Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-09-28
ABOUT PEOPLE.

LA obI1tncIah1 DELkNtH IOlu ot.
Louis reporter the other day that he is
not in politics any more. Hens the attor-
ncy of number of railroad companies
in the west and is paying close attention
to business.
JOHN BROWN, the lucky servant of
Queen Victoria, has house built for
him by his mistress within the grounds
OF Balmoral. It is q large square
mansion in the center Of lawn-like ex-
panse, with drive leading to it from
one of the avenues.
MIR. FAwcETr, the postmaster general
OF Great Britain, was made totally blind
when young man by the bursting Of a
gun. But in spite Of that he is one of
the best Informed men of the day, pro-
found mathematician and widely read in
literature and history.
One Of the late General Burnside's
old soldiers writes to the Albany Journal
that the generals GOODNESS in the face of
danger acted like an inspiration upon
his men. 81 never knew" he adds, ga
general officer so beloved by the rank
and file Of his men,"
Mrs. BOOTH, the widow of the great
tragedian, lives in q cottage at Long
Branch with her son, Joseph Booth.
Notwithstanding her four-score years
she is extremely bright and chatty, con-
versing freely on past and present
topics.
PROFESSOR HENRY DRAPER, the as
tronomer, is about to start on a hunting
expedition to the Rocky Mountains.
Professor Draper is said to be first
rate shot, and the floors of his house ut
Hastings, on the Hudson, New York,
are decorated with skins of bears and
other western marauders that have sue
cumbed to his rifle.
WILLIAM PENN, the founder of Penn
sylvania, once lived in house in Nor
folk Street, London. He had a peepin e
hole at the entrance, through which he
surveyed everyone who came to see him
before they were admitted. One of
these, having been made to wait for a
long time, asked the servant impatiently
if his master would not see him,
Friend," said the servant, "he hath
seen thee, but he doth not like thee -
The caller was one of PENIS creditors.
JEAN INGE1ow's life is more beautiful
than her poetry. Her face is well known
among the wretched poor Of London and
three times week she gives dinner to
the sick poor and the discharged conval-
escents from hospitals, who either are
unable to work, or have not yet found
employment. She once said II find
it one of the great pleasures of writing
that it gives one more money for such
purposes than falls to the lot of most
women"
Miss JANE LEE, daughter of the Arch
deacon Of Dublin, is one Of the most
learned ladies in Europe. The late pro-
found scholar, Professor Beufey, was
her teacher, and before his death he
charged her to put into English the
whole of the great Sanskrit epic, the
Mahabharata, $4,000 lines, as only frag-
ments of it had been translated before.
Miss Lee has begun her task, and she
will slso help Professor Atkinson with
the Old Irish Dictionary for the Royal
Irish Academy.
The death at the Greenbrier White
Sulphur Springs, recently, Of Mr.. Abram
B. Garrison, we}l-known and much re-
spected citizen Of st. Louis, was the re-
suit of brave act done by him last
winter. He had just stepped from a
railroad train when he saw little child
fall from the platform under the wheels.
He sprang forward and saved the child,
but in so doing broke his own arm and
suffered severe internal injuries. He
had been i'll for more than ear, and
his system could not bear this additional
strain. In spite of all that love and skill
could do for him he gradually failed, IN
til death ended his sufferings.
Two very little men have become stu
dents in Hillsdale College. Michigan
two brothers, named Christopher and
Edwin Sparkling. Their ages are respect
lively Is and Is years. Christopher,
the elder, is 394 inches in height and
weighs 81 pounds. Size of head, 81,
and wears No. 6 shoe, children's size.
Edwin, tho younger, is 424 inches in
height, and weighs 49, pounds. The
size of his head is s., and he wears a
No. 8 shoe, children's size. They are
both well formed in every respect, are
active and energetic, and very strong for
their size.