The Washington times., 1901-07-11
PERSONAL.

Dr- James Z. Wood, the new President
of the American Institute of Homeopathy,
is resident of Cleveland, Ohio. and a
professor of >gynecOlogy in the Cleveland
Homeopath Medical College.
The Paris Gaulois" says that statues
of the following named celebrities are
to be erected in Paris by the municipal
authorities: Garibaldi. Baudelaire. Pas
teur, Gounod. Balzac. Spuller. De Musset
Boule Jules Simon. Verlaine. General Du-
mas, Alexandra Dumas fils, GARNER, Au-
guste Comte. Daudet, and Hugo.
Two colleges have honored Rev Charles
o. Day, the new head of the Andover
Theological Seminary. with honorary de-
grees. Yale gave him an NJ. a. and Dart
mouth a d. d. Rev Mr.. Day was chap
lain of the First Vermont Regiment dur
ing the war with Spain.
NJ Jean de Bloch, the man who has
been called tie grandfather Of the Peace
Conference" the Imperial Russian Coun-
cilor of State who poured into the ear Of
the Car the gospel OF the futility.- the
madness, of the idea of European war un-
der the alter ID war conditions is now in
London. He was once Warsaw pcddler of
the poorest class, earning a scant crust
by hard work. He is now a Russian no
bleman, a m n of culture. Versed in Ian
guages, in en-, in statecraft. in armies,
milliOnair, I'D q military prophet.
Senator Clan Of Montana owns about
forty gold, copper and silver mines. Out
of one which he bought three years ago
he has already made $3.50 600 profit He
also has large holdings of lead mines,
railroad, sugar plantation, coffee planta-
tions, and rubber plantation property, be-
sides other huge income-bearing invest
ments
Walter Campbell. who has just pub
lished a book of humorous poems. illus
trated by Princess Louise, is said to be
one of the best amateur reciters and
Scotch story tellers in society. Always a
great favorite with the late Queen. he
would bring smile to her lips at every
moment with his quaint tales, his imita-
ton of the peasantry's ways and doings-
copied first hand from real Hfe-their
shrewd, canny sayings, and their homely
mother wit.
DR. Logan Campbell. who in his official
capacity IS mayor received the Duke and
Duchess of York at Auckland, New Zea-
land, is one of the grand old men of the
antipodes. He has seen Auckland grow
from al untenanted fax swamp into the
largest OF the New Zealand cities. Born
In Edinburgh eighty-four years ago, he
studied in the Scottish metropolis and
then took to rowing. He eventually squat
ted on a small island in the harbor of
Auckland before single house was erect
ed on the site of the present city. and has
since been Intimately identified with the
growth and prosperity of the northern
capital of New Zealand.
Thomas Hardy has just reached his
sixty-first birthday. He began to "scrib-
BILE" as he says himself. when he was
sixteen, and in his early years he appears
to have acquired some reputation as
writer-as a calligraphist. if not as an
author Long before he was old enough
TO NrHl Erfl md a he
would write love letters for the village
girls TO their soldier sweethearts in
India. He did not compose the letters,
but merely acted as an amanuensis, but
Mr. Hardy remembers TO this day how
he came to be regarded in the village as
a sort of writing machine.
On the occasion of the four hundred
and fftieth anniversary of the University
of Glasgow the rector, professors. and
students have sent to the Pope very
courteous address, in which it is recalled
that the institution of the university was
due to Pope Nicholas V. The Pope was
delighted with the address, and sent to
the rector a brief but cordial acknowledge
ment.
John /. Pingree, the late ex-Governor's
brother, lives at HopkintOn. Mass. Like
his famous brother, he is a shoe manu-
facturer, with a factory at Ashland,
twenty miles from Boston. He would
never do for politician said one who
knows him well. He's too honest. He
never Harmed hair of a mans head in
his life John l.. has exceedingly strict
views as to wine, tobacco. and social
amusements.
From ninety-One years to three weeks
is a long stretch Of time, but Il is spanned
by Mrs. James Madison Barrows. of
Philadelphia. and four of her descend
ants in a direct line. Mrs Barrows cele-
brated her ninety-first birthday recently
AT the dinner table that day We're J.
Madison BarrOws. her husband who is a
year older than Mrs. Barrows; her daugh-
ter Mrs. James +. Gould; her grand
Mrs. Sterling Morrison; her
great granddaughter, Mrs. Edwin =.
Conklin. and her Sreat-great- -grauddaugh-
ter, Miss Margaret NJ. Conkliu, of the age
of three weeks.
Instead of being bankrupt, as the cable.
dispatches reported him on Saturday. Fe-
lix is retiring from business with a for
tune of a million and a quarter Of dollars.
which he has accumulated during the for
~ years he has been furnishing frills TO
he most fashionable women in the world
The suggestion Of bankruptcy in his case
was somewhat idiotic, as NJ. Felix says.
John Lawrence Toolc the most popu-
lar low comedian Of his day. gave a sup
per to eighty of his friends. and wrote a
note TO each of them privately before
hand. asking him whether he would he
So good TO say grace, as no clergyman
would be present Il is said that the faces
Of those eighty men as they rose ia a
body when Ioole tapped on the table as
signal Tor grace was a sight which viii
never ug f4rgBtteu.