The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

| Mrs. Langtry s accents said By the
Pail Nall Gazette to be a mixture of
East London and American
Charles Croker, of San Francisco.
has gwen $4,000 to the Girls and
Boys Aid Society, with which to erect
ia building on the lot donated by Sena-
tor Fair.
William K. Vanderbilt contem-
plates retiring from business and spec-
ulation and erecting near New York
one of the finest country residences in
the world. Y Herald.
There is smart little girl in Cedar
! Rapids, Neb. She is nine years old,
and the other day she wrote an account
of children's party, setit up in type
and corrected the proof, and the work
was well done, too Chicago Mail
Miss Kato Kin, daughter of Kato
Kiyoto, Shizoku of Tokyo Flu, Japan,
has been ordered by the Department of
Education to visit the United States to
study the routine of normal schools and
j nursery establishments for three years.
Isn't it little singular that the
two typical Southern poets = Albert
Pike and George D. Prentice-a typical
Southern orator-Sargent S. Prentiss
] = and a typical Southern iurist -
Hiram Warner-should all have been
born at the North ?-Atta'pta Constitu-
/ ton.
Albert and Maria Harris, colored.
aged respectively seventy-two and six
ty-six years, were reunited at Marshall,
Mo-, the other day, after separation
of thirty-seven years. They were slaves
in Kentucky and were separated when
sold, never hearing from each other
until quite recently. - Chicago Inter
/ Ocean.
-Doorkeeper Date, of the Connect
cut House Of Representatives has ten
cartridges that were carried by Jude
B. Gage in the retreat from New Lon
don in the war of 1912. They are hand
made, the wrappers being pieces of
newspapers, and the round balls are
kept in place by tow strings. Mr..
Gage when ninety years old gave the
relics to Mr.. Date.-Haryord Courant
Mrs Jay Gould, the wife of the
railroad millionaire, is rather short in
stature, though plump and comely.
Her face denotes intelligence, and was
doubtless very pretty when she was
| young. She is thoroughly domestic in
her tastes, and has devoted her time to
her home and children. She spends
two hours a day with her three small
boys, and carefully inspects all the
books they read Y. NeUs.
Captain James Blackstone, of Brad
ford, Conn.,, who died recently, aged
ninety-three, was direct descendent
of the first white settlers on the PENN
sula now occupied by the city of Bos-
ton. The first Blackstone in this coun-
try was the pilgrim, who landed in the
! year 1925. He was a minister of the
Church of England; was the first church
man of Boston, and the founder of the
city. He once owned much of the
land now covered by Boston. Boston
Herald.
Mrs. Tom Ri John, who was, not
| many years ago, well-known figure
in our streets as she walked Broadway,
in coat and trousers, selling her hus-
bands paper, the V0lcano, is now liv-
ing in Frankfort, Pa. She still wears
the trousers, but the Totcono has sus-
/ pended, and the Tom Ri Johns are en-
gagged in the cologne business, the
wife manufacturing the perfume, and
her husband selling it by the bottle
Many friends will be pleased to learn
that the children = Retaliation and
Avenger-are thriving. ~. Y Herald.