Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-07-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Arthur Ferguson, formerly secretary of
the United States Philippine Commission.
has been appointed secretary to Civil Gov
ernor Taft.
Senator Clark, of Montana, now owns
forty gold. copper and silver mines, one
of which. bought three years ago. has
already brought him $4,000 profit.
George j. Gould is, like his father a
silent man. He shares his secrets with
none and is regarded as in this and fnan.
cial ability. the equal Of his father.
Sven Hedn reports from Thibct that he
has discovered there a second Dead Sea,
vast lake so impregrated with salt that
indigenous life is out Of the question.
Senator Depew said in a recent inter
view: For ten months of the year work
for sixteen hours day. That is why
fee! that deserve Summer vacation.
The British national memorial to the
late Miss Mary Kingsley has taken tho
shape of an African society to propagate
the study of native law and customs
The late Emile Richobourge, the popular
French feuillctonist made $4,000 by royal
ties on his eight last books His total
fortune at his death amounted to nearly
500 900.
Herbert Crombie Howe, for a number
of years secretary to President Schurman
of Cornell University, has been appointed
professor of English at the University of
Oregon.
Prof Brander Matthews who, after
eighteen years of waiting, has just been
elected to the London Athenaeum Club,
was originally nominated for membership
to that body by Matthew Arnold.
Bishop Nicholson of the Protestant
Episcopal diosease of Wisconsin stopped
a furious runaway team at Lacrosse the
other day and saved the lives of two chill
dren who were in the carriage.
F.. wilmington Ruckstunl, the we'll
known St.Louis sculptor and secretary OF
the National Society of Sculptors, has
been appointed n director of sculpture of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
jeremiah Curtin, the translator of
Sienkiewiczs novels has returned from
a trip abroad which included a visit 10 the
Polish author. who is nov at work on
romance of the life oil John SobiesN
James NJ. Alden who died a week ago in
Brooklyn, in his S4th year, was a lneal
descendant of Jonn Alden. OF Mayfower
fare In 1913 he was publisher, and the
first to issue a book by Washington Irv-
ing.
President Loubet. of France. is driving
mis- master OF ceremonies to despair. 1t Is
said, as he will have no ceremony at all
and will not even permit visitors TO be pre-
scented to him 10y the usual form of an
nouncement.
Rear Admiral Runce, of the United
States Navy, retired. has Just undergone
n successful operation for cancer IN a
in a few days TO his home in Hartford.
Conn.
Hugh Douglass Wise, who has just been
mede a captain in the Ninth Infantry IS
the young officer who carrie, his camera
up San Juan Hill and rendered important
services by photographing the position Of
the enemy.
Prince Won Fiohenlohe is credited with
having held an opinion Of the German
Emperor that was none too high, and is
said to have remarked of him: His
greatest fault Is that he thinks there are
no limitations to his will"
The late Ex-Governor rInrrec, of Michi-
gan, subscribed to n clipping bureau and
kept all the printed comment about him
self This was kept in a ser of scrap
books, which ere said to contain 5000
columns of newspaper comment.
President EGrrow3, of Oberlin College,
said the other day that he believed that
the present craze for college athletes
would have, in the end, good result, in
that it would make US a race fond of
healthy outdoor sports.
Descendants Of Edward Ball OF Brad
ford, Conn. who are blood relations Of
George Washington, will hold a reunion
at Keuka Park, n NJ. August q Is and
%. Washington was a cousin of the Vir-
einia branch of the family.
Gen. Fitzhueh Lee has decided that tho
business In which he has determined to
engage upon retiring into private life near
Richmond, Va, VIII lie or an industrial
character" but beyond this he has re-
fused to make any statement for pslbli-
Caticn.
Wah-tawass, the full-blooded Indian girl
who Is preparing to enter Radcliffe col-
ltge, Cambridge. Mass. is at present em-
poyed as n typewriter and stenographer
In the office of n Boston lawyer and does
her studying for her examinations at
night.
Geronimo. the notorious Indian now real
~ n prisoner at Fort sill, was taken to the
Buffalo exposition the other day for ex-
hibition purposes. He was delighted with
the trip and showed throughout the route
the pleasure of a child on Its first railway
ride.
Ex-Governor Taylor, of Tennessee who
has won himself n reputation as nd
dler" among his friends. has been invited
to take part In a flddling contest between
the old settlers of Missouri, which is to
occur at Kansas City on the 10th of Au-
gust.
The archbishop of York has just COM
pleted his 18TH year, but still carries on all
the work of his position and still on all the
work OF his position and still reads daily
fixed portion of Hindoostanee, which
LANGUAGE he learned when a soldier in
India,
Charles Benedict, one of the four surviv'
ing veterans of the Seminole War and an
old Mason, is living at the Masonic Home
In Wallingford, Conn. Two other survivors
of this war are Samuel Burt, of Rockport
Mass, and Samuel d, Calkins, of Norwich
Mass.
At the sugge stion of the Hartford
| Comm Times n fund of SSp0 has been
raised for the support Of Niles Ida L.
| Hathaway, a nurse at the Hartford Hos
pital. who, In the performance OF mel
duty. contracted ophtnalmia from a child
patient, and IL now to1aIlS bland,