The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-05-28
PERSONAL. MENTION.
Facts Not Generally Known About Au-
thors, Journalists and Politicians.

thors, Journalists and Politicians.
Won MoLTKE prides himself on his abil-
itY as florist
BISMARCK is q great lover of fish, trout
being his favorite dish.
JEFF DAVIS says be does not expect TO
ever visit the North again.
GENERAL SrcKLEs is general lecturer in
the Albany, N. Y, law school.
THE Empress of Austria writes sonnets
and is about to publish volume of them.
IT is said that Keppler &c Schwarzman,
the proprictors of 7 :, divide 10000
year between them.
ANsoy G.. McCooK, Secretary of the Ma
tional Senate, is the first New Yorker who
lGs filed tlat position.
PRcstpENr WHITE, of Cornell Univer-'
Senator from New York.
SENATOR WARNER MILLER, of New York,
b'gan life us school-teacher, and after.
ward served in the army.
LIKE Sam Weller, Donn Platt OCCASION
ally "does little verse;" but his poetry
has not added to his fame. t M
EDITOR DANA, of the New York Sun,
takes great pleasure in playing piquet, and
is extremely fond of billiards.
BEN BUTLER says he has warm place
in his heart for the newspaper reporter,
but he never yet could agree with night
editor. '.a t.t..... 1rIpy i1Ja .U.
CONGRESSMAN LANHAM, of Texas, repre-
sents district of eighty-seven counties,
some of which are as large as Massa.
chusetts.
The autograph fiend has tried James
Russell Lowell's patience so sorely that
he declares he will give no more auto
graphs. ,.f
JOHNNY MCLEAN, proprietor and editor
Of the Cincinnati Enquirer, has announced
his intention of making a special feature
of Indiana news during the National cam
paign.
GEORGE w. PECK, Of Peck's Sun, was
once reporter in New York, and was
deeply In debt when he left that city. His
paper now yields him q revenue Of $4,000
per year.
CONGRESSMAN DoRsHEniER's head at
tracts notice everywhere. AS round as
pumpkin, its top shines like wet ivory in
its badness, while the skin OF its cheeks is
as rosy as those Of a milkmaid.
Mr.. EVELYN JERRoLD, son of the late
Blanchard Jerrold and grandson Of Doug
las Jerrold, has been appointed editor OF
Lloyd's Netos, making the third genera
ton Of Jerrolds who have edited that pa
per.
ALPHoYsE DAUDET, tho French novelist,
is very handsome man, well-propor-
toned features, dark expressive eyes, and
dark thick hair, which falls about his brow
and ears. He has flowing whiskers, and
wears his mustache untrimmed.
A. s. ABELL, owner Of the Baltimore
Sun, is over seventy years old, and is
said TO be the richest newspaper man in
the United States. His fortune Is es.
timated at Sls,OOO,OOO He was once part
owner of the Philadelphia Ledger.
G. KEGAN PAUL, a London publisher,
declares that all publishers examine all
manuscripts sent them, and that very few
good productions are lost to the world.
He pronounces the "heartless publisher
stories as being very much overdrawn.
LITERARY lies sometimes prove very
profitable. Dean Swift's "Gulliver's Tray
els" is a unique series Of literary lies.
Rabelais, the humorist OF the middle ages,
delighted in lies about Gargantua and
Baron Munchausen's work is nothing but
lying. Some American writers do not
blush in the way in which they have dis.
tinguished themselves In this line
CONGRESSMAN KAssoN, OF Iowa, is finely
educated and cultured by foreign travel,
has broad views and can express them in
elegant English. He is rather a Miss
Nancy in many Of his ways, and in speak
ing he affects the tone Of an English dude
rather than that Of blunt Iowa which he
represents. His speeches abound in clas-
sical allusion and they are delivered with
courtly gesture.
CONGRESSMAN HEwlTT's face Is long,
lean and bony. The high, narrow forehead
ends in silky white hair, which stands out
on every side like that Of Andrew Jackson,
The cheek.bones are high and prominent
the chops hollow, and the nose largo aud
decidedly Roman. Tho lips arc tight and
thin, the chin projecting and covered will
short white whsker. Add two large
EARS, partially covered by this silky gray
hair and you have Mr.. Hewit1s head
which, is joined by scraggy neck to {
pair OF thin, bent shoulders.
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