The Washington times., 1901-07-17
PERSONAL.

Sir Edwin Arnold, who has lost the use
of his legs through paralysis and become
totally blind. fears he will never again
be able to see. In spite of his infirmities
Sir Edwin-whose son. now serving a term
in prison for embezzIement robbed him
of the savings of his life-is obliged at
the age of sixty to work hard for a living.
A bust of the late Prof Webster of
Arkadelphia College, designed by Prof. ].
b. Whitaker, has been presented to the
college. with which, as professor of Greek
and Latin and as head of the collegia te
department Prof. Webster was connected
from 1863 to 1895,
Gen. A. J. Warner has become a South
erner. His new home is at Dahlonega.
Ga. He is promoting trolley line be-
tween Gainesville and that brisk little
mountain city.
John Broder, who voluntarily retired
from the office of chief of police of St.
Joseph, Mo. last week, had occupied that
position continuously since the metropoIi-
tan police department was established in
that city, seventeen years ago. Broder
served several terms as city marshal of
st. Joseph before he became chief of po-
lice. He is seventy-one years old.
General Baden-Powell is suffering from
overwork and fever and his medical ad-
visers in South Africa have ordered him
TO take complete rest alu proceed 10 Eng
land.
In the codici to his will Admiral Sir
John Edmund Commerell. " c., who died
in England on May p last. added: HAY
ing had fatal experience of the iniquity of
the law in certain cases, when decisions
have been given against common sense
and justice, ] entreat the parties inter-
ested in my will not TO appeal to the law
If any difficulty may arise, but to arbi-
trate. Having been swindled myself by
every lawyer that / ever had anything to
do with, makes me offer this advice to
my heirs, executors, and assigns"
The furniture and household effects of
ex-President Carlos Ezeta. of Salvador,
have been sold at public auction in Oak
land, Cal to satisfy the claim OF a mon
ey lender.
Prof. ]. s. Kendall has resigned the
position of Commissioner of Public In
struction in Texas TO take charge of the
North Texas Normal School Prof Arthur
lie Fevre, of Victoria, Tex, has succeeded
him.
The Harden medal of the Royal Insti-
tute of Public Health will be presented to
Prof. Koch at a dinner to DE held in Lon
don on July "a.
Hezekiah Conant, founder of the Conant
Thread Company, of Pawtucket. r. l.,
now a Drancn OF lHt D. N L. coats lnTedu
Company Limited has resigned as
treasurer and general manager of his con-
cern because of ill-health.
Princesse Clementine d'Orleans, who is
now the only survivor of the large family
of Louis Philippe, has celebrated her
eighty-fourth birthday at Schloss Eben-
thai, her seat near Vienna, wnither she
has Just returned after long stay at
Mentone Princesse Clementine married
Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg- -Gotha, a
brother of the late King Dowager of
Portugal and a first cousin of Queen Vic
toria and of the Prince Consort He in
herited the immense Kohary estates. in
Hungary from his mother. and died in
1851 one of her sons is the Prince of Bull
garia, and the eldest Is Prince Philip, SON
in-law of the King of the Belgians One
of her daughters is the Archduchess
Clotilde, wife of the Archduke Joseph and
mother of the Duchesse dOrleans.
f. w. Dyson. an astronomer from the
Greenwich Observatory, England. who
weEt to Sumatra to take views and make
observations of the eclipse there In May,
is the first member of the various eclipse
parties to reach this country He says
the best photographs of the eclipse were
obtained by American astronomers. He
will make a tour of the observatories of
this country.