Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-03

her marriage at this time, and to the man who has become her husband, seems to have most surprised her friends and aSSOciatcS. She is somewhere ill the neighhorhood of 30, 'tis said. while Rob ert Seaman. the bridegroom, is 72.
 Nelly Bly was born Cochran and christencd Elizabeth. Cochran's Mills, a small settlement ill Armstrong coun- ty. P:.,. is her native place. There her father owned the mills which gave the locality its name, though he was no miller. hut q lawyer. at ono time filling the associate judgeShip of Armstrong county. He died when she was child, and his estate became much involved in litigation. The daughters health was poor during most of her childhood years, and because of this she was taken ont of school ill 1881 and thereafter de- voted much time and attention to horse back riding becoming undoubtedly the best eQurStrieune ill Armstrong county. After q time. having three brothers who resided i'll Pittsburg, she removed thither with her mother. At PittSburg she began to write, first pcnning re ply to an article i'll the Pittsburg Dis patch entitled What Are Girls Good | Fora" Though this Was not published, l the editor If the paper sought her out and assi igned the subject of Girls and Their sphere to her for Il paid cuntri button. Her now famous nom de plume, Nelly Bly,, did not appear, however, until her second article, on Divorce, was printed. The signature was suggest ed by the managing editor of the paper, | who got it from the well known song. For The Dispatch she did society" and dramatic and made trip to Mexico. About 10 or II years ago she removed tO | New York ill search of wider field. 1 When she applied for work to the managing editor of The World, she pro posed that she should be sent aloft ill balloon hut this was overruled. and she was directed to be locked up as an in sane woman in the city asylum. Her description of wo1nan's experiences in q balloon might have made very inter esting reading. but certainly could not have attracted the attention produced by her account of the abuses she witnessed. and of which she was one of the victims, in the asylum. After the publication of that story. which was undoubtedly instrumental in bringing about many re- forms ill the treatment of the insane, all was comparatively plain sailing for Miss Cochran She was at once placed upon the regular staff of the paper. and its readers soon learned to watch its col umns closely for articles signed with her pen name. No subject or parsonage was too difficult or exalted for her pen, no investigation seemed to be above her or beneath her. and the quantity of copy she turned out was beyond the produc ing capacity of most men writers. let alone that of journalists of the fair sex.
 Undeniably the achievement which contributed most to her fame was her trip around the world, undertaken to show that Jules Nerne's romance Around the World In Eighty Days" was within rather than an exaggeration of the possibilities She started on this journey on Nov. I4, 1889, and completed it in 72 days hours II minutes and 14 seconds, and her progress from point to point was closely watched by the world at large.
 Robert Seaman is 6 rich mAn-a man. who. despite his advanced age, has still the reputation of being a shrewd, keen business man, a man with hosts of friends. For many years he was engaged in the grocery business in New York. and though he has now retired from that branch of mercantile life he is still ac- tive in various enterprises, including 6 bank, iron works, etc. He is 6 direct descendant of the famous DF. Valentine Seaman of Long Island
 The groom haa a handsome city resi- denco and . fine country house Q few miles up the Hudson.
 Sarcastic,
 Cholly-They say that excessive Ooffet drinking induces Softening of the brain.
 Birdie McGipniS-I suppose you regre
 now that you had been such a slave to thu Il habit.-Tcxas Siftings.
 4 Procession of Troubles.
 ''Ons woe upon another's heels t Doth tread, ' so poets say. t And he who reads the daily nsws 0 Will find it much that way. The OlSsing Sf the Chinese war
 Seemed of rePOss tS tell, \ But these NiearAguAn Aanss, aiHs, d Are twice as hard tS sReil. a Washington Star. l. All Out.
 !. Traveller (inquiring at famous castls)- ' Can see the antiquities today?
 Servant am afraid not, air. Ny lad
 and her daughter have gone to town IT Household Words.
 d RegrotS.
 kiss I took and backward l0Ok,
 And my heart was like tO EmssAer
 To think of what fool was- lt I mi have had RnokhaF