The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-05-19
FACT AND FANCY.

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Col. Jerome Bonaparte win summer at New
port
The Tichborne CLAIMANT has started back to
England.
Joe jefferson Is reported to have fortune
OF $4,000.
Herr Most and Mrs. Lucy Parsons are at
loggerheads.
Belasco and De Mile are to get up a new
play for Sothern.
Stuart Robson has been on the stage for
thIrty-fivc years.
Susan Coolidge has written "Short HIS
tory of Philadelphia"
Sam. Small intends to start a Prohibition
paper Ia Washington.
Kate Claxton has bought $4,000 Dat In
Forty second street. New York.
Stevenson, author OF "Dr Jexyll," has
not entered theater In ten years.
DIR. Leila G. Bedell Of Chicago, is said TO
have a practice worth 5000 year.
William Henry Smith win deliver tho
chief address at the Marietta anniversary.
Lord and Lady Lansdowne win leave Can
ada for England In the last week OF May.
Wilson Barrett talks OF coming to this
country TO get materials for another story.
Augustin DAILY paid $1,000 for floral
decorations used at the little supper to Henry
Irving.
Mrs. r. ID. E. N. southworth has had $50
girl babies named after the heroIncs OF her
stories.
Theodore Roosevelt has, been traveling.n
Tennessee looking up material for new
literary work.
Rider Hsggard says that he has lost $780,
600 on account Of there being no intcrna-
tIonal copyright
Herbert Spencer works three hours day
debating all his writings His favorite re-
creation Is Billiards.
Nine. Schumann. n London writer says,
has within the past few years become slen-
der aud erhaircd.
An autograph letter OF Edgar Allen Poe,
written on February 20. Is4S. sold at auction
IN New York last week for Ss5
King Kalakaua is going to settle down to
hard work and become n coffee planter. He
finds there is more In II than In being q
king.
Prof. Brown .Sequard has been making
experiments which prove that the human
breath Is capable OF producing poisonous
effects.
Mrs. Celia Taxter who passed the winter
at Boston, Is now at her home at the Isles OF
Shoals, where she will remain through the
summer.
The late Chief Justice Waite once remarked
that he was better acquainted with Bart
letrs Familiar Quotations" than with the
united States Digest"
Rumored that George C. Min has found
Syndicate to back him, and that he Is prepar-
Ing 10 startle the county next season with q
new play called Napoleon"
Historian Baucrofrs health Is not vigorous
enough to permit TO his working regularly on
his "Life OF Polk" but he puts in an hour or
SO on the book now and then.
His friend say OF William Shirley. of On
tario. that he fought under Wellington at
Waterloo, that he walks two miles to church
each Sunday, and that he is lo3 wears old.
Slnday-school teacher: Tommy do You
know what the meaning of "amen' isi'' Tom
my: "Yes'm; It's what the people say when
they think it's time for the minister to stop"
Lord DufferIn In advertising for copies OF
all letters written by his mother, who Is well
remembered as the Countess Gifford-t
is believed with the purpose OF compiling a
memoir.
Justice Waite's Judgments" says the
London Times were always marked by good
sense, and he worthily succeeded n limo
OF judges OF whom America may well be
proud"
II wish knew what TO preach about next
Sunday" said Rev. Mr.. smoothtcxt "Preach
against the evil OF Riches" suggested the
elder; there isn't man In our church worth
over $1,000.
Nine. Janauscheks name is pronounced in
three or four different ways. but her own
way is AZ though the name we're spelled yam
ow-shek." with each syllable plainly sounded.
aud the accent upon the first
Conntryman Tin museum) "Dld that
stick belong to George Washington, misterp'
Explanatory official Qmprcssively): mo,
sir; that Is the cane that killed Abel" Coun-
tryman; GOSH We don't say So"
Boston Sunday -chool teacher, waldo.
who was the strongest mani' Waldo (hesi-
tatingly); "Wcll, / did know, but I've for.
got" Teacher: think for n moment
Waldo; the name begins with 81 Waldo:
"Oh, yes; Sullivan"
James Redpath. after fifteen months OF con-
slant sojourn In the valley OF the shadow OF
death, after having been pronounced hope
lessly incurable by the best physicians 10 New
York, and after suffering i've strokes Of paral-
ysis, is at last convalescenL
Husband Ito wife, home from church)s
"service interesting this morning, my dearp'
Wife; Not particularly 90. Mrs. Carlton
Pell's baby was baptized, and they say It's
baptsmal robe OF lace cost $500 I think