The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-10-15
MEN AND. WOMEN.

Friedrich Spielhogen, the mos
popular German novelist, recently
celebrated his SEVENTEEN birthday.
james Russell Lowell says he 4:
going to spend the remainder of hi,
life in this country. He is quite
pleased with America.
Capt. Parsons is the oldest living
male born in Wilkesbarre, Pa. His
yearly rentals from coal lands amount
to over $35, 900.
The President has appointed a
man named Friday collector at Ian.
caster, Pa. Fridays selection is iii.
rect challenge to the Harrison hoo
doo."
Senator Hiscock is still uncer-
tain as to whether his candidate fol
the commissioners of pensions is to be
major Poole or a minor Poole.
Henry Bradley, the head porter
of the Lafayette Hotel, Philsdelphia,
is said to have made 100000 out of
his position. He owns a 5000
house, in which he lives in great COM
fort and some luxury.
Lieutenant John p. Finley,
signal corps, United States army, has
been detached from Washington to
the signal office at B ,ston, Mass. He
takes with him important data con-
corning the laws of tornado forma-
ton, collected under his direct super
vision since 1877. The average fire.
suency of these destructive visitations
will become better known with his
improved fluctuations of later facts.
The wife of the late s. ). Cox
was his inseparsble companion; she
shared all his plans and made bis life
her own. Mr.. and Mrs. Cox we're
not only a devoted couple, but she
was like partner to him in his bust
ness, sharing his confidence in every
thing. Mr.. Cox has left the Ms. of
an unfinished book which he intended
to be his life work. He wrote the
most of if at his desk in congress,
where the scene is laid.
Boston is enjoying an exhibition
of paintings by William M. Chase.
Mr.. Chase was born in Indiana about
forty years ago, hut he received his
art education in Munich. NOtwith-
standing his German afinities, he
dresses like Frenchman. He points
his beard and turns up the corners of
his mustache. He wears a floating
necktie, and one of those straight
trimmed, tall-crowned silk hats that
are peculiar to the boulevards Of Paris.
The late DR.. Well, the distin-
guished Orientalist and German his
tOrian, had the honor of being the
first Israelite who was ever admitted
to professorship in the University
of Heidelberg. DR.. Well held the
chair of oriental languages there from
1861 until his death. He had tray
eled extensively, and studied Persian,
Turkish and Arabic in Cairo, Egypt,
and was at the same time engaged in
the public schools there as French
professor and interpreter.
-Cardiual Manning's habits of life
are said to be conducted with u regu-
larity that rivals the exactness of
railway time table. His chief meal is
i'm the middle of the day, when he
takes one chop, but the principal ar
ticles in his dietary come from little
farm be has liz the country, whence
he receives milk, crea n, butter and
most of his fruit and vegetables. The
cardinals faculties and sympathies
are not in the least dulled by age, and
bis memory is4emarkable.
"A schoolgirl frolic was given in
honor of Mrs. Cleveland by her col.
lege mates during her recent trip to
Buffalo, The refreshments were crack
ers. passed around in paper bags, and
the pickles were out in force, while
sardines were eaten with fingers,
and relished as in the old days of dor
mitories and early rising. The occa-
sion was enlivened by Renaissance of
schooldsy escapades, when oysters
were fried over a gasjet, and cheese
toasted on hairpins.
Mrs. Hallam Tennyson, the
daughter-in-law of the poet, lives with
her husbands family, and has entire
charge of the dairy connected with
the poets estate on the Isle of Wight.
The milk and butter of this dairy are
in great demand and bring a high
price. 1t is a coincidence that the
son-in-law of our laureate, James
Russell Lowell, has a famous dairy at
SouthboroHgh, Mass, and the butter
of Deerfoot Farm Is as well known In