The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-01
MEN AND AFFAIRS

! Ernest Seton-Thompson, the NATURAL
history writer has been granted per-
mission by Justice Bischoff in the Su-
preme Court, to change his name to
that of Ernest Thompson Seton. Mr..
/ Thompson said that the surname
Thompson was not his proper patro-
nymic or that of his ancestors. 1t was
he said, a pseudonym adopted by his
family to avoid identity when they hid
from the English government after
having taken part on behalf of Charles
Stuart in the Jacobite Rebellion of
1745.
A further reason given by Mr.
Thompson for the change was that
Thompson is a common name here and
borne by a great number of people, and
he therefore did not wish to retain it.
Mrs. James L. Blair of ST. Louis,
has stirred the musical circles Of that
city by reading a paper before the
| Congregational Club, in which she af-
! firmed that rag time" music in that
! city was more popular than classical
music, and that the city had utterly
failed to show any appreciation of mu-
sic of the highest quality.
Nine. Patti was born in Madrid. Her
| father was a native Of Catania, in ST.
oily, and her mother native of Rome.
She was brought up by an American
/ stepfather in the United States, mar
ried two French husbands, before she
| settled down in Wales, and is now the
wife of a Swedish nobleman.
| King Leopold, the eccentric Belgian
monarch, has his agent, Louis Henri de
Beck in Chicago, trying to purchase
| horses. He is negotiating with the
members of the 400" at prices likely
| to prove attractive even to these resi-
dents in whose vocabularies the word
| bargain" is seldom found.
Joseph L. Thompson of Franklin, N
H, who is now in the eighty-fifth year
| of his age, has taught school in that
town and vicinity for 65 years. He
says, as one thing learned in his long
| practice of his calling, that one-third
of a teachers time is taken up in
maintaining order.
Princess Hairie Ben Ayad, who has
created a stir in England by her cru
SADIE against social conditions in Tur-
! key, will visit the United States, this
winter. The princess is a daughter of
a former Turkish minister to France
Leonard King has left London, on
behalf of the British Museum, for the
purpose of inspecting the mounds at
Kenyunjik, the traditional site of part
of the city of Nineveh, and reporting
on their condition.
, A giant sequoia in the Mariposa grove
has been selected to be named William
Mckinley. 1t stands between the
Washington and Lincoln trees, and is
estimated to be 5000 years old.
A new office has been created by
| Governor Yates of Illinois. Its incum-
bent is entitled Orderly to the Cover
nor" and his general duties are those
of detective and policeman.
! Lee Johnsone is the youngest news
paper editor in Illinois. He is 10 years
old. The New century, a six-page
newspaper, IS printed every Wednes-
day by this youthful editor.
The f1ftieth anniversary of the
| death of the Russian humorist Gogol
! is to be celebrated at Moscow on March
2, 1902, by the unwilling of a monument
| to his memory.
Representative Livingston of Georgia,
| joins with Senator Bailey of Texas in
advocating the Democratic nomination
| of ex-senator German for President.
Judge Paul Wentworth Linebarger of
Chicago, one of the judges in the Phil
| ippines, speaks five languages. He
studied law in Paris and Madrid.
General Horace Porter, the United
States ambassador at Paris, will soon
go to Switzerland, where he will be
joined by his family.
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