National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-06
PERSONALITIES,

WEsToN's legs will summer in England.
Your Uncle Isaac Christiancy still lin
gers in a foreign cline.
| SECRETARY KIRKwooD will leave Iowa
City for Washington tomorrow.
COLONEL H. H RIDDLEBERGER and
George o. N. Palmer, of Virginia, are at the St.
| James.
CAPTAIN BoYToN is floating down the
Mississippi. Now is the time for philanthropists
to buy an alligator and set it free in the Father of
Waters.
| SINCE Commodore Nuts death the
Kansas City Times thinks there is no longer any
doubt that Bill English is the smallest man in the
country.
| SECRETARY WINDOW arrived at St. Paul
Saturday. He went to Minnesota for rest and to
attend to private business, and will remain two or
three weeks.
Mr.. JOHN B. MCCORMICK, for the past
ten years city editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer has
left that paper and become the manager of
Paulding, the young tragedian.
PIERRE LoRILLARD's horse, Iroquois, is
| the greatest American now in Europe. When we
say this we are aware of the fact that Whitelaw
Reid is in that part of the world.
THE only surviving daughter of Mr..
John G. SAKE, the poet, Miss Hattie Solace SAKE,
aged twenty-seven died late on Friday night in
her fathers house. at 2S First place, Brooklyn, of
consumption.
NINE. EMILE DE GIRARDIN and the heirs
of her late husband have agreed to a compromise,
and she is to receive the sum of 100000 besides
| the legal alimony allowed her at her separation
from her husband.
GENERAL B. R. CowEN, formerly As
sistant Secretary of the Interior, will go to
England as one of the American representatives
to the Ecumenical Council of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
A REMARKABLE story is told of COM
positor in Rochester. For thirty seven years he
had been afflicted with a serious and increasing
deafness. The other evening while eating his
supper he began to hear sounds the ticking of the
clock, ordinary conversation, and other sounds.
THE remains of NJ. Emile Littre were
buried in Paris on Saturday with religious rites.
He was baptized while dying. This circumstance
has caused much comment. There was an immense
attendance at the funeral. A body of Free Think
ers protested against holding any religious cere-
mony.
LOUIS KossUTH, who is now living in
Italy with his unmarried sons, is quoted saying
a. am literally man without a country; yet what
man ever loved his country more?" In a letterto
correspondent of the Boston Transcript he speaks
pathetically of my dear native land, alas! not
my home"
THERE are four descendants of William
Penn now living in this country-Dr. Penn Gaskell
Skileon, who still receives from the Pennsylvania
Trust Company his income from the Penn estates
in Ireland; Colonel Peter Penn Gaskell Hall, and
two boys related to the Penn family through their
dead mothers.
ONLY eleven English sovereigns since
the Conquest have exceeded the age-sxty- two
which Queen Victoria has just attained. Only
three enjoyed longer reign. The Emperor of
Germany, the King of the Netherlands, and the
King of Denmark are the only European rulers
older than VictoEa.
MARY SEACoLE, the English nurse who
greatly distinguished herself On the battlefield
and in hospital during the Crimean war; lately died
in England. She was present at many battles, and
at the risk of her life often carried the wounded
off the field. When she returned to England
lund which gave her comfort and ease was raised
for,her. She has, strangely enough, bequeathed
all her property to persons of title.
RANSOM Cook, inventor of the Arm
strong gun, the Cook auger, and fifteen other arti
cles, died in Saratoga recently. He was born in
Wallingfori in 1894. He built the Dannemara
prison in Clinton County, New York, and was its
first warden. He was close student, as well as
highly skilled mechanic, and had library of
5000 volumes, mostly upon scientific topics, which
cost over $4,000. his estate is valued at S15000O
He leaves widow and two sons.
Hon. HUGH J. ANDERSON, for several
years resident of this city, died at his residence
in Portland, Maine, May 81, at the age of eighty
years. He member of Congress from 1887 to
1S41, and Governor of Maine for the years 1874,
1S45, and 1916. In 1854 he was appointed by Presi
dent Pierce Commissioner of Customs, and in 1857
vacated the last Office to accept that of commits
sioner of the Mint of California From 1866 to 1869
he was Auditor of the Treasury for the Post
Office Department