Milford chronicle., 1888-08-24
Personal PARAGRAPHS.
Gossip from the Newspapers ConcerniE
Noted Men and Women.

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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 Isleof Shoals.
Henri Rochefort has delicate face, with
fine hewn features, white hair, mustache and
imperial and heavily lidded 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 Leeeh, of
Punch, having long supported themselves by
teaching school, are now in age in actual
want, and subscription is being taken in
England for their relief
Robert J. Burdette has been taking a 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
laudanum he paid all his bills, got all his
property in the most portable condition and
left the most minute directions for his fun
eral and burial.
The woman despising German emperor has
consented that bust of q 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, a
seaman on the revenue cutter Corwin, now in
the harbor there. For raising a disturbance
on board ship be was put in irons, but giving
his wrists a sudden wrench he snapped the
tough steel bracelets as if they had been made
of paper
Countess Chendon de Brialless, known in
Paris as a clever amateur actress, has got
herself talked about by recent balloon trip
she made with her husband. The cars were
too slow to suit this couple, and so they
started in a balloon from Paris for their coun-
try seat at Epernay. What is more, they got
there safely, and descended in the grounds of
their chateau before their servants and fur
niture had arrived
Miss Alice B. Farley, of Port Hudson, La,
is fragile little woman physically, but she
has strength Of mind enough to conduct a
large cotton plantation successfully. She
threw into planting all the enthusiasm and
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ing feminine accomplishments, and today no
cotton produced in the state ranks higher
than that which comes from her plantation.
Mary Anderson finds boating on the
Thames great relaxation after hard theat-
rical work She will row four miles at a
stretch, and is as fresh at the finish as at the
start. She dresses for this exercise in blue
flannel dress intersected with knife pleating
Of white, with lines of gold braid, sailor
blouse bodice and skirt, and white straw
sailor hat with wide ribbon band and up
right bunch Of loops. No corset, tOurnure or |
dragging skirts interfere with her work.
F. o. Young, who is said to be tie finest
pistol shot on the Pacific coast, has but one
hand and one eye. His mother accidentally |
knocked his eye out in fogging him for some |
youthful indiscretion, and his father acci- |
countered the most astounding adventures |
with wild and tame animals, and has been
struck by lightning once or twice, and yet be |
has won numerous prizes as a pistol shot, |
and has been called the champion left /
handed penman of the world"
Carmen SYLVIA the queen Of Rounlania. /
is having poets chamber" built, wherein |
to write her poems. 1t is constructed OF |
rlaHl
In the niche Of the hedge cages of singing /
birds are hidden, and in one corner there is /
a fountain Of perfumed water In the mid |
die of the room is a messy bank and a great |
block of rock that is also covered with moss
and hewn in the form of a writing desk.
Upon this moss grown stone the queen poetess
will indite her verses The ground is covered
with thick, soft carpet Of green turf, and
hammock is slung on one side with golden
cords.
One night John R. Mclean, editor of The
Cincinnati Enquirer was seated at his desk
up to his eyes in business, when bumptious
young reporter strolled in from the city ed.
itor's room, and, seating himself familiarly
near the editor-in-chief, inquired in an of
hand way, well, Mac, how does the news
pan out to-nightp Not in the least discon-
eerted by the extraordinary conduct of his
who, by the way, was "a new
conner on the paper and hardly known to
him, Mr.. Mclean responded in an apparently
pleasant way: Don't coll me Mac it seems
% stiff; call me Johnny" He didn't call
again
Judge Joe Holt, who was in Buchanan's
'abinet and was afterwards judge advocate
general, is leading a very lonely life in Wash
ngton, according to a correspondent, who
describes him as driving through the streets
N his way to market in an old, broken down
'ehicle, the driver being rough looking old
,olOred man. Judge Holt, continues the
writer, ''lives in great seclusion in a large
louse on Capitol hill, surrounded in part by
. brick wall and in part by high iron fence.
ie drives out in this old rig to market, but
le goes no where else, has no companions and
have never seen him stop his carriage to
peak with any one or even to look from the
window to bow. His house stands on a high
errace, with considerable grouSd around it,
nd within its gate his old servant is his only
Betting or Criminals Fate.
The sports are certainly irrepressible Now
hat there is no chance of Maxwell escaping