The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-21
PERSONAL AND. LITERARY.

| "A widow in Wilton, Conn.,, says
she never intends to marry again. She
is 104.
Mrs. Smith, of Moultonborough,
n. H, took her first dose of medicine at
the age OF ninety-six.--BOStOn Globe.
Mr.. Kegan Paul, the London pub
Usher. paid SIC. $50 for the manuscript
of General Gordon's diary.
Secretary Lamar has one son and
one grandson, each of which is named
Lucius Quintus Curtius Lamar
Mime. Patti, having sung us out of
our cash for many seasons. Low pro-
poses to write magazine articles to tell
US how she did it.-M Y. Herald
Mr.. Blaine has been made Doctor
of Laws by the University of George
town, and the same honor has been
conferred upon General Hancock by st.
Johns College.
james w. Hale, the originator of
cheap postage between Boston, New
York and Philadelphia in 1881, is now
eighty-four years of age. He has been
visiting Boston recently.-Boston Post.
Within a year the shilling novel
has become a very popular form of
literature in England American pub
fishers made fortunes in the printing of
such editions long before the idea oc-
| Cured to their English brethren.-Ph
GdeLphia Press.
MIR. Erastus Brooks says that he
has seen one hundred and twenty daily
newspapers established in New York
and Of these only six are now in exist
ence. He estimates that S25, 100000
has been sunk during that time on
daily newspapers, and yet every other
college graduate thinks he can run a
newspaper.
The following are the ages of the
various Presidents at the time of their
Inauguration: Washington, 81; Adams
o., 81; Jefferson, 81; Madison. 81;
Monroe, So; Adams 81. O., 81; jack
son, 81; Van Buren,, 81; Harrison, 6S;
Tyler, 81; Polk. AZ; Taylor, 3D.; Fill
more. so; Pierce, 40; Buchanan, 65;
Lincoln, so; johnson, IS; Grant, &c;
Hayes, 81; Garfield, 40; Arthur, 81;
Cleveland, 47.-Chtcago Hera q.
Mr.. Henry j. Hendrix. of Hollow
Creek, sends US the following long
names of that locality: Barbara Balgoro
Chickasaw Cherokee Choctaw Tennes-
see Sprinkle and Harriet Ann CasSandra
Dishie Bowie Sackie Litha Hanover
Adams. Mr.. II. c.. Bailey sends the
following male name: BENJAMIN Bath
urst Benbow William Henry Jere ian
Andrew Jackson Singo Simon Peter
George Washington Johnson.-Lering-
ton 6. CO. Dispatch.
The Northern Atlantic States have
vigorous old men. DR.. David Parker,
of Gardner, Mass, is eighty three years
old, and has been in practice in that
town sixty-two years. He rides moro
than any other physician in Worcester
County. He frequently takes his sleep
in his carriage. Richard Shaw, eighty
years old, carries the mail between
Hlllsville and Shaker Village, N. H.,
walking six miles every day. He did
not miss day last winter.-BostoTe
Mime. de Lesseps, who is second
wife and mother of ten youngsters, is
still young, and is a creole by origin.
On her marriage day her father made
de Lesseps a present of 100000 francs,
at time when the Suez Canal shares
were down as low as $50 francs each.
He invested all the money in the specu-
lation. In a few years afterward it
reached the colossal figure of $500, 600
francs. Out of this fund NJ. de Lesseps
has just purchased for his wife superb
and princely mansion in the Boulevard
Maiesherbes.