The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-17
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mime Patti knows forty-seyen OPP
eras, and is still studying, so she says.
--Moncure d. Conway curiouslv
names his new lecture Adams Third
Wife,"
Mrs. Nellie O'Connor, of Louis
vile, KY. is but thirty years old, yet
she has led six men to the altar
Louisville Coatrier-Jourasal.
There is a man and wife in White
County, Tenn, whose ages are the
same-both being born the same day,
month and year. - Chattanooga Times.
Mr.. Tilden once admitted that he
never once faced an audience or rose
in court that stage fright did not seize
him. He tried every device to cure
himself, but it could not be done.-M
z. Herald.
Princes Anna Murat. now Duch-
ess of Mouchy, is by birth an Ameri-
can. She first saw the light at Bor-
dentown, N. j., in 1841, and still re-
mains one of the handsomest women
in France.-M 7. Tribune.
Mrs. Nancy Rice, the oldest per-
son in Plymouth County, Mass, died
recently, aged 101 years 9 months and
~ days. She was one of a choir that
sang at memorial service when Wash
ington died.-Bostoas journal.
Ned Buntline, the story-teller, re-
Gently deceased, when receiving sal
airy of ten thousand dollars year is
said by a friend to have been constant
ly in need of money and constantly
asking small advances from his en-
ployers.
There are seven papers in the eoun-
try which have celebrated centennials
They were founded as follows: The
Portsmouth IN. H.) Gazette, founded
in 1856; the Newport Mercury, 1853;
the Hartford Courdaat, 1854; the New
Haven Journal, 1867; the Salem (Mass. J
Gazette, 1853, and the Worcester mass. }
Spy, 1910.
Mrs. Sunderland, of Washington,
is famous for her diamonds and jewell
ry. She wears earrings with pendants
which weigh thirty-two carats, and an
emerald ring, set with diamonds, the
central stone being fully an inch long
and of proportionate width. She is
known as the diamond queen.-W Wash
iaagto1 Star.
Ida Lewis, famous for her efforts
in rescuing the drowning at Newport,
R. l., is the only woman in the world
who holds the position of government
lighthouse keeper. Although past
middle age she is always on the look
out for any unfortunates needing her
help, and would go to their relief as
promptly as when a 1.-THE and active
girl. Providence Journal.
Probably the largest literary prize
ever offered is that of $1,000,000, to
be given in 1925 by the Russian Acad-
my for the best work on. the life and
reign of Alexander T. In 1926, shortly
after the death of Alexander l., the
sum of 50, 900 rubles was offered by one
of his favored ministers, to be given as
a prize a century after his death and
this at compound interest will amount,
in 1925, to $1,000,000.
Mrs. Braddon, the novelist, re-
Gently told Olive Logan that after she
took up writing, to work at it steadi-
ly as a profession, she deliberately
changed her chirography, because she
found that large handwriting was
much more fatiguing than a small
one. Mrs. Braddon has desks and
chairs of different sizes in her literary
work-room, and when she gets tired
of the sitting posture she takes her
manuscript and walks over to a stand
ing desk where she writes until IA
tigued of the erect posture. N Y
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