The Washington times., 1901-07-06
PERSONAL.


Lord Taaffe. who was twenty mine years
old on May ., in addition to being an
English peer, is also a count in Austria,
and his father was for many years Prime
Minister of Austria-Hungary. distinction
as remarkable as it is unusual. He has a
splendid collection of portraits of English
! Kings in his castle in Bohemia, where,
oddly enough. as well as in Vienna, his
permanent address IS situated.
Clarence /. Thurston, who was recently
appointed secretary of the United States
Legation Of the Argentine Republic. is
just twenty-one. He is the youngest man
In the diplomatic service of the United
States.
Count stanislaus de Castellane, whose
enga cement is announced to Miss Terry,
daughter OF Francis Terry, of New York
and Paris, is the third son of the Mar
quIs de CastelIane, and served for a
short time IN the army. Like his two eld
er brothers, Boni, who is married to Miss
Anna o>Suld, and Jean, who IS the hus-
band of the elderly and wealthy widow of
the late Prince Furstenberg, he is con-
tracing a rich matrimonial alliance
Francis Terry is reputed to possess a
very large fortune.
Father Bernard Vaughan, the Jesuit
brother of the Cardinal. was recently
received in private audience by King Ed
ward. Father Vaughan, who had met the
King when he was Prince OF Wales, and
at foreign watering place, sent a mes
sage to the King through a common
friend to the effect that he was probably
TO be sent from Manchester abroad, and
would like to say goodbye before going.
Then the priest wrote to say that he
was to be sent no farther afield than Lon
don. and that he half regretted TO escape
an exile that would have been sweetened
by memories of a Marlborough House
farewell The response was that exile
need not be the price Of an audience, and,
as a result, the Jesuit was received by
the King,
Dr. William Stokes Wyman has been
elected President of the University of
Alabama, to succeed DR.. james X Pow
ers. resigned. This is the position for
which Alabama papers were urging Han
mis- TAYLOR. DIR. Wyman has been profes-
sor Of Latin at the university since 1871.
He is a native of Alabama. and a grad
uate Of its university. on five previous
occasions he has declined the presidency.
Cardinal Cavagnis, the new titular pre-
late of the Roman Pantheon, has taken
solemn possession of his title and bene-
fee. The position had been vacant for
some years, presumably as protest
against the burial of Victor Emmanuel
ii in the Pantheon
Prince Nicholas. the third son Of King
George OF Greece has already shown his
talent as an artist. and on the recent
visit of Lord Wolseley he gave him
drawing OF a group of Evazone soldiers
wearing the peculiar headdress known as
the fustanella. Recently the Prince won
Il dramatic and poetic competition at the !
Athens University with a cOmsdy entitled |
The Reformers.' The work was crowned |
by the Authorities without their knowing I
who the author might be. and when this |
was divulged it became a matter of very !
hearty c0Bgratulation;
The late Senator ViHeneuve. of Non |
treal. bequeathed $25 600 to Laval Univer- |
sity for the founding and endowment of |
a chair to be known as the Nilleneuve |
chair
The ex-Empress Eugene Of France is !
now the godmother to the children of an |
immense number of friends, and also, by |
proxy. to 1884 French men and women |
who were born on the same day as. the |
prince imperial.
John E. RUSSELL. Of Massachusetts,
whom President Mckinley. when they |
were both in Congress, once described as |
the "golden-shod shepherd CT Leicester"
has just returned home from a two years
trip abroad which he took with his family |
for the benefit of his health. He is still |
far from well. and his physicians have !
forbidden his taking part for the present /
in political life.
The Will of the late Canon Scadding of |
Toronto, bequedthS to Trinity College, |
Toronto a collection of English, Latin,
Greek, Dutch French. Welsh, Irish, Ger
man. Italiay, and Spanish Bibles, besides
comics of the Zend-AVesta. Confucius and
other religious works To the library of |
the University College. Toronto is given a
collection of Shakesperean books. fac sim
lies and busts, specimens of early typog- |
raphy several of them dating back of 1900
and a large number of historical, p0etical
and classical works.
Prof. Finsen Of Copenhagen, the dis
coverer of the light cure for lupus, Is
himself an invalid. suffering from heart |
disease, but he nevertheless is a tireless
worker.
In a lecture recently delivered before
the Yale Scientific School Prof William |
H. Brewer stated that a New Havener
had the honor of being the first discov-
erer of the seventh continent of the
world, the coast line of which extends
to the Antarctic Circle, present
ing an effectual barrier to further navi-
CATION south. This New Havener. he
said. was Lieutenant Ed, of the United
States Navy.