The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1893-02-04
MENTION.

Lord coleridge has decilued an earldom,
which would remove him from the bench.
The mild insanity of the Duke of Norfolk
is the collection of blotting paper and pads.
1t is an absorbing fad.
The new Lord Tennyson is said TO have
very little interest in poetry except for the
face value it possesses at the publishers.
.. Elk President Chamberlain, of the Iowa
Agricultural college, is now farming in
Ohio. His property has an extent of lt5
acres
Samuel Morris, who married General
Harrison's sister, is court reporter for the
indianapolis journal, and has remained
virtually unknown outside that city
Rev. DIR. Talmage preached a sermon re-
Gently in which he attacked the old super
stition concerning Friday This caused
the Thirteen club Of New York to elect
him an honorary member
Baron Hirsch is said by a London news
paper to be the richest man the world has
ever known, the statement being that he
is worth $4,000. 600 a year. This implies a
capital of about $500, 600, 600
Judge Shepherd, the newly appointed
chief justice of the supreme court Of North
Carolina, and said to be the youngest man
that ever held the position, began business
life rs a telegraph operator in Washington.
Mr.. Gladstone has never promoted his
eldest son, the rector of Hawarden, OF his
son in-law, Rev Harry Drew, who is still
a curate. Every one OF the Hawarden
household. it IL said. earns his or her daily
bread
BY his family name the Earl of Dun.
raven would be plain Mr.. Quin, but in ad-
dition to the Dunraven title he is Earl OF
Mount Earl. Viscount Mount Earl, Wis
count Adare, Baron Adare. Baron kenny
and a baronet.
One of the new Virginian representatives
in the Fifty third congress will be Mr.. j..
w. Marshall, OF Craig county, better
known as Cyclone JIM" an original and
rapid talker, II master of repartee and a
good story teller
James II. Carleton, of Haverhill, Mass.
has purchased a part of the Whittier home
stead and will present it to the city Of
Haverhill with such conditions rs will
cause it to remain a memorial of John
Greenleaf Whittier forever.
General Dodds, the victorious French
commander in Dahomey, has African blood
in his veins, derived through his mother.
But a circumstance of this sort does not
detract from the esteem in which a great
man is held by Frenchmen.
James Stephens, the former Fenian head
center, is at present living with his wife in
a cottage at Il seaside resort near Dublin,
which. with a small income, was presented
to him about n year ago by his friends and
admirers He is now sixty eight years of
<
Louis Couion, a French sculptor, is said
to he the owner of the longest beard in the
world. He can fold it like IA plaid around
his arm or twist it around his neck like a
lady's boa Though gray it is still grow
ing, and from present indications will soon
touch the ground
Lord Randolph Churchill first met his
wife (then Miss Jerome. of New York; at a
dinner party in Paris, and soon found that
he had met his match in repartee. When
the ladies had withdrawn Lord Randolph
turned to Il friend and said. That's the
brightest woman ever met. and | mean
to marry her
Augustin DAILY is a devoted book collect
or He will buy "A book at a good price sim
ply to get a picture he wants, and when he
has taken out the picture throw the book
away All the books of his magnificent
library are splendidly illustrated. and in
dozen times ~ much as the original price
of the book