The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-09
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Miss Cleveland's book will net her
$4,000.
vanderbilt's annual income. if paid
in gold, wonld weigh ten tons.
George w. Childs acts as usher every
Sunday in a little Long Branch church.
President Folks widow believes
that ''she still lives in her hus bands
memory"
Sam Jones calls his coarse and un-
grammatical style 1.-THE nigh cut in tho
English language"
DR.. j. NJ. Riggs. of Hartford. Conn.
claims to have unearthed the first spec
linens of a new potato bug.
Sir Moses Montefore is called by one
of his eulogists the most illustrious jew
| since David and Solamon.
Chief Justice Waite is in Scotland
| trying to recover his health by eating
oatmeal in all its native wildness.
Frank r. Stockton. the story-teller.
''has soft brown eyes in which bis gen
tie humor shines as he speaks"
DR. Primes estate is estimated at
$500. 900, most of which he is said to
have made out of editing the OBJ
| SerUer.
James Russell Lowell will resume
his literary labors in America By writ
ing biography of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne.
Walt Whitman is the chief curiosity
in the town of Camden and every street
car driver loves to talk to strangers
about him.
George Il. Sims, who wrote "The Cry
of the London Poor" is about to pub
lish what seems sequel to it. "Rogues
and Vagabonds.
Speaker Aldrich. of the New Hamp-
shire House of Representatives. is so
like president Cleveland that he is
sometimes addressed as Mr.. President.
Judge William T. Crow. of Carnes-
vile, Ga, has all his six children and
forty-seven grandchildren living within
q mile of the old homestead.
Lord Tennyson's poem on the mar
riage of the Princess Beatrice is re-
ferred to as an epithalamium by one
writer. When poetry gets awful bad
it is hard to find name for it.
DR.. Tiffany says Grant told him that
all music seemed to affect him as dis
cord would the sensitive, skilled and
cultured car. He would go a mile out
of his way rather than listen to band.
Pope Leo's encouragement of histori-
cal studies has been such a marked fea-
ture of his policy that the papal medal
| commemorative of the eight years of
| his pontifieate, Just struck, bears a fig
ure representing History.
Moriz Jokai is Hungarian novelist.
not newspaper funny man, as the
name might indicate. He has hit upon
| a good plan for disposing of the auto
| graph bore. He announces that he is
willing to send page of his manu-
script, with his signature, to any per-
| son who will send two forins to GER
| tain charitable institution OF which he
| is a member.
Karl Blind claims that Victor Hugo
was of German origin. and Frenchman
| only by the accident of circumstances
He states that the great poets first
name, Victor, is really only Franco
Latin substitute for the true name of
| Hugo's father, Sigisbett. which means
| 'sbrilliant with victory" He says that
| there is ample documentary evidence
to prove that Victor Hugo's ancestors
were German artisans.
| Miss Catherine Wolfe, the phiIan-
thropist and religious archeoIogist. is
not Garden of Eden crank the Rev.
DR.. William Hayes Ward explains. and
it was not with the object of verifying
the Garden of Eden story she sent him
to Asia; although he adds: II have
thought it worth while to mention that
it was in the city OF sippara. the site of
/ which was discovered by the Wolfe ex-
/ npaifiou that the Chatham historian
/ Berosus, says that the records of the
antediiuvian world were buried, by the
command of the gods. that they might
be dug up after the flood