The Washington times., 1901-10-22
PERSONAL.

Joseph L. Thompson. of Franklin. N.
! H, who is now in the eighty-fifth year of
his age, has taught school in that town
/ and vicinity for siNty-five years. He says.
as one thing learned in his long practice
of his calling, that one-third of a teach
ers time is taken up in maintaining
! order. On the wall of his study hangs
/ a card with the word Why in large
letters. This. he says has been his motto
all through his life and studies.
Jonathard r. Bryan, aged fifty four a
banker of Dixon, Tenn. and a cousin of
William Jennings Bryan, was married a
/ few days ago to the widow of his son.
Mrs; Eva c. Bryan. good looking and
! aged twcnty-three. The wedding took
! place at Cairo. III.
| The Democrats have nominated Amadee
Cloutier. a French Canadian by birth. Of
! Lawrence, for the Massachusetts State
| Senate. Josiah Quincy predicts his cleo
| tion. and if the prediction proves true he
| Will be the first of his race to serve in
| that honorable body.
Charles NJ Hays. who recently surren-
dered five years contract as President
of the Southern Pacific Railroad at the
request of T. H. Hartman, is said to
have received a check for SI55 900 as paw
ment in full for his services. His yearly
salary was to be S55 600. He served ten
months and upon his aCquiescence in the
wishes of the Hartman syndicate that he
retire. a full years salary and a bonus of
$1,000 were paid him. according to cur
rent report. This is the largest sum ever
paid to railroad man for such a term of
service.
On Saturday there was unveiled at the
Armour Institute Of Technology. in Chi
cago, memorial to the late Philip d. Ar
mOur, jr., consisting of a colored glass
window set in an elaborate marble frame
filling one end Of the wall of the main
hall of the building. This is a gift to the
institute from the employees of Armour &
co. as a token of their love and respect
for Philip u. Armour. jr 1t has been
more than year in preparation. The
memorial was designed by Edward p
Sperry and executed in the studios and
workshops of the Church Glass and Dec
Grating Company. The subject Illustrated
Is Success or Achievement
DR.. Purser. professor of mathematics
in the Belfast Queens College, has re-
signed that place after forty years o: ser
vice. -Four Of his students have become
senior wranglers at Cambridge
David NJ Key. a Confederate veteran.
was appointed district Federal judge by
President Hayes. Howell f. jackson. an
other Tennessee can, was appointed 10 the
United States Supreme Court Dv Presi-
dent Harrison. Neither of these was a
Republican. President Mckinley appoint
ed George Gray Democratic United
States Senator. to the position of circuit
Judge Roosevelt is therefore the fourth
Republican President to go outside of his
party to select "A judge.
James Monroe Hill, of Austin. Tex, is
one of the few survivors of the battle of
san Jaclnto. which assured to Texas its
He was born in Georgia
and is a cousin of the late United States
Senator benjamin Hin of that State.
T. jefferson Coolidge late Minister to
France. has given a fund OF $4,000 to the
jefferson Physical Laboratory of Harvard
I-niversis. for physical research. The in
come is g. he expended at the discretion
OF the d.-e.ctor, Prof. John Trowbridge.
Henry J. Lenderink has resigned the po- /
sition of Secretary of the United States
Legation at Santiago. Chile and will soon
leave for the United States.