Milford chronicle., 1888-04-13
MEN oE NEMspApER FAMe.

what Press Paragraphers Have to Say
Of Them-Isits of Gossip.
Speaker Carlislesmozes pipe in his study.
Gen. Sherman has given his portrait to
Harvard university.
Mr. Gladstone plays the violin-with no
great success, however.
Il. Rider Haggard is said to eat onions
when composing his narrowing tales.
President Charles &. Adams of Cornell,
declares that co-education is a s1ccess.
Mr. W. H. H. Murray is going on a tour Of
exploration to the extreme north Of British
America.
The ladder Of fame possesses many rounds,
it is said. Charles Aitchen's ladder contained
just forty.
Louis Kcssuth is still living at Turin with
his sister, in good health and busy with his
autobiography.
Prof. William James of Harvard, is going
to try to revive the fashion Of experiment.
ing with planchette.
Joel Chandler Harris became the father Of
ten children before he named one Of them
after himself Admirable modesty.
NJ de Brazza, the African explorer, is re-
perienees on the Congo ruined his health.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes has presented
his large and valuable collection of medical
and surgical books to the Medical library Of
Boston.
Mr. Herman Merivale relates that once on
a first night he thought the play so bad that
he groaned aloud, and so loud that the audi
ence cried: "Turn him outp The play was
his own.
Urban Olivier, the Swiss novelist, who re-
Gently died at the age Of IS, conscientiously
produced one book year and at the same
time cultivated a farm. He was very sue
cessful farmer
John Lamar Acree, Of Lower Lee county,
Ca. died recently from a brass harmonica.
The harmonica was a Christmas present, and
in blowing it the harmonica poisoned his
mouth and luugs.
Richard Mansfield, the actor, though not
legally bound to pay royalty to Robert
Louis Stevenson for the use Of a dramatized
version Of "Dr. Jekyn and Mr.. Hyde, never
theless sends large check every month to
the famous author.
jacques Hartog, who acted as courier for
Jay Gould in Europe, says in a newspaper
Interview: "Mr. Jay Gould is one of the
incest men l ever came across, and all the
members Of his family are extremely courte-
Gus and generous in their treatment Here
is one man who is a hero to his valet.
John E. Fitzgerald, the president of the
Irish National League of America, who lives
ut Omaha, was for time a common laborer
on a Nebraska railroad at a salary Of fifty
cents day. He is now president of several
banks, is at the head Of the Nebraska stock
yards at Lincoln, and employs about 1900
men. His fortune runs into the millions.
NJ. Georges Ohnet, author of ''Le Maiere
de Forges, "Serge Panipe,n etc, used to be
a lawyer, and then a journalist. He is a
small, nervous man, talkative and petulant.
For q short time in the winter he lives in
Paris, but spends most of the year at his
country seat at Abymes 81 am" he says,
''the LATEST Of lazy people. have only one
pleasure, one ambition; and that is to sit in
the sun and do nothing Yet he is a prolific
and most successful author.
81 happened to catch Ingersoll alone the
other evening"" said one of the best known of
New Workers. "He spoke to me of Shakes
peare-spoke three hours, spoke as he never
spoke to an audience. He knows Shakes
peare by heart, knows the familiar and the
aiABhuest pla9 > hiloMs tudJ eidi ana ueclaIeS
that it was one Of the greatest intellectual
achievements since history. He not only
asserts it, but proves it with quotations,
references, examples" Ingersoll's agnosti-
cism has been practically forgotten here.
He is ready to declare himself if asked, but
he no longer, except incidentally, speaks of
these views. He shuns show of occasions
and declines invitations to formal dinners,
which he abominates, by the score every
month. But he delights in having wit at
his own table, and the sparks fly when he
gets one.