The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1901-08-17
PERSONAL.

Sidney Cooper. r. A, was recently pre-
scented to the King as the Oldest member
| of the Royal Academy of Arts and re-
ceived from his Majesty the Royal Vic
torian Order of the Third Class.
Frederick N. Dubois. of Catskill. N. Y.
has presented to jeremiah Day. President
| of the CatskilI branch of the Young Men 5
pose of erecting an association building in
the village. 9
Governor Taft of the Philippines was
one of the best all-round athletes at
Yale and was general favorite with both
professors and students.
Leslie Stephen, the eminent critic. was,
up to few years ago. remarkable pc
destriau, and when young man used to
walk from Cambridge to London In day.
Senior Gonzales, the private secretary of
! General Wood, who accompanied the gen.
eral to this country. Is a Cuban BORN yet
speaks English perfectly. and acted as
interpreter at the interviews between Go
meZ and Wood.
The borough OF Kensington, in London,
Is arranging 10 purchase the residence OF
the late Lord Leighton, which. together
with the contents is to be kept open as
an art museum.
Josiah johnson Halves. the oldest pho
in the world, died few days ago, aged
"a years. He occupied the same studio in
fremont Street. Boston, for nearly sixty
years. Daniel Webster, Rufus Choate,
Louis Kossuth, Longfellow, Holmes. Starr
King, James I. Fields. Horace Mann. and
Charles Sumner were among the notables
who posed for him. One of his most
priced pictures was of Jenny Lind ana
her lover. Otto Goldschmidt. sitting hand
in hand.
DR.. Jay C. Eldridge a member of the
Yale faculty, has resigned and left the
university. He has been offered a chair
in modern languages at the University of
Idaho and will begin his duties there at
the beginning OF the fall term.
Governor Orman, of Colorado, Is
tive of Muscatine, Iowa, and went to Col
orado as a poor boy In 1863. getting work
as a railroad laborer. He rose in the bust
ness and has been connected with il for
thirty years.
The council of the University of Bir-
mingham, recently founded. with Joseph
Chamberlain as It's chancellor. has APP
pointed William James Ashley. professor
of economies at Harvard University. to
the first chair organized of the faculty of
commerce, which is to be one of the chief
features Of the university.
Major General Baden Powell is soon to
receive casket made of Tasmanian
blackwood. enameiad and decorated with
gold and silver, from the members of the
Tasmanian relief force, who fought under
him.
Capt. ]. P. Williams. OF Savannah.
President of the Board Of Trustees Of
Emory College, Covington, Ala. has given
the institution $4,000 for a new building
for the department OF science
to- I,a Urlt iat,
is said to be Capt Oswald Ames, of the
Second Life Guards. The captain stands
six feet eight, and is as finely proper
toned as he is tall. He is to marry Miss
Violet Cecil, daughter of Lady Francis
Cecil Miss Cecil Is petite and fairylike.
The Hon Mrs. Arthur Bertrand Rus
sell has headed a movement to raise
funds for the establishment of a chair
of temperance in London University as
"A Sct-off to the brewing professorship at
Birmingham University.
DR. Hans Blum. one of the biographers
of Bismarck, has become mentally de
ranged owing TO his losses through the
failure Of the Leipzis,r Bank.
Tenney. the well-known portrait painter
of Portsmouth, n. IL, has completed an
exceptionally fine life size oil portrait of
Commodore Stephen Decatur for Stephen
Decatur of Portsmouth, a descendant of
the famous command9r.
Edward KimbaH. who died in Chicago
the other day, was the man who first
turned the thoughts of Dwight l.. Moody
TO evangelistic work. He had raised
church debts to the amount of $1,000, 900.
An earl as "A parish rector is not often
seen in England, but, the Earl of Devon.
who recently celebrsted his ninetieth
birthday. has been for many years rector
of Powderham, near starcross, and pre-
bendary of Exeter He always does duty
in his parish church. and regularly
breaches in his turn''as prebendary in
an exemplary ciergyn,tn. and highly es-
teemed among his parishioners and neigh
bors. ~