Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-08-02
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The prince of Wales sent an order,
through his bankers for 81, 500 worth of
flowers to be used in decorating st.
Georges church, New York. on Easter
days. The prince has long been an ad-
mirer of the pastor, DIR. Rainsford.
Perhaps it is of interest and not
generally known that the word BEL
voir," the name of President Cleve-
lands new summer home in the sub
urbs of Washington, is the name of a
famous English castle, Belvoir castle,
the seat of the duke of Rutland. It is
pronounced there Beaver
Edmund Law Rogers, of Baltimore,
recently exhibited before an assembly
of dentists a complete set of false teeth
that had been worn by George WASH
lngton. The base plates were of lead
and perfectly fiat. Some of the teeth
were of ivory and others had been ex-
tracted from living person.
Kaiser Wilhelm is now said to pass
good deal of time wondering about
Berlin in disguise. He is reported to
have gone through the Hebrew quarter
of the city recently in the guise of a
Hebrew peddler and to have discussed
the condition of the Hebrews with
great number of the working class of
the race.
Count Leo Tolstoi says he enter
tains general dislike to all poetry, for
the reason that the effort to conform to
the laws and rules of versifcation pre-
vents one from giving a clear, intelli-
gent and comprehensive expression to
ones thoughts, and that he regards
verse as, generally, the production of
literary wantonness, literary frivolity
and literary insolence.
Miss Mary Proctor, of st. Joseph,
Mo-, who.is the eldest daughter of the
late Prof. Richard A. Proctor, the emil
nent astronomer and scientist, who died
of yellow fever in 1889, is endeavoring
to raise funds to purchase n suitable
lot and monument in Greenwood ceme-
terry, Brooklyn, where her distinguished
father is at present buried in bor-
rowed grave that is thoroughly neg
lected.
Mrs Philip Hamilton, widow of the
youngest son of Alexander Hamilton,
who died recently in Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, in her eightieth year, was the eldest
daughter of Louis McLane, of Della
were, minister to England under Pres
ident jackson. She had two sons, DIR.
Allan McLane Hamilton, of New York,
and Capt. Louis Hamilton, of the
Seventh cavalry, U. S. A., who was
killed while leading charge under
Custer.
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Mitchell. of Boston,
has made a special study of Dante, and
has delivered a course of lectures be-
fore the university of Denver and else
where on this subject. She is the
author of work called "a Study of
Philosophy" dealing chiefly with Greek
philosophy, and is one of the little
group of Hegelian students of this
country-the school of thought of
which Prof. William T. Harris is one of
the most prominent members.
Capt James b. Hatch, of Spring
field, Mass, one of the few surviving
old salts of the palmy days of the
American merchant marine, and now
seventy-seven years old, was on the
ship with r. II. Dana when he made
his voyage describe in 1.-Two Years Be-
for the Mast" Capt. Hatch figures in
the book as ''Mr. H. He says of the
book: Il think the things he says are
true, but he stretched them so as to
make them read well. He especially
stretched the truth when he made him
self out to be a good seaman, for he
was only a boy without much expert
ence."