Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

SOH'e Oh MS most DTllllnnt speeches. were
made in behalf Of his feathered friends.
Miles Kirk Burton, general manager Of
the Mersey docks and secretary of the
harbor board Of Liverpool England, Is ir
America inspecting the dock system here
David NJ Blaine Of Pratt county Kan.
sas, has established agencies in variou.
western cities to secure 20. 600 workmen tc
help harvest corn and wheat in his State
A monument to Robert Cavelier de la
Sale Will be unveiled next Saturday five
miles from the cataract of Niagara, on the
site where he built the first boat known tc
have sailed the Great Lakes.
John Henry Sheldon Lee, assistan,
States attorney for Cook county, Illinois
has been appointed professor OF criminal
, law and criminal procedure in the North.
western University law school.
The Rev. DR.. Camden M. Cobern pastor
Of st. James Methodist Episcopal Church
in Chicago, has been engaged to deliver
, the commencement address at five colleges
this summer, in Illinois, Ohio and Michi-
gan.
Prof. Frederick Hirth. Of the chair of
Chinese philoloey at the University of
Munich has been invited to become the
head OF the Dean Lung department Of the
Chinese language and literature at Co
lumbia University.
Leon. the fashionable halter of Paris. is
dead. When he took the measurement of
the head of famous man, he always took
1t in duplicate, thus obtaining a collection
Of head shapes Of celebrities of great
interest to phrenologists
BY direction of the Shah OF Persia,
General Isaac Kahn. Persian minister to
Washington, will sail on Thursday to join
the Shah in a visit of state to various
II European courts.
Tho German Social Scientific Society of
/ New York intends to create, in honor of
the SEVENTEEN birthday of Ambass ador
Andrew ID. White. a professorship of his
tory of German civilization.
i Colonel William f.. Cody has given to
Captain Charles Christy an old comrade
| in the early scouting days, a ranch OF
100 acres on the Shoshonc River. near the
National Park in Wyoming.
Rev. C. w Wendte. in speaking of the
second anniversary Of his death at the
Parker Memorial. in Boston, said the
great preacher bought his first book by
money earned from gathering buckle
berries
Miss Jane Adams. head of the Hull
House Settlement. Chicago was severely
injured In railroad accident on her re-
turn home from the convention of Wo-
mems Club IN Los Angeles.
The Sultan OF Turkey never reads any.
thing but the state papers and the very
few laudatory articles upon himself,
which his digent secretary now and then
unearths in some foreign journal.
Gen. S. F. Browne Of Denver. Col. cele-
brated mis- S0th birthday this week. He
was born In Franklin county. Pennsyl-
vania, and graduated at Franklin and
Marshall College.
Mrs. j. r. Haggin Of New York has Civ
en- to the Ashland Seminary at Versailles,
KY, $4,000 for building to replace the
dOrmitory burned two months ago
President Roosevelt's address on the
bible has been widely distributed by the
3 merican Bible Society 1t has sent out
50, 900 copies in English and 1000 copies in
Spanish.
Bishop William Taylor, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church "a dead in Baltimore
During the 90 years of his ministry he
travelled IN almost every quarter of the
globe.
General Haroach. who has Just been pro.
NOTED TO he brigadier general, was born
in Pennsylvania and was brevctted cap
tain for gallant and meritorious services
At the hattie of Gettysburg.
II. C.. Evans Is visiting Mayor Collins of
Boston, an old friend, from whom he is
getting some points about running the
consul generals office in London to which
he has recently been appointed.
c. A. Iorman Of Detroit has presented
the Detroit Post, G. A. r.. a trunk of a
red oak tree filled with missiles of war
secured in Chickamauga. 1t Is one OF the
most interesting relics Of the Civil war
Russell B. Harrison, son of the late Ben
amin Harrison. expects to deed to the
United States the tract of land known as
the burial plot of William Henry Harrison
at North Bend. Ohio. The government
will take care of the lot. and erect a
statue to "Tippecanoe" Harrison
A monument of Amer Powers, one of
the few soldiers of the Revolutionary Warl
buried In Illinois. will be unveiled at Lily
Lake, that State. on July 4.
Prof. John s. Sewall has resigned the
chair of sacred rhetoric, pastoral theol-
osy and sociology in the Bangor THEOLOGY
cal Seminary to take effect June. 1903.
The Rev Andrew Holloway. a Hungar-
ian vicar general, has arrived in this coun-
try. He is the choice Of the 50 Greek Cath
ole priests of America as their bishop.
Prof Alfred Croiset, one of the repre-
sentatives of the French republic at the |
Rochambeau statue unwilling will deliy-
er one lecture at Columbia University be- |
fore returning home.
Arthur Byron Coble. fellow in mathe-
mates in the Johns Hopkins University,
has been appointed to the chair Of math- |
ematcs in the University of Missouri. He |
is native of Lykens, Penn.
Miss Helen Gould has reopened her an
nual sewing school for poor girls of Try |
ington, in Lyndhurst. her country seat. |
More than IL, girls have joined the class
and Miss Gould has hired six experienced |
teachers from New York.
DR. Maurice Bloomfield of the Johns
Hopkins University. will sail for Europe |
tomorrow. His trip will be a sort of ex- |
petition to gather the last materials for a |
"Vedic Concordance" on which he has
been engaged for many years.
Abdur Rahman. the late Amir of At |
ghanistan, left behind him coplous diaries |
from which he directed his successor to |
extract and publish those portions which |
bore upon his private and domestic life |
emitting all political questions.
Manjiro Nackahama, a Japanese naval |
officer who has Just died, was we'll known |
In this country He was one of a party
OF shipwrecked Japanese picked up by a |
New Bedford Mass, whaler in 1899 He |
was educated here, and on his return home
translated into Japanese a number OF val
liable English books
Nine, Melba the prlma donna, is about
to visit her native city. Melbourne, Aus
Ito Oh,