The Washington times., 1901-08-03
PERSONAL.

Kew. Mfnot j. Savage is the latest celeb
rity to raise warning voice against the
folly of overwork. He declares that about
half the worlds effort is wasted, and that
We should be better off If We should spend
in dignified idleness some of the time we
devote to useless labor.
The old home of Francis Parkman, the
historian, near the pond at Jamaica Plain,
is now included in the splendid metropoli-
tan park system of Boston. The spot Is
to be marked by a beautiful memorial by
David Chester French over one Of the
paths through these grounds will rise a
gateway of three monoliths-two upright
! blocks, one bearing figure of-the In
dian, the other figure of the French
habitant, who form the commanding in
! terest of the historians work; while the
cross-block will bear on its face a por-
| trait of Parkman In high relief-these
carved from the rough hewn stones.
J General John w. Noble, of St Louis
ex-Secretary of the Interior, intends to
devote the remainder of his days to for
estry, irrigation and reclamation of arid
areas in the West.
! Giuseppe Zanardelli, the new Italian
Premier. has been in public life forty
years and sat in many Cabinets, but has
never been pr rsmier before. He is regard
! ed as wise, strong and patriotic.
GugIielmo Marconi. inventor of the
wireless telegraphy which is coming so
much into use just now. is not yet twenty
SIX years old. He Is about to be married.
Mrs. Hetty Green has had the name of
Dewey put on her door instead of her
own. The name is that of her pet dog
she explains. and, as it is good one.
she uses 1t 20 escape calls from thou
sands of people who want money.
Women of Iowa will unveil in the Ma
tfonal Cemetery at Gettysburg immedi-
atcly after the Grand Army encampment
at Cleveland, monument to the MEM
ory of Jennie Wade, the only woman
killed in the battle of Gettysburg Mrs
Georgia Wade Mcclellan. of Denison,
Iowa, Department Secretary of the Wom-
ans Relief Corps, is a sister of the dead
girl. and it is partly through the desire
OF the Iowa women to show appreciation
for her work that the plan of erecting
monument to Jennie Wade met with
such an enthusiastic response.
DR.. Joseph Wright, who has succeeded
to Max Nuller's chair of comparative
philology at Oxford. was born at West
Riding, Yorkshire. in 1855. He studied
comparative philology at Heidelberg and
Leipsic. He is best known by his great
work. The English Dialect Dictionary"
upon which he began work IN 1895
Capt. r. G. F. Candage, one of the most
prominent men in maritime circles in New
England celebrated his seventy-fifth
birthday at his home In Brookline, Mass,
on on last Monday evening In his sea-far-
ing life Captain Candage sailed over
100000 miles of salt water, doubling Cape
Horn thirteen times both ways
Albert l.. Kelly. direct descendant of
the celebrated Thomas Kelly who was
driven from Ireland during the religious
prosecutions of 1852, died in Fulton n y
last Sunday.
Another attempt TO cross the Alps in a
balloon is to be made this month by Cap
tain Spelter:ni. His first attempt failed,
as he was driven by strong wind into
the French territory. He intends to start
at st. Moritz in the Engadine.
George Moore, the English novelist. is
still in a condition of revolt against the
present state OF literature in England.
He, together with w. 3. Yeats and 9th
ers, has withdrawn to Dublin refusing
to recognize London the centre of art
and literature of the English speaking
people.
The fact that Monsignor Conaty. rector
Of the Catholic University, is to be raised
to a bishopric has aroused much interest
as to his new field of duty The new
lowan diocese to be created either at
Sioux City or Des Moines is one of the
few vacancies existing, and 1t is regarded
almost as settled that Monsignor Conaty
will be assigned TO the Iowa Sec.
Jay Cooke, whose operations in Govern
ment bonds during the civil war made
him famous will celebrate his eightieth
birthday August 10.
Capt j. +. 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.
General Catchings of Mississippi, whose |
term In the House ended in March, said |
recently: MY Congressional career took |
a big slice out of my life l went into |
the House at thirty-eight and now that |
am fifty-four | shall try to practice law |
and make some money