The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-05-22
WELL KNOWN PERSONS.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

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OF the late tOliver Optic, the Chan
Book says: Mr.. Adams was benevolent,
kindly old gentleman, and his readers at
farm and tireside loved his boaks for their
heart to heart qualities. He was not
bad writer; he was not good writer. But
he had the rare good fortune to be ignored
by the critics"
Three plays by.Carmen Sylvia, the Queen
OF Rumania, were recently produced at
Bucharest, and are said to have had a
great and genuine success. The royal
family was present. and the Queen her.
self, none of whose works had previously
been produced in Rumania. was enthusi-
astically cheered.
Rev. Gerald Lee, in the Critic, says of
the Beecher family (apropos of Mrs.
Stowe) that they accomplished little I'M
less moved by anger or.love. They were
not artistic, C uld not conceive, could not
even see wit the artists eye dispassion-
ately They possessed, in short, the emo
tional-or nothing-nature.
Labouchere is able to put an end to
skepticism about his Twickenham house
being built on the site.of Pope9s villa. In
making repairs recently stone was found
on which was carved the, Inscription: On
this spot stood until 1909 the house of
Alexander Pope. The grotto that formed
the basement still remains. 1851
The Due d'Aumale, one of the sons of
Louis PHILIPPE, died May 18th, in his villa
at Zucco, Sicily, from cardiac apoplexy,
supposed to have been ca used by the shock
he experienced on hearing of the death of
the Duchesse d'Alencon in the Paris Char
ity Bazaar fire. The attack which caused
his death lasted only few moments, and
he expired without suffering
On Verdi's recent birthday-his eighty
third-the veteran composer was seen at
O'Clock in the morning at the weekly
market at Piacenza, with several sheep he
had brought to sell. He also wished to
buy cow and some vegetables, and so
spent the entire day surrounded by farm
ers and tradesman. At 6 O'Clock in the
evening he invited the whole assemblage
into the inn and gave them fine supper.
Il dbheF IHldHlUOllS, IHe 1feeh pfleSJ Oh
Chicago, whose zeal for Greece has brought
him into public notice, was born ifty-fve
years ago in Rumania and has held
charges in Bucharest and Athens. He
came to Chicago in 1892, bringing his wife,
two sons and three daughters with him.
The Oldest son, aged twenty-five years, a
medical student, was drowned during the
Worlds Fair, and his oldest daughter is
married to the Greek Vice Consul at st.
Louis.
The father of Senator Foraker, of Ohio,
was farmer with eleven children and
very little money. The boys all did work
on the farm, and the one who was one
day to be Governor and Senator was
taught to wash and iron, to milk, cook and
spin and to pick geese at the proper time
of the year. His first schooling was in
log cabin, and it was there he wore his ia
nous coffee-sack trousers, which his
mother provided for him when he had
torn all others beyond recognition.
1t is an interesting fact that the new
Chinese Minister at Washington is men,
Der of the Church of England. His suite
nearly all speak English, and one of them
who it is expected will be Consul General,
belongs to a well-known Christian family
in Hong Kong. A letter in the Christian
Advocate says that Minister WI Ling Fan,
was educated in London, and called to the
English bar in 1877 Viceroy Ii Hung
Chang becoming impressed with his ability
and selected him as his legal adviser. He
was afterwards made director of Chinese
railroads, and was connected with the
negotiations for peace with Japan.
In connection with the outline of the life
of Darwin in Clodd's pioneers of Evolu-
tion" we have a number of pleasing anec-
dotes. One tells how the great man. when
at the height of his fame, called ON John
Murray the publisher, and, drawing a
manuscript from his coat tail pocket with
the shyness of fiedgling poet, said: II
have brought you little thing of mine ON
the action of worms on soil :" Another
tells of letter received by banker who
had petitioned for Darwin's interment in
Westminster Abbey. "Our reasons for
withdrawing our account, - runs the let
ter, care entirely the presence of X. b.
Martin at Westminster Abbey, not merely
as giving sanction to the same as an in
dividual, but appearing as one of deputa-
tion of a society which has especially be-
come the indorser and sustainer of Mr..
Darwin's theories Truly bigotry dies
almost as hard among the pious as among
the scientific