The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-02
Personal. AND LITERARY.


Mrs. Mark Hopkins. of San Fran
cisco, gave her sons bride 800, 600 as
a wedding present.
1t is limited that Mr.. Oscar Wilde
intends to be very. severe in his con-
templated book about America.
MIR. Freeman, the historian, intends
to collect into volume his ''Impres-
sions of the United States,'' which have
appeared in various magazines.
The mother of Josh Billings is
ninety-two years old. ''She has evil
IDENTIFY resolved to live until her son
learns how to spell, !" says the Norris
town Herald.
OF Leon Gambetta, at the age of
nine years, one of his school-masters
wrote: ''Leon Gambetta is dirty little
pig of violent character, but intelli-
gent and witty"
The Encyclopedia Britannica, a
work of 80, 600 pages, is to be eclipsed
in size by the works of Samuel Arden
Smith, who is going to write complete
history of the Smith family.
Rev. George Allen, of Worcester.
Mass, has completed his ninety-first
year. He is the oldest male citizen of
Worcester, the oldest clergyman in the
State, and probably the only survivor
of his class (1813) in Yale College. =
Boston Herald. -3ti
= When the new Colorado Senator
Bowen was in command at Fort Smith,
Arkansas, during the war, he captured
one of the rebels there and still holds
the prisoner. This was one of the
beautiful girls of the South, and when
she surrendered, she did so uncondi>
tionally and has stayed surrendered ev-
er since-a lovely, devoted wife. DE
tr0I Post.
Russell Sturges was a poor Boston
boy, and became a ten-millionaire in
London through his connection with
the, famous clearinghouse of Barring
Brothers. He always attributed his sue
cess in life to the fact that he got on
the wrong steamer by mistake, and was
thus led to make the acquaintance of
the firm in which he made his money.
MIR, Thomas INLAY and wife, of
Trenton, N. j., celebrated a few days
ago the SEVENTEEN anniversary of their
wedding. When they were married he
was twenty-five and she eighteen years
of age. They have had twelve children,
and ten of them are now living with
large families of their own, there be-
ing about one hundred and twenty
grandchildren. IN. T. Times.
Isaac Price, who was appointed
Postmaster of Schuylkill, little ham
let of Chester County. Pennsylvania,
when General jackson was President,
has Just resigned the post he has held
for fifty years. His successor is his son,
Z. F. Price. The hamlet contains now
but one house in addition to those there
when he took the Office. Scores of busy
towns have been built up around it, but
Schuylkill remains as it was when the
century opened, because it is out of the
way of railroad travel. tttt
Wendell Phillips, in his old age,
likes to talk about the fiery years of
the struggle against slavery. To Mr..
Fortune, colored, the editor of the New
York Globe, he related the other day
how he went to. a New. York hotel in
1862 to pass the night. The proprietor
handed him his sachel back, saying:
"We have no vacant rooms "Do
you mean that or do you mean yol do
not desire to accommodate Wendell
Phillips?' asked Mr. Phillips. 81
mean do not care to accommodate
you, sir.'' Mr.. Phillips walked away
more in pity than in disgust.