The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-08-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Rustomjee Pestomjee Jehangir is
the mellifluous name of an East Indian
who has written pamphlet advocat-
ing the use of opium as a cure for vari-
GUS ills which flesh is heir to. He
should be engaged as press agent for a
poor theatrical show.
Edgar Scott, of Philadelphia, son
of the late Thomas Scott will visit
Sweden and Norway this summer in
his yacht. On reaching the age of
twenty-one in August last he came in
to an income of 81, 900, 900, and this will
be doubled when he is twenty-five.
Thomas Allen, OF Tyler county, w.
Va, may be said to have earned his
hngton in the wars with Napoleon, I'M
der Gen. Scott in the Mexican war, and
at the age of seventy-two enlisted for
service in the late civil war. He is now
one hundred and three years old.
1t is said that Mrs. Leland Stan
ford has one of the most remarkable
collections of jewels in the world.
They are valued at $4,000, 900, and in
clude set of pink, set of blue, "a set
lClAOWs anu d oCO III NhAbC 0ldhlOhNtSs
Some of these gems were owned by the
Empress Eugene and by Queen Isabella
of Spain.
Mrs. Mary Ann Rice, who lately
died in California, was the wife of the
late John B. Rice, twice mayor of Chi
eago and long resident of that city.
Mrs Rice was a member of the famous
Warren family of Philadelphia, being
a sister of William Warren and cou-
sin of Joseph Jefferson. She was promi-
nent in all charitable works.
Mr. Dobbins writes to the Pitts
burgh Dispatch that the very objec-
tionable bit of slang, 1.-The wind blew
through his whiskers," is not Ameri-
can at all. In fact it was first used by
an Englishman, one Dan Chaucer, who
wrote the Canterbury Tales" In the
tale of THE Shipman" occurs this re-
markable line: with many tempest
had his beard been shake"
Hillary Hopkins, a colored man, re-
siding in Suburba, Tex, is anxious to
find his two brothers, Ike and Harry
Bolden, the sons of Fanny Bolden, who
were raised near Decatur, Ala. At a
slave sale on Judge Hammond's farm,
near Huntsville, Ala, they were sold In
different lots, and became separated.
Ike and Harry were taken by their
owner, w. tray Bolden. to Texas, and
have not been heard from since.
The late Nelson Sargent, of Denver,
had the distinction of starting the first
stage coach out of that city when it
was struggling little frontier village.
Another distinction he had was that of
literally sinking 81, 100000 in Chicago
land in 1878, the property proving to
be swamp land of the least desira Bile
kind. During his later years his veneer
able figsre was known to everybody in
Denver, even to the newly-arrived
''tendeTfoot."
John Tenniel, the old Punch ear
toonist, whom the queen has recently
knighted, did more than any other
British comic artist to develop the
typical John Bull as we know him
pictorially. OF course he did nos in
vent the cartoon, but the top boots, the
low-crowned hat, the waistcoat. and
the stout walking stick of the plethoric
Briton as represented in the comic
journals were more strikingly por-
trayed by Tennie's pencil than by any
other.
- Samuel Smiles says that when the
manuscript of his most popular work
was offered to Messrs. Routledge the
book trade was upset by the Crimean
war, and the volume was declined.
Eventually it was brought out by Mr..
Murray, and within year twenty thou
sand copies of 1t were sold. Since then
it has been translated into all the Ian
guages of Europe. Mr.. Smiles has
had varied career, having been a
country physician, a newspaper editor,
and secretary of a railway company.