Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-09-11

Rev. DR. Thompson, secretary or the
PRESBYTERIAN Home Mission Board, mas
received an anonymous donatloh OF COW
20 be applied 10 inaugurating the Work OF
the board in Puerto Rico.
A ecently-published letter shows that
ID. G. Rossetu narrowly escaped at one
crisis Of his career, being forced 10 De
come a telegraph clerk instead OF
poet-artist and a preacher OF the Gospel
Of aphaelism.
Albert l.. Mills, who has been appointed
Superintendent Of the Military Academy
at West Peint, is the first lieutenant 10
be so honored. Ii is a responsible posi-
ton, and his predecessor was Lieutenant
Colonel Ernst.
Wyatt w. Randall A. NJ, Phi. D., who
for the last six years has occupied the
Chair of Associate Professor Of Chem
istry at Johns Hopkins University, mas
been elected TO the Science Mastership at
the Lawrenceville School
Colonel j. J. Van Horn, OF the Eighth
United States Infantry, who died in Wyo-
ming would have been retired brigadier-
general I'm February next Though OF
years of age, he insisted on going TO
Cuba with his regiment.
France has always been the country
of pseudonyms, nor IS their use confined
70 the literary and dramatic professions
NJ. Lockroy, for instance, the well-known
politician who now occupies the Ministry
Of Marine, is really NJ. Edouard Simon.
The Society OF the Descendants OF
Walter Allen, the settler OF Newburg
Mass, I'm 1910, held a reunion at Lake
Lashaway, East Brookfeld Mass. last
week. over 100 representatives, Of the
family were present, coming from six
different States.
Peter Barr, V. NJ. H.-"Victoria Med
allist in Horticulture"-who is visiting
friends in Kansas, recently came to this
country 10 study American fruit-growlng
methods. In an interview with western
paper he says that the most striking
characteristic Of the American people Is
the universal poor cookery.
The Rev Arson Dodge (EpiscopaD, or
st. Simons Island, Brunswick. Ga, who
has just died, endowed a church in Ala
habad India, with $4,000, in memory of
his first wife. who died there fifteen years
ago. He gave $4,000 TO the Diocese OF
Georgia Southern District $4,000 to the
Northern and Western Districts and
$4,000 to the Eastern District. He built
twelve churches and chapels and many
school-houses in the Southern District,
and established and endowed an orphan 5
home on st. Simons Island.
Professor S. NJ. Stewart, NJ. D., of the
Baltimore Medical College, has offered
his services TO the government to aid the
sick and suffering at Camp Wikon, with
out compensation.
Prince Sviatopolk Alirsky, who recently
died at st. Petersburg, became a major
the wars in which Russia has been en-
gagged since the Crimean war.
King Oscar Of Sweden and Norway has
| the distinction Of being the first OF the
| sovereigns Of Europe TO accept the inyi-
| tation Of the Car Of Russia 10 send dele
| gates TO a pea"e conference.
Geronimo, the notorious Apache war
| chief. is 90 years old but active as well
as a successful Nimrod. He has been all
| his life a total abstainer from liquor. lie
| is 10 be taken 10 the Omaha Exposition
! IOvel Clark of Denmark, y. Y, VINO
| is 80 years old. has seen the soldiers
march to fight under the stars and
Stripes four different times-f1rst In lSl2'
| then i'm 1916 in 1861. and few weeks ago
| when ne went 10 Syracuse 10 see the boys
YES. / knew Wagner" said Bismarck
once. according to the London Dally
! News. but il was impossible for me 70
| care for him. At breakfast, ar lunch
at dinner. every moment wagner De
| manded admiration He would be nrst
| / found myself too busy for that.
| A clever swndler has been selling hand
| painted English sparrows In the Suburbs
| of Boston as canarles. ,,
| yellow and red" says the AtchisV ~
| Globe "are the Spanish colors we stlii
| nave them in yellow-fever and red tape.
| A traveller who has Just returned from
| Athens saws that the Greeks, VINO not
| so long ago were shouting thsir idNOIite
| cry OF Down with the hihs. ~. WIN
| ~ rieht eyep have now returned 10 the
r,,o us, Extravaganza loyalty, and King
George has never enjoyed SO much popu-
larity since he came 70 the throne.
young woman Of Rio de Janeiro, who
met her husband at a bicycle me meet ,oI mas
h au in io alto relieve. The effect is de-
seUr as more novel than artistic. esp.s-
eay as She is ch5elef 5ps as ,1 a!tTed m
DieyJe ,s an SPANISH. IS a sentence
Which WHICH may be translated My dear soul
Nh the tire OF his life prematureiy
little boy named Peter, at puoni,c
sch,ol' saw his teacher faint ana Iaii'
In the general confusion Il was ii hssSs
iiih,s 10 keep so many curious heads
slD,fs and the little ones focked round
the PROSTATE woman and ,b,i he sns sym boa
I'M. both his color and his GOODNESS
ssssaPndng on a bench and raising M,
hand, he exclaimed: Please teacnsa:, ou ~.
Ira rnn home and tell father to come! h'
| roakas cOffiuS!'