Milford chronicle., 1888-05-11
MORE on LESS FAMOUS.

Stray Bits OF Gossip.
Paul du Chaillu has settled for good in Eng
land.
Pere Hyacinthe is the latest outspoken ad-
herent Of Gen. Boulanger.
The Hon. Proctor Knott has a clock OF
which the works were made at Geneva in
no and the case by an uncle of President
Cleveland in 1870
jefferson Davis says that Horace Greeley
signed his bond out Of pure kindness Of heart.
Davis had never spoken TO the great editor
in his life.
/ Zola, the French novelist, has large head,
high forehead, nose slightly retrousse,
/ dne chin, strong mouth, and sad, dreamy
black eyes, half concealed by glasses. His
shoulders are almost on level with his ears
The death is announced Of Patterson Jolly,
OF Dublin, Ireland, the Oldest printer in the
world. He was lO4 years old, and pulled the
first sheet Of the Edinburgh Journal, more
than seventy years ago.
George NJ. Pullman has as much regard
for the executive ability Of women as for that
Of men, He is always willing to pay
woman "A mans wages il she can do mans
work. He has great many women in his
employ and has high opinion Of their use
fulness.
zola's opinion Of Boulanger is this, accord
ing to Figaros interviewer; "Boulangsr is
stick with a hat on it, hat adorned with
lace and piumes-thatis all. And the worst
Of it is chat this stick meets an III disguised
want Of the nation, want of some kind OF
espotism-royalty, empire, dictatorship,
Gambettism or Boulanglsni."
The only senator who now habitually
wears one of the little black skull caps that
were so common among the senator's a few
years ago is Senator Edmunds, whose head
is so bald as to be very sensitive to the
draughts about the corridors Of the senate
chamber. The custom of wearing the caps
was started by Gen. Burnside and was quite
fashionable for time.
Editor Pinney Of the Winstead lConnl
Press retires from journalism without any
nonsense. In his "valedictory" be says;
"From the customary leave takings Of the
public, with hypOcritical laudation and cheap
thanks for generous patronage | must be
excused. l thank the public for nothing. 1t
has had ample return for all that it has done
for nae, and give it a quit claim for all that
have done for it.n
British residents in Japan are subscribing
for the repair Of the grave of win Adams,
British sailor who was shipwrecked in Japan
in the reign of James l. and who lived for
many years at the court Of Yedo, where be
obtained extraordinary influence His grave
was discovered some years ago on the summit
of one of the hills overlooking the govern
ment arsenal at Yol1osuka, near Yokohama.
Baron Alfred Tennyson, having retired
from the poetical business, is about to start
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baby colonies. A new English settlement is
shortly to be established in the region of the |
Cape of Good Hope. 1t will be peopled by |
number of selected families taken from one |
of the southern counties of England. The |
first party starts in June next The new
settlement is to be called Tennyson, after the |
poet laureate, who for many years past has |
taken great interest in the South African
colonies.
James Gordon Bennett may we'll be called
a citizen of the world. He has house in
New York, one at Newport, one in Paris.
cottage at Bourgival, chateau and farm
thirty miles out Of Paris, a villa at Nice and
a steam yacht to take him across the ocean
or anywhere be wants to go. Air. Bennett is
well on to fifty years Of age, but he does not
look it. His tall form is as straight as an
arrow, his blue eyes as bright as an eagles,
and his mustache golden brown. His hair,
howover, is very gray.
Gen. Sherman lives, with his wife and
at the Fifth Avenue hotel. New
York. The general is now in his 6gth year,
yet few men of 40 have more vitality )r sn-
joy life more thoroughly than this veteran
of the war. st. Gaudens, the sculptor has
a bust Of Gen. Sherman on exhibition at the
Academy Of Design, which is remarkable
for its likeness and the strength of the sculp
tors work. The general is too nervous and
active man to enjoy sitting as long IS It is
necessary when a portrait is concerned, and
it is not likely that he will ever again be So
cured for this purpose
The Beard family are among the most
artistic citizens presented by Ohio to New
York. There are six Of them on the roster
Of the Ohio society; Daniel c., Harry, James
e., J. H., T. Frank and W. IL. Beard Daniel
c. Beard is famous for his cows bears and
other animals Of that ilk which he introduces
into his own stories in St Nicholas and such
publications He is as clever a writer as
artist. T. Frank Beard, who has done a
great deal of excellent work in Judge, is a
small man with a brown beard. w. H.
Beard draws animals in the guise Of human
beings as a specially. James g. Beard is an
adept in natural history and in transferring
his knowledge Of it from brain to finger tips.
John, the only brother left Of the once
famous Hutchinson family, spent few hours
in New York recently, on his way back to his
home in Lynn, Mass, from Washington,
where be went to attend the woman's con-
yention. Though only CO years Of age, Mr..
Hutchinson has the head Of a patriarch. His
iron gray hair falls in thick, curly locks be-
hind his ears, he never having given up the
early fashion of wearing it long A heavy
beard streaked with gray, not silver, hides
the throat but not the wide points of a Byron
collar, which collar certainly does not detract
from the picturesqueness Of TIE head The
lines Of the face are not too prominent. but
with the shaggy, overhanging eyebrows,
gives it a strength perhaps needed The eyes
have the expression and tenderness Of
,yomau's.