The Mineral argus., 1884-02-07
Personalities.


Charles Delmonico was the owner of a
valuable library, which includes books
on cooking from ancient times to the
present day.
The Rabbi Hirsh, Easel, of Gross
Kanzia, Hungary, a prominent leader of
Jewish thought and polity in Europe,
is dead at the age of eighty-two years.
F. w. Thubber, who retired from
BUSINESS in New York, is estimated to
be worth 81, 200, 600. He began with a
few dollars, and gradually built up a
colossal grocery concern. His age is
tifty-four.
Mr.. Kalloch, ex-preacher returning to
San Francisco the other day, lectured in
his old temple" His audience con-
sisted of a bakers dozen. His populari-
'ty is gone, ana he finds himself, with
Kearney, on the shelf.
Frank Steele, a life prisoner in the
Kentucky state penitentiary for murder,
is said to have been permitted to attend
the funeral OF his father, Judge Steele,
last week, and unattended, upon the
pledge OF his relatives that he would re-
turn to the prison.
1t is stated that the authority of Mr..
Broadley, the eminent English lawyer
who defended Arab Pasha, that Messrs.
Bennett and Barnum actually offered
925O,O0O for him. the Egyptian rebel to
get 81, 900 to himself. Mr.. Bennett
wished the services of Arab, first, as a
correspondent for twelve months, and
then to hand him over to Barnum. The
offer was made TO Lord Dufierin.
Dean lie Breton, the father of Mrs.
Langtry, now living in retirement at st.
Brelade's, ten miles from st. Heller's
He Is said to be the handsomest man in
the island of Jersey, tall and upright in
bearing, with a digniied mien and feat
ures. He long 9 was separated from
his wife, who is chaperoning Mrs. Lang
try. Tie latter has paid but one visit to
Jersey since her marriage, ten years
ago.
Many Washington ladies write them
selves down as Mrs. Secretary" "Mrs.
General, +" "Mrs. Commodore" ETC., in
their social programme. The tempera-
ture has to be excessively low when
Washington women are not doing some
kind of foolishness.
Colonel ]. N. Browning, of the Texas
legislature, represents a district, popu-
larry known as the Jumbo district, which
is made up of sixty-seven counties and
comprises about ga, 900 square miles, or
nearly one-fourth of the state. His
friends claim for him that b.. is as big as
his district, if brain and heart may be
measured by the acre.
One of the most curious suits ever re-
corded was recently instituted by MI.
Kreglo, of Indianapolis, against Charles
Graham. Years ago Graham had a leg
amputated, and it seems that Kreglo,
who is an undertaken, has kept it in his
vault since. The other day he began suit
for vantage, the account reading thus:
''To vantage on a limD OF Charles Ora
ham for n hundred and s~ixty-eight
months, at So a month, 1904"
The laws of Maryland still make a
minister of the gospel illegiole as a leg
islator. A Rev. Mr.. Hudson was recent.
ly elected to a seat in the legislature
but was met with the constitutional OBJ
lection. He pleaded that he was no
longer a minister, having quit preaching.
But 1t was of no use; once a preacher,
always a preaCher-in Maryland.
Mr.. s.. s. Cox will soon begin work
upon a book to be published by a pub
fishing house at Norwich, Conn, which
he has contracted to finish by July, and
for which he is to be paid about SIS, 900.
1t is to be a political history of the
country from the time of Buchanan's
administration, and the publication, it is
expected, will in q measure serve as a
contrast of political views with the forth
coming work by Mr.. Blaine covering the
same npriOu.