Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-12-03
PERSONALITIES.

The new British minister to Ger
many, Sir Edward Malet, will marry
Lady Ermyntrude Russell in December.
GLADSTONE, Tennyson, Prof. Bhckie,
Charles Darwin, Mrs. Browning and Dr..
O. w. Holmes were all born in the year
THOMAS SHAW, member of Parliament
from Halifax, has been appointed sue
cessor of the late Postmaster General
Fawcett, Of England.
The first exhibit of the executors Of
Charles G. Stratton tom Thumb), after
all debts and expenses had been paid,
shows balance of SIG, 431.
GEORGE HARRIS, the original "Uncle
Toms Cabin" character, is travelling in
the east, reciting the exciting events Of
his early life to large audiences.
The Empress of China could put her
foot in her watch-pocket, provided
Chinese ladies carried watches and the
pocket was in the place for putting hel
foot in it.
Mrs. HILLS, of Elgin, Ill.,, has copy
of the poem, @Oh, Why should the spirit
of mortal be proud ?" in the handwriting
of Abraham Lincoln, who presented il
to her himself.
MISS EMMA LARSON and her young
sister. who rode on horseback from their
home in Wisconsin to San Francisco,
made the journey in safety without be.
ing once molested.
Rev. HENRY PAHTAHoUAHoNG CHASE,
chief of the Ojibway Indians and a
regularly ordained minister of the
Church of England, is newly arrived
lion in Old London.
WILLIAM E. SMITH was president of
the last New York state Democratic
convention, and William E. Smith of
Albany, Ga, was the president of the
Georgia Democratic convention.
The youngest congressman in the
next house will be William La Toilette,
of Wisconsin, who is but % years old.
William Waite, of Connecticut, will be
the Oldest member, being rs years old.
"THANK God and be content" was
the advice Sir Moses Montefore re-
ceived from his wife, when. in 1925, he
asked her whether he should retire from
money-making or continue in business.
He followed it. =.
SARoNY, the celebrated photographer,
usen to fill the blank leaves of his
school books with portraits while yet a
mere lad, and he organized q firm OF
photographers in New York City one
year before he was 81.
The stone sarcophagus for the tomb
of John @. Calhoun, the South Carolina
statesman who died over quarter of a
century ago, has been finished, and
will at once be set in place in st. Phil
lips Ohurchyard, Charleston s. G.
EDITOR SINCERELY, of the Philadelphia
Record, who recently went into the bust.
ness of providing Philadelphians with
coal at lower price than the coal deal
ers said they could do it, now proposes
to build $50 moderate rent houses.
Mrs. W. S. HoYT, daughter of the
late Chief Justice Chase, has success.
fully established an industrial school al
Pelham Manor, where furniture carving
clay and plaster modelling, tapestry
work, ETC., are taught to girls and boys
The will of the late Carrie J. Welton,
of Waterbury, o. (who left the bulk oil
her fortune to Mr.. Bergh's Society fol
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals>
gives $1,000 for a horse and cattle
drinking-fountain, to be built on the
green in that town..
GERARD PAGET, son of Lord Alfred
Paget, and brother of Arthur Paget
who married Miss Stevens, of New York
was shooting in Bushy Park in company
with Lord Alfred and his own wife
when the lady, who was carrying 6
double-barreled gun, accidentally shot
her husband in the calf of one of hit
legs.