The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-11-12
Personal a md Literary.

Mrs Lincoln is to live at Frankfort-on-
the Main.
4 Bismarck he's an estate covering 160,-
600 acres.
Hans Christian Andersen is coming to
the United States in February.
-Bringhurse is the singular name OF
Philadelphia undertaken.
"A Californian lived and talked for
three days after his neck was broken.
"A widower of rs and spins.er of 60
have spliced In Connecticut. Their united
weight is 700 pounds.
A Boston bride-Miss Hilton-re-
ceived a two hundred thousand dollar
house, recently, as edding present from
her father.
Hiram Corwin, a New York Alder
man. recently committed suicide because
the doctors could not cure him of con-
sumption.
The Mayor of Washington has ap-
pointed lady resident of that CITY, who
is large property holder, to the office of
Assistant Street Commissioner.
Mr.. Spurgeon is actually coming.
A gentleman of New York has heard
from him. He is to be here in 1869, but
whether to preach or lecture is not stated.
London papers announce new book
by the late Artemus Ward, edited by his
executors, with thirty-fve pictures from his
world-renowned panorama.
"A city weekly now states that it will
not publish any more stories that con-
clude with the heroine turning nurse
and finding her lover wounded in the hos
pital.
The New Orleans Picdyu1ae says the
tomb of the late Gov. Allen, of Louisiana,
IL 1ce
ers placed there every morning by the la
dies as to be almost concealed.
Mr.. Chase is, probably, the largest
man physically in public life. He wears
a cashmere coat, pretty old, buttoned well
up his waist, sailor-Eke brooches, baggy,
as he likes them, and large boots like the
farmer of Ashland
The Prairie du Chen, Wis, Union
contains notice of the death, by con-
sumption, of printer named Judson
Hurd. About week before he died he
was ordered by physicians to quit work,
and he did his last type-setting ON notice
of his own death, containing his history.
The ex-Empress Charlotte is quite
Frustrated, and she only revives at inter
walls to utter fearful cries. Burdened by
two invalid children, one mad and the
other dying, the health of the queen OF
Belgium threatens to break up, and she is
only buoyed up by her maternal feelings
I'm the eighty fourth year of his age
DR.. Calvin Chaplin wrote Of his wife "My
domestic enjoyments have been perhaps
as near perfection as the human condition
permits. She made my home the pleas
ATTEST spot to me on earth. And now
that she is gone, my worldly loss is per.
feet"
"A Charleston journal publishes the
secret history Of DR.. Craven's account OF
jeff Davis's prison life at Fortress Monroe
and says the book wos written by the late
Miles O'Reilly in nine days, Craven sup
plying absolutely no material but letter
from Mrs. Davis and list of officers on
duty at the Fortress. With these excep-
tons the story was made "out OF whole
cloth"
The Reverend Doctor Blank once told
a little anecdOte of Mr.. James Harper, of
New York: 81 asked the Mayor" said
DIR. Blank, "what he did? l said to him,
/ know that Mr.. John Harper attends to
the business; Mr.. Wesley Harper looks
after the literary correspondence; Mr.
Fletcher Harper receives authors, and
looks after new books and the magazine
but you, Mr.. Mayor, l have never been
able to discover what you do" "Ill tell
you," answered the Mayor, in a whisper,
but you must not let it out. l entertain
the bores."