The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-09-26
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been rendered the presidency of the
Iowa Agricultural college and would
not accept it if he was so honored .
A Massachusetts, man sent the king |
of England some verses on appendicitis,
and the king has sent him a letter OF
thanks for them. That is carrying
kindness too far.
Samuel Hawkins Napier, who has
just cen buried in Upper Ottawa. was
the d~iscoverer of the largest nugget of
pure gold which the world has ever
known.
William II. Moody, secretary of the
game played at Haverhill, Mass, sew
eral days G between the lawyers and
city officials of hat city.
Sixkiller, the aged ex-chief of the
Cherokees. has just died at his home
in the Spavinaw Hills, Indian Terri
tory. His death witnesses the passing
of one of the most picturesque figures
of the Southwest.
Hon. John d. Henderson of New York
will deliver the address at the dedica-
ton of the Thirty-fourth New York
regiment monument on the Antietam
battlefield on September II.
Captain James R. Mullins of Detroit
makes a good living capturing sea
lions. He gets most of them on the
coast of Mexico and Southern Califor-
MIA. He has just returned from Eu-
rope, where he disposed of 40.
DR.. Daniel Merriman, president of the
board of directors of the Worcester
art museum, has made a gift to that in
stitution of ten Greek grave monu-
ments. He bought the casts in Greece
this year while on his travels.
Charles Emery Smith of Philadel-
phia, who was once ambassador to Rus
STA, discussing the habits of the Russian
car the other day, said: HE passes a
part of his summer in the mountains.
He rarely goes to the seaside, because
he does not love the serf."
1t is not generally know that Prince
Max, the youngest son of the new king
of SaXony. is a Roman Catholic priest,
n that he was at one time an earnest
worker among the poor of the East End
of London.
Since the two-hat plan of assuaging
4 thirst has been suppressed by Secre-
tary Shaw the tabloid high ball comes
to the relief of treasury clerks. After
all, the up-to-date inventor is the gen
uinc Johnny-on-the-spot for suffering
mankind.
Captain John R. NJ. Taylor, Four
teenth infantry, now attached to the
bureau Of insular affairs of the wal de-
partment, has been detailed to write
the military history of the United States
| fn,. thn 1ant ~. 80, s,ol,1,,r -, %
count of the Cuban insurrection of 1896.
A recently published pamphlet re-
calls the old dispute of two friends as
to whether the word news was singu-
lar or plural. They telegraphed to Mr.
Greeley the question: Are there any
news?" and he promptly flashed back
the answer: Not a new"
There is not yet in Portland any mon
ument to William Pitt Fessenden. long
United States senator from Maine, and
secretary of the treasury under Presi.
dent Lincoln. Mr.. Fessenden was born
in Portland, and the citizens of his ma
tive town are at last talking of erecting
a well-deserved memorial to hin there,
After his retirement from the post Of
ambassador at Berlin Andrew d. White
will settle in Ithaca, n. Y. he is now
at work on a book of "reminiscences ri
Berlin in 1S79-S1, as minister at st
Petersburg in 1924 and as ambassa'
dor to Germany from 1897 to his retire.
men in November next. He is also a
work on a volume describing the new
Germany of the the last decade, which
has grown from an agricultural to a bis
industrial power. His personal remin,
i~scences will also contain much inter
esting biographical and anecdotal ma
terial relating to Mr.. Whites persona
relations with Emperor William.
Mr.. George Wyndham, who has beer
chief secretary for Ireland since 1900
and was recently promoted to cabine'
rank by Premier Balfour, was born il
1868, and is one Of the most able o
the younger conservatives. He is tn,
son of the Hon. Percy Wyndham, ant
his mother was a daughter of Sir Gu.
Campbell, so that he claims a Scottish
as we'll as an Irish ancestry. He wa!
educated at Elton and at %Sandhurst, anC
served with the Coldstream Guards IL
Egypt and in Cyprus. He then gave III
the army and took to politics. He wal
private secretary to Mr.. Balfour Will,
he was Irish secretary, and wrote som,
of the secretary's pithiest and whites
letters at tnat time. lie was unuer sec
rotary for war from 1888 till 1900. wheI
he became secretary for Ireland.
Max O'Rell is back in Paris. and say
he finds it greatly changed and mucl
improved. The fact which has i'm
pressed him most is that Partisan
battle now more than they used to. Thi
he attributed to the wholesome infu
ence of the English and American visi
tors. Whereas, formerly a bathroom
was only to be found in the houses o
the w~ealthiest aristocrats, and Their
was only inadequate public bathing &C
~commodation, now the bathroom is {
be found at all the hotels and in mos
houses and flats. Before ten year
have passed." he adds, "the French will
enjoy the luxury of a bath every day
Even the widest anarchists will hav
one. and if any of them is, like the lat
Mart. assassiuated in his bath, no revo
lutionist will be found to say, as we
said of the friend of the people who
he was stabbed to death by Chariot
Corday. that it served him right fo
heinp cuch an ariStOcrat as To indulp