Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-10-08
PERSONALITIES.

After long toll, shall know the sweetest rest
PERSONALITIES.
ALvAN CLARK, most noted of tele-
scope makers, has completed his 80th
year.
NINE. NILSSON is at Carlsbad, adding
to her already excellent health by taking
mud baths.
Mr.. MOODY, with his by no means
silent partner, Sankey, is at work at
Portland, Me.
"ExTRA BILLY" Smith, once Cover
nor Of Virginia, has just celebrated his
87th birthday.
JIM KEENE is no longer one of the
glories of Newport. He has sold his
property there.
The late Senator Anthony's speeches
were always short and to the point, and
never wearisOme.
P. T. BARNUM, the Snowman, is i'll at
Block Island, and has telegraphed for
his family physician.
A DAUGHTER of Gen. Winfield Scott
at Richfeld Springs, N. Y.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH, the English
free-thinker, will lecture in this country
in October and November.
SENATOR SABN, of Minnesota, has
leased a residence in Thirteenth Street,
Washington, for next winter.
LIEUTENANT j. W. DANENHowER has
arrived at Annapolis for duty in the
United States Naval Academy.
PROF. A. Il. SAYCE has deciphered an
Assyr1an tablet, which gives an account
of a transit of Venus 1000 years B. @.
FLORENCE MARRYAT wears her hair
cut short around the ears, after a fash
ion which is becoming popular in Lon
don. Any style is preferable to the
bangs.
JUDGE ToURGEE is writing new
book, "An Appeal to Caesar" which
will treat of the educational problems
in the South, theme suggested to
him by President Garfield.
Mrs. A. NJ. EDG1NGToN, o. Butte,
Mont, the far-famed "widow of the
"Coeur d. Alene" gold mines, is the
mother of the actress Lillian Edging-
ton, and weighs nearly 400 pounds.
IT is recalled that Handel, the COM
poser, was great eater. He would
often order dinner for three, and then
frighten the walters half to death by
calmly eating the triple dinner himself.
PRINCE JOSEPH. of SAKE Coburg, a
boy of 12, while ascending the Trisel-
wand Alp, at Aussee, fell over preci-
pice. He had his hip.joint and collar
bone broken, besides receiving injuries
to his head.
ADMIRAL CoURBET, commander of the
French fleet in Chinese waters, is
claimed as an Irishman, his father being
Cork man, who on emigrating to
France changed his name from Corbet
to Courbet.
Col. DAN RICE, the veteran cir
Gus clown, was recently presented with
a 81 900 ring by prominent rabbi of
ton by the Jewish people of his numer-
GUS donations.
P. T. BARNUM's kindly and ingenious
features have been reproduced by Mr..
Ball, a sculptor now at Florence, and
the bust has been sent hither across tho
sea that it may be placed in the vesti-
bule of the new Barnum Museum, at
TUFTS College.
MISS GREGORY, of Atlanta, Ga.,
daughter of Civil-service Commissioner
Gregory, is painting the portraits of
A. 81. Stephens and Herschel Y. John
son, ordered by the last state Legisla-
ture. They are to be ife-size and the
young artist is to be paid S., 900 for her
work.
The New Orleans Picayune says:
Another cold potato has been thrown at
history. Henry w. Grady asserts in
the Atlanta Constitution that Charles
Egbert Craddock, author of "In tho
Tennessee Mountains" and @Where tho
Battle was Fought" is really N. M. Muy
fee, who lives in st. Louis.
Hon. SAoKvnLE WEST, the British
minister at Washington, and his daugb'
ter are enjoying the season at Newport.
Miss West since her arrival has re-
ceived much attention from all sides
and attended several of the large enter
tainments given in honor of President
Arthur during his recent stay.
WHEN the late Senator Anthony first
took his seat in the Senate he had as
fellow senators Jefferson Davis, Henry
Wilson, Stephen A. Douglas, Lyman
Trumbull, Charles Sumner, Benjamin
F. Wade, Andrew Jackson, James r.
Doolittle, Robert Toombs, w. P. Fes-
sender, William q. Seward and John
Siden.
SINCE her nomination for president.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood is constantly
receiving letters from women asking for
offices. A few men also write to her
for the same purpose. One lord of Gre
alton from Kentucky proposes to be
"boss of the White House" by marry
ing Mrs. Lockwood, as soon as she is
elected.