The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

MIR. Dolby, m his book about Dick,
ems. refers to Boston as the ssHut of the
Universe.
Mrs. Jennie s. Bailey was born in
1917, was one Of seven sisters, was
married in 1867, removed to Kansas in
| 1877, died March IL, aged thirty-seven,
and was buried in Lot 127.--N r Sun.
Charles Cranston, of Hannibal, NO..
dreamed that he would be killed by q
load of coal being dumped on him from
coal car Wednesday he was killed
in just that way.-Ch Chicago Inter Ocean.
| 1T runs In the family. Miss Susan
Hale, who has written a very readable
biography of Thomas G. Appleton,
turns out to be sister of Edward
Everett Hale, with literary proclivities,
and she also paints pictures. Boston
Journal.
The pallid, careworn appearance
of the American editor just now indi-
Gates how tremendous is the strain
| which is put upon his intellect by the
necessity he is under of directing Mr..
Gladstone how to run the British. San
Francisco EUeniag Post.
Mrs. Grote, the wife of the histor-
ian, was high-spirited, hoydenish sort
of girl, rode without a saddle, and
sailed a boat Sidney Smith once said
of the pair: II do like them both so
much, for he is so lady-like, and she is
a perfect gentleman.
Warren Green, of Kentucky, the
new United States Consul General for
Kanagawa, Japan, is a son of DR..
Norvin Green, President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company. He is
about forty years of age, and is now
President of the Louisville Board of
Trade.
Madame Patti is infatuated with
billiards She visited Irving Hall sew
eral times during the recent tourna-
| ment and was one of the most enthusi-
astic admirers of the playing Patti
plays strong game. 1t would take q
| player far above the average amateur
to defeat her.-M Y Tribune.
"A Washington correspondent says:
| Mr.. George Bancroft, the historian, has
a funny way of making mock scowls,
and saying to people Of fifty and sixty
years Of age: "Why, my child, m as
old as the hills. I'm the oldest person
| you ever knew" The next minute he
may be speaking in the most serious
and unconscious manner of poor old
MIR. Corcoran,' who is just his own
age.
The geneaology of the Hopkins
family, of Massachusetts, has never
| hoop ooY,oy1oto11- +oi al. n ~, 4
tails are now under the laborious scru-
tiny of one of the connection, who will
prepare a new and fuller record. The
names of the eight children of the an
cestor, Timothy Hopkins, born in 1928,
have long been preserved in memory
| by the amusing line:
"Ehud, Ichabod Dorcas and Tim;
Sarah, Mary, Jemima and Jim
N 7. independent.
Mrs. Clusters little book is full of
vivid and realistic anecdotes which show
the keen spirit of fun which possessed
the young wife and her hero in those
days of happiness and hardships. All
in all to each other it was enough for
one that the other was successful or de-
serving of praise. At one time the Gen
eral returns home and says to his APP
preciative wife: "Let me get book
that l have been reading and which
have marked for YOU" At the same
moment Mrs Custer produced novel
which had been the companion of her
lonely hours. Lo! the two books were
| identical, and the two congenial read
ers had marked almost without excep-
ton the same passages. = Chicago