The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-03-29
NEWSPAPER NoToRlETY. .
What the Press Says of Men and Women
Who Are Talked About.

What the Press Says of Men and Women
Who Are Talked About.
King Milan, of Servia, has beon vainly
trying to get his life insured for $780,
600.
Mrs. "Jennie June" Croly has sold her
interest in Godey's Lady's Book, and
is now devoting herself to newspaper
work.
Mrs. Lelald Stanford has recently
given a fine memorial chapel to Trinity
Protestant Episcopal church, San Fran
cisco.
George Miller, who died in Lancaster
county, Pa, the other day, at the age
Of rs, had attended 3,700 funerals and
made that number of cof1ins.
The late Mr.. Corcoran's fortune was
largely made in Washington real estate.
Much of the property he bought for q few
cents a square foot is now worth dollars.
one acre of it being valued at So a square
foot.
Willis Allen, a negro who died in
Paris, KY, a few days ago, was un-
| doubtcdly 100 years old. He had been a
slave in Virginia, and papers in the pos.
session of his owners family proved the
exact year of his birth.
John Boyle O'Reilly and Edward
Mosely, secretary of the interstate COM
mission. viii soon set out on d pecAiiar
| expedition. They will take their canoes
and explore the Dismal Swamp, Va, re-
| naming in its weird neighborhood for a
month. They expect to bring back a
large catch of malaria.
The Duchess of Hamilton has opened
butter store at Ipswich. The place is
! crowded with customers who are ambi-
tious to be waited upon by one of the
| quality. Thus one by one the members
| of the nobility are gradually dropping
into occupations where they may be of
some real service to mankind.
Jordan Little, Wadesboro, N. c.,
negro, trapped a rabbit the other day,
and in his delight held ;he frightened
animal up to his face, saying: ''Oh,
Bre'r Rabbit, kiss Bre'r Jordan" Bre'r
Rabbit thereupon grabbed Brer Jordan
by his ample lower lip and hung on un-
til another negro choked the rabbit to
death. Little's lip was badly lacerated.
]. w. Watson, to whom the author
| ship of Beautiful Snow" is most gener-
ally ascribed, is a tall, straight man of
| 20, who is often seen about the streets of
| New York. He is a novelist as well as a
| writer of verses, and much of his matter
is seen in the periodicals. but his income
| from his writings is not large. Mr.. Wat
son claims to be the inventor of roller
| skates.
A correspondent who met Ernest
Renan, the great French philosopher, re-
Gently, describes him as a ''hideous ex-
preston of equity epicurean materialism"
the very opposite in appearance OF
what his writings would lead one to ex-
| pect. He is broad, short and fat, says
the correspondent, with muddy eyes, an
alligator skin nose, scant eyebrows, yell
low teeth and double chin.
An illustration is given in The Balti-
more Sun of Blind Toms (the noted col
ored pianisD wonderful memory. 1t APP
pears that after one of his recent concerts
in that city he was approached by Mr.
Stoddard, well known organist who
had not spoken to or seen him for over
seventeen years. ''How are you, Tom?'
said Mr.. Stoddard. The reply came in
stantly: "How are you, Mr.. StoddardP'
The late David Hunter Strother best
known as ''Porte Crayon," was a vener-
able looking man, with large white
whislsers and mustache, covering all the
lower part of his face, and quiet, almost
dreamy eyes, looking out from under a
noble forehead. His disposition was ge-
nial, but modest and retiring A year
and half ago, when he celebrated his
10th birthday, he said to friend: u
weigh 100 pounds in my summer tog-
gerry, walk my five miles without fa-
tigue, and am not conscious of any pains,
aches or discomfolts whatever | have
accomplished the three score years and
ten, but labor and sorrow have not YET
come upon me, for my days pass in
cheerful tranquility" Gen. StrotheI
fought through the late war with dis
tinction ON the loyal side, though nearly
all his kinsmen were Confederates.