The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-04-18
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
. Anecdote and "Reminiscences,


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Pope Leo XIII recently gave the
following advice to a famous italian
preacher, Father Zocchi: Write arti-
Giles for the newspapers. People read
them who never go to hear sermon
preached"
There is an Abraham Lincoln in
Churchtown, Pa, who is a cousin of his
illustrious namesake and who resembles
him in stature and in the gauntness of
his frame. He is 80 years old and a
farmer.
The once distinguished prima donna,
Nine. Etelka Gerster, who, after short
but brilliant career at Her Majesty's
theater and also in the United States,
partially lost her singing voice, is about
to start vocal academy in Berlin.
President Diaz of Mexico is report
ed as unwilling to accept another term,
but it is extremely likely that he will be
re elected in spite of himself. There is
absolutely no organized opposition to
him and it is impossible to form any.
Richard Malcolm Johnston, the author,
who tainted while lecturing few even
ings ago in Savannah, has been taken
to his home in Baltimore where he is
lying seriously ill. He is enfeebled with
age. and serious results are feared.
Gov. Budd of California, is practi.
cal mechanic, and spends most of his
leisure in machine shop which he has
fitted up on his premises. He says he
would rather be a good machinist
than successful politician.
Rosa Bonheur, although IA years of
age, has just finished large painting
representing combat between wild
horses. She wears glasses while at her
work, but seems to have lost none of the
power of portrayal for which she became
celebrated.
Prof. Lombroso, the criminologist.
is thus described by one who knows him
we'll: "In appearance Lombroso is not
distinguished. He is short and rather
stout. few silvery threads shine in his
dark hair, his moustache is gray, his
imperial is entirely white. His CONVEX
sation is simple and pleasing, and rem
dered exceedingly interesting by his
powerful memory and vast learning"
-Gustave Claudin, who in his day
was as we'll known in journalism as
Henri Rochefort, has just died, aged 70.
1t is said that he was one Of the few men
of whose pen Napoleon III was afraid.
He was intimate with all the liberal lit
terateurs and politicians of the third
empire. After the Franco Prussian war
he retired from journalism and devoted
himself to the study of heraldry. His
memoirs contain anecdotal "reminiscences
OF thirty years and are full of interest.
Charles H. Hemming of Gainesville.
Texas, who has given $4,000 for mon.
ument to the Confederate dead, to be
erected in Jacksonville. Fla, is native
OF that city and served in the Confed-
crate army throughout the war. The
monument is to be sixty feet high, sur
mounted by heroic bronzs statue Of
Confederate private soldier, with life
size statues OF Lee Jackson, Albert Sid
ney Johnston and Gen. Dickinson, of
Florida.
Mrs. Ellis Bartlett, daughter of the
late John King Ashmead, of Philadel-
phia, died few weeks ago, at Tunbridge
Wells. Eng, in the eightieth year of her
age. She was the mother of Sir Ellis
Ashmead Bartlett, M. P, who in 1881
married Baroness Burdette- Coutts.
whose name he assumed. Mrs. Bartlett
was descendant of Theodore Lehman,
who was companion of William Penn,
and who received from him large grant
of land in Philadelphia.
Jerry Rusk was for years a stage
driver. George Washington carried a
chain for a surveyor. Garfield rode
mule that hauled canal boat. Ex-Gov.
Hoard of Wisconsin, was a wood chop
per. John M. Thurstop, senator from
Nebraska. once drove dray in Chicago.
Elk Gov. Alger drove team in the pin
cries. Cushman Davis, senator from
Minnesota, drove his fathers team and
guided the pillow. Henry Ward Beecher,
when he first began his ministerial ca
reer, MIXED the COW and did the stable
work. Daniel Webster earned stray
shillings as a chore boy.
They cay DIR. Thomas Dunn En-
glisb, Notwithstanding the fact that he
wrote at least one song ("Ben Bolt')
that was popular when most of the men
and women of today we're children, gets
as much out of life now as he did
quarter of a century ago. He is slightly
deaf. but that doesn't interfere with his
hearing everything that is worth a.
smile. He has been a writer OF verses
for half a century, and has also been
active in New Jersey politics, represent
ing his district in congress. When his
song ben Bolt" was written back in
the early forties and set to music he
had no reason to suspect that more than
half century later it would be revived
and made famous Inquiries about