Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-01-12
Personal AND LITERARY.


H. A. Garfield, son Of the late Pres
ident, has been chosen TO be an editor Of
tho Williams College Athcneum.
Miss Chamberlin, the American
beauty in England. has captured Sir
Maisy Thompson, and his Income Of
500, 900 a year
--Chumnh, so we'll known TO the read
ers of "Livingstone's Life and Trav-
els" is dead. He was one of the men
with Livingstone when he died.
1t. is the opinion of Evangelist
Barnes that Mr.. Moody is making more
Chri tians than any man living, and
Mr.. Ingersoll more iniide's.-M Y
Times. ....
Mrs. Ray, the first woman whowent
to Leadville, dug in the mines, secured
the p aims as n scout, took in washing,
and now has fortune of 81, 900, ,000.-
san Francisco Chronicle.
There is general opinion that
Dickens popularity is waning. 1t may
be, but within the twelve years that
have passed since his death about 4, $780,
600 OF his works have been sold in En-
gland alone. "Pickwick" heads the
list, and "The Tale OF Two Cities" is
lONcot. -SHtcuyo HcFutH.
The Attorney. General of Quebec,
Mr.. Joseph Alfred Mousseau, recently
appointed gentleman Justice of the
Peace, and officially notifying him,
wrote: ''As have been informed that
certain number of those whom have
raised to the position of j. p. are
dead and buried, YOU will be kind
enough to let me know before ten days
whether you are dead or alive. In case
you do not reply within the next ten
days you will be considered as being
dead"
Henri Comte. de Fitz James, who is
visiting San Francisco, claims TO be
direct defendant of James the Second.
HIS mother, real Stuart, married q
French nobleman. The Count, who is
Lieutenant in the Second Regiment of.
French Dragons, says that America is
1.-THE best place in the world to make
money, the most charming place in the
world for the tourist, and the most ad-
mirable place in the world for the
sportsman. He has been hunting the
buffalo and grizzly for three months.
Miss Esmeralda Boyle, who was the
leading spirit in organizing the Litter
airy Society of Washington Mt Mrs.
Dahlgren's home, is the daughter of an
old naval officer, whose eccentricity
was to name his children for whatever
port or place he was in at the time of
their birth. Hence one of his daughters
was named Oceana. being born while
he was among the South Sea Islands,
and another Pacifica, for the same
reason. A son he named Juan Fer
nnndez, because he had been visiting
that island just before the child was
born. Miss Esmeralda was born in
Spain and spent her childhood at Ma
deira. Chicago Times.
Frank .umbard, well-known cam
paign-singer of Chicago, whose death
was recently announced, left his wife
and daughter penniless So long ago as
1852 Frank was singing at political
gatherings, and in the days OF the war
no public assemblage in Chicago was
complete without him. He went to
Vicksburg with the Sanitary Commission
in 1862, and sang ''Old Shady" .'The
Siar-Spangled Banner" "John Brown
and other patriotic songs to the boys in
the field. During the Lincoln McClel-
Ian campaign in 1864 he sang at hum
dreds of meetings in Illinois, and in the
congressional and presidential cam
paigns since that time his voice has al
ways been heard. Chicago NcWs.