The Washington times., 1901-09-20
PERSONAL.

Herbert Spencer, the great English So
ciologist and philosopher. is fond of
game of billiards. lie recently invited
young friend to friendly game and as he
chalkeG his cue observed: Young man,
good billiard playing is the proof of
well-balanced mind The game proceed
ed and Mr.. Spencer was beaten by a score
of 100 to s. He put away his cue in dis
gust and remarked: Young man, such
fine billiard playing as yours is the proof
of an ill-spent youth.
A story is told of Lord Roberts in con-
nection with his well-known antipathy to
cats. Dining one night at friends
house in India, he begged that the cat he
felt was present might be turned out.
His hosts confidently assured him that It
was impossible there should be cat In
the room, as they were never allowed ad-
mission even into the house. Still 'Bobs
insisted that there must be one In his
vicinity and, indeed. became so affected,
as he always is-faint, if we mistake not
that he was obliged to leave the table
1t was subsequently discovered to the
| intense regret of his hosts that a strange
| cat has actually found its way surrep-
| titiously behind screen
Prof Solomon Jadassohn, the we'll
known composer and teacher of the the
ory of music has just celebrated the sew
entieth anniversary of his birth. He has
| been an instructor at the Leipsic Conser-
Princess Henry of Battenberg has an
extraordinary affection for canaries. and
| at Osborne there is quite an aviary full
of them. Many of these little birds are
also kept in the apartments used by her
self and her children.
NJ. II. Fulton, manager of the Postal
Telegraph and Cable Company at Buoy
rus, Ohio. has bulletined the assassination
| of three Presidents When President
Lincoln was shot Fulton was night oper-
| ator at Allegheny, Pa, and received the
bulletins announcing the tragedy. At
the time President Garfield was shot Full
ton was the day operator at the Western
Union Office in Bucyrus, and received the
news of that event. He is now connected
| with the Postal Telegraph and Cable
Company in the same city, and in the
regular routine OF his duties received the
news of the assassination of President
| Mckinley.
There are two Cardinals in Rome of the
name of Vannutelli one of whom is the
probable successor of Pope Leo XIII. 1t
| is Cardinal Vincent Vannuteiii whose
name is connected with the papal success
| sion. He never leaves Rome unless on
| urgent business, for he wants to be on
| the spot in case of accidents. The other
| Cardinal is Seraphin Vannutelli. student
| and a hermit. and as much of recluse
| as the other is Il man of the world.
Mrs. Ole Bull, who lives in Cambridge.
Mass. has presented the violin used by
| her gifted husband to the museum AT
| Bergen. The violin is said to have been
| made in 1872 by GGsparo di Salo. 1t was
| bought by Cardinal Aldobrandini. who
| gave 1t to the museum at Innsbruck
| from which 1t was carried off as loot by
| one of Napoleon's soldiers.
f, John J. Thompson is a State Senator in
| Nebraska and stands six feet six inches in
his stockings While in Kansas City last
week he was bewailing the embarrass-
| ment which he continually felt on ac-
| count of his great stature. Mr. Thompson
| was growing eloquent on the subject
| when, on giancing through a window into
| the street he saw Officer Smith Cook
| passing The policeman measures six feet
| ten and one-quarter inches and the sight
| of such immense proportions Gained the
| Nebraskan.
| The Baroness Burdctt-C Coutts. famous
| for her wea; III and philanthropy, was born
lust before Waterloo and is therefore past
| eighty-six. Her husband William Ash
| mead Bartlett Burdett-Coutts, is about
| fifty.
| King Oscar may send one of his sons to
repre- sent Sweden and Norway at the Lou
| isiana Purchase Exposition.
| For the third time in the country's
history and for the first time in seventy
two years, "A graduate CO Harvard College
/ Is President of the United States John
| Adams was graduated at Harvard In 1855
| John Quincy Adams in 1851 Theodore
Roosevelt IN 1880. General Hayes art md
| ed lectures in the Harvard law sch 1oi
but he was Kenyon College man.