The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-11-12
People.
Miss Clovoland's book

Miss Clovoland's book will not hel
$4,000.
Vanderbilt's annual income, if paid
in gold, woul IL woigh ton tons.
George w. Childs acts rs ushor every
Sunday in little Long Branch church.
President Polk's widow believes
that "sho stu lives in her hus bands
memory"
Sam Jones calls his coarse and un.
grammatical style "tho nigh cut in the
English language"
! DIR. j. M. Riggs, of Hartford, Conn, ,
claims to have uncarthcd tho first spec.
imons OF new potato bug.
Sir Moses Montefiore is called by on {.
of his culogists tho most illustrious Jew
since David and Solamon.
Chief Justice Waito is in Scotland
trying to recover his health by eating
oatmeal in all its native wildncss.
Frank r. Stockton, tho story-tollcr,
has soft brown eyes in which his gen.
tie humor shines as he speaks"
DR.. Primes estate is estimated nt
$300,000, most of which he is said to
have made out Of editing tho o..
SerUer.
James Russell Lowell will resume
his literary labors in America by writ
ing biography of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne.
Walt Whitman is tho chief curiosity
In the town of Camden and every street
car driver loves to talk to strangers
about him.
George Il. Sims, who wrote "Tho Crv
OF the London Poor" is about to pub
lish what seems i sequel to it, "Roguos
and Vagabonds."
Speaker Aldrch, of tho Now Homn-
shire House Of Representatives. ia 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
forly-seven grandchildren living within
q mile of the old homestead.
Lord Tcnnyson's poem on tho mar
riage of the Princess Beatrice is re-
terred to as an epithalamium by ono
writer. When poetry gols awful bad
1t Is hard to find 4 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 ear He would go nile out
OF his way rather than listen to q band.
Pope Leo's encouragement of histori-
cal studies has been such marked fen
turc Of his policy that the papal medal
commemorative of tho eight years of
his pontiiicate, just struck, boars a flo
ure representing History.
Moria Jokai is Hungarian novelist
not newspaper funny man. rs the
name might indicate. He has hit upon
good plan for disposng of the auto.
graph bore. Ho announces that he is
willing to send page of his manu-
script, with his signature, to any per
son who will send two florins to n Ger
tain charitable institution of which h,
is member.
Karl Blind claims that Victor Huoc
was of German origin, and Frcnchmar
only by the accident of circumstances.
lilo states that the great poets first
name, Victor, is really only Franco
Latin substitute for tho true namo OF
Hugo's father, Sigisbctt, which means
brilliant with victory" He SAYS that
there is ample documentary evidence
to prove that Victor Hugo's ancestors
| were German artisans.
Miss Catherine Wolfe, tho philan-
thropist and religious archmologist is
not Garden OF Eden crank" the Rev.
Dr. William Hayes Ward explains, and
1t was not with the object of verifying
the Garden Of Eden story she sent him
to Asia although he adds: Il havu
thought it worth while TO mention that
it was in the city of Sippara. the site of
which was discovered by the Wolfo cxo
petition, that tho Chaldcan historian,
Berosus, says that tho records of the
antediluvian world were buried, by tho
command Of the gods, that they might
be dug up after the food"
Compiled by tic Detroit Free Press