The Washington times., 1901-07-19
PERSONAL.

emperor Wiiliam latest lad is that
of playing the flute. He has been taking
lessons on that instrument for some time
now, and is jubilant over his progress.
Naval Cadet Herman Smith Turner. of
| Maryland. recently appointed, has been
admitted into the Naval Academy at AM
napolis despite the fact that, while over
six feet tall, he weighs but ninety-five
pounds.
President Henry G. Weston, of Crozier
Theological Seminary. is more than eighty
years old, yet he performs all the duties
of his office. and will deliver four lee
lures next week at the INSTRUMENTATION
al Bible class, to be held at Lake Orion.
Mich As long ago as 1si9 he was modera-
tor of the Baptist General Association
OF Illinois. which State was the scene of
his early labors.
The Duke of Grafton. whose eightieth
birthday was on Saturday last, although
a man of distinguished career. has been
little in the public eye for years past
His services in the Crimea won for him
many distinctions and also nearly cost
him his life. 1t was while fighting in the
trenches that he received a shot in the
chin which caused his life to hang In the
balance for many days. Luckily how
ever, the bullet passed through the body
without touching the spine. and the young
officer ultimately made a good recovery.
An English musician of uncommon tai
ent passed away recently in Charles Ken
sington Salaman. This composer. who
was born in London so far back as in
1914, appeared publicly as a pianist in
1928. For four years before Queen Vic
toria came to the throne he gave annual
concerts in London, being the first per
former there, other than the composer
himself, of Meudelssohns G. minor con-
certo. He lived long enough to see how
well established was the popularity OF the
music he set to Shelleys Il Arise from
Dreams of Thee, his most notable tri-
umph in song writing, although he was
a success fcrty years later with Swim
burnes "A Leave-Taking. His music to
Horace and Anacreon" had the unique
interest of being set to the untranslated
words.
Prof. Brander Matthews, who. after
eighteen years of waiting, has just been
elected to the London Athenaeum Club,
was originally nominated for membership
20 that body by Mathew Arnold.
The Rev Richard Free, who is working
in the east of London. recently put this
advertisement in the Topical Times
IF any West End church will pay US for
our work and allow the payment to go
to our little Church of St Cuthbert here
III al
spring cleaning. have thirty men.
women boys, and girls, who will scrub,
sweep, dust, and polish to their own
hearts content and that of their weather.
friends in the common faith, and do II
gladly for the sake of their little church.
And | believe with the experience i have
acquired, l can now beeswaX and polish
a floor or varnish chairs with anybody.
and my wife is Al at painting and dec
oration."
An, Ia of nj h1 in
herited by Mr. Pierce Mahony, ex-Mem-
Der of Parliament, of Grange Con,
County Wicklow, Ireland. The weapons
were used in the Waterloo year by
Daniel OConnell in the duel he fought
with ID E.sterre, in which the latter was
mortally wounded. O'Connell had char
acterized the Dublin corporation as
'beggarly." d Esterre. a member of the
City Guild of Merchants posed cham
pion of the civic body. and was the chal-
Ienger. OConnell took the fatality
greatly to heart. and vowed he would
never again engage in a duel.
That England's Egyptian army is a
young army of young men is best proved
by the fact that Sir Francis Wingate
who was one of its earliest officers and
is now its commander. has just entered
upon ills forty-first year. OF the sirdars
two score years more Than half have been
spent in the East and he has crowded
into them more service and distinction
than would have been possible anywhere
else. II has been said of this successor
of Lord Kitchener that he is the type of
the learned soldier. and that if he had
not chosen to be chief of the intelligence
department of the Egyptian army he
might have been professor of Oriental
languages at OXFORD
Sir Joseph Ward, who was given the
X. c. NJ G. recently by the Duke of
Cornwall and York in Wellington. New
Zealand, IL a native of Victoria and for
ty-four years old. He first entered the
New Zealand House of Representatives
in 1857 and has been leading figure in
the islands politics ever since.