The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

king Oscar, of Sweden, is writing
a history of Europe from 1864 to 1879.
"A German clergyman and an En-
glish girl with romantic ideas were
married on an iceberg in the Arctic
Ocean recently.
Mr.. FELTON,, one of the California
Congressman, says that John w.
Mackay, is worth S25. 100000 and
doesn't owe dollar.
Mrs. Sally Tinker, of fremont,
Me-, is ninety-nine years old, walks two
miles to church on Sunday, and reads
without spectacles. Boston Joarasal.
The following are the singular
names of men who live in Surray Coun-
ty, North Carolina: Bird Snow, Ice
Snow, Hail Snow, Frost Snow, Deep
Snow and More Snow.
The death of Lord Strathrain re-
duced the number of British Field Mar
shals to four-the Duke of Cambridge,
the Prince of Wales, Lord Napier of
Magdala and Sir P Grant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes lives in a
bright yellow house with green blinds,
and some of those people who look for
special motives in insignificant acts
wonder what profoundly scientific no.
ton is responsible. Boston Herald.
Clarence Seward, William Fl. Sew
ard son, is said, with his fierce, gray
mustache and long, gray hair, which
falls picturesquely behind his ears from
underneath his silk hat, to look more
like a cavalier soldier affecting the
dress of the civilian than an astute,
plodding lawyer. 7. Telegram.
The senior living ex-Congressman
from Massachusetts, is Henry Williams,
of Taunton, who took his seat in the
National House of Representative De-
cember 2, 1889. Robert G. Winthrop
entered the House December z, 1910;
Julius Rockwell February 2, 1874, and
N. P. Banks December 5, 1853.-BoSton
Globe.
"A clerk in the Pension Office died
at Washington the other day, and it
was then discovered that he was en-
gagged to two prominent society ladies.
One was Washington heiress, from
whom he had borrowed money without
giving notes. He willed all his proper
ty to the other girl Washington Star.
When Rubenstein was in this coun-
try ''Josh Billings was introduced to
him, and the pianist in conversation
presently endeavored to impress upon
the Yankee an idea of his high family
rank. Indeed" he said, Il have as
certained that my ancestors were
prominent men in the Crusades, and
one of them accompanied the Emperor
Barbarossa.' Son the piano, I sup
pose said JOSH Chicago Inter Ocean.
Lord Salisbury's rapid rallying
after a severe surgical operation is
greatly due to his splendid physical de-
velopment. Son of one of the richest
and proudest houses OF England, from
childhood to manhood he was Injured
to privation and hardship until he be-
gan to regard hunger, cold, toll and
pain as tribes too light for serious con-
sideration, and sickness became a
stranger to his athletic frame.
Librarians the country over have
been seeking to discover volume 81 of
the Christian Observer, and Bowdoin
College is said to have been specially
persistent in its search for the missing
book. After looking for it for ten
years it occurred to Librarian Poole,
OF Chicago, to examine his set, when
he made the discovery that there had
never been any volume 81, that volume
20 closed with December, 1921, and
volume % began with January, 1922,
the change being made that the volume
might correspond with the year of the
century. N. 7. Sua.