Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-07-26
PERSONALITIES.

| FEh0ONALS ICOs
NJ. DE LEssEps has been presented
with son by Madame. He is 7s years
old.
THE difference between the khedive,
who is leaving Egypt, and the English
| ambassador at ConstaL..hople is that
one is dutler out and the other is q
Dufferin.
KATE F1E1p has been spending the
early summer at South Norfolk, Conn.
but will start for the far west, Saturday.
During the trip she intends to visit Gen.
Crooks headquarters.
| WILLIAM MoRTHIMER, one handed
compositor in The office of the Carbon
Advocate (Pa.,) fastens his stick dag
onally across the "t' box, and sets, cor
rccts, and distributes 5000 ems OF solid
minion each day.
| THE Toledo Blade says that it ID the
custom of Frank Hurd inmediately af-
ter registering ut a hotel to say to the
clerk: "I wish you'd have nent up i'm
mediatcl1a pitcher of water, 2 couple
of cocktails and shorthand reporter OF
one of the dailics."
CHARLES DEKAY, who is looked on by
many us the 'tcoming" American poet,
is descendant of Joseph Rodman
Drake, author of the 'Culprit Fay"
and is brother-in-law of r. Watson
Glider, editorof The Century. The De-
Hays are of Huguenot descent.
The Hon. Henry Overstolz, ex-mayor
of St. Louis, traces his ancestry back
in the direct line to one of the barouiaI
houses of Germany ennobled in thefour.
teenth century by the emperor. 1t was
from this circumstance that he was cali
ed "Kaiser Henry" during his Term Of
| Office.
Sr1As H. BUTTMcK, who twenty years
age was wealthy merchant ia New
York, has just died in the Charity Hos
pital on Blacliwell's Island. He Va
vested in some mining enterprises with
| Gen Fremont in 1859 aud lost $50, 00o,
and that was the beginning OF his down
ward career.
PRESIDENT DE Soro, Of Honduras,
| who is visiting this country, is a short,
| stoutly built man, with complexion. OF
the darkest olive aud jet black hair and
side whiskerp. His eyes are dark and
| bright and sparkle with animstion as he
conperscs. He is apparently about fifty
| five wears old.
Miss JENNIE MARKS, of Baltimore,
tie III window in that city aud won Il
seesH ii {; IL 6tlrne by her guess. which
was the nearest correct. There were
| 25, 100 pulls in the bottle. Tners we're
over 5000 guesses and the worst one
was a guess of 10000 r
THERE are only three men in tue
| British house of commons who were
there when Victoria ascendsd the
throne, forty-six years ago. They are
Mr.. Gladstone, Mr.. Talbot, member Tor
Glamorganshire, and Mr.. Villiers, mem
Der for Wolverton. Earl Grey is the
only living member of the cabinet that
was in Office at that time.
The statistics of the sale of Bishop
| CoIenso's works throw into the shade
those of any other English writer in the
same lines of authorship. OF the "Eie-
ments of Algebra " nearly 200,O00 copies
have been sold and, in forty years, more
than twice that number has been issued
of its parallel and succeeding volume,
the Arithmetic Designed for the Use
Of Schools"
EDMUND YATES viii not escape the
consequences of his libel on Lord Ions.
dale, the attempts TO quash the informal
ton having failed. There will not be se
much mercy shown, and he does not OK
pect much, having recently made bit
ter attack in his journal, the World, on
Ponsonby Fame, one OF the Wcstmore-
land family, who have insisted OH Lord
Lonsdales prosecuting him.
TIE Providence Evening Press says:
| 10 ,,lo To wi r., IL,
Mr.. Joseph b. Bishop, who began his
Evening Press, but who has for a long
of the editorial staff of the New York
Tribune, has been offered a fine position
on the editorial staff OF the New York
Evening Post, which he has accepted"
ONE of the two medals granted for,
wood engraving at the Paris Salon of
this year was awarded to Mr.. Robert,
Hosllin, who has been for nearly twenty
years employed by Nessrs. Harper g.;
Bros, and whose work, as in Parsons
Sunday Morning in Surrey" aud Alb
beys "Faustus," is familiar TO readers
of Harper's Magazine. The competition
IN wood engraving at the salon was very
sharp, Europe and America being well
represented.
RICHARD BELT, the sculptor, whose
famous libel suit is still befofc thecourts
of England and bids fair to iud final
settlement only i'll the house OF lc1ds,
was once parliamentary messenger boy,
and his first artistic efforts we're with D
pail on a bit of rough stone picked up
in the street. But he rose to work on a
bust of Charles Kingsley in Windsor
Castle, in the presence of the queen, and
to receive from her q commission for a
statue OF Lord Beaconsfield.