Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-22
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Joaquin MILLER is to make lecture
tour through the country next winter.
Miss FLORENCE FINCH is one of the
editorial writers on the Troy IN. Y.
Telegram.
HARRY and James Garfield, the sons
of the murdered president, are seniors
at Williams College, and will graduate
next June.
FANNY DAVENPORT finds that after a
years experience in "Fedora" that emo
tional acting will reduce her weight
faster than any anti-fat prescription.
A $4,000. MONUMENT is being built in
Vienna for Mozart, who, it is stated.
wanted bread in his lifetime, and now
gets stone.
M. De LEssEPs says: 81 propose to
to visit Panama early in 1885 to inaugu-
rate the section of the canal onntcting
the two oceans"
d. D. HUME, the alleged spiritualist,
has settled down in Paris, and says that
he never again will exercise his peculiar
gift; that his health is poor, and he
wants rest.
GEN. ROBERT TooMBs said recently,
in his emphatic way, that the late
Bishop Pierce was physically, intellect
ually and morally the most symmetrical
man of the nineteenth century.
WALTER BURL1NaAME, boy of II
years, grandson of the late Anson Bur-
lingame, of Massachusetts,, accidentally
shot ana killed himself while out hunt
ing near Bolsport, Wash. T., recently.
The Emperor Dom Pedro, of Brazil,
while returning from naval review re-
Gently had narrow escape from drown
ing. The boat in which he was coming
from the review was capsized, but he
was rescued.
REUBEN E. SPRINGER has made an ad.
ditional gift of $15, 900 to the College of
Music at Cincinnati. This clears the
college of embarrassing debt and leaves
it With property and funds valued at not
less than 100000.
DAN RICE, the old clown, still lives,
though poorly, and, after making and
spending several fortunes, relies for
nuEpO1O VI oAAO uOA1SOAJ VI AooottAN VII
"The Idiosyncrasies of the Human
Mind; or, The Fool Wise at Last"
A STATUE of John Harvard, the bene
factor of Harvard University, will be
unveiled shortly at the college, It is
bronze figure and has cost $4,000. The
bronze will be put in place of base
west of Memorial Hall at Cambridge.
DIR. Pr F.MCSwEENEY, of Notre Dame
University, Ind, who is supposed to be
insane, recently made application for
employment at Erie, Pa, offering to en-
gage in wide range of employments.
Among others he offered to saw and
split wood, teach Latin and Greek, or
"tend bar"
| PROF. FORSTER, who recently died at
Aix-la-C -Chapelle, was one of the greatest
of European entomologists. He has
left collection of insects which from
its rare perfection and beauty stands al
most unrivaled. And a movement is
on foot in England to buy it for the
Museum of Natural History at South
Kensington.
ROBERT BUCHANAN, the English poet,
wishes that Americans would "evoke
!
than is fashionable with super-sensitive
and super-amatory misses" We have
often thought that one of those italic
things would fill long felt want, but
owing to the press of business we never
could get time to evoke it. Norristown
Herald.
M. CHEvREUL, the famous French
chemist, has just passed his Goth birth
day, and gives as the secret of long-iv-
ing II have never been pessimist, and
I Ihave cautiously kept myself from be-
ing too much of an optimist. If l had
not worked hard would have died long
ago. One thing above all have re-
marked: The older I grow the better
mankind seems to have become"
N1rT1s, the French artist who died
few weeks ago, was "a victim of high
pressure civilization" says the Paris
correspondent of. London Truth. He
VAS drawn by wish to SO on COM
manding the market, to set himself up
with villa on the plains of Courcelles.
To pay for this he had to work like a
galley slave. He worked fourteen in
stead of eight hours out of the twenty
four, and full year ago "his trembling
eyelld and relaxed lip should have
warned him of the danger which he
ran."
DANTE GABRIEL RossETTI was born
of an Italian father and English mother,
whose father, however, was italian. An
account by friend says that the spoke
English purely save for the faintest sug-
gestion of foreign accent. A very
musical voice and conversational
powers, of which he was not chary at
one period of his career, made him a
charming person in society; but during
the latter years of his stormy life he be-
came suspicious even of the most ardent
disciples who had sat at his feet In the
old days, and almost completely changed
his associates.
DIR. HUNTER MCGUIRE, medical di-
rector on Stonewall Jackson's staff, says
the general had, as if by miracle, escaped
wounds until at Charlottesville, when
it seemed that his guardian angel de-
serted him for he was struck by thre
bullets in quick succession. The frs
went through the right hand, lodgin
under the skin. The next entered the
left forearm just below the elbow and
came out near the wrist, completely
shattering both bones. This was fol-
lowed by an ounce ball crashing through
the left arm near the shoulder, severing
an important artery. To add to the
catastrophe his horse took fright and
dashed madly through the timber before
he could get the reins gathered up in
his left hand.
How Fevers are Spread.
From London TrutrI