The Washington times., 1901-09-09
PERSONAL.

Oliver Stevens, of Boston, has been the
county district attorney for twenty-seven
years. He is a Democrat, but has twice
been elected by the Republicans.
BY the will of the late Louis Thurston
Hoyt, a member of the New York Stock
Exchange, $lG.0 is given 10 the Orphans
Home and Asylum of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church of New York. There are
also bequests to St Lukes Hospital the
Society for the Relief of the Destitute
Blind, and the New York Society for the
| Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
The Virginia Constitutional Convention
has one clergyman in it, the Rev DR.
Richard McIlwaine. His chief contribu-
tion to its deliberations was a PROPOSE
ton TO return to viva voce voting at cleo
tions.
Rev. Samuel scoville Henry Ward
Beecher's son-in-law, has become asso-
ciate pastor with Rev. DR.. Hills over Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn Mr.. ScovilIe
has held several Congregational pasto-
rates. in Connecticut and elsewhere and
recently resigned as pastor at Nineland,
n. j., to take this place.
The Rev. Thomas j. Keith who recent
!y gave up the pastorate of a large Bap-
tist church in Vincennes Ind to ioin the
Dowie cult, is said to be a man of consid-
cradle scholarship. He was once mis-
siOnary in India and translated the Bible
into the native tongue.
An interesting circumstance in the life
of the late George c. Chamberlain, of
Greenwich, Conn. who has just died at
the age of ninety-five years and four
months, was that as a boy nine years old
he carried water to soldiers at the battle
of Waterloo, and saw Napoleon shortly
after. He used TO describe the battle with
great Susto. Mr.. Chamberlain was a ma
tive of Leicester England.
The resignation of Prof. Arthur w.
jerks, of Nashobah (Wis) Episcopal
Theological Seminary, has brought TO
light controversy between the faculty
of the institution and Bishop Nicholson,
of Milwaukee. The faculty charge the
Bishop with undue interference with their
plans, and threaten to follow DR.. jerks
example
John d. Lankenau, weIl-known Phila-
delphia philanthropist. who died last
week, left more than S1,5G00C0 to be di-
vided equally between the German Hos
pital of Philadelphia and the Mary j.
DreNel Hcme for Aged Patients OF the
Hospital He also boqueathed to the
Drexel Institute paintings valued at $780,
600.
c. G. Turner, President Of the Board of
Control Of State Prisons in Michigan, de-
clares that the parole system in that
State has been satisfactory in ninety
States where the system has been adopt
ed the results have been almost equally
gratifying, he says
Lord Kitchener once had a very OK
traordnary experience, having swallowed
Il bullet with which he had been wound
ed. During the campaign of 1888 Major
Kitchener was hit in the side of the face
by a bullet during a skirmish near Sua-
kim. and was taken down the Nile and
thence to the Citadel Hospital at Cairo.
where, despite all tho efforts Of the sur
geons the bullet could not be located
The wound was healthy one and soon
healed and the medical officers came to
the conclusion that the bullet had worked
its way ou- without being noticed. The
ma jor'S nurse one day tempted the pa
TENTS appetite with tasty beefsteak
which the major had no sooner attacked
than ne put his hand to his throat ex-
claiming: Billion, If there was no bone
in the steak I've swallowed that bullet;
l felt it go down. This proved TO be the
case.