The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-16
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
Baroness Hirsch has given Baltimore's Rus
ian night school $1,000

Baroness Hirsch has given Baltimores Rus.
ian night school $1,000
To advertise his business a justice Of the
peace at Kansas City gives theatre tickets to
all couples who come TO him 20 be married.
The Grand Duke Michael Of Russia who is
making "A round of visits in the north of Eng
land, has adopted Great Britain as his home.
Mrs. Victoria Conkling Whitney, president
of the Woman = Suffrage Society of ST. Louis,
is trying TO have the street cleaning depart
ment Of that city put in charge Of women.
The Duke of Fife often fishes with the
duchess but his favorite sport is she oting.
There is not keeper on the estate who can
beat tho duke on shot" Thousands Of
deer roam the hills about his estate, and the
duke is famous stalker"
Vesuyius being in eruption.a young German
undertook to be cremated free by the volcano.
He placed himself close to the crater, in the
path Of the lava, and then shot himself
through the head. His body was found, how
ever, before the lava reached it.
Anthony Hope, who is soon TO make
lccturing tour in this country. is regarded by
many as the best after-dinner speaker in Lon
don. Harold Frederic, in recent letter TO
tho New York Times, said that for elegance
and purity Of diction there is no speaker 10
compare with him.
Professor Eliphalet Mott Potter, d. D.,
LII D.. who has been selected as president Of
John Brisben Walkers free university
scheme. was born In Schenectady, septem-
Der 20 1896. His father was Bishop Alonzo Pot
ter. He was graduated at Union College in
II,
W. s. Gilbert the noted humorist, is the
possessor of one Of the most beautiful houses
near London. Grims Dyke was originally
built by the well known architect. Norman
Shaw, for Mr.. Goodall, the landscape artist.
The author OF "Pinafore' always works in his
library seated, not at desk, but in com
Portable arm chair, with writing pad OH his
knee.
When Professor Virchow was in Russia a
few weeks ago he was waited on by a deputa-
tion of female physicians, who came to thank
him for having thrown open his lecture room
and laboratory to a Russian woman at a time
when the German universities did not yet ad-
init female students. Vircbow, in reply, in
yited Russian female physicians to make use
OF his pathologic and anatomic museum at
Berlin. which has been recently enlarged.
Cincinnati has recently suffered the loss Of
its olGest inhabitant by the death Of Mrs.
Rachel Harding at the age Of l06 years. She
was born in Baltimore In 1871. When she
was years old her PARENTS moved to the
present site of Cincinnati There were but
four buildings there. When girl Mrs.
Harding was twice stolen by the Indians on
account Of her beauty. Her recovery on one
occasion was signalzed by battle betw,e
her white friends and the Indians, in which
six of the latter were killed. a sister l0s years
old survives her.
The Russian censorship has suppre ssed
Pierre d'Alheim's new book, "sur les
Pointes." Ii was at first believed that the
cause Of this action was that d'Alheim, who
used TO be the correspondent in Russia Of the
Paris Temps. limited rather broadly at GER
tain scandals connected with the imperial
family. but the real reason was found to be
that in his book d'Alheim describes In vivid
colors how some members Of the highest no
hility organized a pigeon n-shooting mi t'h
soon after the terrible catastrophe on the
Choiinka meadow. and so close to il that the
bad cdors coming from that field of slaughter
made them at times cover up their nostris.
James Wilson. secretary Of agriculture, will
visit the Tuskegee normal and industrial in
stitute at Tuskegee, Ala, OF which Booker
T. Washington is founder and principal, on
November II, for the purpose of delivering
an address at the formal opening OF new
tuilding TO be devoted 10 training in agricul-
ture horticulture dairying, etc. This is the
first building in negro schools 10 be devoted
10 agricultural purposes, and it means much,
since sj per cent of the negroes in the gulf
states depend upon agriculture in some form
for their living. This agricultural building is
the result of the foresight aud generosity of
Morris X. .Iesup of New York city, DIR. J. l..
NJ. Curry of the Slater fund board of truste
and others.