Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Charlesnagne Tower, tho United States
Ambassador to Russia. is spending the
summer in Switzerland with Mrs. Tower.
Marion Crawford always thinks out his
novels while walking. lie can tramp forty
miles ut a stretch and believes bodily fati
que clears the brain.
Governor La Toilette, of Wisconsin. who
was reported n month ago to be dying is
now rapidly recovering. His Illness WIS
brought on by overwork
The Sultan of Turkey is himself some
thing Of theoretical soldier. His favor
lite reading is military history Of the most
detailed and technical sort
Robert Bond the Premier of Newfound-
land, was educated at Queens College.
England, and entered the Newfoundland
Legislature in his 25th year.
Rear Admiral Howison, who Is to be a
member of the Schley Court of Inquiry T.
native of Washington, -. c., and was a
classmate of Admiral Dewey at Anna
polls.
Or. Robert Koch, the famous bacteriolo.
gist, is a versatile man. He is good pub
lie speaker and something of a linguist
but his knokledge of English is very inn
perfect.
The committee on schools of tho Freed
mans Aid and Educational Society has
chosen Rev. DIR. NJ. r. Phillips chancellor
of the Kansas Wesleyan University. as
president of the New Orleans University.
Senator and Mrs. Hanna and their tive
daughters are spending a part of the sum-
mer at their cottage, Hay Lake near Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich, where the Senator has
proved himself something of an expert FISH.
man.
A fun length marble statue of DR.. VII
liam Gilbert. the father of electrical sci
ence and author Of DE Magnetic" is to be
erected at the instance of members of the
medical profession at Colchester, Eng.
land, his old home
The Cretan Legislature has voted a
monthly pension of fifty crachmas tc
Georgia Bcro,ich Bey, the last Turks
governor of tho island. At the outbreak o.
the revolution this official took ship foi
Italy rather than remain and enforce tn,
severe reprcSsiVe measures that he was
commanded 20 put into play. Ever since
he has been living in poverty in Venice.
The death Of DR.. Edward s Morley tn,
elder and only brother of John Morley, NJ
. T., removes a picturesque figure from tn,
; social life of Lancashire, where he hat
long been conspicuous for his charita bl'
, enterprise, his devotion to legitimate spor
and his interest in politics. Politically h
but the two were always the best u
. friends and the closest Of companions.
People who have been interested in tn,
statements of Ouida and others in refor
encc to the alleged Ill treatment of Olv
Schreiner, who is now living under martha
law in South Africa, should pay attention
to the assertion of T. l.. Schrener tn
, novelists brother, who declares that hi
sister Is subjected merely to the ordinar'
rules which govern all the inhabitants o
districts under martial law.
Professor Caspar Rene Gregory Of tn
University of Leipzig, who has been chos
, on to deliver the GRAFTON at the summc
. conVocation of the University of Chic a. a
which will be held on the campus Angus
: %, Is native of Philadelphia. Pa Will
at Princeton he assisted Professor Charlie
p, Hodge in preparing his Systematic Theo
q loey.' In 1873 he became connected will
q the University of Leipzig. He is probabl
the only American professor in a German
=, university.
f Mr.. George Smith. who died recently
1 was fortunate publisher in all ways; bu
Q the amount of money at whc
1 his will was proved was not al
e earned at the old house in Corn
.. hill or in The more modern one 4
1 Waterloo Place 1t is not generally know
= that Mr.. Smith was originally one Of tn
d. owners of a mineral water of famlia
s name. The capital embarked on thi
e sparkling food was hut n few hundreds
+ hut he retired from the partnership with
l check for G75,cOo.
Bankers say that gold IS being emplove
E as currency to n far greater extent tina
l the public has any idea Of. 1t Is infre
quently however. Seen in the form @
- Coin.it is almost never carried in the peck
ct, not often paid over the counters o
: the shops. At one time Mr. Gage was yer
u iA1tg TO fstr,, 1Ipt H., 4
United States with the use of gold coin
= and 1t was for that reason in part that tn
reissuing of gold certificates was delayed
most thorough test vas made Of the dis
position of the people, and it seemed to II
. proven that unlike the people of Grea
l Britain or the continent Of Europe tn
An orleans do not care to carry gold i
their purses or pockets. or to make use o
it for their daily small currency opera
, tions.