Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-06-16
NOTES OF NOTABLES.

MULE Ed VI NOl AbLES.
Rochester. \. Y, the home of Gen.
Otis, is planning q large reception for
that soldier upon his return to the Unit
ed States.
Coy. Cranes reception in Boston the
other evening to the members of the Leg
isature was made notable by the fact
that no liquors or wines We're served.
DR. Marshall Lang. the new princi-
pal Of the University of Aberdeen, is a
cousin of Andrew Lang. and was play
mate in childhood Of Robert Louis Ste
yenson.
For Orchardson's portrait of the Eng
ish royal family, now on exhibition in
the academy at London, Queen Victoria
gave but three sittings, the face alone be-
ing hers.
D. \. Tompkns, a cotton-mir owner
Of Mississippi, is to give $4,000 for the
construction at Jackson. Miss. of the
textile school authorized at the recent
session OF the Legislature.
Edgar Williams Abbott has been APP
pointed professor OF romance languages
IN Butler college, indianapolis, succeed
ing Prof. Hugh T. Miller. who resigned
20 70 into another occupation.
DIR. Edison Fessendon Gallaudet, head
coach of the Yale crews and an instructor
IN physics, will resign at the close of the
present season to accept place with the
4ramp Shipbuilding company of phila-
fislnhia.
! eas'f'iic board Of trustees OF Western
Union college of the United Evangelical
church has elected as president of the
college and faculty Rev. Norman Henry
Thoren, pastor of Salem church, at Ma
pierville, Ill.
The late Judge Horace F. Biddle,
who died the other day at Logansport.
Il stsarfa Il . Yl,,
scholarly men i'll that state, as well as
one Of its greatest jurists. yet he never
went to college, and educated himself al
most entirely
When the Duke Of Norfolk was
about TO depart from London for Afri-
ca he took his sword to the private
chapel in the Roman Catholic Archheh-
, cient rule. it was solemnly blessed before
the altar by Cardinal Vaughan
The old house mt harrisburg, La,
where Ruth McEnery Stuart. the author
ess. was born. has been purchased by
harrisburg lawyer, and Will be torn
down. Friends Of Mrs. Stuart in st.
Louis offered him double the price he
paid for il, but he refused to sell.
1t seems at Inst as if Western civil
i2ation We're making its influence felt in
China. Ii Hung Chang has sent two OF
his sons 10 attend Il course of lectures at
the Vanderbilt university, Tennessee. and
! it is SAID that large number of young
/ celestial Aris;ocrats viii follow them.
Although Lord Armstrong has now
entered upon his ninetieth year, he can
not lay claim to being the oldest mem
hcc OF the House of Lords. His senior
/ in age is Lord Gwydyr. who was born on
/ April -. 1910. Lord Armstrong was
born ON November 26 in the same year,
! Mrs Capron, widow of the Rough
4 Rider captain. who was killed in Cuba,
win sail for the Philippines in May to
/ do Red Cross work. Since the death
of her husband she has interested herself
4 in the welfare of discharged soldiers, Sc
/ curing employment for many of them.
Sculptor MacMonnies, whose splen-
/ did work a The Worlds fair will
/ be remembered ny thousands of Chica-
/ goans, is about to leave Paris fer this
country. his intention being to take an
extended rest He has done a vast
amount Of work in the past three years.
1t is stated that President Krugers
1 favorite hobby is gardening. the collec-
ton If phloXeS in his garden at Pre-
taria is famed for its excellence. He
has a liking for red geraniumS and cal
/ Ceolarias. and the dafodH is one of his
pet flowers. II" is said 10 detest orchids.
The FIRST full-hlooded Indian woman
, 20 receive "A diploma rs 4 trained nurse
+ is Miss Many Seneca, daughter If
. Chief Isaac Seneca. head OF the Seneca
. tribe On the Catt8rauEuS reservation in
7 New York state, She is now comp'Ct-
ing her professional education ar the
Medico-C hrurEical hospital in Ph.mjc}-
phia, whore thu doctors urououuec kos q
treasure IN cara ami skill.
The late Archibald Forbes received
part nf his education in E'Gjn. and iii
one OF the papers ~ thar town his
earliest Journalistic work appeared. He
ca trihu.cd n London Letter" 10 its col
,mIs for some time in the mil-'Gls Nj
Forb y never lost interest in his native
place.
Cen. Ludlow. as governor OF Ha,
vana. has appointed Miss Mary \.
Knight director Of the Havana indus
trial school for orphans. with cor'ren-
satiou az 500 per month Miss Flea
nor Hernandez has been appointed >u-
perintondcnt and assistant 10 Miss
Knight
Herman veterans Of TIE wars of
1854. 1866 and 1870 of the district of So
jingen, the great steel manufacturing
place will present 20 the President OF
the TrauSvaI q sword in token If their
! admiration. Some ~ the veterans are