The Universalist., 1897-03-27
WELL KNOWN PERSONS.
Anecdote and Reminiscence.

Jenny Lind's daughter, Mrs Ray
mond Maude, has written memoir of her
mother.
1t is said that DIR. Atwood, mission
ary in Shansi, China, has not seen a Eu-
ropean face, except those of his fellow
missionaries, for fifteen years.
Prof. Skeat has been looking up the
etymology of Arthur's famous sword Eek
calibar, y and thinks that it comes from
the Latin expression 'cultellum ex calibe,
"a knife made of STEEL
Alfred Greenebaum, of San Francisco.
has just given a Semitic library of 900
volumes to the University of California.
1t is a part of the library of his father.
the late Dr. Elias Greenabaum, chief rabbi
of Landau, Germany
-Percival Lowell, whose astronomical
researches with reference to the inhabi-
liability of the planet Mars have COM
manded wide attention, has now gone to
the City of Mexico, near which place he
has erected an observatory.
Prince Henry of Orleans, who ha
started on his exploring expedition in
Abyssnia, took with him hand organ
and phonograph, which he expects to be
of great aid to him in winning the good
| graces of the savages whom he intends to
| visit.
-Nansen as an artist has rather sur
| prised the English. Studies of ice foes,
of Northern lights, of arctic nights and
other polar subjects done by the explorer
| in pastel and water-colors showed him the
possessor of fine sense of color and the
artistic touch
1t is reported in Vatican circles that
| Cardinal Jacobini, who was for many
| years the principal assistant of the late
| Cardinal Simeoni at the propaganda, is
now about to be appointed prefect general
| of that institution, in succession of Car
| dinal Ledochowski, who is to take the
place of the late Cardinal Blanchi as pro-
datary of his holiness
The Rev. DIR. J. E. Rankin cites in
the Independent some amusing fragments
from Longfellow's journal Gas | was
standing at my front door this morning. -
says the poet, ''a lady in black came up
! and asked: is this the house where Long
fellow was born9' No; he was not born
here Did he die here?' Not yet Are
you Longfellow2' L am i thought YOU
died two years ago."
The Queen of Portugal perseveres in
her medical vocation. She goes regularly
to the dispensary for children that she
founded. On arriving, she dons nurses
uniform and proceeds to serious work At
first she showed herself coward when
surgical operations were expected, but
she has steeled herself to suffering, and
now holds on her knees little patients
while in the surgeons hands,
Armour, the rich Chicago packer, has
turned the tables on a community of Ar
gentine, Kan, which has boycotted his
meats. Learning that 100 families of the
town were in dire distress he sent a car
load of meat, 10000 pounds in all, to the
relief committee for free distribution
among the hungry people. Even those
who refused to buy his products prayed
for blessings upon the man who saved
them from starving.
Mr.. Clark Russell says that he reads
but little fiction. This is the case,
believe, with most noveists, and / dare
say the reason is the same as in my own
| When / am reading a novel find myself
critically considering its machinery so to
speak; one sees the thing too much from
the inside-one knows the trick by which
every effect is produced-and this spoils
the enjoyment" On the other hand the
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be the height of pleasure.
Briefly and modestly Postmaster Gen
eral William L. Wilson has accepted the
presidency of Washington and Lee uni
versity, Virginia. SIN signifyine my ac-
ceptance of this high trust,' he writes to
Rector William Mclaughlin, II beg leave
to add that / am grateful for the proof of
confidence so graciously given by the
trustees, and, as l believe l am aware of
the burdens and difficulties incident to
the position, l shall, therefore, enter
! upon its duties with such expectations of
| success only as shall be founded on pa
| tient labor and earnestness of purpose -
Rev. Mr. Chaffers has peen prohibited
from bringing suit in English courts, with
| Judge, by the court of appeals. The rev.
erened gentleman has brought suit forty
eight times within a few years against
persons by whom he felt he had been ag-
| grieved, including the Prince of Wales,
the late Archbishop of Canterbury, the
| late and present lord chancellors, the late
| speaker of the house of commons, four of
the justices of the high court of iudica-
| ture and the authorities of the British
Museum.
The Princess Wewha, who died the
/ other day at Zuni. N. NJ, was the stead
fast friend of the United States bureau of
ethnology, from it's foundation in 1876.
"She was TIE finest pottery maker - says
a member of the bureau cher sacred and
domestic vases being in almost every mu-
scum in the civilized world. Her fab
RIGS were always counted the best, and
no one in Zuni could use the needle in de-
signing the Chinese-ike embroidery as
well as Wewha. Her house was the lar
gest and finest in the pueblo, her ovens and
baking stoves the most superior. No one
person knew so many prayers and songs.
| She had an Unsuitable thirst for know