The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-16
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Talmage has preached thirty years
and has lost but one day, and that
through sickness twenty four years ago.
--Brooktyas Eagle.
Representative Symes. Of Colorado,
has such a heavy voice that he IS
known among the Indians of his dis.
trict as Talking Thunder. Chicago In
ter Ocean,
Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the Eng
Iish astronomer, has come to America
to live. His home is to be in Missouri.
He will write systematic work on as
tronomy.-T. Louis Post.
An English dramatic critic, writ
ing of Irving as Mephistopheles and
Miss Terry as Marguerite, says that the
latter face IS as full of heaven as the
formers is OF the other place.
William Aimison, of Nashville.
Tenn, the new President of the In
ternational Typographical Union, was
twice elected to the Legislature while
setting type upon a Nashville paper.
He is about fifty years old. His father
was a Frenchman, his mother Greek,
and he was born at Marsellles.
I'm the death of Mr.. Edwin P.
Whipple Boston loses truly original
man, and one whose most brilliant side
never shone in his writings. He could
never pen down in black and white
those flashes of wit which corruscated
in his conversation and made half an
hour with him an epoch OF exhilira-
ton. Boston Beacon.
Mrs. Mary B. Willard. of Evans
ton, H., and late editor of the U9sion-
Signal, the organ at Chicago of the
Woman Christian Temperance Union,
is now residing in Berlin, Germany,
where she has opened a home-shool
for American young ladies for in
struction in the German and French
languages, art, literature, music, ETC.
Chicago Journal.
A correspondent of a Boston
paper asked for selection of ten
choice books and received the follow
ing reply: First on the list the Bible,
then Shakespeare, Longfellow's poems,
Tennyson's poems, 1.-THE Language
and Poetry Of Flowers" Daring
Deeds Of the Blue and the Gray the
works of William Carleton, g Don
Quixote, "The World of Ice," 1.-THE
Dead Alive. y
Frank Mayo, the actor, who has
made fame and fortune as Davy Crock
EFT, has most extraordinary aversion
to the play, and declares that he will
not appear in it again, unless COM
PEELED by poverty to do so. Mr.. Mayo
wants to be tragedian, and is, in
deed, an excellent actor, but the critics
always insist that his Hamlet and
Othello talk like Dayy, hence his dis
gust.-M 7. Saa1
DIR. Munford, proprietor of the
Kansas City Times, who was shot in a
street-car and badly wounded the 9TH
er day by an Infatuated lawyer, has had
some experience in the same line. He
entered the Confederate army when a
youth, and in one of the battles of the
Southwest was terribly wounded For
years be was no better than living
skeleton, but good nursing and surgery
saved him, and he finally took up Jour
nalism in Kansas City. He bought the
Times when it was in bad way finan-
cially, and he has built it up to profit
able property. = Chicago tribune.
A reporter fresh from England was
recently assigned by the city editor of
a Boston paper to report lecture.
This is the way he ''dxed' quotation
from Tom Moore: "The reverend gen
tleman announced it as his opinion
that the world is in the nature of a fleet
ing show, given for the delusion of man,
and proceeded to remark further that
the smiles of Joy, as well as the tears
OF woe, shine deceitfully in the one
case and flow deceitfully in the other.
There is. he said, nothing true but
Heaven