal Republic has been offered
large sum to come to America to lee.
ture on South African affairs.
Canadian papers say that Mrs. Cath.
crime Parr Trail. the only sister of Agnes
Strickland, is living on the banks of the
Ottanbee, at Lakefeld, Ont. She is now
in her ninety third year, and is said to
be an enthusiastic naturalist
An exchange says Manchester, Eng.
land, is about to erect an equestrian
statue to Sir Charles Halle, the musical
conductor who never mounted a horse
in his life. However. that is nothing.
There are lots of equestrian statues in
Washington and New York representing
men astride of horses such as no man
ever rode, ever could ride, or ever will
ride.
Walter Grant Dygert, lately released
from Guines prison, Cuba. gives his late,
keeper character for thrift that makes
the operations Of our own boodling Off
Gals look amatuerish, indeed. That
official received from the government
$40 per day to be expended for food for
the prisoners. What the prisoners act
ually got was about So worth Of half.
rotten potatoes and dirty rice, which
most of them cooked for themselves.
Mr.. Quilliam, lawyer Of Liverpool,
England, a follower of Mahomet, and the
Sheik -ul Islam tchief of the religion) of
the British Isles, has issued proclama-
ton in his journal THE Crescent" and
has had it translated into Arabian, Per-
sian and Hindoostan. calling upon all the
faithful to decline to take part in the
Soudan expedition. He says that any
Mahomedan who ever gives a glass of
water to soldier intending to war
against his fellow believers is not worthy
OF being counted among the faithful.
The Presbytery of Philadelphia
says the New York Observer, acted with
propriety when it resolved to advise DR..
A. L. Pierson promptly to seek admis-
sion into some denomination more in
sympathy with his convictions on bap-
tism. He is not now a Presby terian.
even though he may still prefer the
Presbyterian form of church govern.
ment. Presbyterians have articles of
faith, and these include the doctrine of
infant baptism. Then, too, Presbyte-
rians hold to either affusion or sprink-
lirg, as the proper mode of baptism.
With Mr.. William Black, Mr.. Barrie
and Mrs. Humphrey Ward contribu ting
serials to the three leading magazines. it
might be thought that the American
novelist had vanished. The balance,
however, is always rsctifed. Mr.. Frank
Stockton began, last week. a new serial
in the Illustrated London News, entitled
"Mrs. Cliffs Yacht of which the initial
idea, widow accidently endowed with
more worldly goods than she can con-
veniently dispose Of, promises many of
the quantity humorous incidents and
situations in which Mr.. Stockton seems
to delight
The newspapers of Constantinople
we're authorized to announce the death
OF the Shah of Persia, but without stat
ing the cause. One newspaper an.
nounces that the Shah was out for walk,
felt unwell, and died suddenly. The
Journal De ST. Petersburg says the hor.
ror inspired by such crime is wildly
felt in Russia, where the late Shah was
honored as an ally. DESTROYS of fortifying
the good relations existing between the
two countries. All Russia, the paper
continues, associates herself with the
sorrow into which Persia is plunged.
Steps are already being taken to
celebrate the 400th anniversary of Me-
lancthon's birth on February 16. 1897, at
his birthplace, Brettin, in Baden. The
Grand-duke Of Baden has consented to
act as patron of the enterprise, which
was started, and is being actively pro-
NOTED. by DR.. Nicholas Miller, professor
of theology in Berlin. The foundation
OF Melancthon Museum on the cite of
the house in which he was born, which
is now occupied by building OF modest
pretensions, is proposed. The site be-
longs to the Protestant community Of
Brettin.
In his article on Mark Twain in the
May Harper" the Rev. Joseph H.
Twltchell recalls an amuting story of
Mr.. Clemenss marriage. His brides
father bought andsfurnished house for
the young pair. and Mark knew nothing
of it until after the wedding, when it
was shown to him in all its completeness
by party of his wifes relations and Of
course his wife, who at length broke out:
Its our house, yours and mine, pres.
ent from father" Everybody came to
hear what he would say. He choked
up, and with tears in his eyes, STAN
mered out to his father-in law: "Mr.
Langdop, whenever you are in Buffalo.
if it's twice year, come right up here
and bring your bag with you. You may
stay over night. il you want to. 1t shan't