Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-12
PERSONA. AND GENERAL.

PERSONA AND GENERAL.
Rev. Father Arsenius of the Benedic-
tine friars at Morrison, Mo, has been
singing in Catholic church choirs for fife
ty years.
DIR. Daniel Freeman of Gage county,
Neb., owns and occupies the first farm
given away by the United States govern
ment under the homestead act.
Mr.. f. I. Hitchcock of Mansion. Wis,
a blind man, has been a commercial tray
eler for the past thirty years, covering
the entire state of Wisconsin,, ana makes
periodical trips to Michigan and Illinois.
Brigadier-Genera Henry NJ. Roberts,
I. S. A, retired. has gone to Galveston,
Tex. having been appointed by the com
missioners of that city to superintend the
plans for the protection of the city from
the sea in severe storms.
Lord Kinnaird, the English nobleman,
is not only an acknowledged authority
on foot ball but is an ordained minister
of the Established Church.
Max Heart, the Harlem millionaire. was
once a bootblack, and he still preserves
in his handsome home the original boot
blacking outfit with which he began his
business career.
I.adislaus Madarasz, who was secretary
of state In Hungary for thirty years, and
Francis Nargo. judge advocate general
under kossuth. are at present living in
Leon, Decatur county. Iowa.
Mrs Humphrey Ward is a mistress of
Spanish French, Italian and German.
Her knowledge of Spanish literature is
such that when only Is she was asked
to ~adjudicate in a Spanish essay compe-
tition.
Prof. William f. y. Scott, curator of
ornithology at Princeton University, has
been devoting considerable time of late
to find out how various kinds of birds
have acquired distinctive songs that char
a~cterize different species.
Miss Dorothea Klumpke, the Chicago
astronomer, who has been assistant in
the Paris. France, observatory for fifteen
years, is rapidly completing arrangement 8
TO return to the United States. where she
will have special charge of astral-photo-
graphy at Stanford University. in Cali
fornia.
Mrs. Edyth Lozier Weathered of Oregon
Is in New York on her way to the South
Carolina Exposition as a commissioner,
and is also interesting Eastern people in
Oregon's celebration in 1905. She is ar
ranging for a party of about two hun
dred prominent newspaper men of the
East to visit Oregon next July.
Mr.. Walter f. Howe, for fifty years
postmaster at North Leominster, Mas,
resigned on Monday. His present office
has been in use for the past thlrty-scven
years.
A Robert Fulton memorial will be unveil-
ed in Trinity Churchyard. New York, to-
day. 1t contains a bronze medallion Of
the inventor and a medallion of his steam
boat, the Clairmont.
Prof. T.. +. Merters, of Russia, who
has just returned home from a visit to
America, says the thing that impressed
Kim most in this country was the Ma
tional Library in Washington.
Lieutenant Rcnito SYLVAN, aid n
naval officer to his Majesty King None
Xix of Abyssinia. has just arrived in
New York on his way to Haiti, partly ON
business for his King and partly ON pleas
ure.
MIR. William Fitshall Whitehcusc, Jr.,
of New port. r. l., and Captain Powell
Cotton, of the Northumberland Fusileers,
Will shortly start on an expedition TO the
heart of Africa to explore the unknown
portions Of Lake Albert.
DR.. Stafford, on the occasion of his APP
pOlntTnenl as pastor OIL OF. idlIlCh =
church in Washington several days ago..
was presented with a magnificent Ma J.
onra, painted by Giovanni Mazzolini, Of
Genoa, Italy. which he will install in lis
church.
Rev. DIR. ]. S. B, Hedges, widely known
as n composer of sacred music, including
a published volume CT sixty hymn tunes,
celebrated IN Sunday, In Baltimore. the
thirty-first anniversary OF his installation
as rector of old St. Paulhs Protestant Epis-
ccpal Church.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston.
was asked by a newspaper TO write an ar
ticle on how he keeps at work despite his
age. He wrote the article aud said it was
because he had religious faith, and the
was rejected, This rejection was
the subject of his text the following sum
day.
Rev, Mother Genevieve NJ. Granger and
two Sisters of Mercy are celebrating their
golden university in Chicago. To-day
they will be own with wreaths of
gold by Archbishop Freehan. There is but
one similar instance in America of tire
nun of the Carmelite order having spent
fifty years together in the service of the
church.