The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-03
PERSONAL.


Mrs. Lucinda S. Stamford, now about 80 wears of
age, wife of Jarvis T. Stamford, residing in Toles-
borough, Lewis county, KY, has full suit of
beard, about five inches in length, grown upon her
face since the lst of September, 1889 Her hus-
band informs us that he and Lucinda were married
about thirteen years ago, and that they had three
children, all living that his wife had no indication
OF beard until about the lst of last September and
that it commenced growing at that time He states
that it grew faster at one time than another and
sometimes it grew as much as one-half inch in a
week-that it is thick, very dark and coarse like
a mans beard, and has never been shaved or
trimmed. Another fact is this: she has no beard
upon her upper lip, it being smooth, and she has
none on her neck. The beard extends up to within
one and half inches of each ear, and space about
ehalf to one inch in width from her mouth over
her chin to her neck, has no beard.
Vice President Breckenridge is to spend the re-
mainder of the summer in California.
Mr.. Appleton our new minister to Russia ac-
companed by his family, will sail in the Adriatic.
on the l4th July.
Rev. DR.. Hitchcock, of Amhurst College, has re-
ceived the merited honor of an election to the I'm
perial Geological Institute of Austria.
Miss Julia Dean Hayne bade farewell to the New
York stage last evening, and the recipient of
complimentary benefit at the Winter Garden.
"ToM, Dick AND HARRY."-The three candidates
for the Governorship of Arkansas are Thomas Hub
bard, Richard NJ. johnson and Henry M. Rector
Dr. j. G. Holland, of the Springfield Repubicon.
and author of the Timothy Titcomb letters is wri-
ting novel which will probably be published in
Mr. w. W. Goodwin has been chosen Eliot Pro-
fessor of Greek Literature; E. A. Sophocles, Pro
fessor of Ancient, Patristic and Modern Greek; and
H. j. Clarke, Assistant Professor of Zoology at
Harvard College.
La Mountain, the areonaut, has gone to Sarotoga
for the purpose of arranging for series of topical
ascensons during the summer. The Troy Patent
Rope Co. are making him a MANILA rope, 5000 feet
long, to be used on these occasions.
The gold snuff-box presented by queen Victoria
to Com Joshua r. Sands, as testimonial for his
services in assisting to lay the Atlantic cable, has
been denosted in a bank at Bridgeport, Conn, for
sefa Laen;ne-Congress having voted him per.
no;ssion to receive the gilt
Rav Robert Colyer, of Chicago, ILL.,, who has
hoI charge of the distribution of money and clo-
tbing TO those rendered destitute by the late tor
nado reports that the immediate wants of the
sufferers have been relieved. The greatest pener-
osity was everywhere displayed in extending aid to
the needy.
NJ. Leverrier, the celebrated astronomer, gave
brilliant soiree recently at the Imperial Observito.
ry in Paris, to DIR. Lescarbault the modest coun-
try physician whose discovery of planet brought
him into notice so suddenly few months SINCE
He is said to have. special genius for astronomy,
and to have studied it long time with rare enthu
siasm.
Now wheat raised in Illinois has appeared in