The herald., 1897-02-19
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

IL is SalQ tnat Dr. NanSeH, the Noi We
glan explorer, is much annoyed When
he sees himself referred to as Swede
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the young
negro writer of verse, who lives in Day
ton, O.. is to give parlor readings in
England during the coming summer.
A man who calls himself Count Cast
mir Soffozynski Is in the Philadelphia
hospital dying of construction. He as
serts that he is nephew OF Pulaski,
who fought so we'll in the revolution, and
died at sea on board the wasp In lin9.
Judge Joseph II. Earle was presiding
in court in Florence, S. c.. when tele-
gracl was received by member of the
bar giving the first information there re-
ceiveG of the election of the judge as
United States senator by the South Car
olina legislature.
Major Mckinley will, at the time of his
Inauguration, be "a years of age. Nine
presidents entered the White House at
an earlier age-Grant at AZ, Cleveland
at 4S Garfield and Pierce at 40, Polk at
90, Fillmore at so. Tyler and Arthur al
81 and Lincoln at 50.
The Belvidere N. j., Apollo, In be-
ginning its seventy second volume, says
that the first years publication of the
paper broke" its founder. George E.
Sickles, father of Gen. Daniel e. Sickles.
AT the end of the year Mr. Sickles' en-
tire fortune consisted of but so cents.
The late c. Jerome Cary of Milwaukee
directed that his body should be burned.
that the ashes should be used to nourish
certain rosebush and that the bios
SONS should be distributed among his
friends. His wishes were carried out,
and verses commemorating the event
were written by Ehen E. Rexford
tln l-,.,A @c
the library of the British museum, has
been the recipient of unique testimon-
ial subscribed for by visitors to the IL
brary 1t took the form fan illuminated
address. The border of the first page
has been copied from beautifully H.
Illuminated manuscript in the British
museum executed by an Italian artist
about 1890.
The Tooth anniversary of the Austrian
national hymn was celebrated in Vienna
on Jan. 2S. A hundred years ago on that
day Haydn handed the hymn to Count
Saurau, then president of the admins
tration in Vienna, and obtained permis-
sion to have it sung publicly as the ma
tional hymn. Two weeks later on the
birthday of Emperor Francis. the hymn
was slolemnly sung in all the theaters Of
Vienna.
Johann Strauss has written a new
opera, called The Goddess of Reason, -
the book by Wilmer and Buchbinder. 1t
is to be produced about the middle of
February in Vienna, at the Theater an
der Wien. The title role represents the
Partisan woman who, at the time OF the
revolution, was arried through the
streets to represent the Goddess of Rea-
son.
Secretary Olney takes long walk ev-
cry day, and always moves at rate
that constantly threatens to turn into a
run These walks begin about o'clock
in the afternoon, when the secretary
energies from the state department
building. passes up Executive to Penn
sylvania avenue. and then, turning to
the right, starts for the Peace monument
at the foot of Capitol hill.
French detectives, as well as English,
watch over the safety of Queen Victoria
while she is on the continent. The En-
press Eugene, who has recently been in
Paris. is shadowed by faithful Corsi-
can, who dates from her own dynasty,
and who is assigned to this duty by Pres
ident Faure. But the empress of Aus
tria has a more numerous bodyguard
than any other European queen.
An eminent Philadelphian DIR. Sam
uel d. Gross, will be the second physi-
clan in this country to be honored with a
monument to his memory. The statue
will be placed in the grounds of the
Smithsonian inStitutior., not far from
the medical museum. and the unveiling
will be by his granddaughter at the tri
ennial congress of American ysicians
and Surgeons, which will meet in Wash
ington next May.
Tom Watson says of William Jennings
Bryan He has had wonderful success
with prepared speeches-speeches COM
mitted to memory. In his eXtempo-
raneous speeches, however, he has not
yet displayed any exceptional powers
beyond those of physical and mental
endurance. He has not yet shown much
creative power, none of the self-forget-
fu,ness and rapt inspiration of the i'm
provisator, nor has he yet shown that
he possesses pathos."
Sardou was an adept in Spiritualism
in his younger days and much interested
in all the mysteries of the occult. In
later years he put away such pursuits
for more material things, but pow he
is said to be about to utilize some of his
old studies in drama.
Chatting recently about the ease with
which man may get on in this country,
of he wills to do so. j. NJ. Studebaker, the
big carriagemaker, said :hat when he
went overland to California in search of
fortune he reached San Francisco in
1852 with but so cents in his pocket
August Belmont will hereafter race
his horses under his own name. His
stable has heretofore been known as the
Blemton stable. Blemton was the nick
name that the members of the Hasty
Pudding club gave Mr.. Belmont, while
he was at college. 1t is formed by trans
posing the letters in his name.
Professor Lewis Swift of Rochester, N.
Y, has been awarded the Jackson gold
medal by the Royal Astronomical So
ciety of England in recognition of his
services to the cause of science in the
discovery Of comets, nebulae, and other
wanderers in space. He now has four
gold, one silver and four bronze medals.
Mrs. Margaret f. Hood, widow of
James M. Hood of Frederick, Md, has
given 100000 to the womans college in
that town to endow professorship. She
had previously given $15.00 to Franklin
and Marshall college, Lancaster, Pa, to
found the Daniel Scholl observatory
there.
The centennial of the birth of Franz
Slebold was recently celebrated in Japan
by about 100 gentlemen, all but eighteen
being Japanese. Sebold was the author
OF works upon Japan of high value, and
in 1920 he was imprisoned in Yeddo for
buying a map. He introduced lilies,
camellias, peonies and other japanese
plants into Europe.
Judge Connolly Pritchard, who has
been reelected senator from North Car
Ojina was one of two barcfooted boys
who set out from little East Tennessee
mountain town to seek their fortunes
twenty three years ago. The entire