People We Hear About.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 7, 14 February 1901, Page 10

People We Hear About.

Mr. Heywood, an American oonvert, who has died in Rome was a Knight Commander of St. Gregory and a Chamberlain to the Pope. He was a writer of ability. Mr. Peter Dunne, author of the • Dooley papers,' and for many years an active newspaper man of Chicago, is dangerously ill with pneumonia at St. Luke's Hospital in that oity. The death is announced of Mrs. John Boyle O'Reilly, wife of the famous poet. The colored people of Boston (U.S,) sent a wreath of flowers to those in charge of the funeral. Rev. William Everett, pastor of the Church of the Nativity, in Second Avenue, New York, has died of pneumonia. He was first a physician, then a Protestant minister, and afterwards a prie*>L At his death he was 86 years old. Mr. Fitzalan Hope, M.P,, whose mother is the Dnke of Norfolk's sister, and who was chosen to second the Address-in-Reply in the House of Commons, is a descendant of Sir Walter Soott, and was educated at the Oratory under Cardinal Newman. He then went to Oxford, after whioh he became secretary to bis uncle, when the latter was Postmaster-General. Very Rev. M. C. O'Brien, rector of St. Mary's Church, of Bangor, and Administrator of the diocese of Portland, was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Sooiety at its recent meeting. Father O'Brien, as is generally known is oonsidered the highest living authority on matters pertaining to the history and language of the American Indians, and particularly of those in Eastern North America. The late Sir Henry Page Turner Barron, Bart., of Ylenana. Water ford, and of 14, Goethestrasse, Btuttgart, who died on September 12, aged 75, left £2000 to Cardinal Vaughan, for distribution among Catholic charitable institutions in. the diooese of Westminster. He also left, among other charitable bequests £2000 to the Bishop of Waterford ; £1000 to the Irish Unionist Allianoe ; and £1000 to the Distressed Irish Ladies' Fund. Mr. Hector M'Uwaine, who has achieved considerable suocess as a novelist this year and last by his two clever novels, IKnhin' Bar and Fate the Fiddler, is an Irishman, and son of the late Rev. Canon M'llwaine, one of the best known clergymen in the North of Ireland, whose Lyra Ilibernica Sacra is still the standard collection of Irish religious and non-sectarian verse, says the Freeman* Journal. The Canon was also author of various volumes of verse and other works. The winning by a poor peasant of half a million francs in the drawing for the big Paris Exhibition Prize will recall the story of Luke White, the ancestor of Lord Annaly, who died a member of Parliament for an Irish county, three of whose sons were members of the Houbo of Commons, and one of them raised to the Peerage. White Bpeoulated in lottery tickets, and after a certain lot remained in his hands he lost all confidence in their value, and sent them at a greatly-reduced price by coaoh from Dublin to Belfast A letter reached him that evening announcing the tickets to be prizes. He immediately hired a horse, and gave chase to the coaoh, whioh he overtook within 20 miles of Belfast. He reoovered the tickets, oame back to Dublin, claimed, and obtained, the lottery prises, which became the nucleus of a great fortune. A correspondent of a Home paper writes .-—Apropos of the late death of Mr. Thomas Arnold, the father of Mrs. Humphry Ward, it may interest your readers to know, what does not seem to be generally known, that the Arnold family was of Jewish extraction, and that its Hebrew name in Germany, whence it came to this country, was Aaron. Aaron, in England, is generally transformed into Arnold, j unt as Solomon finds easy and natural transition into Sullivan, and Hirsch into Harris, etc. As for the late Matthew Arnold, no student of physiognomy and ethnology could doubt for a moment that he possessed in a marked degree the physical peculiarities of Mb race, while the quality of his mind, too, was essentially Semitic — hard, keen, critical, and analytical more than synthetic. When the mail left home the heads of the House of Bonaparte, Prince Victor Napoleon and Prince Louis Napoleon (of the Russian Army) were in England visiting the Empress Eugenic at Farnborough. These princes are aged 38 and 36 respectively, and both are bachelors. This is doubtless due to their position as Pretenders ; a Pretender cannot afford to make a bad match, and exalted ladies look askance on a Pretender— until he arrives. Napoleon 111. did not marry until he had attained the throne and the age of 44. With the late Prince Jerome Napoleon and his ohildren Bonapartism assumed a new phase, as they are oonneoted with the old reigning families of Europe, whioh no other branch of the family was. The Princes Victor and Louis are descended from a sister of George 111., and therefore from the Stuarts, Tudors, and Plantagenete, from the Kings of Italy and Wurtemberg, and are, in faot, oouuns of nearly every reigning monarch.

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