Mower County transcript., 1884-11-19
PERONALS.

NINE. GOSSIP has it that a Russian
count is engaged to one OF the lady
treasury clerks at Washington.
FRANK D. TURNER, for many years
prominent among the criminal lawyers
of St. Louis is about to remove to Chi
cago.
PRESIDENT HENRY DARLING, of Ham-
ilton College, Clinton, N. Y, has been
elected member of the Victoria Insti-
tute Philosophical Society of Great
Britain.
Mrs. HORACE GOODWIN, of Boston
added to the thousand birthday gifts to
Sir Moses Montefore by sending him
medallion of Washington framed in
wood from the old house at Mount Yer
non.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT is said to have
astonished the tenderfoot and even to
have gained an approving nod from the
grizzled hunter by his prowess in kill
ing bears out in the Yellowstone region
recently.
The German Gazette asserts that
Gen. Gourke will be made Russian
minister of war, M. Pobodonossef
minister of public instruction and M.
Deljanof president of the Council of
Ministers.
IT is reported that Mr.. Hugh G..
Cbilders, the English Chancellor of the
Exchequer, will resign that post at the
end of the extra SESSION of Parliament
on account of il-health. He will be
raised to the peerage.
PROF. LUDWIG MANTHNER, famous as
the leading oculist in Vienna, has sue
ceeded in restoring sight to colleague
aged 96. In another case he restored
sight to patient aged 102 years. The
eye surgery.
Mr.. PETR1E, the archaologist, has re-
turned to England laden with rich
spoils of his Egyptian Investigations.
Among the treasures are a hut of the
time of Nero, embrcideries of the
Ptolemaic period, and a fine gilded slab
of the time of Nectabanus.
AT the southeast corner of Lafayette
Square, Washington, now resides the
venerable Peter Parker, the first Amer
lean minister in China, and in honor of
whom, in such connection. the Park
Commission have planted Immediately
opposite row of genuine Ginko trees
from Japan.
FATHER CURc1, the italian Jesuit,
having recanted his views concerning
the temporal sovereignty of the pope,
has been taken into favor by his su-
periors. The pope has sent him an
autograph letter, with his portrait, and
the archbishop of Florence has invited
him to preach.
Mr.. FARGUs, author of Called Back"
has passed his 4Oth year, is very deaf,
and is poor talker. Heis exceedingly
ambitious. Several years ago he pull
isbed volume of poems, and he has
written many songs for music. A new
novel, Ozark Days" has just been COM
pleted by him.
MRS. HOOKER, sister os Henry Ward
Beecher, said recently in answer to a
critic who called her o crank: aYes;
I'm lunatic. Everybody with more
thana prcrata share of brains is luna
TIC" That's like the drunken man who
swore that nobody in the room was
sober but himself.
MRS. WARD BURNETT, widow ef the
late Gen. Burnett, OWNS tie gold snuff
box presented 20 Gen. Jackson ny the
New York Corporation, and still COZ
tanning some Of the snuff and a vanilla
bean placed in the box by the general
in 1919. It is historical that Gen. Jack
son was @up to snuff"
MISS ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH, a
grand niece of William Wordsworth, is
Principal of Lady Margaret's Hall, one of
the halls for girls at Oxford, Eng, and
is famous Greek scholar. She is de-
ecribed as a @cheery, quiet, sensible
woman, with thoughtful and some-
what care-worn face"
The largest house on Lafayette
Square, Washington, is now occupied
by Mr.. Corcorau, the banker. 1t was
bought for Daniel Webster by his Bos-
ton and New York admirers when he
was made secretary of state under Har-
rison; but he did not keep it, preferring
to own land at Marshfeld.
The latest indignity offered to the
memory OF Carlyle is to credit him with
having invented the word "dude." In
his journal, on July Is, 1885, he wrote
Il seldom read any dud of a book, nov
ell or the like. where the writing seems
to flow along like talk, without GER
tain pain, q certain envy"
MISS BEnDAN, who has just married
in Constantinople the novelist, Francis
Marion Crawford, is daughter of Col
Berdan, who led the gallent regiment
of sharp-shooters in the war of the re-
bellion armed with the rifle of his own
invention. She is q great favorite in
the society Of the gay city of the Bos'