The Washington times., 1901-07-05
PERSONAL.

| DR.. ]. Ewing Mears Of Philadelphia.
has given to the Marion County Qnd-)
| Medical Society property in indianapolis
! valued at s25. 900, on which to erect a
! home for the society as a memorial to
I his father. who was a pioneer physician
/ IN indianapolis.
One Of the most faithful of Queen Vic
| toria's servants. who still holds high en-
ployment in the household of the King
and Queen of England. is Sir Arthur
T.igge, who during twenty years was at
first assistant private secretary of Queen
Victoria, and later he- chief private sec
retary, an office during which the last
five years was further rendered more inn
portant by his services as an equerry. His
pacffic appointments were in direct con-
trast with his earlier life, for he served
| in the Zulu war of 1S7S-79, while later on
he became aide-de-camp to Sir Evelyn
Wood. Sir Arthur was fifty-two years
old on June 1S
President Carter of Williams College,
has purchased home in New Haven, in
the university circle of the city The
first two years of his college life were
spent at Yale, and he was afterward a
professor there. At the Williams centen-
nial, President Dwight of the New Haven
institution said: We claim that DIR.
Carter is half Yale. anyway, and a good
many of US think the better half."
Governor Oden of New York. is consid-
ering the advisability of making a per-
sonal tour Of the Erie Canal this summer,
so as to be thoroughly posted when the
project of enlargement comes up at the
next legislative session. The Governor
does not wish to see the canal abandoned,
but IS also opposed to enlargement as far
as some have suggested
The Emperor of Japan has an allow
ance Of something like 8, ,00O, 900 a year to
keep up the imperial establishment. He
has also a large private fortune. having
invested in stocks and great deal of
wealth in land. At the close of the Chi
nese-Japanese war. parliament voted his
Majesty 100000 yen, an amount equal
to 100000 gold dollars, out of the indem-
nifty paid by the Chinese as mark of
gratitude for his directing the naval. and
military operations
Senator Depew. in speaking about his
annual trip TO Europe, said recently that
for ten months OF the year he works on
an average sixteen hours a day. Then he
takes two months in which to recuperate
About the third day out at sea he finds
that every bodily ailment has disappeared
and by the time he reaches the other side
he feels as II no enterprise was too big
for him
1t seems to be settled that Rear Admiral
Schley viii remain on waiting orders until
the da ase of his retirement for age, which
is October 9. Some of the friends of Ad-
miral Schiey have urged that he be de-
tailed to some prominent shore duty 10
round out his career but the Navy De-
partment has no place to which he could
be assigned and he is likely to fill in his
period of active service on waiting orders.
NJ Paul Revolt has accepted the gov
ernorship of algeria. He Is forty-five
years of age and is the brother of the
late George Revolt. the explorer of the
SomaH country. Originally a journalist.
he has served in various public depart
ments, was Minister TO Brazil. was sub
resident at Tunis, and not long ago was
appointed Minister to Morocco
Pope Leo XIII is at work on a new
Latin poem which will celebrate the be-
ginning of the twenty-fifth year OF his
pontificate next February. He asserts
that it will be his poetic testament.
Lord Salisbury speaks best when he
rests his elbow on something. In the
House OF Lords he usually finds the sup
port he needs In two or three books placed
one above the other. Somebody one day
removed one of these Qt was some book
of reference) and Lord Salisbury missed
1t Immediately. His eloquence was check |
ed, he foundered in his speech, and did
not res line 1t until the book was returned. /
On another occasion. at his own house, |
where there was a political meeting, he |
began to speak rather Iamely, and after |
considerable hesitation he walked across !
his drawing room to where there was a |
rather high fire screen. He got inside |
this with his back 10 the fire, and, facing |
his audience. with his elbow on the screen, !
proceeded to make the most eloquent ha- |
rangue.
Three German officials are visiting the |
navy yards and shipyards of this coun-
try. They are Tjard Schwarz, chief of |
hull construction in the German navy; |
Prof. De Ernest Won Halle. of the Univer- !
sity OF Berlin, who has been detached |
from that duty by Emperor William fer |
service in the navy department, and Her
bert Won Rebeur-Paschwitz.
In a life of Pasteur, published in Paris, /
attention is called to the fact that the
man who was destined to revolutionize /
chemistry came fourteenth in a list of |
twenty-five candidates at his high school |
in Dijon and was marked weak In
chemistry. His researches in regard TO
the disease of silkworms are said to haze
been the means of saving France a sum
equal to that paid to Germany as the
price of peace.