The Washington times., 1901-08-09
PERSONAL.

AHureW tarheSle mas offered Montreal
s150,00) for a library. provided the city
VIII contribute a site and spend SI5.OOO
yearly in maintenance
Business engagements will prevent
Thomas B. Reed from delivering an ad-
dress at the Old Home Week celebration
in Portland. Me.
Subscriptions in St Paul to buy a low
ing cup for DIR. Justice Ohage, who had
presented the city with free baths. came
in SO rapidly that il has been decided to
erect Il drinking fountain as a testimonial
to the doctor.
The University of Goettingen has be-
slowed the degree Of doctor of philosophy
honoris causa upon Joseph Joachim. the
great German violinist who recently
celebrated his SEVENTEEN birthday
Geronimo. the noted Indian, has an
nounced his conversion to Christianity
Iiever.
Prof. Halsey c. Ives has been ap-
pointed chief of the Fine Arts Department
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition He
has been in charge Of the Museum of
Fine Arts in st. Louis since 1881. He has
received decorations from the King of
Sweden and the King of Denmark. and
has wide reputation in the world OF art.
Henry Chisholm, of Cleveland. a grad
uate of Yale, is working in the rivet
works owned by his millionaire father in
the Ohio city. and earns s.75 day.
Young Chisholm, does not ke-beieve
work but is always on duty at o'clock
in the morning. his determination being
to learn rivet-making thoroughly He
does not agree with Schwab. the Steel
Trust man, that education is a bar to
progress in manufacturing.
In his recent baccalaureate sermon
President Buckham. of the University Of
Vermont. thus defined a gentleman: "A
gentleman is one who is more thoughtful
Of others feelings than of his own rights,
and more thoughtful of others rights
than Of his own feelings
DR.. Jay G. Eldridge a member of the
Faculty of Yale University. has resigned
his place to accept the chair OF modern
languages at the University OF Idaho
Mrs. Mary Austin Carroll of Boston,
whose father. Arthur w. Austin, was a
well known lawyer. and who died on
July %. 1891. and left the income of the
estate. valued at about 500 OO0 to her for
life and then TO the University Of Vir-
ginia, has arranged that the income of
the entire estate. less So. 600 reserved for
herself. shall be transferred to the Uni
versity Of Virginia after April |. 1902.
Word has been received in New Haven
of the serious Illness Of Prof. Gustave J.
y
at the head of the music department of
Yale He was during that time the col
l@ge organist, retiring when the music
school was being organized about six
years ago. Prof. Stoeckel is over seventy
years Old and has not enjoyed rugged
health for several years. He is at the
home OF his son, Judge Stoeckel, in Nor
folk, Conn.
st. Clair McKelway. LII. D, editor of
the Brooklyn Eagle" has accepted the
invitation to deliver the Grafton at the
ceremonies of New York State Day at
the PanAmerican Exposition ON Sep |
tember lS Governor Odell and his staff. |
of all branches OF the |
State government. and a large delegation |
of the National Guard will attend.
The Rev. DIR. James +. Driscol. pro-
fessor of sacred Scripture, Hebrew, and |
Italian at St. JOsephs Seminary. Dun |
woodie. Yonllers. has been appointed !
president Of the new scholastic of the |
Order OF st. Supice. to he attached to the |
Catholic University, Washington.
Prof o. p Phillips, of the Southern
California Museum. representing the Bu-
reau Of American Ethnology. is in the
Pueblo region, where ne is obtaining mo-
tiun pictures illustrating the Industries
CEREMONIES, and domestic customs OF the
Pueblo peoples.
Under the will of the late James Tole-
man, of London, the sum of E250,O0 is be
iueathed to charity and the executors are
given an absolutely free hand in its dis
ribution.
DIR. Hans Blum. one of the biographers
II Bismarck. has become mentally de
-angcd owing to his losses through thc
'ecent failure OF the LeipZigCr Bank. and
las been placed in an asylum. He is a
ton Of Robert Blum, who was executed in
Vienna during the revolution of 1873.
The Earl Of Devon, who recently cele-
,rated his ninotieth birthday. has been
or many years rector of Powderham
car Starcross. ana l'pebcudary Of Exeter
ic always does dlty in his parish church
nd regularly pr, aches in his turn as Pre-
,endary in EXcrer cathedral He is a
ood preacher an exemplary clergyman |
nd highly estecnt among his parishou-
rs and ncighboTs.
a peculiar souvenir is kept in Lord
alisbury's historic Home at Hatfield. II
: "A stone. over . pound in weight. with
which the wind--w - his carriage was
mashed at Dumtri.sI on October u. 1854 |
lis two daughtafs wire seated with him
a the vehicle hut fortunately all three
scaped uninjureu. Lord Salisbury had |
II that OCCASION delivered the last OF a
cries of speeches in Scotland