The Washington times., 1901-08-23
PERSONAL.

Col George w. Breckenridge, of San
Antonio. Tex. has given $4,000 for the
building of school for the colored chill
| dren of that city.
Lewis Nixon, of the Tammany Com
mittee of Five. and possible mayoral-
ty candidate, designs torpedo boats and
other swift craft For his own use he
prefers a house boat. with an engine that
will drive her four five miles an hour.
She is the Loudoun, a familiar sight OFF
Sea Gate.
Another hercuIean lawyer is Justice
Leslie w. Russell, of the New York Su-
preme Court. Judge Russell was in his
youth a famous baseball player and for
Years cherished rosewood BAT given him
In token Of his proves. but this was lost
In fire some years ago.
S. Yanigi Wara, Japanese nobleman.
will in September become professor of
| chemistry in the University of Columbia,
Mo. Mr.. Wara has been educating
himself in the United States for the last
seven years. He mas attained the degree
nj master of arts. and for several years
mas served as assistant to Prof X. o.
| Graham. who holds the chair of chemistry
at the Wesleyan University at Blooming
ton, Ill
Canon Armitage. Robinson has replaced
Archdeacon Wilberforce as the canon-in-
residence at Westminster Abbey.
Frau Cosima Wagner's petition to the
German Reichstag to prolong the Bal
reuth monopoly of 'Parsifal' does not
seem to meet with much favor The APP
peal, signed by Humperdinck, Nlemann.
and other eminent men. was circulated
in Baireuth during the recent festival
but few of the visitors signed il.
Corporal Ommundsen. winner of the
Queens prize for craftsmanship at this
ar ic
four years old, but is considered to be
easily the finest rifle shot in the United
Kingdom
Cardinal Gibbons has been received with
the most distinguished honors in Ireland
The mayor of Londonderry entertained
him at reception last week The Cardi-
nal met there Archbishop Alexander the
Protestant primate of Ireland, with whom
he had c long talk.
France has two centenarian artists, NJ
lie Sourd-Bouregard, a painter, and NJ
Adolphe Thiae of Bordeaux. an architect,
both born in 1900. NJ. lie Sourd- Bouregard
studied under David and made a crayon
sketch of Napoleon's great Champ de
Mai fete in 1915.
The death of DR.. Edward S Morley. the
elder and only brother of John Morley, NJ
p, removes picturesque figure from the
social life of Lancashire. where he had
long been conspicuous for his charitable
enterprise. his devotion to legitimate
sport and his interest in politics. Polit-
ically he was directly opposed to his IA
nous brother. but the two were always
the best of friends and the closest of com
panions.
The Rev. Albert A Sinnott, ID. &. L.,
who has recently completed his post grad
uate course at the Canadian College. at
Rome with high honors. is one of the
a Of Law in tha
world. being only twenty-four years old.
His Bishop has appointed him professor
at st. DunStans College, Chariottetown,
+. F.. l.
Jacob Pcrce. a Grand Army veteran,
who died few days ago in Denver, Col,
was known in Ohio in the years preceding
the civil war as a director of the ''un-
derground railway" and through him
many "a slave was helped to freedom be-
yond the Canadian frontier. His princi-
pad work during the war was ward
NJ ster of all the Union hospitals in Nash,
to mis- lot to close the eyes of more than
1890 boys in blue.
p. Cuneo. editor of the "Wyandot Re
publican" Upper Sandusky, Ohio has
left for Turin, Italy, To assume the duties
Of Consul for the United States Govern
mcnt, to which position he was recently
appointed by President Mckinley. nv
Cuneo is said to be the only italian in
this country who is the publisher of an
English newspaper. lie was born in
Naples. and has not seen his native land
since he left IL hfty-two years ago.
1t is related of Hall Game. the novelist
that he once worked in the LaXey lead
mines, in the NanX Mountains. in place of
a young man who WAS i'll, to Keep the
young fellows position for him.
The house in which Jose pm Chamber
lain was born siNty-iive years ago still
stands. and not far from it, in quiet
grove at Camberwell, is the house in
which he learned to-spell and write his
name Close to them both lives the old
lady who has still, y.vid memory OF the
Monday morning NshTs Joseph Chamber
lain first went to School. For a year the
moldlng of Mr.. ChaTbcri2in's mind was
in the care of this LADY. on whom MIR.
Chamberlain has more than once called
since he became a famous man.