The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-28
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

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OF Nathaniel Hawthorne, his daugh-
ter, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, says:
"Those who thought him too silent were
the bores whom he desired not to at.
tract"
Sir Charles Dixie has recorded his
wonder that the popular name of Britain
abroad is not Scotland, SO numerous are
the Scots in every outlying part of the
British empire.
The impression that Robert Louis
Stevenson at the time of bis death was
In sore financial straits is overthrow
by the announcement that Stevenson's
personal property is valued at more than
$4,000.
-Rudyard Kipling was asked recently
whether he enjoyed writing poetry or
prose most. He remarked that the
pleasure of creating poem was the
highest intellectual delight he had ever
| experienced.
-"Governor Greenhalge was the only
Englishborn chief magistrate" says the
Boston Herald, that we have had in 100
years since Governor Gage sailed away
from Boston harbor, as Governor Hutch
inson had two years earlier"
Jacob Riis, whose books and lectures
have made him an authority on, How
the Other Half Lives" is tall blonde
man of Teutonic speech and aspect,
Probably no one else is 80 we'll equipped
with exact statistics as to the condition
of the jewellers in the east side tene-
ments of New York.
1t has been asked frequently why
Nine. Patti chose a home in secluded
part of Wales. She explains it on the
ground that the peculiarities of the at
mosphere at Craig-y Nos are suited to
her voice. She feels better, breathes
more freely and sings more satisfactor.
lily at her castle than anywhere else.
The London Daily News is authority
TOR the statement that the Harpers are
to pay George Du Maurier, author of
"Trilby," $4,000 for his next novel; The
Daily News adds that this is the identi-
cal sum which Disraeli received for
"Endymion, and this reminds us that
Endymion was not worth five cents.
Henry w. Sage, whose birthday
Cornell recently celebrated, has given
that university at different times, 81, 1856
600. The Cornell Sun says that without
Mr.. Sage's gift Cornell would not be
university at all. but merely polytech-
mic institute. One of the most notable
OF his gifts is Sage Hall for women.
Miss Nellie Cheeley, of Morrill,
Mimi, has taken homestead claim. and
is going into the honey business on
large scale. starting her apiary with
fifty colonies Of bees. She is experienced,
and will doubtless make success. This
enterprising Minnesota girl will teach
school in winter and care for her bees
during the summer.
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be put in the Boston public library. A
model in clay by Cobb has been accepted
by the family as life likeness. The
bust to be finished in marble, at a cost
Of $1,000 is now in the hands of the
sculptor. Opportunity is given for all
who SO wish honor the author of
America to send money to S. A. Bent, of
the Bostonian Society. care of the "Old
State House
George Ebers. the Psychologist, has
discovered that many of the queer medi-
cal recipes found in old English and
German books come from the ancient
Egyptians. They were not known to
the Greeks, but were spread from Sal
emo, the great medical school of the
Middle Ages, to which they must have
come through Coptic and Arabic trans
lations.
In biographical sketch of her IA
Their, the poet, in the current number of
the Cambridge Magazine. Miss Alice
Longtellow says that an unpaid bill
weighed on him like a nightmare. He
was so reserved and talked 80 little about
himself that sometimes volume of his
verses would appear in print without his
family even knowing that it was in
course OF preparation. He was fond of
children to the extent of permitting them
to play marbles on a carpet having a
pattern very desirable for the purpose.
DIR. Thierry. of the Charity Hospital,
Paris. France, has discovered remarka-
BILE remedy for burns. The doctor has
had charge Of the surgical operations at
the hospital. and used picric acid as an
antiseptic. One day drop of lighted
PHOSPHORUS from match fell on his
hand, without any sensation being felt,
and the same experience was noted when
some hot sealing wax dropped on his
hand. From that time the doctor tried
picric acid on patients suffering from
burns. The tissues of the epidermis
coming in contract with the acid strong
ly contract an action quite the contrary
to that caused by fire or burn of any
kind. Under this treatment no blisters
form on the injured part