The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-08-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary,


Known A. the Honiteur Cdpiliaire.
Mrs. Oliphant, the novelist, re-
.idcs at u pretty place near Windsor
Castle.
Mrs. b. +. johnson, of Vincennes,
Ind has had 50 900 200 left to her by
two uncles.
John Is. Cough has delivered Z 900
temperance addresses, and in doing all
thi. work has travelled l05 200 miles.
Miss Oliver, the Brooklyn girl
nrqacher, is unmarried. Is there not a
Roland for IN Oliver in this caseg
Paul Boyton, having won the friend
hin Of all England by his unassuning
eennls and courage, now turns up in
Paris to be lionized over again.
Alexander Hamilton, aged 90yearS,
son Of the great statesman, died at
N. residence in New York City the 9TH
or day
Congressman Chester w. Chaplin,
u springfield, Mass. +, was formerly a
.age-driyer, and is said now To be worth
$40 900 900.
NJ. William Gladstone, the Oldest
.on Of "the peoples William" is to
marry Hon. Gertrude Stuart, youngest
daughter of Lord Plantyre.
Jenny Lind dresses her hair in the
same style precisely as when she was in
America % years ago. She has two
daughters, one Is and the other 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. $. G.. Hall received
On July lith the testimonial fund raised
by their English and American friends,
amounting to some - 900.
The Count Susini RUSSO, a Havana
tubacco millionaire, has spent his mill
ion gaily in Paris within the last ten
wears. and now he is rather worse than
bankrupt and in charge Of the police.
DR.. Won Bulow, the great pianist
II Germany, who is about to visit this
country, is probably the most skillful
performer on the piano-forte now liv-
ing He is native Of Dresden, and
aged i5.
The Prince Of LicchtenStein has set
the example of disarmament 10 the
great military powers. His army of 90
men was disbanded last month, and
they have entered the service of the
Prl,sian police, as spies in civilian
dress.
DIR Emil Bcssels, one Of the mem
Der, Of the Inflated Polaris expedition,
!, now AT Washington pcrfecting his re-
port, which will make 3 volumes of 400
pages each. DR.. Bcsscls was on board
the Saranac when she went down in
seymour Narrows on the 18th of June.
The largest library in the United
states is the Library of Congress, which
contains pa 900 volumes; next in or
der j. the Boston Public Library, with
-, 600, while the Harvard University
library, with 1873, 900, and the New
York Mercantile Library, with l55, l2O,
are respectively third and fourth in point
If size.
William Gilmore Sims, the dis
tingtliShed Southern novelist, who j.
buried in Magnolia Cemetery, Charles
ton, ;. c.. j. To have monument
The committee having the matter In
charge has decided 10 adopt the sug-
gcstion of bronze bust on "A granite
PEDESTAL. similar TO that erected in Cen
tal Park to Humboldt. When com
plcted il will cost about 81 800.
Lady Anne Noel Blunt, a grand
daughter of Byron, has written To Mr.
b'raeli protesting against the proposal
Ia place tablet in Iiucknall Torkard
Church in memory Of the poet. Lady
Blunt thinks, very justly, that a. Eng
and refused to honor Byron with rest
ing place in Westminster Abbey, il
should be satisfied with the memorial
which his friends placed upon his grave