The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-01-23
WELL KNOWN PERSONS.
Anecdote and "Reminiscences.

Mr.. Gladstone writes to a friend.
''The book longest in my possession is
Sacred Dramas, presented to me by the
authoress, Hannah More, inscribed: AS
you have just come into the world and
am going out of it, allow me, etc. y
Not long before his death Carolina
Manning was asked to speak into phono-
graph message to be given to the world
after his death. He spoke these words.
81 hope that no word of mine, written or
spoken, will do any harm to any one when
l am dead
Prince Karl Egon, of Furstenburg,
who died recently, left fortune of sS5,-
900, 600 in land and over $40, 600 900 in cash
and securities. The family had been SOW
ereign in the ppincipality before the
French Revolution, but was mediatized
by the Congress of Vienna.
Colonel Lewis Pratt, of Woodstock,
and Colonel Henry Clark of Rutland, are
the oldest surviving members of the STATS,
of Vermont Governors. MIR. Pratt was
on the staff of Governor William Slade.
in 1916, and Mr.. Clark on Governor John
S. Robinsons staff in 1853
Miss Jeanette L. Glider, who with her
brother, MI. Joseph B. Glider, is co -edi-
tor of the Critic, was born at Flushing, l..
l., but the best part of her girlhood was
spent at Bordentown, N j. Before she
was nine years old she began to write,
and she was early possessed with a desire
to earn her own living Her family was
closely connected with journalism, and
her father edited for some time literary
journal called The Literary Register, pub
lished in Philadelphia.
Judge Albion w. Tourgee is living the
quiet, peaceful life of country gentleman
at Maryville, in Chautauqua County, New
York. Judge Tourgee is devoted fish
erman, and his summer days are spent in a
row-boat among the coves and bays of Lake
Chautauqua. He goes to Buffalo occasion
ally, where he is a popular lecturer and FRO
fessor in the Buffalo Law School. His
only daughter Miss Annie, who was born
in North Carolina in 1870, gives promise
of great excellence as an artist She re-
Gently made a Characteristic drawing of
her father, which is pronounced a most
perfect likeness.
The story of U. S. Grants name
was curious, VIZ ties Hamlin Garland,
in McClure's for December AS re-
lated by the father afterward, it ar
peared that the common difficulty of
choosing name for the babe arose. Null
titudes of suggestions only confused the
young parents the more, until at last it
was proposed to cast the names into hat,
This was done. A romantic aunt sug-
gested Theodore The mother favored
Albert, in honor of Albert Gallatin.
Grandfather Simpson voted for Hiram be-
cause he considered it handsome name.
The drawing resulted in two names, Hi
ram and Ulysses.
Gen. Horace Porter relates in the Jan
uary Century the following incident of
General Grant: A drum corps in passing
caught sight of the General, and at once
struck up then popular negro camp
meeting air. Everyone began to laugh,
and Rawlins cried, ''Good for the drum
mers!'' whats the fun2'' inquired the
General. Why" was the reply, ''they
are playing, Amt l glad to get out
OBJ de wilderness!' The General smiled
at the ready wit of the musicians, and
said; well, with me a musical Joke
always requires explanation. l know
only two tunes; one is Yankee doodle,
and the other isn't.n
1t is Russian girl, the daughter of
the Cars envoy at Seoul, who is about
to become Queen of Corea. The king of
that strange country, which in spite of
its being styled ''the land of the Morning
Calm has been the scene of more nu-
merous and sanguinary revolutions than
any other in the world, is weak spirited
creature, whose consort was murdered in
particularly shocking fashion by the ia
panese about year ago, the Japanese En-
voy having been subsequently proved to
have played very prominent and leading
part in the night attack upon the royal
palace, which eliminated in the queens
shocking assassination.
Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock
Holmes, writes Archibald Cromwell in
the Windsor Magazine, was born in Edin-
burgh thirty-seven years ago. His grand
father was John Doyle, whose celebrated
caricatures were signed lib, a signature
chosen because it contains the artists ini-
tials, l. D., superscribed. Conan Doyle
was educated at Stonyhurst, in Lanca-
shire, and subsequently in Germany In
1876 he began the study of medicine in the
University of Edinburgh. Ever since he
was schoolboy his pen had been busy,
and at the age of nineteen his story, The
Mystery of the Sassassa Valley, was
printed in Chambers Journal
Ian Maclaren, like other writer's, has
been frequently attacked on the ground of
the improbability of some of the incidents
in his stories That, for instance, of the
London doctor taking the sick girl to his
own house in his ''Auld Lang Syne" has
been condemned by some critics as untrue.
But Ian Maclaren says that it is 1.-THE only
absolute and unadulterated fact in the
book. - Il saw the girl myself, " he said,
land l saw the doctor in whose house she
was, and l said something to him about
his kindness to the girl The doctor
made believe that her case, hemorrhage of
the lungs, was a most uncommon disease,
and therefore he had brought her to his
own house to study the case. 81 had at
last to stop him for his own sake" said
Ian Maclaren, ''and told him had never
heard such falsehood. "
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