Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DR.. y. G. Morse. president of the Iowa
Association of Railway Surgeons, is the
heaviest physician in America, weighing
i25 pounds.
Con. Samuel Eroune, nestor of the Col
orado Bar Association. and United States
district attorney of Colorado in 1852. is
dead in Denver.
Henry Mercer Babb of Rensselaer,. In
diana. is the only man living in Indiana
who ls a son of the American Revolution
by direct descent.
A subscription is being taken in New
Orleans for the erection Of a memorial to
DR. r. NJ. Palmer. the eminent preacher,
who died last week.
Ethan Wilson. who claimed to be the
heir to a Scottish earldom which has been
vacant since the uprising of 17i5. has just
died in Ballston. N. y.
Dr. Schubert Of Berlin thinks that he has
discovered several unknown poems OF Sap
pho in n manuscript among the Egyptian
papyri, in the Berlin Museum.
Louis A. Gudebrod of New York made
the design that has been accepted for the
memorial arch to be erected in Richmond
Va, to the memory of Jefferson Davis
John II. Converse of Philadelphia has
duplicated his gift of last year, $1,000, to
| help the General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church in its evangelistic work.
Prof. Lewis Swift. who has just passed
his SOD year. has discovered Il comets and
| 1342 new nebulae, record which is only
surpassed by that Of Sir William Herschcl
Prof Michael !. Pupin of Columbia Uni
versity, inventor of the ocean telephone
| began his career in America as an attend
ant in Turkish bath parlor in Brooklyn
Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad" has
been barred from Russia for Its hcresy
The chapter objected to Is his description
of weeping over Adams suprositious
grave.
Carl Faber of Munich son of the famous
pencil manufacturer, has given $4,000 tc
the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg an6
to the Bavarian National Museum a
Munich.
Rear Admiral Watson, Whitelaw Reid
and General Wilson. the special embassy
to represent this country at King Ed
wards coronation, will sail on the St
Paul. June 4.
Hon. r. Z. Bobo of Bobo, Miss, VIII
will accompany President Roosevelt on
bear hunt during the latter's contemplat
Ell Southern trip, killed As bear last yea
and has n total to his credit of over 1000.
1.-THE Poet of the Sieiras," as it Is mis-
pronounced half the time and he is intro
ducod impartially as 1.-The Poet of tn
Sarahs," the "Sahoras' or the Serious"
Profs, II. p. Talbot and r. II. Thorn ar
about to head pilgrimage of students
from the Massachusetts Institution o
Technology to visit the manufacturing
plants In the vicinity Of Philadelphia am
Newark, N. j.
Prof. w. ]. MCGEE. OF the government
geological survey, declares that the Grea
Salt Lake Of Utah may disappear entire
lly in the near future. because contribut
ing streams are used for irrigating tn
lands around the lake.
Gov. Wood brought away from, Cuba
souvenir in the form Of a machete, pro
scented to him by veterans OF the Cubal
war. 3'hc hilt has the Cuban coat arm
and single gold star on one side an
the generals initials on the other in gold
Col. b. r. Hawkes.. who made a speed
At the decorating OF tho statue Of Ger
". S. Grant In tho rotunda of the Capito
last week. Ii one Of the three living com
rades Of the general In his cadet DAYS a
West Point. Gems. Dana and Longstree
are the other two
Mrs. Caroline Long Bartlett, who ha
Just died at Orange, N. j., was the daust
tier of member Of Gen. Washington
bodyguard during the revolution. He
husband fought in the War Of 1912. an
her brother. Stephen II. Long, explort
tho Rocky Mountains and Longs Pea