Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-03-28
Personal BrevitieS.

NJ. ANAsTAs1, of Paris, who was
struck with blindness in 1870, has been
generously presented with pictures by
his brother artists, which, when sold,
realized $50, 900.
IT is reported that the ex-Prince I'm
perial of France will visit the United
States next summer. He is now 16
years of age, and is said to speak five
languages fluently.
GEORGE KELLY, Under-Keeper of the
Halifax City Prison, who is reported
to have become the heir of three
quarters of million pounds in Ireland,
has sailed to look after it.
Tine Rev. Peter Cartwright, the vet
eran pioneer Methodist, was not dead
up to Saturday evening; but was delir-
ious, preaching and praying in the
highest tone of his voice.
Rev. DIR. L. D HUSTON. late of Bal.
timore, has published another card,
protesting his guiltlessness. He says
''By every form of oath or impreca-
ton that is solemn and awful, 1 again
declare that the girls statement is
false.' T.,
In Vienna new American star has
risen to celebrity, MIR. George L. Os.
good, native of Boston, and gentle.
man of large fortune. The Germans
pronounce him the most perfect inter-
prefer of Schubert's and Franz's songs.
MISS LAURA c. RIDDEN complains,
through the New York Mail, that
American women eat too much horse
radish and too many pickles at lunch,
entailing sharp elbows, thin calves, and
red noses.
Mr.. LEVY, the cornet player, was
knocked down by horse car, in New
York, February I'd, by the carelessness
of driver, and severely injured. He
had little daughter, four years old, in
his arms, who was killed.
The New York World says Fisk
shrank from the revelation of his amor
Gus correspondence with the Mansfield
woman, not because his feelings were
enlisted in that correspondence, bnt
because his photography was inaccurate.
A DAUGHTER of the poet Schiller is
still alive, and is married to the Count
Won Glelchen. His grandson, Baron
Fritz Won Schiller, is retired officer in
the Austrian service, and Us he is in
failing health and without issue. the
name of Schiller will become extinct at
his decease.
THERE are four generations of John
1ngles now living in Indiana. The
venerable patriarch of the family, John
Ingle, ST., resides at Ingle's Station, a
few miles from Evansville. HIS age is
between eighty and ninety. His son,
John Ingle, Jr., is President of the Ev-
ansville and Charlottesville Railroad,
who has son named John Ingle, and
that son has little son named John
Ingle. Thus the name is likely to be
preserved.
JOAQUIN MILLER says of Queen Vic.
toria: In Whitehall first saw the
Queen of England, sad and silent
woman, whose virtues, charities and
simplicity have challenged the admira-
tion OF the world; woman who has
turned from the allurements of courts
to educate her own children; a woman
always clad in uncompromising black.
She never wears hoops, nor waterfalls,
nor false hair. I think she deserves a
crown for this, if nothing more"
PRor. EDWARD Soaring, the author Of
Unpopular text book consisting of notes
and engraved illustrations to Virgil's
Eneid, is about to put through the
press q companion piece i'll the shape
Of Homer's Had, or rather the first six
cantos of the great epic. This new
publication will be illustrated with
fourteen etchings after Flaxman's cele
DRAFTED designs. The professor will Dc
his best to get his learned labors com
pleted in time to offer his volume to the
fall trade of 1871. This industrious
scholar and genial friend is still yo,,ne
man-hardly, We should Judge, t,,rne(
OF forty. Flo has time and gifts to VIII
for him Qf his wife bo sparetD II noble
position among the small band of reall.,
erudite American scholars.