Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Richard Philip Schuyler. VINO d.ed at
the homestead called the Flats, near
Watervlict, recently. was a lneal tlescen-
dant of the first mayor of Albany, Peter
Schuyler, who was mayor in 1856.
Martin Irons. the famous labor agitato.,
who has for the last few years been iv-
ing quietly on a little farm in Arkansas,
is now seriously i'll of maarial fever in
hospital in Little Rock.
Mrs. Kathleen Blake Watkins. who was
married in Washington the other day to
DIR. Theodore Coleman, Is better known to
newspaper readers as Kit" the woman
VINO reported the war for Toronto pa
per.
| O. II. Arosin, president OF the fire board
OF St. Paul. resembles Lient. llobson very
closely, and on a recent visit to the war
vessels in New York he was congratulate
ed by number OF young women.
: Otto Ribbeck, the successor of Friedrich
Pitschl in the chair of classical philology
at tho University of Leipzig, died recently
of heart disease, aged seventy-one years.
He wrote u history of Latin poetry, and
published many texts of Latin authors,
notably a Virgil. He was vigorous OPP
ponent of the methods Of comparative
philology.
| England's Chancery Court has refused
in a recent case to recognize the validity
in England of legal American divorces. y
widow, VINO applied for dover was
SHOWN 10 nave Decl UldIEltu lOuI lliiicS
in eight years, and to have the three pre-
vious husbands still living from whom
she had been divorced. A Florida decree
was selected for the test, and Mr.. Justice
Eekewich held that 1t was void in Eng
land,
! "A surgeon on the Oregon writes to his
friends about the newspaper reports OF
naval operations in rather contemptuous
style. THE dispatch boats occasionally
bring us newspapers and such lies one
can hardly imagine the human mind ca
Ipablc of producing. or course, 1t Is all
very funny"
The heaviest substance known is the
metal osmium, whose specific gravity Is
22477, while that of gold is 1866 lead H.
367, iron 7.7s. and lithium-the highest
solids only 059i. Osmium is also the
most infuslble of the metals. 1t resists
the oxyhydrogen fame, in which pla-
tlnum and iridium flow like water, and
is even almost entirely unaffected by the
electric arc, which readily melts the eX-
tremely refractory ruthenium,
President Mckinley will be invited Ia
attend the Festival of Mountain and
Plain in Denver on October 5, as II part
OF his trip to the Omaha Exposition.
The controversy over the title OF
"Father of the House of Lords" has been
settled in England and the honor acknow-
lodged to belong to the Earl of Leicester
who has been a member for more than
ifty-siX years.
Mrs. George Moulton, the guardian
angel of Camp Cuba Libre is the wife
of Colonel Moulton, of the Second Illinois
whose regiment is commended by Gen
eral Lee a. one of the finest in the service
1t is "A curious fact that Mr.. Curzon, the
new Viceroy of India, though the eldest
son and heir of an English peer and tho
husband OF one of Americas wealthiest
hercsses, has. strictly speaking, no hahi
| In n ENGLAND
own.
Sir Monier Williams, the veteran
professor of Sanskrit at the University OF
oxford, and his wife, have celebrated
their golden wedding. The professor who
is so years of age, has Just completed the
second edition of his Sanskrit dictionary
The seventeen anniversary of Leo Tol
stoi and 1.-The hfteth year of his literary
activity is to be celebrated on the
evening of September by a dinner at the
St. Denis Hotel in New York.
Fernando, the daughter of Ferdinand d,
Lesseps. we'll known in this country be
cause of her visit here with her father
having secured divorce about year age
, from Count dc Gontaut, Biron spendthrlf
and profiigate, Is now about 10 marry tn,
Count de Marimont.
The report that Mr. George Curzon Il
the youngest viceroy of India Is untrue
Mr.. Curzon is 80 whereas Lord Dalhousie
who succeeded Lord Hardinge as viceroy
was only 35 when he left England.
The statement that the Prince of Wales
has rented Felbrigge Hall, the picturesque
old seat of the Windham family near Gro
mer. is unfounded. Felbrigge, which nov
belongs to Mr.. Ketton, Is not to be let
nor has the Prince ever expressed any de
sire to become the tenant
| Gladstone's pubic funeral cost 81, 900
| The expenses connected with the convey
ance of the body TO London and the prep
! n ,t.,.t Hall nd A
, together with the fees payable to the Ear
r Marshal's staff constitute. 1t is explained
[ the principal terms of expenditure.
| The monument raised by the Empires
= Elizabeth of Austria tc her son, the lat
lCrown Prince, has been erected where tn