Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-17
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

SiGpor Marconi has Just been presented
with the gold medal OF the Italian Science
society. The presentation speech was
made by the Marquis Luigi Solari III
Loreto. an officer of the Italian navy.
The reports Of the illness of Abner Nc
Kinney seem to have been somewhat *
aggcrated. Mr.. Mckinley has been indls-
posed for a few days, suffering from
cold, but his condition is not at all scri
Gus.
EX-Qucen Lliuokalani of Hawaii has
just celebrated her SD birthday by giving
a series of entertainments at which hun
dreds of natives and a few whites We're
present. At one of these 300 covers were
laid
The Goth woman to become a minister in
the Unitarian church in this country is
Miss Estclla r. Padgham. who was or
dained the other day In Syracuse. \. y,
Miss Padgham is graduate of Smith
college.
TIE Henhen. the Maori chief who was
presented to the Duke and Duchess OF
Cornwall in New Zealand, gave to that
colony thu splendid national park which
includes the volcanoes of Nigarahoc and
Ruapehu. He Is the grandson Of a noto-
rious cannbal chief.
The Duke of Sutherland is probably the
ing gold mine on his estate in England
The mine is near iIelmsddle and was dis
covered in 1869.
One OF the greatest of King Edward
favortes among the foreign ambassadors
to England Is NJ de Several the Portu-
guese ambassador. He is a tine-looking
man, with black eyes, a huge black mus
tache slightly touched with gray and is
almost entirely bald. His Wit is mex
haustibe and his knowledge of English
perfect.
Gustavus, the crown prince of Sweden,
is the greatest hunter among European
royalties He is also an enthusiastic ten
mis- player but lacks his fathers popular
ity and is reticent sedate, exclusive and
undemoCratic,
Charles Il, Andrews has Just retired
from the chief iusticeship of the Con-
necticut Supreme Court. He was governor
of Connecticut from 1879 to 1881, and in
1882 was appointed to the Supreme Court
Major hiram Pauldng. who died The
other dav at White Plains. n. Y. was Il
grandson of the John Pauding who cap
turod Major Andre and a brother Of Com
modore Padding who was second in com
mand under Farragut at Mobile Bay.
President Roosevelt is the second Presi-
dent of Dutch ancestry, Van Buren, being
the first or our other Chief Executives
fourteen have sprung from English stock,
five from Scotch Irish, three from Scotch
and one. jefferson, from Welsh.
! DIR. j. &. T.. Jonas, who has been con-
nected with the department Of German Of
Pardue. University since 1899, as been
! chosen successor of the late Prof Aonz1
Jonas graduated from the University Of
Wisconsin in 1896.
! The benjamin Harrison Monument As
sociation was formally organized at In
dianapOls the other day General John
w. Foster, eXSecretarY Of State, presid-
ed and arrangements We're made to have
the bankers and lawyers of the State aid
in the movement.
Mrs. Deborah Dan King OF Megis Town
ship, Ohio, celebrate ed her l0jth birthday
last week in good health and spirits. She
Is "A lineal descendant of Deacon John
Doan, who came from England to the
Plymouth colony in 1880, and was one of
the founders of Estham and Cape Cod.
General James NJ Bell. the soldier who
became brigadier through President
Roosevelts first official act, began his mil
itary career as a volunteer in the war OF
the rebellion and went into the Santiago
campaign as colonel of General Chaffee' $
old regiment, the Eighth Cavalry.
Rev David Bruner has retired from the
ministry of the Baptist church at Bur-
gin. Ky, at the age of %, after a service
of three-quarters of century.
The Sultan of Turkey has six sons and
seven daughters, who are kept in the So
! curest seclusion, the former never leav-
ing the grounds of the house in which
i they were born.
Pope Leo when a young man was n
splendid athlete and one of the pioneers
OF the modern fad Of mountain climbing.
| To the strength gained in this pursuit he
attributes his present vitality.
Bishop Dudley of Kentucky, who pre-
sided over the Episcopal House of Bishops
at San Francisco last week, was a pro-
fessor of Latin and Greek in the Univer-
sity OF Virginia before entering the minis
try.
| The hundredth anniversary of the jeat n
of Victor Hugo will be marked in Paris on
| February 20 next by the erection of an