The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-18
PERSONAL AND rMPERsoNAL

Rev. w. T. D. GLENN, who died in
Baltimore a few days ago at the age of
eighty, performed in 1s49 the burial
service over the poet Edgar Allan Poe,
whose cousin he was, and to whom he
was also related by marriage. Poe's
wife, Virginia GLENN, was a cousin of
Rev. Mr.. GLENN.
-Charcot used to prescribe certain
chapters of lola as the surest emetic
known to him; other works of the same
master and his disciples were, in his
opinion, valuable as narcotics. He
used to say the best shop for narcotics
was at Medan, where the author of
s'Nana" lives; there an infallible
''drowsy sirup'' could always be got for
three and one-half francs.
The new car of Russia is great
worker and shows remarka BILE capacity
for taking in and digesting details. He
is very methodical about his work and
takes up public business at an early
hour in the morning, often working
steadily until late at night He came
into no sinecure when he mounted the
throne of all the Russias, and the cares
of state are heavier than ever since his
recent arousing of nihilistic antago-
nism.
Miles Crowley, the new member
from Texas, seems destined to main
tain his states reputation for sending
men of original personality to con-
gress. He is a Boston boy by BIRTH
and Texans call him F'Sir Miles" His
first employment in the Lone Star
state was as a 1ongshoreman at Gal
weston. After becoming a boss steve
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elected to the Legislature. Crowley is
a man of about forty years, of rugged
appearance.
Harriet A. Eskins, who died at
Lebanon, Pa, last week, was born on
the eastern shore of Maryland in 1888,
112 years ago, and was descendant of
an African king. Her grandfather,
whose name was Lego, was king of one
of the tribes on the coast of Guinea
and was one of the last of the native
kings of Guinea. He was deposed after
the middle of the last century, captured
by slavers, and was brought to Amer
lea in a slave ship with his son, the
father of Mrs. Eskins.
An old sailor who had drawn PEN
sion for seventy-three years died recent
ly near Rochester, England. He was car
ried off by a press gang when nine
years old, served at the bombardment
of Algiers in 1916, and had his leg
broken by a falling spar in storm
when he was seventeen. His thigh
bone was removed, but after three
years in a hospital he was enabled to
walk with an artificial support for his
leg. He drew boys pension of $50 a
year, as he was not twenty when hurt,
learned the cobbler's trade and worked
| at it till the week before his death, at
ninety-three.
"A large number of letters by
Charles Lamb, written between 1910
and 1920 to friends in Birmingham.a and
previously unknown. were recently
discovered in a collection of old letters
of the first quarter of the century at
Birmingham. In one he writes. ''There
| is quiet dignity in old bachelorhood,
a leisure from care, noise, etc., an en-
thronisation upon the armchair of a
mans feeling that he may sit, walk,
read unmolested, to none accounta BILE. F."
In another he sayss 81 know you have
chosen to take up high opinion of my
moral worth; but say it before God,
and do not lie, you are mistaken in
me- / could not bare to lay open all
my failings to you, for the sentiment
of shame would be too pungent.''