Iron County register., 1892-02-25

The late ex-Gov. Paul Dillin CHAM
OF Vermont, always used the append
age of ''Jr. to his name, though almost
ninetY-one years of age.
Among the manuscripts left by the
late Count Won Moltke, Prof. Felix
Dahn, his biographer, has found a
Confession of Faith The great
marshal affirms his belief in God and q
future life. The Confession" will be
published among the other works.
-George Washington's nearest living
Kin is Mrs Fanny Washington Finch
OF Washington. ID. c., great-grand
niece OF the Father of his Country She
Is tall. majestic woman. and in fea.
lures resembles the portraits of her dis
tinguished relative. She is the young
est and the only survivor OF twelve chill.
dreu.
One of the most influential men in
Copenhagen is Herr Councillor Fersler
who owns five newspapers: National,
Ildende, Dagens Nyheder, Aftenposten,
Dags-Tele rafen and Dagbladet. With
the exception of Berlingslxe the Tiden-
de and Avisen, Herr Fersler controls
every conservative paper in the Danish
capital.
-EObert J. Burdette is making his
mark Is preacher, and can get off as
good Il sermon as he can write Joke
AND his pulpit utterances are free from
dlsagreeable drawbacks. There is no
editor to blue-pencil his happy thoughts,
and the foreman doesn't come around
to announce that he has mo room for
that stuff"
Mrs James T. Field of Boston. the
wife of the publisher, is said to possess
one OF the most valuable literary col
lections in the world In the library
are numbers of valuable MSS. and au-
tograph letters, and in the garden, at
the rear of the house, grow trees which
were planted by many famous authors
and public men.
Richard Mansfield, the actor is the
SON of Nine. Rudershoff, the once ia
nous opera-singer and musical in
structor She was much opposed to her
sons choice of the stage as Il profession.
MIR. Mansfield was successfully engaged
in business in the dry-good house of
Jordan, Marsh & Co. in Boston before
he began his career as an actor.
1t Is said that Amelie Rives will ap-
ply the money received for her new
novel According to st. John" in the
interests of a friend. The book con-
tains the impressions of Paris received
by the writer during her stay there
She is credited with saying: 81 have
worked very hard and hope | have
quieted down the extravagances of style
which offended people SO much. l con-
slider the things | do now as simply
studies, and l am searching all the
while
The empress dowager of China is a
strorg-minded lady and rules her fam
lily with an iron hand. She is a woman
of powerful physique, and SO strikingly
and of so firm and strong a
disposition that all wills must bend to
hers When the emperor inadvertently
does something to displease her he is
made to regret it, and as for his poor
little wife, she has nothing to say at
all. She isn't even allowed to have a |
good time, as she might have if she |
were left alone.
Mr.. Whittier recently said in re-
gard to skipper Ireson's Ride the |
controversy concerning which has |
broken out again: 81 thought / had |
made all the amends possible for that. |
The story was told me by an old school
mate, and l cast it in verse form When
the fact was made known to me that
not Skipper Ireson but his crew were
for the abandonment of
the wrecked ship, l SO stated it in my
published poems. / would not inten.
do harm to anyone"