The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-06
Personal AND LITERARY.

Baltimore has voted to build anon
unent to Thomas Scott Key.
MIR. Corcoran, of Washington, has
shaken hands with every President ex-
cept George Washington.
Mr. Yam Phou Lee, a Chinese grad
uate of the Springfield High School,
has joined the editorial staff of Vide
AiodkA
Mrs. Booth, editor of Harper's
Bazaar, gets $4,000 per year, and Mrs.
Mapes, for writing exclusively for OR
Hearth and Home, gets $4,000 per year.
Lucy Hamilton Hooper and Olive
Logan Sykes both are brilliant and
spicy Paris correspondents, and one of
them is the wife of an American vice
consul and the other widow of an
American consul. Detroit Post.
I--Cassius Nj. Clay lives quietly on his
Kentucky farm, taking little or no note
of public affairs. I'm not Alone" he
says 81 have my sheep, cattle. dogs,
birds and flowers; besides, am writing
book-my memoirs" IN Y. Sun.
Reuben BaSsett left Pittsburgh
thirty two years ago for Pixies Peak,
and after travelling all over the world
and making fortune, he returned to
his old home recently to spend tie re-
mainder of his days issbassy.t Post.
Mr.. John G. Emo, the collapsed ex-
President of the Second National Bank
of New York, took the wooden spoon
at Yale College a few years ago-an
honor generally accorded the most pop
ular man in the class. m Y. Iyibstle.
--'Dr. Chapin's wit" said Henry
Ward Beecher, FLASHED like the spokes
of wheel in the SUM-" One day he
sat on Rev. Dr. Emerson's hat, and
then instantly arose and passed the
crumpled hat to the owner, saying:
''You ought to thank me for that, for
your hat was only silk, but now it is
sat in
| Here is the closing section of let
ter which Walter Scott's betEothed sent
him two months before their marriages:
''Before / conclude this famous epistle
/, [ will give you little hint that is,
not to put so many ''musts" in your
: letters. 1t is beginning rather too soon;
and another thing is, that l take the
| liberty not to mind them much, but
expect you to mind me. You must take
care of yourself, you must think of me,
and believe me yours, sincerely, G. c."
| "A Nantucket correspondent of the
| Boston Globe says of the late Charles
| 0 Conor, the great New York lawyer:
| ,'sOn one occasion he laid a ten-dollar
bill ON the plate at the Roman Catholic
Church. At the next service the priest
mentioned the circumstance, and warm
! ly praised the donor O'Conor was
very angry. They will get no more
from me, he sad, and they did not.
O'Conor gave with a liberal hand where
he believed the object 8 worthy
one He has distributed 100000 in
| Nantucket, said one who knew some
thing of his acts"
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, the
niece of President Buchanan, once the
lady of the White House, and a worthy
OBJ ect of admiration the land over
4 again suffers in the death of her hus-
band, H. E. Johnston, the Baltimore
banker. Mr.. Johnston died in New
York of pneumonia. Mrs. Johnston 8
two young sons died two years ago, one
in Baltimore, and the other, not six
weeks later, in Paris. The parents re-
Gently endowed two hospitals in B&hi-
more in memory of the children. One
is the Harriet Lane Johnston Hospital
for Girls and the other is for training
i nurses. - CHICAGO Tribune.