The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

A sou of Charles Dickens Is Cap
tain in the Canadian Mounted Police
Maggie Mitchell will write her
stage experience for New YORK maya
zine.
The daughter of General Banks,
who has just gone upon the stage, has
perceptible and very pretty moustache.
james Garfield. the oldest son of
the late President, is tall, blonde and
athletic. Harry. his brother, is short,
dark and wears brown side whiskers.
"A Hartford newspaper, after re-
counting Ignat.us Donnelly's wonderful
literary achievements, past and pros
pective, concludes: I'VE are glad Don
nelly didn't miss being born.
Miss Marie Van Zandt made her
first appearance on the stage at Groton,
Mass, when she took part in flower
cantata. Stree then her pathway
through life has been strewn with
posies.
Five octogenarians, the oldest OF
whom was ninety-four years, died in
Marathon, n. Y, recently inside of one
week. Three weeks previous they were
all in good health. Each one of them
had lived all his life in that vicinity
Syracuse journal.
AS between Germany and the
United States, the relative literary
activity of the two countries is shown
by the following figures: In 1888,
American publishers issued 3,4S1 books,
the German, 14.S02; in 1884, the Amer
can, 4,03S, the German, 15,607.
Mrs. John Maxwell, better known
as Miss Braddon, the novelist, lives at
Litchdeld House, Richmond. 1t is an
historic structure. Built for the first
Earl of Abergavenny. it later passed
into the possession of the Bishop OF
Litchfield, and became his Episcopal
residence. Afterward Catalani, the
singer, got it and gave notable recep-
tions there. 1t is a handsome old pal
ace in Sir Christopher Wren's best style.
Philip Ii. of Spain delighted in a
cat-organ upon which bear performed.
This instrument was composed "oi
twenty cats, separately confined in mar
row cases, in which they could not stir;
their tails protruded from the top and
were tied to cords attached to the KEY
board of the organ. According as the
bear pressed upon the keys the cords
were raised and the tails were pulled to
make the cats NEW in bass or treble
tones as required by the nature of the
airs. "
"A printer on the Erie Pa) Herald,
known as Father Quinn, has in long
life set, it is estimated, type enough to
weigh 187,700 pounds, or ninety-fouT
tons, which this old man has lifted piece
by piece in the specified time In set
tug type the average distance the hand
travels is a foot and half or there
abouts. Consequently his hand has
travelled SIC, 100000 feet, or matter
of 81, 727 miles, or within few hundred
feet of being four time the circumference
of the earth.
of Richard Grant White it is said
that while literature was his pro-
fession. music was his solace and
delight, and he was far prouder of his
knowledge of violins than of his repu-
tation as a Shakespearean scholar. ="
Of this violin connoisseurship wonder
full stories are told, and there seems no
doubt that he possessed rare and
peculiar faculty of discrimination in re-
gard to these instruments. His own
instrument was the cello, upon which
he played in a quartet that met at his
house weekly Chicago Inter Ocean.