The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-08-15
NOTED MEN AND WOMEN.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences,

When the Pope received a present
OF typewriter. he remarked that some
one else would have to use it, as he was
too old to learn.
Mrs. Maggie Norvel has charge Of
the lighthouse at the head Of the passes,
Port Eads, La. The bell, which sounds
on foggy nights, over the black waters
OF the passes, is always rung by Mrs.
Norvell herself. There are about twenty
women lighthouse keerers in the United
States alone
Mrs. Flora Patterson, sister OF Pro-
lessor Eugene Wambaugh, of the Har-
ward Law School, has lately received the
appointment Of Assistant Pathologist in
the Department of Agriculture in Wash.
ington. Mrs. Patterson owes this honor
to the success OF competitive examina.
tion with ten men.
Professor Roentgen goes to Florence
every year for little rest. This year, in
spite of his efforts to escape public at
tention, the students gave great dem
onstration in his honor. One of them
gave an address in German and the pro.
fessor responded in choice Italian. He is
tall, handsome man, with fair hair and
beard.
Rev. DR.. Daniel G. Eddy, pastor of
the First Baptist church. Brooklyn, died
in Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard
Mass, on July 26. DR.. Eddy has been
pastor of the First church since 1880.
He was seventy-three years old, and cele-
brated his semi-centennial as a minister
last February. He has large place in
the affections OF the Baptist people.
The Queen of Denmark, who, al
though she is seventy eight years of age,
still retains her vivacity and charm, de-
clares that the only way she keeps young
is by having young people about her.
She always has houseful of them. and
likes nothing better than to be surround
ed by her grandchildren and their
friends. She affirms that she is aunt to
all of Europe to which she is not grand
mother.
Hon. John W. Foster will entertain
Ii Hung Chang in September. when the
latter visits the United States on his re
turn from the coronation of the Gar
General Foster is an intimate friend OF
the Viceroy, and it will be remembered
that he served as his confidential adviser
during the peace negotiations with ia
pan. For the August number of The
Century General Foster has written
sketch of the life and character of Lii
Hung Chang, whom he ranks, as did
General Grant, among the greatest men
of the century.
Mr.. Edison recently made calcula-
ton which copvinces him that the hu-
man eye is from twenty-tfree to twenty
five times more sensitive in the dark
than in the light. He made the expert
ment by leaving bright sunlight and
entering totally dark room, and then
attempting to discern grease spot by
the light Of a candle. He arrived at his
conclusion mathematically by equaring
the distance between the points at
which his eye discerned the spot when
he first entered the room and when the
pupil had become fully diated.
In his Life and Letters of Lord Mac
aulay," Mr.. Trevellyan tells an amusing
little story of the early years of the ia.
nous man. When very small boy the
young Macaulay walked into his fathers
house and regardless of the presence of
guests. his small figure swelling with in
dignation, pronounced in the most SOL
emn tones the words, Cursed be Sallyw
When called to account he explained
that the Bible says, Cursed be every
one that removeth his neighbours land
Marks" and Sally had gathered up and
thrown away the shells of which he had
made borders to his garden beds.
DIR. John Henry Barrows, who is
now in Germany. expects to arrive in
Bombay, India, by the fifteenth of De-
cember. and to give three months to
his missionary addresses there. His
work in India has so widened that he
has abandoned the plan of going with a
party. 1t will be impossible to harmon
izs his work and his prolonged stay
with the wishes of excursionists. The
month of October DIR. and Mrs. Barrows
will spend in London, Paris and Italy.
During November they expect to make,
with party, cruise OF the Mediterra-
mean, arranged by DR.. Lunn, visiting
Athens, Constantinople, the Holy Land
and Egypt.
When Helen Keller, says the Boston
Transcript, introduced by DR.. Alexan-
der Graham Ball, opened the fifth sum-
mer meeting of the American Associa-
ton to Promote the Teaching of Speech
to the Deaf with recital of the twenty
third psalm. she proved beyond doubt
the value of oral methods, advocated by
that organization in the teaching of the
deaf; for, in the words of the Philadel-
phia Ledger, she spoke clearly, with
fairly good infection and meditation,
and was perfectly understood" When
she came to the expression that God had
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