The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-03-21
Personal AND LITERARY.

Mrs Mark Hopkins. of San Fran
cisco, gave her sons bride 800, 900 as
. wedding present
1t Is hinted that Mr.. Oscar Wilde
intends to be very severe in his con-
templated book about America
Mir Freeman, ,hehistorian. intends
to collect into q volume his ''Impres-
SONS of the United States" which have
appeared in various magazines.
The mother of Josh Billings is
n nety-two years old. ssShe has evi-
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 intelh-
gent and witty"
The Encyclopedias Britannica, q
work of 30. 600 pages, is 70 be eclipsed
in size by the works Of Samuel Arden
Smith, who is going to write o complete
history of the SIM th family.
Rev. George Allen, of Worcester,
Mass, has completed his ninety-first
year. Hc is the oldest male citizen of
Worcester, the oldest clergyman in the
State. and probably the only survivor
o! his class (1S18) in Yale College
Boston Herald,
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 sn ,e-a lovely, devoted WIFE, De
troll Post
Russell Sturges was poor Boston
boy, and became q ten-millionaire in
London through his connection with
the famous banking house of Barring
Brothers. He aways 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 few days
ago the SEVENTEEN anniversary of their
wedding. When they were married he
was twenty two and she eighteen years
of are. 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
grandch ldren.-M Y. Times.
Isaac Erice, who was appointed
Postmaster of Schuylkill, a little ham,
let OF Chester County, Penns, lvania,
when General jackson was resident,
has Just resigned the post he has held
Tor nftv years His successor is his son,
h. + 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 1t, bus
Schuyikin remains as it was when the
century opened. because IL Il out of the
way of railroad travel.
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 lo5 he related the other day
how he went to . ew York hotel In
1S6 to pass the night The proprietor
handed him his sachel back, saying:
I'VE have no vacant rooms" do
you mean that or do you mean 20 do
rot desire to accommodate VI endell
Phillipsp'' asked Mr.. Phillips. az
mean do not care to accommodate
you. SIR" Mr.. Phillips walked away
more in pity than in disgust.
The late Artemus Ward used to tell
the following story: While in Boston /
returned In the horse Car to my lodgings.
A pooty gal In spectacles sot near me,
and was telling her young man how he
reminded her Of young man she used Ia
know in Waltham. Pooty soon the
young man got out, and, smiling in a
seductive manner, / said to the girl in
spectscles, "Don't remind you Of some
one you used TO know?' "Yes she
said, ''you do remind me of one man,
but he was sent to the penitentiary for
stealing barrell of mackerel; he died
there. 30 concloode you ain't him."