The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-05-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Paris is successfully stereotyping
her books on celluloid instead of type
metal.
John T. Perry, one of the editors
of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
lives and does his writing in Exeter,
N. H.
The property of the late Alexander
H. Stephens is Valued at $4,000. Mr..
Stephens was in public life for over
forty years.
There are ten ex-Governors now in
the Senate, namely: Anthony, Brown,
Colquitt, Coke, Cullom, Garland,
Groome, Hampton, Harris and Hawley.
George and Edmund Graveley are
twin brothers, ninety-five years old, re-
siding in Henry County, Va, and some
of their friends claim they are the old
est twins living.
Robert Toombs' granddaughter,
who refused 500, 900 rather than give
up her lover, is in the condition of the
person Who eats her cake and has it
too, as her grandfather has now re-
stored her to favor.
DR.. S. L Prime, after a vacation of
twenty years, has resumed his place as
editor of HGrper'S Dra,0er. Lovers of
old stories and other antiquaries will
heartily welcome him back. He will
begin where he left off.
Josephine Gallmeyer, the German
actress, who is making a starring tour
in this country, is able to write interest
ingly about what she Sees She sends
two letters week to Vienna news
paper, and gets fifty dollars apiece for
them.
George Alfred Townsend lives in
Twenty street, New York, and
makes twenty thousand. dollars a year
writing about people just as he pleases.
Nevertheless he is described as ''digni-
| fed and unobtFusive.'' We all change
as we grow old.
"A Western preacher, whose con-
| gregation had begun to fall off some
what, had it intimated that he would
! discuss family scandal the following
| Sunday morning. AS a consequence
the church was crowded. The minis
ter's subject was Adam and Eve.
Bishop Peck, who tips the beam at
three hundred or Whereabouts, was at
one time attending conference where
the supply of beds was not equal to the
demand. The Bishop, after being in
troduced to the party who was to share
| his couch, eyed him all over, and said;
''Soyou are to be my bed-fellow, ehf
Well, when sleep alone I'm crowded. :"
Indianapolis Journal.
DIR. Francis NJ Nye saw the name
of DR.. Frances A. Nye, of Harlem, in
the Medical Register about year ago.
Thinking she might be a relative, he OBJ
tanned an introduction to her. A com
parison of family histories revealed that
they were not related A years &C
quaintance proved that the coincidence
of names and professions was also
united with coincidence of dispositions.
| Recently theywere married. The bride
graduated at the New England Medical
College twelve years ago.-N. z. Times.
Rev. j. S. Swift, who died at Wilton,
Me-, afew days ago, was one of the oldest
journalists in that State, and probably
the most enthusiastic. In his youth he
purchased "for song" small font
of worn-out BREWER type which had
been pied in a Bath newspaper Office,
He sorted it, arranged it in a case Of
his own construction, made a wooden
chase Of some tin rules, engraved a
heading on block of wood with q
jack-knife, and, with a worn-out cheese
press, printed seven by nine weekly
paper, called the Harpswel Banner
He continued this publication for siz
months, and then secured position in
a regular newspaper office. He was
actively engaged in journalism fol
nearly fifty years.