The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-07-03
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Prof. A. G. v. Allen, of the Episcopal
DIVINITY School at Cambridge, will soon
have ready for publication his life
Phillips Brooks
Joseph Dupuis, a French Canadian, of
kankakee, ILL.,, who got married the
other day, is ninety-two years old, forty
seven inches in height, and is as vivacious
as boy.
Mrs. Felicia Hemans, who wrote ssThe
Breaking Waves Dashed High, ), and who
is the only writer of imaginative litera-
ture Liverpool has produced, is to have a
monument in that city.
The recently published biography of
the late Governor Greenhalge, by James
Ernest Inswirth, of Boston, shows that
the future governor of Massachusetts
was compelled to leave Harvard on the
death of his father and go to teaching in
order to support his mother and sister.
General Lew Wallace says that after
diligent search for a short name for the
hero of his great book, he came across
the name "Hur'' in the book of Genesis,
and by adding "Ben," which means ssthe
son off, he obtained name both short
and odd.
Edward Cooper, the son of Peter
Cooper, and the brother of Julia Cooper,
who left 500, 200 to Cooper Institute in
New York, and S25, 900 to the Adirondack
Sanitarium for Consumption at Sarapac
| lab hoe l.;
accordance with her wish written in pen
Gill;
The University of Oxford recently
conferred the degree of master of arts up
on Alderman Robert Buskell, the Mayor
of the city. The ceremony took place in
the Sheldonian Theatre, in the presence
of large company This is the first time
the university has conferred the honor
upon the Chief Magistrate of Oxford.
The long expected Minister to Spain
has just been appointed in the person of
Gen. Stewart l.. Woodford of BROOKLYN.
General Woodford comes of Puritan stock,
and his family records show that among
his direct ancestors were two captains in
the Indian wars, while number of his
relatives served in the Revolution and
the War of 1872
1t is estimated that DR.. Nansen will
make about $3.50, 600 out of his Arctic book.
So far editions have appeared in England,
America, Germany and a Dutch edition is
nearly ready, and the work is appearing
in Norway in parts, the only method in
an ciu W. no ~
that economical country. Further, there
will be issues in French and in Bohemian.
There has been a wide demand for it in
the British colonies.
When the Duke of Wellington was
sick, the last thing he took was cup of
tea. On his servants handing it to him
on saucer, and asking him if he would
have it, the duke replied, eyes, if you
please" These were his last words. How
much kindness and courtesy is expires sed
by them He who had commanded great
armies in Europe, and had long been used
to the throne of authority, did not des-
pise or overlook the small courtesies of
life.
Florence Nightingale, who has Just
celebrated her seventy seventh birthday,
is i'll and not expected to recover She
has long been an invalid. She will leave
a magnificent memorial of her achieve
ments as pioneer in the.work of nurs-
ing the sick and wounded on an organized
plan, in the shape of Nurses Home, to
which she devoted the $780, 900 subscribed
by the English people as national testi-
monial of gratitude to her at the close of
the Crimean war, the horrors of which
she did so much to alleviate.
Miss Harriet--A. Boyd, the young
woman who volunteered her services as
nurse at the outbreak of the Greek war,
and who, with Cretan.. woman, was alone
in charge of hospital at Volo, contain
ing some fifty or sixty wounded, is from
Boston, and was graduated from Smith
College in 1892. She was student in the
American Archaeological School at Athens
when war broke out, and at once ten
dered her services to the Queen. Miss
Boyd went to the front.with the English
nurses, but was assigned to hospital by
herself.
in ''McClure's Magazine is told
story of an aid whom Colonel ''Dan"
Macauley sent out before battle in the
Shenandoah Valley to ascertain the force
of the enemy. :. This was the last Colonel
Macauley saw of the officer. One day
while Macauley was holding court in In
dianapolis as Mayor, one-armed man
came in and said Colonel, l have to re-
port that l found the enemy in force
He was the captain who had been sent
out to reconnoitre many years before.
He had been wounded, captured and had
leg amputated, andiwas sent to his home,
in Massachusetts, when exchanged. Pass
ing through indianapolis it occurred to
him that he should report to his COM
handing officer.
The citizens of Bucyrus, Ohio, recent
ly dedicated monument to Colonel Craw-
ford, whose tragic death is matter of
history This is the second monument
dedicated to Colonel Crawford in that vi
entity Another, which was erected by
the historical society upon the spot where
| the atrocity was committed, is located
| eighteen miles northwest of Bucyrus,
where stands modest shaft, upon which
is carved the following inscription: ''In
| memory of Colonel era wford, who was