Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-02-29
NOTES CONCERNING NoTABLes.

What the Newspapers Say About Men and
Women who Are Famous.
Kossuth is the healthiest man for his age in
| Europe. He is 81.
Sam Small saws that nine-tenths of the rows
at home among the children are started by
! the girls.
| Senator Cockren is credited with having
/ ased three gallons Of ink in his private cor
respondence last year.
George Gould's head is larger than his
fathers. The son wears IS hat, while that
of Gould pere is only q IA.
Bismarck has boycotted James Gordon
Benefits Cable company because James
Gordon Benefits Paris paper abused Bis
marck
The Marquis of Ailsa is the only nobleman
in Scotland who can style himself a ship
builder For years the marquis has carried
on a business of this kind at Culzean, on the
AYRSHIRE coast. He does not care whether
the lords school keeps or not.
Mime. Christine Nilsson says in letter TO
a Philadelphia friend that she is a constant
rheumatic sufferer, and she fears that she
will be Obliged TO close her professional ca
reer at once. She adds that she has not even
contemplated another American tour.
Whistler has published in London 100 sets
Of Autographs engraved on the stone with
his own hand and printed by Way. He is
said to have shown his usual spirit and art
istic worth in this revival of an art almost
extinct in our day among artist of repute.
Although Miss Louisa N. Alcott lives in
that town of literary inspiration, Concord,
1
ton. There she takes a room where she can
be perfectly retired and quiet, and with a
bottle of ink by her side and lap tablet on
| her knee, she writes until her task is done
She says that there is something in the east
winds of Boston that stimulates her brain.
| Frank R. Stockton. the novelist, said re-
Gently that he first worked on The Philadel-
phia Post and found the work not very hard
Then he went to New York as a writer of
short editorials on a weekly called Hearth
and Home, and he found the work there
much harder. Then he tried Scribners
Monthly, where the work became harder
still, and he feared that he might be en-
ployed on an annual and break down.
The Safety Valve says that the chemist of
the Alpha Oil company, of Port Sarnia, Ont,
is young lady, an adopted daughter of Mr..
Hall, whose process of refining is in use in
the establishment. She is very skillful in her
profession, and recently succeeded in anal
wing the oils treated at the works, by means
of a spark from Bunsen battery, in an ap-
paratus of her own design. She accomplished
the separation of the carbons into grains
while collecting the gases in separate cham
tersn
| Harriet Beecher Stowe is intensely inter-
ssted in the ministerial work of her son, the
Rev Charles Stowe, who has a church in
Hartford, Conn. Mr.. Stowe is Congrega-
tionalist, with radical tendencies. He is a
strong preacher, and his mother, who is now
an old and feeble woman, finds her greatest
pleasure in life in listening to his sermons.
His church is some distance from Mrs.
Stoves house, but, no matter what may be
the weather, the famous writer of "Uncle
Toms Cabin never fails TO occupy her pew
on Sunday morning.
Harry Harland, the young gentleman who
writes over the pen name of Sidney Luska,"
has been accused of being unfriendty to the
Jews, and few nights since he appeared in
his own defense before a society of Jewish
young men in New York. The amusing part
of this accusation is that Mr.. Harland writes
so enthusiastically of the Jewish race and
makes the heroes and heruines of all his
tnovels of that faith, that those who only
know him by his writings supposed Of course
that he was Hebrew. He is not. however,
but comes of an old New York family He
did not even marry into the race he admires
so much. His wife is the daughter of Mr..
James S. Merriam, q well known New York
lawyer.