Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-02-18
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

probably the Oldest postmaster In
the land is Roswell Beardsley of North
Lansing, N, Y. He was appointed in
1928, during tho administration of John
Quincy Adams and was then only a
youth of 10 years.
-Zola has quite taste for collecting
curious furniture, rare books, and funny
specimens bric-a.brac. One would inn
agine that he has sufficient funny brio
a-brac in his novels without having it
in his home surroundings.
Judge Strive, of Seattle. ten months
ago lost his voice, and has been travel
ing over the country seeking relief.
After spending FIVE thousand dollars
and receiving no benefit he gave up
in despair. One morning recently he
woke up with his voice as good as ever.
Rev. Tunis G. Campbell, the col
ored Methodist minister who died at
Aston, Mass, few days ago, was
made military governor of the Sea is
lands of Georgia by President Lincoln
just after the fall of Charleston, and
there organized schools and govern
ment. He was native of New Jer-
sey.
Rev. Robert Collyer, OF the Church
of the Messiah, in New York, had fin
ished his sermon the other Sunday. He
announced the hymn and said in his
characteristic manner; Sing better
than you did the last hymn, if you can"
Then he noticed startled expression
among the members of the choir, and
added: 81 mean the congregation"
Caleb Fcote, who is within two
months of eighty years OF age, is prob
ably the oldest newspaper man in the
country in active service. For forty
nine years he has been editor of the
Salem Mass Gazette, and for long
time he was proprietor of that paper.
His entire professional life, except
seven months passed in Europe, has
been devoted to the Gazette.
The whole family of the brilliant
writer, Tolstoi, are working hard to
relieve the furnishing population. The
count himself, with his two daughters,
are at work among the peasants in the
government in Rasan: Nine. Tolstoi is
in Moscow making collections, and two
of his sons have enlisted themselves in
the services of the society of the Red
Cross, which was officially appointed
by the government to work at the dis
tribution OF charity among the hungry
N. Y. Sun.
The princess of Wales father King
Christian of Denmark, is now seventy
three years old. At one time, before
he came to the throne, he was obliged
to give drawing lessons in order to sup
port his family, and the princess O
Wales used to make her old dresse,
over and over again, with excellen
taste, it is said. The kings title il
Christian ~, and his wife, Queer
Louise, is charming and accomplished
woman, who excels as a musician.
Thousands of his acquaintance
envied Herr Sommerfeld the Berlil
banker. Anything that money coul,
procure he had, and the best of every
thing was at his command. A Partisan
tailor made his clothes, frequently Wis
iting the Prussian capital to take hi
measure, with hundreds of cloth sam
pies; his mutton came from Wales, an
his beef from Scotland; he had two dis
tinct kitchens in his residence, one con
troled by French cook, the other b
an Englishman. In every respect hi
personal outlay was princely; yet h
was an unhappy man, and short tim
ago lie closed his career by suicide.