Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-09-10
PERSONALITIES.

man 8rln.
Two of Osman Digma's nephews have
been killed in battle. Osman is full of
military capacity, and knows just where
to place nephews.
FLORENCE MARRYATT (Mrs. Ross
Church, is coming to the United States
this fall to give series of entertain
ments. She is singer, actress and
reader.
The Bishop of Gloucester, Eng, has
given great scandal to many good
churchmen by appearing at recent
cricket match at Lords with cigar in
his mouth.
Mrs. LILLIAN r. MESSENGER, one of
the sweetest of Imaginative singers, is
about issuing another volume of poems.
She is clerk in the Sixth Auditors
Office in Washington.
The city of Coldwater, Mich, has
lost an esteemed citizen and generous
art patron in the death of Henry G.
Lewis, who died of a complication of
diseases of the stomach.
The leaf in the marriage register in
Hanworth Church on which is inscribed
the name of Charlotte Bronte has been
so often handled by American travellers
that it is falling to pieces.
SAMUEL MONTAGUE, an eminent He
brew banker ofLondon, comes to Canada
to consult the government about the es-
tablishment of colonies for oppressed
Russian Hebrews in the Canadian North
west.
GEORGE, a son of Jay Gould, is sum-
mering at the hotel Kaaterski}l. He is a
handsome young man of vivacious man
ners, somewhat swarthy of complexion,
and might easily be taken for a Span
lard.
BJoRN BJoRNsoN, a very gifted son
of the great poet and leader, Bjornst-
jerne Bjornson, has been appointed
stage manager of the Chrisiania The
ater after achieving great success in
Hamburg.
APPLETON MORTON, r. M. Theobold
and Henry Pott, Londoners, have
formed an. association the object of
which will be to show that Bacon wrote
the works commonly attributed to
Shakespeare.
MATTHEW ARNoLD's daughter is re-
ported as saying that, having seen Nj
agara and the Rockies, and drunk an
American cocktail, there is really noth-
ing worth bothering about on the
American continent.
Col. GOSHEN, the circus giant, who
weighs over 800 pounds, got into con-
tentlon with a neighbor named Can
non, who spread scandal about the col.
onels divorce suit. Goshen took Can
non down and sat upon him.
-s1R WILLIAM THOMPSON, the great
English scientist, has arrived at New
York. His visit to this country'is said
to be for the purpose of attending the
congress of electricians, which will be
held at an early date in Philadelphia.
The health of the venerable ex-Gov-
ernor Horaio Seymour, of New York, is
unusually poor. II am SUFFERING" he
says in a letter dated the 9th inst, from
a nervous complaint which makes me
very weak, and I am incapable Of
mental or physical exertion-"
Rev. DR.. E. N. POTTER has been
visiting Nebraska and LOOKING over the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of which
he was recently called to be bishop. He
has not yet reconsidered his declination,
but the expectation that he will do so
prevails in Nebraska church circles.
KING LUDWIG, of Bavaria, rises in
the night, has q black steed saddled,
and dashes off at q whirlwind speed up
and down the hill roads--which are
well kept for that reason-ike phan-
tom horseman pursued by some relent-
less decree of the supernatural powers.
Mrs. MAoKEY, the wife of the Cali
fornia bonanza man, it is said, gives
away $15O,O0O in charity every year.
Her benevolence recently led to a
pathetic appeal from a Paris woman,
whose daughter was about to be mar
ried, for any "old diamonds or rubies"
she could spare.
RICHARD GRANT WHITE relates as an
example of English manners that Lord
A., guest at the table of a lady of dis
tinction, took no soup, a fact noticed by
his wife who, struck with his discourtesy
to their hostess, called across the table
in bland accents, @Do take some, A., it
is not at all nasty.
EUGENE HATCH, the Shropshire
sheep-owner at Jefferson, gives good
reasons why farmers should breed for
mutton as well as for wool. He says !:
IF you can raise Shropshire sheep.to
be worth Sc for mutton alone, with q
good fleece of clothing wool in one year,
how much better is that than to keep q
wool sheep whole year for about a
$3.50 fleece of wool, and the animal, if
killed, only bringing small price for
rs strong favored.mutton."
JAMES Il. CLAGHoRN, who possesses
$4,000 engravings, representative of all
periods, probably worth 100000, is
lying i'll. Of gout in Philadelphia. He
regenerated the Philadelphia Academy
of Fine Arts. His father went from
Rochester, Mass, to Philadelphia, and
the sons made a great fortune in the
auction business. Mr.. Claghorn few
years ago sold his paintings for $75, 900
at auction in New York, and led the
way in engravings.
GEN. JOHN BRECKENRIDGE CASTLE
MAN, Of Kentucky, is one of the interest
ing characters at Old Point Comfort,
Va. He likes to show an autograph
note by Mr.. Lincoln, written in 1868,
when its present owner was under SEN
tence of death for trying to liberate the
prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago.
The note runs: when John B.
Castleman is sentenced to be executed,
delay the proceedings until further
orders. A. Lincoln" This clemency
was due to the interposition of Gen.
Castleman's brother-in-law, Mr.. Brock
inridge, of st. Louis, streng Union
man, and the sentence was finally COM
muted to imprisonment for two years.
Difficulties Of Being Fashionable.
fFrom the Boston Globe.J
A certain young lady left the house
where she boards in this city for days
visit in the country. and as it was Mon
! day she left directions with the lady of
the house to give the washerwoman her
weeks washing when she called. The
washing was done up in q newspaper,
and that was the only bundle Of the
- 3 n Z.