Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

]. Pierpont Morgan is said to know all
his clerks and TO have even a knowledge
of their duties.
General William J. Palmer has given 100
acres of ground as municipal park for
Colorado Springs.
Milton Knight, tho new vice president Of
the Wabash Railroad entered railroad
work in 1863 as station agent.
Leo XIII reads without elssses and in
the evening generally By candles, though
sometimes by electric light.
Mrs. Nelly Grant S5rtoris has purchased
a handsome summer residence at Coburg,
Ontario. and will occupy it with her moth
cr and two daughters.
James Angus, of West Farms, \. Y, has
given the Roger Williams Park at Provi-
dence, r. l.. a collection of cordls and po-
lshed agates valued at $1,000.
The city of Memphis, Tenn, has accept
ed the model for the Forrest monument
prepared by Charles "A. Niehaus. The std
tue is said to be a good Ill eness.
The old home of Francis Parkman. the
historian, near the pond at Jamaica Plair,
has now been included in Boston's park
system and will be marked by memorial.
In NJ. lie Sourd- Beauregard. a painter,
and NJ. Adolphe Thiac. an architect,
France has two oentenarian artists. The
former studied under David and botn were
born in 1850.
John Jay Jackson, Judge of the United
States district Court of West Virginia, has
just completed his forticth year on tho
bench. He was appointed by Lincoln and
lives in ParkGrsburg.
The house in which Joseph Chamberlain
was born is still standing Close by at
Camberwell stands the schoolhouse he at
tended and near there lives the woman
who was his first teacher.
Rev. Albert A. Sinnot, who has just COM
pleted his postgraduate course in the Cam
adam College at Rome is one of the
youngest doctors of canon law in the
world. being but "a years of age.
Edward Kmball. who died in Chicago
the other day. was the man who first
turned the thoughts of Dwight L. Moody
to evangelistic work. He had raised
church debts to the amount of $4,000 90
A movement has been started among
the Catholic women of St Louis for rails
irg IA fund of $1,000 for a bronze monu.
ment of the late Archbishop Kendrick The
subscribers are TO be limited to those
whom the archbishop confirmed.
! DR. Charles Burton Thwing has beer
elected to succeed DIR. Eugene Haanel a:
professor of physics at Syracuse CniVer
sity. He is the author of a textbook or
physics and has for several years beer
professor of physics at Knox College.
I Rev. DR.. Albert l.. Long, who died tn
other day, was for many years wee presi
dent of Robert College on the Bosphorus
He was on his way to his old home II
Boston, with his family, and had been xiv
en- testimonial signed by PRACTICAL!
every American and Englshnan in Con
stantinople.
II. b. Wellington, Union County On
, CO farmer. who died recently. was no
troubled by the race issue" He live
in the kindliest relations with the negroes
and In his will he gave three tracts of LAM
to three of mis- faithful colcred servants
leaving money to others. The remainde
of his estate, amounting to 100 acres, Il
bequeathed to the Methodist Church.
Hubert Herkomer, the English roya
academican. Is the son OF Bavaria
peasant. A German journalist who Ie
Gently visited him at his present home 1
Bushey, England, found his house SUI
rounded by others occupied by his FIRE
pupils. The intervals between pantn
and teaching are given up TO tennis an
cricket while Herkomer himself is Ton
of doing carpenters work and improvin
his house.