Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-15


States government during the Civil War
will celebrate his s0tn birthday annivec-
sary on August 10.
Frau Itta Won Iltcn, widow of captain
who fought at Waterloo, recently cele-
bratcd the one hundredth anniversary of
her birth at HanoN er Germany, on June
II.
The Rov.f James Adderly, who has just
accepted tho living of St. Marks Marylc-
bone road, London, is well known in Lon
don as one of the leaders Of tie Christian
Socialist movement
Sir Clements Maryham, president of the
Royal Geographical Society. is now in his
I'D year. lie will celebrate soon the jubi-
lee of his return from the famous Arctic
expedition of lS50-5l.
Hubert Htrkomer, the son Of Bdvarian
pc aSant and now one of the leading paint
ers in Great Britain, deVotcs much of his
leisure to tennis and cricket In the
former sport he is considered an expert.
1t is a remarkable TACT that NJ. Paul
Deschanel, president Of the Chamber Of
Deputies, is the only French politician OF
fashionable society In furtherpg these
he is assisted 10y a popular beautiful and
wealthy wife.
Philip Rheine of Belloville, ILL.,, who died
recently, held public ONCE continuously
for twenty-sevcn years. record which
has not been approached in Illinois. He
was a member of the board of Tax Re-
view when he died.
Luke Fields, II. A., who has been honor
oi 10y the command to paint the official
portrait of King Edward. has latteriy
painted many portraits His best known
pictures are perhaps The Village We'd
ding and The Doctor"
Emperor Frances JC seph sent a valuable
Gift to Sonora Concha Mendez the Mexican
singer, on the occasion of her N0th birth
day. After Emperor MCximilian had been
shot and Empress Carlotta mad goua I'M
sane the audience at a MEXICAN theater re
qUcs ted ScnCra MendcZ to sing a song Will
flying them, but she refused declaring
that she could not abuse the dead and the
unhappy.
Nice-President Roosevelt, being asked if
he would be a presidential candidate in
1904 answered: Would l. Certainly, 4
the people want me. It's the highest aim
a young man can have. I'm young, am I
not? But there are, or should he, some
sixty millions of people looking for the
same office, and you see the chances
against me are worse than they are in the
Bis Dog saloon in Yellow Gulch. where
Macy Mike is holding the ooX in a faro
game
Dr, Creighton. the late bishop of London,
was perhaps the hardest worker in the
English episcopacy, but lie could never
bring himself tc appreciate the admins
trative system which his diocesan duties
imposed upon him and which he was pow
orless to wholly reform or even to modify.
lie used to say that no one who thought
or had a mimi should be Bishop of London
and that the secular qualities required in
his exalted office were those OF bank
clerk.
The chair of natural philosophy in Edin-
burgh University, which Is worth about
IL $50 a year, and became vacant by the
resignation of Professor Taft, was filed
up last week, when the curators of patron
age unanimously appointed Or, MacGre-
eor, f. II. s., who has been for twelve
years Munro professor of physics in Dali
Lousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
There were fourteen candidates DR. Mac
Gregor is we'll known as a man OF great
learning and research, and he is an excel
lent and stimulating teacher. Ills admir-
able treatise on dynamiCs and kinemdtics
is "A standard book, and has been adopted
at all the leading universities and colleg ~
ak over the world. Or, MacGregor will
begin his duties at Edinburgh in Nevem-
bcr.-London Truth,