The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-11-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mr.. Archibald Forbes, the great
war correspondent Of the London DAILY
NeUs, receives $1,000 q year, whether
he is employed or not. 85.3' 3
Wendell Phillips will only lecture
this winter in places from which he can
get back to Boston on the same night.
He says that he begins to feel the weight
of years, that he has enough wealth,
and that he is now glad to leave the
lecture field to younger men.
-"Call me Judge, rs said the large
United States Senator from Illinois,
Hon. David Davis, to gentleman who
was conversing with and addressing
him as g Senator''-ss call me Judge.
I've been called Judge for twenty-five
years, and by no 6ther name.
Col David H. Armstrong, the new
United States Senator from Missouri,
was for several years teacher of one
of the New Bedford (Mass.) district
schools when be was young man, and
married Miss Haskell, of Rochester,
who was at the same time teacher at
New Bedford. IA II tsia
The unpublished life Of Gen. Grant,
written by his father, Mr.. Jesse r.
Grant, is in the possession of the Con-
necticut State Librarian. This manu-
script gives new version of the way in
which young Grant got his name. Of
Ulysses; it says that the name was one
of a lot drawn from hat when his
parents were debating what to call him.
Claiborne +. Jackson, a native of
Kentucky, was once Governoreof Mis-
souri,. The most remarkable fact con-
nected with his life is perhaps that he
married five sisters in one of the most
respectable, wealthy and distinguished
families in Missouri. As soon as one
wife would die he would marry her
sister in reasonable time.s In connec-
tion with the marriages there is a stand
ing joke told at the expense of the Gov
ernor, namely, that when he went to
ask his father-in-law's consent to marry
the last daughter, the venerable man
replied: Yes, Claib., you can have
her. You have got them all. For
goodness sake don't ask me for the old
woman.''--N. Y. Evening Post
William H. Vanderbilt was great
smoker in his youth. One day in 1858,
as the family were on their way to st.
Petersburg, on board the steam-yacht
Northern Star, the father and son were
walking on deck. The latter was puff
ing away his after-dinner cigar. Il
wish you would give up that smoking
habit of yours. I'll give you $40, 900 Il |
you do it," said the Commodore alb
ruptly. "You need not give me any
money. Your wish is quite sufficient
the son. throwing the cigar
overheard And he has never smoked |
since. The command which William
II. has always had over himself in mat
ters of this kind is quite remarkable.
He was, for example, like his father,
very fond of a game of whist, and, like
him, considered himself to be one of the
best of players. When he had removed
10 New York and became connected
with the Harlem Railroad, he used to
spend three or four evenings week at
5he Union Club. But he noticed that
,obacco smoke and midnight hours in
terfered with the clearness of his head
he next morning, and he at once gave
Up both club and whist. The same
hing happened with wine. He likes
ins ilass sts of ehampasne but hayiqg alse9y,
Inner parties at his own home. AS to
pirits, they were always out of the
question with him. Chicago Tribune.