The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1882-09-29
GOSSIP AND INFORMATION

Algernon Charles Swinburne, the En-
glish poet, is coming to this country, and
will give public readings from his own
works.
Herbert Spencer speaks of o. Wilde
as IAN outlandish person who attempted
to reconcile idiocy with art and namby-
pambyism with sentiment"
There is curious geographical fact in
connection with the Kootenal river.
Its course is the shape of horseshoe.
1t rises in British Columbia. runs into
the United States and wat0s vast re-
gion, and then circles back to the land of
its birth, and empties into the Columbia
in British territory. Dnring its course
it passes within half a mile of the
Columbia, and canal of that distance
over grassy prairie would save it a
course of five hundred miles before
reaching its goal
The London World sums up the Amer
lean actors who have been seen in Eng
land and pronounces Jefferson most ad-
mirable, Mccullough rough-and-ready,
Booth conventional old scnool, Florence
conventional cid comedian and Barney
Williams conventional PaddywhacK
and stuffed stick.
Nine. Gonzales, who has been visit
ing Senior and Sonora Roa, at the Mexi-
can legation, Washington, is the wife of
the president of the republic, and has
come to this country to perfect herself
in the study of medicine and surgery.
She learned the rudiments of both on
the battlefelds ofMexico, where she won
the name of the "Modern Joan of Are"
Her name and deeds are favorite themes
for song and story among the writer's Of
Mexico. She has passed 80, and is
bright and merry. She is of medium
height, plump and well proportioned; /;
has keen, dark eyes and aquiline nose.
1t is told of John q. Whittier that
when he hears some pathetic story he is
prone to go straightway and relate it to
Mrs. Celia Thaxter, with the remark: !:
"If anyone can make song out of it,
thee can, Celia"
Ex-Vice President William A. Wheel
er has returned to his home in excellent
he alth and spirits. His next trip away
from Malone will probably, so the gos-
sips say, be his wedding tour.
Prof. Odeuburg, in recent work on
Buddah, maintains that Nirvana is neith
er the annihilation of the soul IN an
eternal state of rest, nor any other con-
dition of any kind TO be reached only
after death; that on the contrary, 1t
meant TO the early Budhists state of
mind TO be reached andienjoyed here on
earth, and only here on earth,
A strange animal, half man and half
fish, and covered with long growth of
coarse black hair, Las been seen recent
ly several times in Big Charlie Popka riv-
er, Manatee county, Fla. The head and
upper portion of the body resembles a
man, short stumpy arms with webbed
feet taking the place of fins, while the
lower portion is just like the tai of any
fish. The monstrosity is about four feet
in length, and when sporting about in
the water utters coarse, guiteral sounds,
a cross between the barking of dog and
the believing of ball. Several az
tempts to capture and shoot the animal
have proved futile.
The only place in England where the
red deer now leads really wild life, and
is hunted by horsemen, in Exmoor, in
Devonshire. Cultivation is now closing
in upon the moor, and year by year the
grazing grounds Of the deer are more cir
cumscribed.
Mark TwsiD's residence at Hartford
is pointed out as one Of the most taste
fuf, as well as comfortable houses in that
city. His study, wherein he performs
expertly on type writer. is in the rear
of the house, and screened by vines and
everereens. To deter the large number
of sight-seers who invade the place. Mr..
Twain has posted on the study door the
sign" tep softlyi Keep away Do not
disturb the remainsw In the centre Of
the stvdy there is a table covered with
books.