The Washington times., 1901-09-17
PERSONAL.

| Sir Michael HickS-Beach'S succession tc
! the fathership of the British House OF
Commons has once again brought into
prominence the fact, little known per-
haps, that the peer who enjoys similar
distinction in the upper house is the Ear
| of Templemore, who quite recently en-
! tered his eighty-first year, and who
difficult though 1t may be 20 believe, sue
| ceeded his father in the year in which
| the late Queen ascended the throne, TAX
ing his seat some five yeas later on the
very day following the attainment of his
majority.
| Gen. Adelbert Ames, OF Lowell, who was
the Republican reconstruction Governor
of Mississippi after the civil war, has pre-
sented to the Mississippi Historical So
ciety his papers and documents relating
to his administration as executive of the
State. General Ames has changed his
| opinions as to the political status of the
negro and today holds that the whole re-
construction policy of the Republican
party was a terns'e mistake.
| The well-known German novelist, Ru-
dolf Lindau, who is also a lawyer and
| has for the past ten years represented the
German creditors IT. the management of
the Turkish debt, has decided to retire
! from the law and devote his entire time
| to literature in Helisaland.
Capt. Oscar w. Farenhoit who, hav-
| ing reached the age limit, was retired
| from the navy last week, entered the
| service as a seaman in 1861 and won pro-
motion through continued galiantry in
the war of the rebellion.
| The Rev. Dr. F. c. Mcconnell, of
Lynehburg, Va. has been elected cor
responding secretary of the Southern
Baptist Association, to succeed the late
| DIR. +. III. kerfoot.
| The late Levi B. Stinchfield, of Boston,
bequeathed the whole of his estate to
| public charities. The gifts are: $4,000 to
| the American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions, 1900 TO the Ameri-
can Home Missionary Society, s1.oo0 to
TIE Congregational Church Building So
ciety, $500 to the City Missionary Society
of Boston, Sl,0U TO the Lay College in Re
we're 81 900 to the Hampton Institute of
Virginia. 81. 900 TO the Atlanta University
of Atlanta, Ga, and the residue to the
Home for Aged Men and the Home for
Aged Couples in Boston, in equal shares.
Paul Arnold, NJ A, of Los Angeles, has
been appointed professor of mathematics
in the University of Southern California
versity. He followed postgraduate studies
at Cornell University and at the Uni
versities of Berlin and Leipsic.
The Rev. DR.. McCielland of Palo Alto.
Cal, has accepted the chair of languages
and moral science at the Princeton Col
legiate Institute, Kentucky.
The King of Roumania is personally in
terested in a plan to educate his people
by the establishment of theatres in every
town of his Kingdom.
Daniel p. Bruner, who died recently in
Philadelphia, made a contingent bequest
OF 81 900 for tablet to be placed on the
First Methodist Episcopal Church, Ger
mantown, TO perpetuate the memory of
his ancestor. Francis Daniel Pastorius,
the founder of Germantown. A 'contin-
gent bequcst was also made of $1,000 to
the Lehigh University. The residuary es-
tate was directed to be equally divided
among six Protestant worthy charities
of Philadelphia, such as most need help.
The last will of the Florentine painter
Stefano Ussi who died or July II, directs
that after the death of his widow all his
property. TO the value of stveral hundred
thousand francs, is to be used for the es-
tablishment of a three years stipend for
a talented young artist, to be chosen by
competition.
Prof Arthur W. Rucker, the Secretary
of the Royal Society and the principal of
the University of London. who delivered
the inaugural address last week at the
meeting of the British Association in
Glasgow, is English by birth and educa-
tion. He Is fifty-three years of age, and
was educated first at Clapham Grammar
School and then at Brasenose College. Ok
ford After distinguished university
career he was elected fellow and lecturer
of his college and demonstrator in the
Clarendon Laboratory of the university.
In 1874 he became professor of mathe-
matics and physics in the Yorkshire Col
iege at Leeds, and in 1886 professor of
physics at the Royal College OF Science,
South Kensington. He has made many
original contributions to the Transactions
of the Royal Society,"" and in conjunction
with Prof Thorpe carried out a magnetic
survey OF the United Kingdom which LEI
to some striking and interesting results,