Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A bust Of the late Empress Frederick
of Germany has been modelled by the R,r-
lin sculptor, Uphues, at the order of the
Kaiser.
President Roosevelt is a charter momhor
Of the American-Irish Historical SOCIETY y.
and was one of the first members of the
executive council.
The medallion of the Alliance Francaisa
was presented the other day to President
Harper, of the University of Chicago, by
Henri Meron, the French consul
Lieutenant Poary Is n graduate ~ Bow
doin College and while there was consd-
cred the best 'all-around" athlete among
the students.
Sir Henry Campbell- Zimmerman is one
of the best classical scholars and mo3orn
linguists in England ana probably the best
in the English House of Commons.
John Hollingshead who was "A years old
the other day, is said to be the oldest
journalist in active harness to-day. He
was on the staff of "HousC hold Words
under Dickens,
President Roosevelt, though the young
est Chief Executive, is a year older than
Emperor William of Germany, who is A..
The Car is but 81 Emmanuel II, SO; Wi
helmina, q, and Alfonzo XIII, 10
The will of the late Stofano Ussi. Tho
FloPentine painter. directs that after the
death of his wife his large estate be con
ycrted into a fund for the education O.
promising art students of poor means.
Ivan Potrof. of the United States cen.
sus Bureau has created new record by
taking a census of Nunivak Island il
Rering Sea, where the population numbers
500 and feeds solely on walrus and FISH.
DR. Edward Ernest Scheb, of the Vir.
ginia Polytechnic Institute has been al
pointed professor of philosophy in Tulan.
University, New Orleans. He is grad
uate of GEORGETOWN, and later studied at
Hcidelberg.
Otis Il. Boise has been appointed to the
chair Of harmony and compC sition at tn,
Peabody Conservatory of Music, Bait
more.
Lyman j. Gage, Secretary of the Treas
ury, is on visit to the home Of his siste"
Mrs. Wesley lirainerd, at Boulder. Col.
and will probably spend the first weeks OF
the Autumn there
Oscar Strauss of New York has givcr
the University of Georgia a large organ
for the college chapel and full laboratory
equipment,
The first postmistress to he appointed II
D.
about twonty-three years old and is ,
daughter of Judge De Los-Rios.
Emperor William of Germany has issue
an order to the effect that the court o
the Empress Frederick is to be broken VI
on October I, when several members o
her late MajcstYs household will be rc
tired on pensions.
Booker T. Washington Is spending
two weeks vacation camping in the val
ley of the Gauley River, in West Virginia
near where. as a boy, he worked in a Goa
mine,
The Khedive of Egypt is anxious to in
troduce Swiss cattle into his country, anC
at the conclusion of his recent visit to Eu
rope took a number of these cattle witt
him to Cairo.
Wilhelm Raabe. the German poet, re
Gently celebrated his 10th birthday and re
/ ceiVed upon that occasion honorary de
grees from two German universities Got
tingen and Tubingen.
DR.. Max Nordau will be the central fig
lure at the next Zionist Congress at Der
lin and will read paper on THE Phys
cal, Intellectual and Economic Improve
ment of the Jews"
Jutaro Komura, former Minister from
Japan to Picking, and later to Washingt on
has been formally installed as Foreig
Minister of the Imperial Cabinet OF Japan
lie Is q graduate of the Harvard Lay
School.