Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-03-31
NEWSPAPER NoToRlETY
What the Paragraph Writers Have Jotted
Down Concerning People of Note.

What the Paragraph Writers Have dotted
Down Concerning People of Note.
Queen Margherita, of Italy, is capital
Hebrew scholar and has a large library of
Hebrew works.
DR.. Asa Gray left his copyrights and his
valuable cole of photographs to Har-
ward university.
While Banker Corcoran was on his death
bed he drew check for $500 for the widow
of young man who had committed suicide.
Michael Teller, of Philadelphia, has not
slept in a bed for twenty-seven years. He is
victim of chronic asthma, and cannot sleep
in a recumbent position.
At 50 years old the Hon Hugh McCulloch
retains his brown hair and whiskers, only
slightly touched with gray, and does not use
eyeglasses more than half the time.
Mrs Allen, wife of Dr. Allen, of the Corean
legation, is a pretty little American woman,
who married her husband in China She has
two little sons with her one of whom was
born in China and the other in Corea, and on
this account they have been nicknamed
Little China" and Little Corea.
NJ Bouguereau has one of the plainest
a
and skylight, a clock, some old tapestry,
bronze statue, three or four easels, and a lot
of unfinished pictures and blank canvases
leaning against the wall.
Albert Frazer, a convict in tho Michigan
penitentiary, escaped, and a reward was
offered for his capture. He communicated
with his wife, who was having hard struggle
with poverty, and induced her to deliver him
up and get the reward So she did, and
Frazier is happier than he has been for years
Like all actors and actresses of foreign
birth and education, Nine Mod jeska shows
her native unfamiliarity with the English
tongue much more strongly off the stage than
on it. 1t is in the little ordinary converse
of every day life that ones native tongue
asserts itself the most strongly in both idiom
and accent
Ernst Won Wechmar, of Berlin, claims to
have invented a flying machine that will
make it perfectly possible for humanity to
compete with the birds. The apparatus is
ugly, the wings being about thirty feet by
two, and the body supported by air cushions
as well as by the wings themselves.
Frank Stockton is not satisfied with the
ordinary fame of clever story teller. He
wants to become benefactor and philan-
thropist, and has invented an Illuminated
key hole that will enable men to go home at
any hour of the night and be able to get in
without rousing the neighborhood.
When the late D. R. Locke, ''Nasby," Of
The Toledo Blade, was alive, he took par
ticular pride in the fact that none of his
buildings bad ever been damaged by fire. 1t
is a singular fact that since his death three of
his best edifices erected by him in Toledo
have caught fire and in each instance at the
top of the building.
Three years ago harsh voiced man, John
Steiner by name, stood on State street, Chi
cago, offering Twenty -four sheets of note
paper for a nickel Today, il is stated, he is
the owner of the leading stationery store in
a town of 1900 inhabitants in Iowa; and he
made his start selling quire of writing paper
for five cents on one Of the busiest streets in
Chicago
Samuel J. Tilden never spoke of his wealth,
but it was varIously estimated all the way
from S4 100000 TO S10,OO0,000. His executors
have lately stated in court that his assets
have footed up S5,22225, 600 in real and personal
property. 1t was also admitted that after
the legacies provided for in the will are paid
over S4,OUV,UUU Will remain Tor the erection OF
three public libraries contemplated by Mr..
Tilden in New York, Yonkers and New
Lebanon, where he was born.
The postmistress of the Iowa assembly is
Mrs. Hunter; her assistant is Miss Murray
The enrolling and engrossing clerks in the
senate are Miss Stuttsman and Mrs. Stull
In the house the enrolling clerk is Nettie E.
Lorimer; the engrossing clerk, Mrs. Heist.
A woman has the position Of doorkeeper in
the ladies' gallery of the house, and little
Miss Wright is one of the house pages. A
number of women serve as committee clerks.
In writing of Mrs. Potter, one is called
upon to treat of a strange mixture of pretty
womanhood and bad art. Mrs. Potter has
most pleasing person, and she would seem to
have been endowed with what Balzac has
termed the gift of charm. She had in abun-
dance the golden brown hair which Apuleius,
telling OF Fotis, has immortalized; her ewes
are furtive, and furtive eyes have always a
strange fascination; her figure is slight al
most to girlishness Without wishing to
appear in the role of an interpreter of the
designs of divinity, We cannot forbear sug-
gesting that it must appear to all who have
seen Mrs. Potter and have sat under her act
ing that Mrs. Potter was created to adorn a
domestic circle.