PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9581, 4 August 1894, Page 4 (Supplement)

PERSONAL ITEMS.

i Miss Kingsley, daughter of the famous L author of " Westward Ho" and " Hypatia," was recently announced to,, lecture on ' French art at Queen's Hall, London. 1 A coloured woman, who has just died in i America, left £1000 to found a scholarship , in Harvard University for poor coloured students, i The donor, in early- life, was a slave. One night, with her' husband, and 1 child, she escaped, and succeeded in reach* ' ing British territory. A fellow slave who ; accompanied them was recaptured. Hus- ' band and wife set to work and raised 700J01., with which they purchased the freedom of their comrade. . _ , A good text for a eerraon on the vicissitudes of life would be found in a recent examination of a tramp before M. Douranfc, the Paris Commissary of Police. The tramp, it seems, endeavoured to pawn a diamond bracelet he had picked up near the Opera House, and had been arrested. He turned out to be Edmond Viscount de la Morte, the head of an ancient noble family of Lyon?. Under the Second Empire he was Chamberlain at Court, and he had an ample private fortune, but now, at the age of sixty-seven,' he is found wandering about almost without visible means of subsistence. And thereby hangs another tale, for on being asked how he lived, he opened a bag he was carrying arid showed a quantity of orangepeel. "I go about picking up the peel," he explained, " and I sell it to a manufacturer of liqueurs for making bitters and curacoa." Mr. William Sibbald Adie and Mr. William Fellows Sedgwick, the bracketed Senior Wranglers of Cambridge this year, are both (says a London paper) bright-look-ing handsome men, upon whose faces intelligence of a high order is indelibly stamped. f Mr. Adie is a Londoner, and a standing vindication of the adage that " all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Mr. Adie is not a dull boy, and one of the reasons for ! this is his devotion to outdoor exercise. He is a great oarsman, and rows No. 6 in the First Trinity boat. Born at Barnes, Mr. Adie was educated at a suburban college, and went to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1891. Mr. Sedgwick, who tied with Mr. Adie in the Tripos, is a Warwickshire man, hailing from Pailton. From Marlborough College ho went to Rugby and thence to Trinity Colleges, Cambridge, in the same year as Mr. Adie. The I hird Wrangler this year is Mr. W. K. Philip, a studious Dun donian, who obtained a Ferguson Scholarship at the Edinburgh University. His Majesty -el-Hassan, the Sultan of Morocco, whose death by fair means or foul seems to be an indubitable fact, was by no means a bad specimen of a Moorish monarch. He possessed a fine physique and an iron constitution, led a hardy and active life, and did not succumb to the pleasures of the table or the enervating influences of the harem. He had.a lofty and rather protruding forehead, differing in this particular from most of his compatriots, cleancut aquiline features, and a keen penetrating eye; but his under lip was heavy and sensual, as is usually the case among the Shereeefian descendants of Mahomet. According to some authorities he was born in 1831. If so he certainly did not look his age, and many believe that his years did not exceed fifty. At any rate he succeeded his father, Sidi Muley Mahommed, nearly twenty-one years ago, and inherited some of the characteristics of his grandfather, Abdurrahman, who gave Marshal Bogeaud such trouble, and lived to be eighty-one. Muley-el-Hassan did not shirk his royal duties. He was generally in the saddle at 4 a.m. reviewing his troops, and passed hours every day going through State papers. His apartments ware poorly furnished, most of his life being spent under canvas. Hunting and hawking formed his chief diversions. Some seventeen or eighteen years ago SidiGharnet, his vizier, brought from Constantinople a beautiful Georgian slave given him by the Sultan, and judiciously transferred the lady to his royal master. Ayesha, for so she was called, after Mahomet's favourite wife, speedily put the noses of all the Fezzian beauties out of joint, and since reigned supreme—if not aloneover the heart of her lord.