The Washington times., 1901-09-07
PERSONAL.

President James q. ANGEL of the Uni
versity of Michigan. says that the entire
| expense of mis- four years course at
Brown University was only $500
In New LISBON, a village of Wisconsin,
| lives Jacob A. Wildner, who believes him.
self to be the last survivor of the follow
ers of John Brown in his raid into Vfr-
ginia.
John w. Bowler. director of physical
training in the Boston Public Gymnasium,
has gone to Dartmouth College to be di-
rector of physical training there. In the
/ fall of 1890 he trained the Harvard football
! team.
Baron Fejervary. the Hungarian Minis
ter of National Defence, has celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of his entering into
/ public service. Emperor Francis Joseph
/ sent graciously worded autograph letter
| to the baron and conferred on MIN the
grand cross of the Order of St. Stephen.
An attempt is being made in England
to secure enough money for the erection
of suitable monument to Edward Ed
wards, the original promoter Of the mod
ern system of free public libraries. Ed
wards who was born in 1872, died in 1860
in extreme poverty and has been almost
forgotten by the generation upon which
his labors Conferred so great benefit.
King Edward VII has a violent dislike
of poor English. His own words come
slowly but are always well chosen. and
he frequently corrects bad grammar that
comes to his ears
Gen. Sir Henry Thullier. who is now
living in London in his eighty-sixth year,
is one of the few surviving officers of the
old East India Company. He first saw
military service with the Royal Artillery.
The memory of Major Allan Wilson.
who. with his entire command. was mas
sacred in MatabeleIand during the war
against LobengUla. is to be preserved by
a monument which Cecil Rhodes proposes
to erect on the spot where the major fell.
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts spends
his vacation in resting. He rises early,
but is in bed every night by 8 O'Clock and
during the day takes long walks and does
a good deal of light reading.
Dr. Carter, the retiring President of
Williams College, held that post for TWEEN
ty years, during which time eight new
buildings have been added TO the college,
most of the old ones renovated, large
amount Of land acquired, and the library
doubled
Capt Samuel Donelson, Of Tennessee.
who was doorkeeper of the House of Rep
resentatives in the Forty-ninth Congress.
has presented to the Navy Department
bust of his grandfather, John Branch,
who was Secretary of the Navy under
Andrew jackson.
Hoshi Taru. formerly japanese Minister
to Washington, who was recently muir
dered by an insane man in Tokyo, left a
library of 10000 books, worth over $500.
Among them is Buddhist Sutra of more
than Loo volumes.
An English Tommy" captured by Gem
eral De Wet complained of the food,
which consisted chiefly of mealies. De
Wet told him he had nothing better.
But" said the Boer leader. III capture
a convoy in few days and then you shall
have better food" De Wet did capture
a convoy and the complaining Tommy"
received full ratlonS, according TO prom
Use.
Cant. r. G. f. Candage, of Brookline,
Mass, President of the Farmers Nation
al Congress, will deliver the annual ad-
dress at the twenty-first annual session
Of that organization at Sioux Falls, ). D.,
October ! next.
Rear Admiral Bainbridge. of the British
navy, who died recently, was on the staff
of Admiral Sir l.. T. Jones at the taking
of the Taku forts in the China war of
1860 In 1885 he successfully contested the
Parliamentary representation of Cork
against Mr.. Parnell.
Cornelius S. Bushnell. who advanced
the money needed for the construction
of the first monitor, IS to be honored
with a monument at New Haven, Conn,
and andrew Carnegie has given Sl,eO0 to-
ward its cost.
out of the seventeen exhibits sent by
King Edward to the twentieth annual
show of the Royal Isle of Wight Agricul-
tural Society. at Newport, five were
awarded first prizes. five seconds and four
champions.
',he proposed monument to Sir Arthur
Sullivan has been abandoned. as the con-
tributions to the fund were too small to
give any assurance that it would eventu-
ally reach respectable proportions.
Sir George Dibbs, who has just present
ed to King Edward a walking stick of his
own make, has twice been Premier of New
South Wales and has held numerous 9TH
er posts OF the highest Importance In Aus
tralia; and 1t was while he was a prom
inent public man that he had the courage
to refuse to pay what he thought ex-
tortionate bill of costs. He was commit
ted to Darlinghurst Jail. Sydney, for a
year and served the sentence out.