The Washington times., 1901-09-02
PERSONAL.


Salvation Army. plans to visit Chicago in
November. accompanied by twenty-five
of the most prominent men and women
in the Salvation work In England. While
| in America the party will make an inspec-
ton tour covering a period of six months.
District council meetings will be held in
New York. Chicago, Kansas City and San
Francisco.
The wonderful adaptability of the jap
anese to Western civilization is shown
once more in the person of s. Yanigi
-Wara, who In September will become pro-
fessor of chemistry in the University of
| Columbia, Mo. Mr.. Wara has been edu-
| eating himself in the United States for
| the last seven years. He has secured
| the degree OF master of arts and has serv-
| ed assistant to Prof. r. o. Graham,
| who holds the chair of chemistry at the
Wesleyan University at Bloomington. Ill.
| The dukes of Sutherland. Beccleuch.
and Devonshlre are joint lords of 2.Ooi, 500
acres of land. an area representing slice
of land stretching from the south of Eng
land to the extreme north of Scotland
more than five mites wide II this land
were all In England about an acre out of
every sixteen would belong to one or
other of these dukes.
Few living women have had personal re-
lations with so many eminent and historic
people as Mile. Janotha, the pianist. AS
child she was nursed by Rubinstein,
List. and Thalberg. She studied under
Joachim and Kiel, Brahms Weber, and
Schumann; has been led to the platform
and petted by Tennyson and Gladstone
and has played before almost every SOW
ereign and royal parsonage in Europe.
A peculiar souvenir is kept In Lord
Salisburys historic home at Hatfield. 1t
is stone over pound in weight, with
which the window of Lord Salisburys
carriage was smashed at Dumfries on Oc-
tober q, 1884, His two daughters were
seated with his lordship in the vehicle
but. fortunately, all three escaped unin-
tured. Lord Salisbury had on that oc-
casion delivered the last of a series of
speeches in Scotland
George w. Breckenridge. of San An
tonic, Tex, has given $4,000 for the build
ing of school for the negro children of
that city.
Ex-Gov. John Lind. of Minnesota,
who is now practicing law in Minneapolis.
has been suspected of entertaining an
ambition to try for the governorship
again. My highest political ambition
said Mr.. Lind few days ago sis to serve
the people Of Minneapolis in the city coun-
Gil" The politicians of the State regard
the declaration a joke, though Mr..
Lind insists he is in earnest.
ton College. has been appointed assist
University. He is graduate of Hamil-
ton and of the Albany Library school.
A J. Balfour has just passed his fifty
third birthday. He entered Parliament
at twenty-five, was Cabinet Minister at
thirty-eight, and led the House at forty
three.
Mrs. Henry T. Gage. wife of the Gov
ernor of California, is descended, on her |
mothers side, from the earliest Spanish
settlers in Los Angeles and her father
whose name was Ralnes, was one of the |
States first settlers.
DIR. Fridtjof Nansen the Arctic expIor- |
er. is a litigant in a Chicago court DR.. |
Nansen was in a fair way to receive the |
fortune left by Matthias Blessing. veal |
thy Scandinavian, who died in Chicago |
two years ago, as the other heirs, 1t is
said. had waived their claims In his favor
The petition, however, is filed by Mrs
of Chattanooga. Tenn, who
says she is the daughter of the dece-
dents brother David.
The Princess Frederick-August of Sax
ony. daughter of the Grand Duke and
Duchess of Tuscany, who some day will
be Queen of Saxony. is taking a regular
course of training as trained nurse at the
Hospital In Dresden The prin- |
cess Is particularly interested in ainbu-
ance work and FIRST aid to the injured"
Some idea of the width of the Empress
Frederck's intellectual interests may be
from Sir Mcuntstuart Grant
Duff 5 Diary Here, for instance, is his
note of a meeting with the empress a
few years ago: This morning l mad a
ong conversations with the Empress
Frederick We talked inter ALA of Eng
ish politics; of Talieyrands memoirs: of
rarlyle's inaccuracy as historian: of f.
book on the youth of Frederick |
he Great; and OF two other books to
which she also called my attention, one
,y Bourdeau ON socialism. one by A Le-
10Y Beaulieu on anti-semitism.