Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-11
PERSONA AND LITERARY.


Paris is successfully stereotyping
her books on celluloid instead OF type
metal.
John T. Perry, one of the editors
of the Cincinnati Commercials Gazette,
lives and does his writing in Exeter,
N. H.
+ The property of the late Alexander
H. Stephens is valued at $12,000 Mr..
Stephens was in public life for over
forty years.
There are ten ex-Governors now in
the Senate, namely: Anthony, Brown,
! IColquitt, Coke, Cullom, Garland,
Groome, Hampton, Harris and Hawley.
George and Edmund Graveley are
I 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. ~ .aa -.
Robert Toombs' granddaughter,
who refused 500, 600 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.
DIR. S. l. Prime, after vacation of
I
/ editor of Hdyper's Drd,0er. Lovers of
old stories and other, antiquaries will
heartily welcome him back. He will
begin where he left off, ..a-s
| Josephine Gallmeyer, the, German
| actress, who is making a starring tour
! in this country, is able to write interest
I ingly about what she sees. She sends
two letters week,to a Vienna news
! paper, and gets fifty dollars apiece for
them. ID.
George Alfred Townsend lives in
Twenty-third 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 unobtrusive." 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
I discuss family scandal the following
Sunday morning. As 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:
so you are to be my bed-fellow, ehP
Well, when i sleep alone I'm crowded. ~
Indianapolis Journal. t,...,,.....
-y.Dr. 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
I tanned an introduction to her A COM
psrison of family histories revealed that
i they were not related, A YEARS ac-
quaintance proved that the coincidence
of names and professions was also
united with coincidence of dispositions.
Recently they were married The bride
graduated at the New England Medical
College twelve years ago.-N. Y. Times.
Rev. j. S. Swift, who died at Wilton
! Me-, a few days ago, was one of the Oldest
| journalists in that State, and probably
the most enthusiastic. In his youth he
! purchased "for a song" small font
of worn-out BREWER type which had
been pied in a Bath newspaper Office
He sorted it, arranged it in case OF
his own construction, made a wooden
chase of some tin rules, engraved a
heading on a block of wood with q
| jack-knife, and, with worn-out cheese.
press, printed seven by nine weekly
paper, called the Harpswell Banner
| He continued this publication for six
months, and then secured position in
a regular newspaper office. He was
actively engaged in journalism fol
nearly fifty years.