Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-10-11
PERSONALITIES.

PERSONALITIES.
A RECENT work of Mr.. Bret Harte is
now being published in Russian trans
lation as fenilleton in the St. Petersburg
Gazette.
ZoLA's works have never been trans
lated in England, consequently there is
large demand arising ior the American
edition of them.
The health OF Herbert Spencer is i'm
proving. he has resumed work, and
nearly completed the third volume of
his work on sociology.
HUMoRIsT Ben Shillaber (Mrs. Part
ington) has returned to his home in
Chelsea very much improved in health
by his summers soiourn in New Hamp-
shire.
MIR. RIcnARD GRANT WHITE, it ap-
pears, does not approve OF the colossal
statue OF Liberty for New York harbor.
So the whole thing will have to be
sabandoned safter alI.-Boston Trans
J I'll
JUSTICE GRAY, of the United States
supreme court, has ridden over 800
miles on horseback on consecutive DAYS
this summer without fatigue. AS the
Judge weighs 800 pounds, his horse has
not come outso well.
AN official high up in the railway
world wrote to Charles Wyndham for
his autograph. The comedian sent back
this epigraph: "Railways in their way
are autocrats. They teach every man
70 know ms own station and to stop
thefe.,s l. ~
WARD McA1IsTER, Jr., has been en-
gagged by the negro population of San
Francisco to present in court the case
OF the colored man who was recently
elected from 4 restaurantithere on ac.
count Of his scolor. hMr,, McAlister's
grandfatherywas one Of thellargest slave
holders in Georgia. u
A DENVER correspondent thus de-
scribes the second Mrs. Senator Tabor:
"A tiabby blonde, about the medium
height, whose form may haye been .Yo-
1uptuous once but isi now; only fat:
heavy eyes, which are half brazen, half
appealing; general air of weight and
malapropism and hopeless suggestion
Of trying to fit into pnaceustomed re-
Epeeta biity, with little Chance of sue
cess"
IN has at last come out that the En-
peror AlexanderB famous ride through
the streets of Moscow, when entering it
on-the occasion of the coronation, was a
sham, and that he was personated by an
effper Of theimperial guard made up to
resemble him. The fears for his safety
entertained by the secretrSolce ,Were.teoI
much for him, ahd h5A onsente 70 the
deception so skillfully and successfully
carried out. Chicago Tribune.
Tar AEBeotikfaailssnow consists of the
mothet theJ elder ]. B. Booths widow.
&hoS survives at Upwards of so years
Rosalie Booth, Edwin and Joseph,
and Asia'S. Booth Clarke, wife sof the
American comedian, John S. Clarke, of
Londen. There were ten children of
thsselder Bpoth, namely, Junins Brutus,
Rosalie Ann, Henry Byron, Mary, Fred
erick, Elizabeth, Edwin, Asia Sydney,
John Wilkes and Joseph Addison.
GEN. JOSEPH Ho1T-with the excep-
tom OF Jacob Thompson, the only sur
viving member Of Buchanan's cabinet
lives in pleasant retirement on Capitol
Hill'in Washington. At the age of sew
ienty+six he ii. still erect, vigorous and
we'll preserved. His long White hair
hangs low upon his neck, his gray ewes
areplndimmsd rhy age, and his firm,
clear f-cut features express all the force
and determination of his younger man.
hoofaI 4 TT'TTg
A CORRESPONDENT who has seen King
Alfonso at Hamburg says that he is an
insipid little creature, who is given to
cigarettes and garho.t Hefoves I'd drive
out behind fine horses, and is evidently
under the impression that people are
anxious to see him. As he drives through
the parks he bows gallantly to all the
pretty, ladies who favor hini WITH a
glance. One, Of bis body-seryants re.
ports that the king is e1oee edihgIy fond
of randyleteatnightNaa
LIKE another great man (George
Stephenson Lord Byron was once very
nearly. going 70 settle in America. Dur
I" Americans are the only people to
whom l never refuse to show myself.
The Yankees are good friends of mine.
L wish to be5well thought ofon the other
side of the Atlantic. On another occa-
slon apd, not Long before his death, he
said: Since you left Sus j have had
serious thoughts of visiting America" ("
= THE bust of Fielding, which Mr.. Low
ell recently unveiled at Taunton, Eng.
land, was made by Miss Thomas, FROM
pen-and-ink sketch by Hogarth. Bu THAT
sketch, it is said, was made from another
mans face, some time after thenovelist's
deathy Hogayth, aud Garriek sitting to-
gethEinsa tayGns dne day. .Werellament-
ing the fact that Fielding had died with
out single portrait of him having been
taken. Z I tHipk, 7 said Garriek, i".that
l could make his face;" and he Hat ohce
used ,,s all his skIll as -contortionist to
that end. =" For heavens sake, hold,
David!' cried Hogarth; "remain as Won
are for few minutes" Garrick did SO
and Hogarth sketched the outlinesiof his
face. The portrait was afterward finish
ed according to their mutual recollec-
ton, and was the original, not only of
Miss Thomas bust, hut Of every Dor.
trait OF FieldiDg now extant. - ftfI
kof Funny Enauob e..