Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-08-16
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

| PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Gossip from the Newspapers Concerning
Noted Men and Women.
The empress of Japan is making great
progress on the piano.
Edison says he tries nothing that doesn't
promise dollars and cents
Ellen Terry always carries a mysterious
little sealed bottle for luck.
Mrs. Celia Thaxter has been giving read
ings of her own poems at the Isle of Shoals
Henri Rochefort has delicate face, with
6ne hewn features, white hair, mustache and
imperial and heavily iidded eyes
A Nebraska girl chose for her graduating
essay the subject, 'The Possibilities of the
Broom and in three weeks received and ac-
cepted an offer Of marriage.
The ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico is not,
as lately reported, in i'll health Physically
she is as sound as ever, but her mind shows
no sign Of regaining its normal condition
Three sisters of the famous John Leech, of
Punch, having long supported themselves by
] teaching school, are now in age in actual
want, and a subscription is being taken in
| England for their relief
Robert J. Buriette has been taking ram
BILE through the Rocky mountains He says
he waited long time for the mountains to
come to him and finally made up his mind
that he would have to follow in the footsteps
| of Mahomet
John Francis Charles Herod, of Baltimore,
set good example to people contemplating
suicide. Before he took the fatal dose OF
laudsnum he paid all his bills, got all his
property in the most portable condition ana
left the most minute directions for his fun
eral and burial.
The woman despising German emperor has
consented that bust of a woman shall have
place among the memorial statuary at the
University of Berlin. The person thus hon.
ored is the late Countess Louise Rose, who
left fortune to the university for the aid of
poor medical students and the promotion of
medical research.
San Francisco newspapers are discussing
the wonderful strength OF Hans Hausen, q
seaman on the revenue cutter Corwin, now in
the ha-bor there For raising a disturbance
on board ship he was put in irons, but giving
his wrists a sudden wrench he snapped the
'ough steel bracelets as if they had been made
of paper.
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