Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 503, 22 January 1902 — MAINLAND PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

MAINLAND PERSONALS.

Prof Thomas R Baron. of th* University of California says ’.Li’ although be bell* tf. in the high-r *Aration at won* n. he U cp; -- to coeducation. • • • Charies Richmond Henderson, D. I). of the University of Chicago, has ; received the tits 0 cf dorter of phiicaophy of the University cf Leipsic. • • • President Ira R«ns<n. of :t- Johns Hopkins University, will de.iver the tddress at th* laying of th* comer stones of the two new buildinge now being erected at Baylor University. 'Vaco, Texas. • • • General Wallace Is spending th* greeter part of each day a; his heme at Crawfordsville. Ind.. at work on his autobiography. He hopes to complete the work within a year • • • Timothy Bloomfield Edgar, a retired St. Lon I s banker. ST years rid and ti tally blind, dictates interesting verses to an amanuents and recently : :bllshed s volume under the ’itle. • Po- ms, Rhyne s and Saying-. ' • • • Ex-S*-na*or Pelfer. of Kansas, has * 1 repared a topical ind x cf all -he debates in Congress tip to I*6l, and proposes to make the work complete to the present time, and will *ry to i sell to Congress the result f his la Lors. ' | * • • General D O. Shavs known a- the leader of Shays' Rebelll'n in ITSfi. 1- buri*d near Scottsburg. N. Y . and his grave is so neglected that it is almost Impossible to find it. It is marked with a common riate st. ae covered with moss and colored with age. * 0 0 l.e Baron I.oring Austin ecently elected president of fh- 111im< -■ Society Sons of the Revelation, is a descendant of Major Jonathan Lorinp Austin, secretary of the P ard of War In Massachusetts during *he Rev. lution. and a son of the New England novelist. Mrs. Jan I. Austin. 0 0 0 Mr. Charles F. Lummis, ant .tor and < hampion of the West rn Indians, will soon go tor Washington : oafer with President Roosevelt , n th. subject of the approaching eviction of ,-borigines from, their home cn the Werner ranch in San Dirge County. Califon.ia. • • • Pro. John W. Jenks. who ha- •ustl < ompleted his scientific observations | of county government in southern Illinois. is now on his way to Asia, where he will gather data oncoming British administration in India. He is professor of political ecu nomy in Cornell. • • • Prof. J Henry Thaytr. late Bussey i ■ oft r f the N< w T stan ent the Harvard Divinity School. !>equeathed to the library cf that school such books in his library, i.ot owned by the library of t.he school, as may be needed by the library for professional purpose s. • • Anna Colson, a musical comp. ■>r of Maine, has about 165 compositions to her credit. She quite recently wrote a quartet, using the words of Longfellow's poem. "The Reaper and the Flowers.” for the Bangor Apollo Male Quartet, and it has ben a- -pled by a London publisher. • • • The diaries, letters, an 1 manuscripts of Janus K Folk, i.’.'mi-ris-ing all his known writings, ha.- been purchased for $3,300 bv th* .-go Historical Soci< ty of Me .1 H. Pall of Nashville. Tenn.. stepdaughter of President Polk. The diary oov* r- the period ef his ProsltKncy. * * * Captain Luke Wilder, cf Bangor, Me. and Daniel Webster were very close friends At a banquet in Bangor in 1835 Webster ordered Wilder’s picture paintsd at his exp-use. It was done, hut Webster nev*r ’-ent 1 for it. and it Is now owned by Mrs. Eliza Hazzard of Bangor, who i- a grandchild of Captain Wilder. • • • Carlo Bersottl. a prominent Italian of N w York, is taking up * bsi options among Italians, to secure funds for the erection of a tablet to th memory of the late President McKinly. It will be designed and executed by Italians and when finished will b placed in the Capitol tt Washing t- n. • • • Prof. Jefferson Pollard, known a c "the Stentor cf all Missouri '* is now Jodge cf the P'ourth District Ccart of St Louis His voice, which is described bv an enthusiastic local pa per as “weird, wonderful, witching powerful as the basso profundo p narrating as Gabriel’s silver trumpet and sweet as an Aeolian harp.” won him the posit in of reading clerk in the Missouri State Assembly, and lu many city and State Democratic con ventions. He was also one of th reading clerks in the Democratic National Convention at Chicago, in 18?€. ■■ ■ i ■ ■■■■'■■