The Washington times., 1901-09-22
PERSONAL.

! Herbert Henry Asquith played a very i'm
! portant part and came prominently to the
front in opposition TO Mr.. Balfour in up
holding the dignity of Parliament in con-
nection with the breach of privilege which
was committed by London newspaper.
Only little while before there was
great deal of talk in parliamentary circles
as to the differences of opinion between
Mr. Asquith and Sir Henry Campbell
Zimmerman. but the harmony of the party
was in the end unbroken. He was forty
nine years old on September L.
monument is being erected to the
memory of DR.. William Beaumont, whose
medical discoveries of half century ago
are well-known in the profession The
site chosen is the Old Government Tort at
Mackinac Island.
Alfred Russell. of Detroit, enjoys the
curious distinction of having thrice an
nounced in the United States district court
there the death of a murdered President.
When Lincoln died it was Mr.. Russell,
then a young lawyer. who moved adjourn
ment He performed a similar duty when
Garfield passed away and again when the
Buffalo tragedy eliminated in the death
of William Mckinley.
Alexander Ramsay, who became the first
Governor of Minnesota Territory June !.
1919. celebrated his birthday d few days
ribbon as the first Governor now surviv-
ing" The veteran said to p acquaintance
who congratulated him: m probably
eighyy-seven years old, as you say, for
almanacs don't lie, except about the
weather and the patent medicines. But L
hardly feel the eighty. though I'm free
to confess to the seven.
The last will of the Flcrentine painter
Stefano Ussi, who died on July Il. directs
that after the death Of his widow all his
property. to the value of several hundred
thousand francs is to be used for the es-
tablishment of three years stipend for
a talented young artist. TO be chosen by
competition The winner VIII also be al
lowed the use OF Ussi's villa and all his
painters materials.
1t may be said that the motto "A1l work
and no play makes Jack a dun boy" can
not be applied literally to Rear Admiral
George w. Melville. who has been Chief of
the Bureau of Steam Engineering about
fourteen years. Except for his trip to the
Pacific Coast with President mckinley
recently and one week at the Chicago
Exposition, he has not had more than a
forty-eight hours leave at any one time
in the fourteen years-----.---
The late United States Senator and At
torney General Augustus II. Garland,
Gen Thomas C. Hindman. Gen. Patrick
Cleburne, and Egbert II. English. late
Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme
Court are named by prominent Arkan-
sans as ft men from whom the State may
select its two representatives in the pro-
posed hall of fame at the LOUISIANA Pur-
chase Exposition in st. Louis.
Mayor Horace L. Worcester. of Roches-
ter, n. H., is personally investigating
charges that the liquor ordinances are be-
ing violated One evening last week he
went to a house where 1t was said liquor
was being sold On being denied admis-
sion he kicked in the door and whipped
couple of fellows who attacked him. Sub
sequently he had the police clean out the
place.
Only six are now alive of the company
playing in Ford's Theatre the night Lin
coin was shot Three OF the survivors
are still on the stage-Mrs. Kathryne M
Evans NJ. A. Kennedy. and w J. Fergu-
son.
The Queen of Portugal is perhaps the
most athletic woman ruler in the world
She is particularly fond of swimming and
at Cascals swims farther out from the
shore than any of the other bathers
Queen Garcia of Saxony is said TO be
delightful hostess and to infIse a great
deal of womanliness and charming cour-
tesy into her duties as Queen when en-
tertaining at Dresden.
Ernest A Hamill has been elected to the
treasurership of the Chicago Art Insti-
tute. place held for many years by Sec
retary Gage.
DR.. Edward Ernest Scheib of the yir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute has accepted
the professorship of philosophy and ped
agogy in Tulane University New Orleans
He was graduated from Georgetown uni
versity. and subsequently studied In the
universities of Heidelberg, Leipsic, and
Jena.
Prof Il. w. Bemis, who was invited to
Cleveland last spring to assist la Mayor
Johnson's taxation fight against the rail-
way companies. has been appointed super
irtendent Of the water works department
of that city.