The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

DIR. David William Cheever, wht
has lately resigned his professorship OF
surgery in the Harvard medical school,
is one of the Oldest of the active sur
geons Of Boston.
The late Admiral Tryon, who went
down with the Victoria, was direct
descendant of Gov. Tryon, the colonial
governor of New York during the rev.
dictionary war, who assisted at the
burning of Norwalk, Conn. and watched
the confagration from a neighboring
hill.
Secretary Hoke Smith goes to cab
met meetings on horseback. The spec
tacle of the secretary galloping smart
ly along in the wake of the carriages
containing the other cabinet officers
astonished some people at first, but
Washington has now grown accustomed
to the sight.
"A Miss Johnson has won honors at
Cambridge university, England, equiv
alent to those of a Fifth Wrangler. 1t
is said to be better than any woman
had hitherto done in the mathematical
tripos. She is Cambridge girl, and
was teacher there when she was
"discovered' and given Newnham
scholarship.
DIR. William Everett, who has been
elected to congress as the successor of
Henry Cabot Lodge, is described as one
OF the frankest, most truthful and
mildest hammered of men, but when he
is reused to frenzy he is terrible Some
one who knows him says that when he
gets excited she is a cyclone with
tornado sauce"
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps was only
thirteen when her first story was pub
lished, and she was twenty when her
"Gates Ajar" brought her celebrity,
so that she is usually thought to
be much older than she really is, her
name having been SO long before the
public. She does all her literary work
between a. m. and 1 p. m.
N. c. Creole, the Colorado mine
owner, after whom the town Of Creede
was named, is fifty-one years old and
was born in Indiana. He began as a
prospector in Colorado soon after the
war, and. as he says, was lucky from
the start. Mr.. Creole said to San
Francisco reporter recently that he
and his two partners had received for
two months past one hundred and
eight thousand dollars month from
their Creole mines.
Andrew Lang takes occasion to re-
mark in commenting on the Critics
popular voting contest on the ten best
American books that with Haw-
thorne's, Poe's, are out of all reckoning
the best short tales in the language"
Consequently he deplores the fact that
only twenty righteous persons gave
Edgar the Unluclzy" vote Concern
ing Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter."
which ranked second next to Elmer
sons Essays') in this poll, Mr.. Lang
says: Probably English opinion would
place Hawthorne highest among the
imaginative writer's of America
The oldest man and woman in Penn
sylvania, and probably in the United
States, according to their own figures,
are Mary Mcdonald, aged one hundred
and twenty-eight, and John Gibson,
aged one hundred and twenty-one, both
inmates of the home for aged and in
hrm colored persons in Philadelphia.
Mary Mcdonald declares that she re-
George Washington perfectly,
who patted her on the head one day for
her attention to the comfort of the con-
soldiers quartered at Valley
Forge, near the home of Reese Howell,
her master, where Gen. Washington
WAS a frc0uQnf visitor