The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-01-25
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

5ponuenL In the CIVIL war, and who since
that time has written many stories
for the young, died in New York, Jan, 6.
He was 81 years old.
Rev. Minot j. Savage, of the Church
of the Unity, Boston, Mass has resigned
his charge, and will accept the call of
the Unitarian Church of the Messiah. in
New York, to become associate pastor
with Rev. Robert Collyer.
1t is said that,in early life, DuMaur-
ier's greatest ambition was to become a
water-color painter. He did not then
expect that his pencil would make him
more famous than his brush, and his pen
do more for him than either.
-Rhoda Broughton is still living at
Oxford, stately, charming woman, Just
beginning the autumn of life. She rare
ly goes to London now but is always
pleased to welcome her literary friends
to her home in the classic old university
town.
Daniel F. Tiemann. the oldest living
ex-mayor of New York, and of whose
predecessors in that office none is living.
recently celebrated the ninety first ami
versary Of his birth. He was elected
mayor in 1857, and held the office for the
two succeeding years.
The old pine tree that stood on the
banks of the Delaware on the property
OF Samuel Swain at Bristol was cut
down the other day When General
Lafayette made his journey to Philadel-
phia. more than seventy years ago, his
carriage stopped beneath this pine.
President Kruger of the Transvaal
Republic is pretty nearly the biggest
man in the world for the time being.
He has been congratulated by the Ger
man Emperor for his military skill and
bravery and thanked by the Queen for
sparing the lives of DIR. Jameson and his
men.
1t is reported from Copenhagen that
the royal family are displeased by the
engagement between Prince Carl and
Princess Maud, of England, not because
the latter is disliked. but because this
arrangement dashes the hope that the
Prince, by marrying Queen Wilhemine.
would become King Consort of the Meth
erlands.
Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., son of Am
bassador Bayard, Indignantly denies the
report that his father will remain per.
manently in England. "The thing is
absurd" he says. ut is absurd for a
moment to imagine that he, with all the
interest he has in this country, and at
his time of life, should even think of
making his home in England"
In the year 1869, when Sir William
Hewet was Lord Mayor of London. and
resided on London bridge, his little
daughter, who was playing at one of the
windows overlooking the river. fell out,
and would have been drowned but for
the heroic exertions of young appren-
tice named Osborne. who, in after years,
became her husband. Osborne, who
was direct ancestor of the first Duke
of Leeds, subsequently became lord
mayor, and, with his wife, inherited the
vast property left by his father in-law.
The appointment of Alfred Austin
to be the welrer of highlands laurel of
royal decree recalls to thought the years
before Southey's time. Going back
ward step at time, Tennyson, Words
worth. Southey, all were great men, and
all were greater poets than any who had
graced the laureateship before them for
many, many years. The predecessors of
Robert Southey, even back to Drydens
day, were little men-not poets, but po-
etasters and polt cal intriguers. Nahum
Tate, Whitehead. Cibber, Warton, and
Pye-Byron's Pye, "eminently respect
able in everything but his poetry'-are
names justly little remembered.
John Adams was eight years older
than his successor, Thomas Jefferson;
he eight years older than James Madi-
son; he eight years older than James
Monroe, and he eight years older than
John @. Adams. George Washington
ended his term as President in his sixty
fifth year; and so, too. did John Adams,
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and
James Monroe. Thomas Jefferson and
John Adams both died on the same day,
July 4, 1926. exactly fifty years after the
signing of the declaration of independ-
ence. One other President, James Mon
roe, died on July 4. His death occurred
il 1881. Every President, it is said, with
the single exception of William Fl. Har-
rison, has had blue eyes.
There is an interesting story told Of
JEANNE Welsh. afterward the wife of
Thomas Carlyle, and her sorrow when
she arrived at the conclusion that it was
time for her to put away such childish
things as dolls. The little maid went to
school at Haddington, and 80 clever was
she that at the age Of nine she could
read Virgil. In spite Of her learning,
however, she had beloved doll. jean
ME loved her truly, and yet felt the in
congruity of a student of Virgil playing
with doll. When her tenth birthday