The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Bette cambridge. a daughte,
efold Zach Taylor, once President OF
the United States. is living at Win
chester, Va
-Tennyson is sad to be keen In
money matters He has changed his
publisher five times in as many years,
profiting each time by the change.
Mrs. Phoebe Vanderbilt, only sur
viving sister of the late Commodore
Vanderbilt, died in New York recently,
aged seventy-six years Her life has
been one of retirement and benevolence.
Lieutenant Greedy is said to be
haunted day and night by visions of his
long period of starvation in the Arctic
regions, and the physicians assert that
the only way he can preserve his sanity
Is to mingle freely with others.-Chiea-
go Herald.
Henry Irving. in his Harvard lee
ture used the sentiment: while trifies
make perfection, perfection is no
tritie," without credit or even quota
ton marks Yet the thought was ut
tered in precisely the same words by
Michael Angelo.-N y. Mail.
MIR. James Russell Lowell is in
tensely American and will tolerate no
criticisms of his own country. "Haw-
thFne insulted rs ALL" said an English
lady, "by saying al English women
We're fat but dare not say in Mr.. Low
ellis presence that an American woman
is thin. "-ChicdgO Tribune.
The Darn, the latest New York
daily paper, is designeI as a morning
newspaper for young people. and while
giving the news to note the worlds
progress. proposes to expurgate all OBJ
jectionable features, and cater to high
form of morality by recording the Ell
evating and refining tendencies of liter
ature and art
MIR. Labouchere says he under
stands that the success of the Morning
NetoS of Paris, started sometime since
by two young American journalists, has
justified the formation of the property
into a stock company. in order to en-
large both the paper and its field of OPP
erations. The shares Of the company
have been all taken up privately in Lon
don and Paris
Rev. Aaron Cleveland. who died in
DR.. Franklin's house in Philadelphia
August ii, 1857, was buried in Christ
Church graveyard. His grave has been
unnoticed for nearly one hundred and
twenty-eight years, but it is now known
that he was the great grandfather of
Grover Cleveland, now President of the
United States. On the tombstone the
name is spelled Cleave land. Chicago
Journal.
Mrs. Mary Breneman, of Lafayette,
Ind, claims to be the oldest human be-
ing in the land. According to her &C
count and that of her relatives, she was
born at Lewiston. Del. on the 18th of
March, 1913. In 1901 she and her first
husband, William Golfer, moved to
Circleville, o., making the journey in 8
wagon. Her youngest SON resides at
Rensselaer,. in Jasper County, Ind, and
Is eighty-one years of age.
MIR. Andrew Carnegie, the Pitts
burgh millionaire, in a recent lecture,
said: Il want to say something about
the development of New York society.
1t has reached that standpoint where
the almighty dollar is not the social
power it is thought to be, The million
aire is not admitted to the society of the
unless he has other qualities
to recommend him. He must have a
reputation in literature, science or art,
Or his millions will not help him. That
s the way it should be."-RatS6urgh /,
Post.