The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-06-05
WELL KNOWN PERSONS.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

DIR. John Lewis Smith, the patriarch
of Methodism in Indiana, now in his
| eighty-second year, has written a book
| giving his "reminiscences of Indiana Meth
odism.
1t was in 1747 that German chemist
named Marggraf, discovered that sugar
could be made from beets; but the beet
sugar industry did not begin till half a
century later.
| Edward Schieffelin, the discoverer of
the silver mines at Tombstone, Ariz., and
founder of that place, was found dead in
his cabin twenty miles from Canonyille,
Ore, the other day.
Baron Krupp's visiting cards are made
| of iron. Several other well known MANN
facturers have had the metal rolled in
sheets so thin that it has been successful
| ly employed for this social use.
The Rev. DR.. David S. Schaff, of
Jacksonville, H., who has been called to
the chair of ancient history in Lane
Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, is
known as the father of the Rugby foot
ball in America. He was the captain of
hrst Yale football team when it PLAYED
its match with Columbia, in 1S72-the
first intercollegiate football in this coun-
try.
| Mayor Stokeley, of PHILADELPHIA.
who lately celebrated his seventy-fourth
birthday, has held nearly all the great
municipal offices in Philadelphia. Under
the new city charter he was the first di-
rector OF public safety, holding the office
from 1887 to 1884, and he is now active in
| the public buildings commission. Judging
from ais present excellent state of health.
he bids fair to reach TIE century mark.
Bishop Vincent, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, who recently returned
from Episcopal tour in South America,
is reported as saying: 1.-The Spanish blood
takes to the Methodist spirit, and likes
the Methodist way of taking hold of re-
ligious matters. Spaniards in South
America have religious experience, and
they tell about it in a hearty way. They
sing heartily. What the Latin races need
is subjective pety They find it in
| Methodism''
Miss Phoebe Couzins, the prominent
advocate of woman's suffrage, is reported
as repudiating her former beliefs and as
| saying that woman in public life will
J never be satisfactory" The Boston Post
says; ut is easy to attach too great i'm
portance to the reported statement of
Miss Phoebe Couzins, that woman in
public life will never prove satisfactory be-
cause of inherent limits that prevent her
success Miss Cousins, an invalid, racked
| with pain and probably at the end of her
own active career naturally takes a more
! Respondent view of things than when in
| physical and intellectual vigor she held
the place of leader in the 'woman,s
movement
In prosecuting his researches under
| the auspices of the Palestine exploration
| fund with view to determining the ex-
| act line of the old wall of Jerusalem, Dr.
Bliss has come upon "the stairs" men
| toned by Nehemiah ''that go down from
| the city of David The stair consists of
thirty -four large broad steps leading
down to the 'Pool of Siloam,' precisely
as Nehemiah says, indicating a way of
communication with the Ophel ridge and
| Temple hill, which most authorities be-
| lieve to be the site of the royal palace
and ''king's garden" 1t is not unlikely
that these steps, laid bare after the lapse
of centuries, may turn out to be portion
of the ''ascent' which so astonshed the
Queen of Sheba.
samuel Maxim" says the Boston
Transcript, "a brother of the famous
Hiram, inventor of guns, lives in the
little village of Wayne, Kennebec county,
Me-, and is himself an inventor Some
time ago his attention was called to the
fact that both India and Japan have pro-
duced swords that will cut through a
gun barrel without losing their edge
This led him to study old Hindoo litera-
ture on the subject of steel manufacture,
and then to begin at Wayne series of ex-
periments which soon resulted in the pro-
duction of small quantity of steel pos
sessing remarkable temper. From these
few ounces of steel he had one OF two
drills forged and with these he was able
to drill holes through an ordinary file
without damaging the drill at all. He
has not yet made any steel for sale, nor
does his process, at present, always pro-
duce the desired results
Governor Drake, of Iowa, in a recent
speech, told new story of meeting be-
tween Lincoln and A. II. Pickering, of
Chicago. Mr.. Pickering, who is a very
tall man, was resident of Iowa at the
time of Lincoln's election, and was en-
gagged in shipping cattle He and Mr.
Drake came to Chicago on business, and
hearing that Lincoln was in the city, they
sent up their cards. and were shown to
the President-elect' room. "When we
got to Lincoln's room," said Governor
Drake, in his speech, ''he opened the door,
and on seeing Pickering asked, How tall
are youl' Pickering said, Six feet four
Why cried Lincoln, that's my height.
Let's measure" And then the President
of the United States and the cattle-ship-
per stood back to back, while the first lady
of the land, Mrs. Lincoln, who was lit
tie woman, after standing on tiptoe and
reaching to the tops of their heads, de-
cided that il was a tie.