Wisconsin Afro-American., 1892-11-19
WELL TO THE FRONT.

HAMILTON FISH is now the sole sur
vivor of those distinguished men who
| held the governorship of New York
| prior to 1879.
PNrER LOUIS MARTIN, the new general
| of the Jesults, is native of Spain, but
| is of French descent. He studied theOl-
ogy in France.
L. r. GuNBY. of Tampa, Fla, is col
lector of customs at that place, 81 years
| old, boyish looking, and said to be the
youngest collector in the country.
TIE Gar has put his hand into his
pocket for good purpose. lie has CIV
en- 100000 for the establishment of a
medical school for women in st. Peters
burg.
TENNYSON destroyed a mass of his
letters and manuscripts a few years ago
in a fit of alarm, caused by his reading
Froude's "Reminiscences of Thomas
| Carlyle"
Mrs. PYNE is the first woman COM
positor who has been admitted into the
London Typesette1s' Union, and will
| receive the same rate per 900 as is paid
| to the men.
LADY TENNYSoN, widow of the late
Lord Tennyson, has gone from Hasle-
mere to Lymington for change of
scene. She is very much prostrated
with grief.
THOMAS JERRoLD, son Of Douglas Jer-
| rold, a recognized authority in horticul-
| tural matters, is going to write book
based upon his observations while farm
| ing in Canada.
Nj. PASTEUR attains the age of 20 years
two days aFor next Christmas, and a
DANISH society, that of phyai@sol and
chemical sciences, will offer HIM a
medal on that occasion.
COUNTESS BRAzZA DI SAvARoGNAN, sis
ter-in-law Of the celebrated African
traveller, has founded three schools for
teaching lacemaking to little girls out of
their school and working hours.
SECRETARY FOSTER is the thirtyfrst
secretary of state, and six of his thirty
predecessors became Presdent-Jetfer-
son, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy
Adams, Van Buren, and Buchanan.
w. NJ. CONWAY, a daring English
mountaineer, has succeeded in chm bing
to the top OF one of the peaks of the
Hindu kush range, on the borders of
Kashmir, to the height of %, 900 feet.
TIE Dowager Duchess of Sutherland
will not be badly fixed. financially
even if the English section of the family
do ostracize her. Her Florida estates
will produce an annual rental Of $780,
| 900.
PROF. WILLIAM ID. WHITNEY, of Yale,
has been appointed a member of the
advisory council ofthe Worlds congress
auxiliary of the Columbian Exposition
in the department of archaeology and
| philology.
WALTER BEsANT has been setting as
clearly as possible a much vexed ques-
| uon-the proper pronunciation of
his namely stating that he prefers to
have 1t uttered with the stress on the
last syllable.
Mrs. HARRTsON'S portrait, to be paint
ed by anartist not yet selected, has been
provided for by the Daughters of the
American Revolution in Washington and
will be sent to adorn the gallery in the
White House.
Miss LoTTIE YOUNG, of North Han
over, Mass, will 60 gliding down the
ages as the only woman who ever drove
twenty-three nails in three minutes
without smashing finger or having the
hammer head fly off.
A BOOM for a female laureate has
started Up IL England among women
who believe that a woman sovereign
would appoint woman to succeed
Tennyson. Miss Ingelow is mentioned
In this connection.
ACCORDING to the Chicago papers Col.
Ingersoll has been offered the prncelv
sum of $4,000 on signing the contract
for $50 lectures to be delivered in diff
ferent cities ia the United States. He
declined the offer.
THE vacancy in the Order of the Gar
ter. resulting from the death of the
Duke of Sutherland, has been filled by
the conierring of the insignia of the
order upon the Earl of Rosebery, the
imperial minister of foreign affairs.
CAPT. CHARLES KING. author of
many military novels, K. H. Savage,
who wrote my Official Wife" and
Prof. Arthur S. Hardy, writer of 'But
Yet Woman" and other books, were
all cadets together at West Point in
1865.
a. T. PARKER, who was one Of the SOL
diers of the Gordon reliefexpedition, is
now street car conductor in Oakland,
Cal, and doesn't find much comfort in
the medal for bravery given him by the
Queen of England and the khedive of
Egypt.
A STATUE is to De erected at Bar-le- |
Duo, In France, to Ernest MlChauX, |
who is supposed to have invented the |
yeloclpede and thereby paved the way |
for the bicycle. Michaux was a black
smith and constructed his first wheel"
in 1915, just half a century ago.
j. V. n. STANDIsH, the new president |
of Lombard University, Galesburg, H.,
claims descent from the famous Puritan
captain of that name who came over in
the Mayflower. He is a native of Yer
mont, and has been professor of mathe-
matics of Galesburg since 1854.
PRoF. c. L. MONROE, who has resigned
the post of chemist at the Newport tor
pedo station in order to accept a chair
in the Columbian University, at Wash
ngton, once received a fright in the
which suddenly turned bis
hair white, although he says ne canpot
now recall the particulars.
GRANT ALLEE, writing in the Idler,
saws with reference to literature as a
profession: Brain for brain, in no
market can you sell your abilities to
such poor advantage. Don't take to