St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-05-02
Men, Women and Events.

| nounced that DR.. Alice H. Luce, {
Wellesley College, has accepted til
= election as dean of Oberlin.
! Queen Victoria has approved tn
| grant to the famous tenor, Sim
Reeves, of civil list pension of $40
= a year in recognition of his eminenc
as a singer. For long time pas
: Mr.. Reeves has been confined to hi
bed, and his state of health does no
warrant the hope that he will ever b
albeit work again. He is an octo
genarian.
} The will of relate Samuel H w ART
of Milwaukee leaves practically hi
whole estate, valued at upwards O
100000, in trust for the support
maintenance and education o
orphan children. He had no nea
relatives, and in his lifetime expended
large sums in the same direction.
N. c. D. Hodges, librarian of thu
scientific library at Harvard Univer
sity, has been elected librarian of the
Public Library of Cincinnati, to sue
coed A. W. Whelpley, the librarian
who recently died.
George Douglass Campbell, Duke
of Argyll, died April "a, at London
at the age OFT years.
Governor Mount, of Indiana, as
head of the Nancy Hanks Memorial
Association, has purchased the old
Lincoln Farm, near Evansville, Ind,
on which is the grave of Nancy
Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln.
A monument will be erected there,
and the sixteen acre farm converted
into public park.
The Rev. DR.. Reuen Thomas had
been pastor of the Harvard church,
Brookline, Mass, for twenty-five
years on Thursday evening, and his
people presented him with a purse of
$4,000 as an evidence oftheir esteem.
Sousa's band sailed last week for
Paris, where it will play at the open
ing of the American pavilion at the
Paris Exposition May 3 and at the
unwilling of Lafayette statue July 4.
The band will also make a tour of
Germany.
English newspapers report the
death in London, England, of I'm
manuel Baron Van Liebich, for many
years pianist to Her Majesty, Queen
Victoria, and we'll known through
out the United Kingdom, both as
pianist and composer. By his death
Rudolph Won Liebich, at present
resident of Burlington, inherits the
DdTOHldI lllle.
John Howells Westcott, professor
of Latin in Princeton University, is
now in Florence, studying the man.
uscripts Of the younger Pliny. He
expects to publish a complete text,
with notes, of that author.
Winston Spencer Churchill is being
mentioned" to succeed the new
Duke of Argyll in the House of Com
mons. 1t will be no inconsiderable
distinction to succeed the Queens
son-in-law, but the training of a war
correspondent will probably not
cause Mr.. Churchill to hesitate in
accepting the duties of a legislator
for the Empire.
N. c. D. Hodges, librarian of the
scientific library at Harvard, has
Oeen elected Librarian of the Gin
library.
Over $500 has been collected for
he monument to Sequoyah, the
Indian chief, who gave the Chero-
1ees a written language, and sub
are being received from all
parts of the country.
Eduardo de la Barra Lastarria.
who died recently, was one of Chile's
most widely known men of letters. If
he had had one more, he would have
had as many letters in his name as
there are in the alphabet.
When George Windham, now
prominent in English dispatches,
first entered the British war office
a little over year ago, he did not
have gray hair. Now his hair is
all silvery white.
The late Mrs. c. E. Haskell of
Chicago gave, during her life, in all
$3.50, 900 to the University OF Chi
cago, 100000 to the Hahnemann
hospital of that city, and $4,000 to
Oberin college.
Holger Dranchmann, the Danish
poet now visiting in Chicago, has
been inspired by that city to the