Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-07-04
PERSONALITIES.

OXFORD will give DR.. Schliemann the
degree of D. G. L.
Ex-Gov. BELL is going to write his
tory Of New Hampshire. =
GENERAL GRANT and the empress of
Austria are lovers of beef and cabbage.
SENATOR DAVIS, of West Virginia, has
established extensive coal yards at San
dusky, Ohio.
PRINCESS LOUISE will be contributor
of the Boston foreign art exhibition.
CHARLES E. BRUSH, the Cleveland in
ventor Of the electric light of the name,
is worth 81, 100000.
WILLIAM HENRY HUR1BERr expects to
start daily newspaper of his own in
New York next year.
STEWART L. WooDFoRD delivered his
address ct the Union Law School COM
mencement in Chicago.
The Toronto Telegram is disposed to
believe as true the report that Queen
Victoria is g spiritualist.
WILL WALLACE HARVEY, the promis-
ing young magazine poet Of few years
ago, now turns up as q writer on geol-
ogy.
GEN. W. B. HAzEN, of the signal SER
vice bureau, and his family are spend
ing the summer on Conauicut Island,
r. /.
ALEXANDER MITCHELL. of Milwaukee.
is now said to be the richest man of the
western states; he is credited with about
$25, 900, 900.
Rev. HENRY CRAWFORD TUCKER, of
Laurens County, Ga, has preached in
Baptist churches fortyseven years with
out getting a cent of pay.
SwINBURNE swims like a fish; or, bet.
ter, he swims like Byron, far and fear.
lessly. His admiration end love of the
sea are Dot poetic affectation.
JENNY LIMBS son is an officer in the
British army and her two daughters are
both married. Jennie appears to have
designed her little family for war.
MIR. ERR1NGToN, whose name figures
go much IN the cable news, is called the
Pope's Nose in parliament and Dazzle in
society. He is rack-renting landlord,
who YVES educated by tile Jesuits. He
is said to be dull, foppish and q corset.
wcarer.
HILDEsABRo SAFE, Cornell Univer-
sity graduate Of last year, has returned
to Japan, his native country, after mar.
rying q young lady Of Indianapolis, and
is employed at a salary of $l3, 900 a year
by the Japanese government in its agri.
cultural department..
WHEN Sara Bernhardt passed through
Hamburg recently on her way to Copen-
hagen and Stockholm, she had forty six
trunks full of baggage, and waxed furi-
GUS when the customs officers insisted
upon examining the contents of every
one to the very bottom.
The tal!est princess in the world is the
Grown Princess of Denmark. She is
six feet two inches high. She is very
fond OF dancing, but has often to fore
go the pleasure, because, being keenly
sensible OF ridicule, she does not wish to
have an inadequate partner.
Loco, whom Gen. Crook captured, is
lawfully the head chief of all the
Apaches. When he was gilded youth
of the cigarette-smoking period he got
the name Loco, or "fool,," but during
recent years his ability as scalp taker
has been proven more than once.
The talk about Gen. Sherman's de.
bilitated condition is greatly exagger-
ated. He has not looked so we'll in ten
years as he does now. His habits OF
life are regulated by the stcictest mill.
tary discipline, and he avails himself OF
every opportunity to exercise his mus
Gle.
MRS. L.ANGTRY will travel next season
in new parlor car called the jerome
Marble, which, it is claimed, will be the
finest car on wheels. It will have plate
glass windows extending from the floor
to the roof, will have an elegant bed in
the middle, and will be highly dec"rn
ted.