The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-16
PERSONAL.

StRiBNER h Co. offered Mr.. Ruskin
$4oo for short article on the Cathedral
Of st. Marks at Venice, and s., 300 to
Browning, the poet. Both refused.
Mr.. w. w. CoRcoRAS, the liberal
Washington banker, has reached the age
OF eighty.one. His health Is vigorous,
and he is said to have a marvellous mem.
ory.
MILE. Rosa BoNHEuR has Just bought
for 81, 200 magnificent lion from the
Geological gardens at Msrseilles, and she
intends to paint its portrait for next
year'ssslon.
A aRANDDAUGHTER of Eugene Sue,
and the original of one of the characters
of the Wandering jew, was a petitioner
in suit In one Of the New York courts
tho other day.
THE Prince Napoleon memorial craze
in England has quickly exhausted itself.
The naliona! memorial project Is aban.
doned, and the Westminster Abbey
statue Is also relinquished.
WILLIAM A. DROWN, who was said
to no the largest umbrella manufacturer
in the world, died at Philadelphia on
Saturday night, aged sixty. nine years.
His etate WAS estimated At 81, 000,0 900.
PETER LINDERGLgIN, of Reading,
Pa, has for forty.three years carried his
dipner.pail with him IN his work, and
has had cold dinners during that long
period. He has never worked under
cover, and has not lost day by sickness,
although exposed TO all kinds of
weather.
Miss JULIA JACKSON, the sixteen.
year old daughter Of Stonewall jackson,
was presented December "a, by EXON.
federate soldiers In Maryland, with q
handsome silver pitcher, inscribed, "To
General Stonewall Jackson's daughter,
from Confederate soldiers In Maryland,
Christmas, 1879"
JOHN b. COUCH, has a family, which
consists of wife and four nieces. He
makes about S20, 600 year, but has ssv.
cd only about $l00, 900, and has a nice
farm near Worcester, Mass. He has
very large collection Of Cruikshsnk's
caricatures and loves 10 play tenpins.
After lecture he is rubbed down like a
prize.fghter.
Mn. GLADSTONE, when speaking,
never refers to printed papers or blue
books, but to half sheets written on one
side, which he has in heap laid on the
top Of his hat. There papers lie In the
order In which they are 10 be used, they
can DO taken up without bending down,
and read without the attention of the
audience being allowed to wander.
A DEscRNDKNT of Christopher Colum.
bus was present ut the king of SPANS
msrrisge-Don Diego Colombo, a gen.
tleman Of the royal chamber. The male
line OF the great traveller Is extinct, but
three collateral descendants remain, the
above-named, Don Fernando, q deputy
OF Porto Rico, and Don Christopher, nd.
miral and governor Of the Indies.
GEN. JosNPH +. JOHNSON was lately
In Raleigh, and gentleman asked him
rather pointedly why the southern army
did not take Washington after the first
battle Of Manassas. Rising on his toes
he replied: "There were two reasons
myself and the Potomac river. I had
reached that age that knew an Ameri.
can soldier could not ford q river a. mile
wide and Is feet deep"
BIsHoP SIMPSON IL said to be related
10 General Grant, whose mother was, he.
fore her marriage 10 Jesse Grant, Miss
Hannah Simpson of Pleasantville, Penn.
The young Miss Simpson was extremely
pretty, It Is related, and wa, greatly ad. |
mired by the rustic beaus Of the sur
country. But Il was not until |
,he visited Ohio and met there Mr.. Jesse
Grant, that her heart was touched.
PosTMAsTER.a GENERAL KEY" says
\ Washington correspondent, "always
,as pleasant word for everybody, and
8 very generally liked. He Is a large,
heavy man, with closely cropped gray
shiskers and hair, q round, solid head,
md face which always looks smiling.
He dresses in very simple manner. A
black frock coat with velvet collar, dark
rousers, low collar with small bit Of
black ribbon TO serve as necktie, and q
ather rusty.looking silk hat, make up
lis costume.