New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-19
PERSONAL.
Ity OF nation

The town of Huntington, England, desires 10
erect a statue Of oliver Cromwell on the terceh-
tenary OF his birth. as a memorial IN MS native
town and home. and contributions from Americ an
admirers of the great Protector Will be glady re-
ceived through, Barring Magoun q Co., Oh 'his cry
THE fact that there are number OF men named
Sargent" SAYS The Worcester Gazette mas
bothered John Singer Sargent. the artist before
The mistake of last week. when the death Oh +.
Sargent a painter OF historical subjects. caused all
the afternoon papers TO announce the death Oh inc
great Sargent is a parallel of an earlier one wnich
was quite as unpleasant. A man In England named
Sargent became insolvent, and the story went the
rounds that the portrait painter was In sore straits
and could not pay his debts 1t Is much worse 10
cav that n solvent man Is insolvent than 10 say
that a live man is dead. or course, It did not
affect Mr. Sargent so seriously as II ne nau poeiI
or ma sinry was as DISAGREE
able as II was unfoundeo.
Julian Story has written to THE Bath Ohe)
Times" explaining that the only reason why MS
wife Emma Eames, declines to sing at the Maine
festival next fall is because she had planned TO be
IN Italy at that time and to sing would mean TWO
extra trips across the Atlantic and the nresk S
up OF her well-deserved vacation Were II othet.
Wise she would be only too glad to FAVOR the
Maine audiences which are so proud OF her.
Professor Paul Haupt OF Johns Hopkins Uni
yerslty spoke to the students on Monday evening
about THE Medical and HYGIENE Features OF the
bible" In the course of his address he said: Mod
ern sanitary legislation is based on the sanitary
rules laid down In the Mosaic law. Observance OF
tho Mosaic hygienic regulations might have pre-
vented great deal Of illness during the late war
with Spain great deal has been said about
.embalmed beef and the process OF preserving 1t
for seyenty-two hours. This Is entirely at variance
with the Mosaic law. In order to insure the best
quality of meat every slaughter Of cattle was
looked upon as a sacrifice and any Israelite who
Killed a domestic animal without presenting It to
the priests was looked upon as a murderer The
medical knowledge OF the Hebrew priest was not
derived from Egypt. but from Babyiona, and the
sanitary regulations. we find them In the i've
hooks OF Moses were not written In 1900 y. C., but
about eight hundred years later. by Judac priests
In Babylonia during the exile
DR. Pearson OF Chicago. well known through his
recent gifts OF money to various colleges has prom
ised to Yankton College. OF Yankton. 8. D.. $4,000
provided the existing debt OF the institution.
amounting TO about s2s0oo is wiped out by July l.
1910 Bartlett Trip, who will be the representa-
live OF the United States the Samoan Commits
sion and who was formerly Minister 10 Austria Is
1.-THE Birmingham (Ala.) Daily News" speaks
thus of Booker T. washington's recent address be-
fore an exclusive white mems club Of that city:
FOR an hour and half the speaker held the
superbly brilliant. He received more applause
than any speaker who has been In Birmingham In
YEAR, The force Of truth was In him, and that
Is the secret OF bis power"
New-Haven. April B-Dr. Albert B. White. OF
the history department at Yale. has been called
20 an instruetorship In medieval and English con-