The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-02-17
Personal AND PECULIAR.


Miss Louise B. Pierson, a daughter of
Rev. Arthur It. Pierson. editor of the
Missionary Review of the World has
gone to India TO take up work I'm Calcut-
Ia in connection with the Woman's I'M
ion Missionary society of New York.
According TO dispatch from Washing
ton. Algernon Sartoris, son of Mrs Nellie
Grant Sartoris, has entered the Westing-
house shops at Philadelphia, to get a
practical knowledge that will fit him for
business and give him the means of earn
ing his living outside OF the government
service, in which he sees no future.
Hiram Cronk. the last surviving PEN
sioner of the war of 1912, is passing the
last years of a quiet life at the home of
his daughter. at Dunn Brook, about
Is miles north of Rome, n. Y.
Grand Duke Paul of Russia Is 30 tall
that the average hotel bed IL not long
enough for his comfort. md consequent
ly he has had one built in sections, which
he carries with his luggage everywhere.
Hon. j. #. Gautt Of South Carolina is
at the head of movement I'm that state
to have built at the st. Louis Exposition
reproduction of the cabin I'm which
President Andrew Jackson was born.
A bill has been introduced In the Vir-
ginia legislature to- appropriate $4,000
for the erection OF a monument at Fred
ericksburg TO General Hugh Mercer
In the neighborhood of the recent sub
way explosion in New York there are
more physicians than in any other part
OF the city, and hundreds of then, were
available TOR emergency duty within
three minutes after the dynamite went
off.
The Roman Catholic Cathedral in Lon
don. now in course OF erection, is eco feet
long and lj6 feet wide. Apart from the
site IL has already cost $4,000. The ma
terial used Is red brick with Portland
stone courses. and it's oriental decorative
features suggest a mosque rather than a
cathedral.
Minister Chekib Bey. the new Turkish
diplomatic representative at Washington.
IL occupying one of the most unique posi-
tions known I'm the annals OF diplomacy
His official presence ~ still unknown 20
the administration of Mr. Roosevelt.
although he has been I'm the city for six
months or more. Coming 10 America
accredited TO Mr. Mckinley. he reached
the capital two days after the departure
of the latter for his summer trip to his
home at Canton. His credentials could
not be presented 90 any one else. ana,
after the tragedy az Buffalo made a
| change I'm the personnel OF this govern
| ment. they had 10 be sent back TO Con-
stantinople. Until the corrected papers
lare I'm his possession. Cheklb Boy IL
obliged TO live In Official retirement.
The inventor OF the gummcd postage
| stamp was "a Scotchman James Chalmers
| OF Dundee, who. I'm 1894 suggested the
adoption OF the practical system OF affix-
I ing adhesive squares of paper 20 cnvel-
! opes. Chalmers was ridiculed, and among
| others medical men predicted that the
| constant licking of gum would be prcju-
| dicial TO the health OF the nation. IL was
not until 1Sil that the plan received the
serious attention Of the postal office au-
| thoritics
In Its London letter Berlin paper re-
| prints the following surprising news
I Item. a bottle. securely scaled, was re-
Gently washed ashore near Prelhell.
| Wales When opened 10 was found "a
contain n musical composition. This has
been christcned The Tune In the Bottle.
and. together with the story of its dis
covery, has been printed. Thousands cf
copies Of the composition have been sold
| Nearly all the Welsh chapels have added
the tune 90 their hymnoloey. and II
is sung by large congregations every
| sunday" This should prove fruitful
hint for some OF our struggling compos-
ers Magnum champagne bottles would
do for unstable string auartets, Gym
phonies OF operasisf sr lf. tte