The age-herald., 1900-08-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

1 thy business affairs, with gains and losses, 1 law, quareling and danger of sickness to l myself. Keep thy business well in hand, | and run no risks.''
 l "A child born on this day win be quick l and clever, but should keep in the employ i of others and not attempt any business | on its own account" 1 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for l Tuesday, August Il, 1900
 1 An unfortunate day.
 l An unsettled year in thy affairs, losses, | griefs, changes and disputes
 l "A child born on this day will not be for l tunate in business, and had better stay in | employ
 Antwerp is included in the itinerary of | all tourists on the continent of Europe, l | and fortunate are those poetic souls who 1 happen to be in that quaint old city with
 in the octave of the festival of the As-
 sumption and especially on the day of the
 feast, August 15,' said well known cit- 1 zen who has travelled much abroad 1.-The
 historic cathedral of Antwerp Is named in 1 honor of the Assumption of the Blessed | Virgin and Reubens master work repre- | senting Mary ascending to heaven is seen | there above the high altar. I arrived in l Antwerp on the evening of the 18th of Au- | gust a few years ago, and being fatigued,
 retired early But slept little that night,
 for my hotel was near the cathedral and
 | every quarter of an hour the carillon in
 the great tower sounded slvery notes of | surpassing sweetness. I had listened to | many beautiful chimes before but those OF | Antwerp were the most beautiful. No other
 tower bells will ever be heard half so deli
 | cately tuned. Their light, airy notes smote l upon the ear so gently and so rehS1ously | that I imagined an angel and not a mortal | was the performer. All through the night | as I listened, my heart was filled with | pleasurable excitement. No orchestra ever | thrilled so much; no music ever sounded | so poetic. It were certainly well worth
 trip across the ocean to listen to the caril- l Ion of the Cathedral of the Assumption. I | was present in the cathedral at the closing 1 ceremonies of the festival in the late after 1 noon of the 18th, when the Blessed Sacra-
 ment was carried by the bishop in process sion through the aisles, a choir of one
 hundred and twenty-five voices sang
 Gounod's "Magnificat." The chorus was 1 accompanied by a splendid orchestra of | fifty pieces"
 l The death of Charles Scott Venable, l Emeritus Professor of Mathematics of the | University of Virginia, which occurred Sat 1 urday, and which was announced in Sun | days Age Herald, removes from the edu- l eational world of the most distin- | guisned teachers and authors of the cen l tury Prof. Venable was known throughout | the United States, and his reputation eX- | tended to Europe He was an uncle of Mrs. | E. T. Taliaferro of this city. The deceased | was born in Prince Edward County Va, l April 19, 1927, and graduated from Hampden l Sidney College in 1S42. He a tutor of l mathematics at that institution from 1S43 1 to 1S45, and studied law there at the same | time He was full professor at Hampden | Sidney for many years In 1852 he obtained | a leave of absence and went to Europe 1 for the prosecution of studies in astronomy. | While Prof Venable was best known T | master of mathematics, he was scholar ot l singuarly varied attachments. In 1856 he filled the chair of Natural His | tory and Chemistry in the University of 1 Georgia In 1860 he was appointed one of 1 five commissioners to observe the total l solar eclipse of July in that year and sailed with his party to Labrador His report in | the Coast Survey volume of 1861 is highly | valued. | Prof. Venabe was a brilliant linqufst | | and could have filled the chair of modern | or ancient languages most ably. In 1860 he l was lieutenant in the Congaree Rifles, | and went with his company to Charleston l to attack Fort Sumter. He served gallantly l to the close of the war and was for some l time on the staff of Robert E. Lee. In l 1865 he was elected to the chair of math- l ematics of the University of Virginia He l served for several years as chairman of the faculty. No executive of the university l more strict in administering the 1 rules and discipline, and yet chairman 1 more loved by the students, and the announcement of his death must cause I real sadness amongst the alumni. A recent l biographer, in referring to the wide schol- 1 arshp of Prof. Venable, says his life illus | trates MT. Jefferson's opinion that to be | highly successful in one department, pro- | lessor must know much of many others" The Hotel IIilman Company has selected l for its architects the firm of Suly Stone
 Bros & Co. of New Orleans. A Chicago | firm had been engaged to make sketches
 but the company finally decided to give the work to the New Orleans architects. SuIly, l Stone Bros. & Co. designed the St. Charles 1 in New Orleans and that gave them wide
 fame. They have made the preliminary sketches for the FFiIln1an and in few
 weeks they will have detailed drawings
 we'll advanced. The Hillman is to be a six | story building and will be able to aceommo-
 date five hundred 1odgers. It will be ready l for occupancy by October 1, 1901. 1 The Rev. Father Ambrose, O. S. B., prior of St Bernards Monastery in CulInau l County, was the preacher at St. Paurs l church yesterday. He will return to Gull man this afternoon. l The mercury in Weather Observer Jacobs 1 thermometer indicated pretty strong heat | last week. but there were no sunstrokes 1 in Rirmingham. and very little grumbling