The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-27
Current Gleanings.

In the course of the ensuing summer
Queen Victoria will complete the fifty
ninth year of her rule.
Anthony Trollope in the course OF
thirty-tive years wrote sixty novels
and made S35O,OOO from their sale.
James H. Brown, clerk at the Fort
Hall Indian Agency, Idaho, has mus
tache that measures nine feet from tip
to tip.
J. Scott Harrison, the Democratic
brother of the ex-President has been
elected member of the Kansas City
school board.
Five generations of one family are
living on a homestead at BardstOWn,-
Ga. The head of the family, w. o..
Cherry, has 1876 living descendants.
Rudyard Kipling was asked recently
whether he enjoyed writing poetry or
prose most He remarked that the
pleasure of creating poem was the
highest intellectual delight he had ever
experienced.
In Person County, North Carolina.
a MIR. Whitefeld, assisting neighbor
in making clearing, saw that tree
was about to fall on his tin bucket, and
ran to rescue it. The tree fell on him
: and killed him.
p Captain William Davis, who has
o lust died in Millville, Pa at the age
o of "a. circumnavigated the globe three
. times, and for three years and nine
months was one of the crew of the old
frigate Constitution.
Fall River claims the smallest voter
in the United States in the person OF
James Gardner, who is only 81 inches
E. tall. He was born in England in 1870,
n and came to America in 1880, since
20 when he has worked in a mill at Fall
y. River.
G. At the time of his death last week
III Nathaniel Gayer, of Norwich, Conn.,,
was the oldest town clerk in the United
&c States in point of continuous service.
~ and perhaps also in point of age. He
q. was 96 years old and had held Office
~ continuously for a little more than
es fifty years.
* PM now the champion fencer OF
"A France, is a great parsonage at present.
de He is short, thick-set man, with arms
nd extremely long for his size and chest
en- deep enough for man six feet tall
re- He has a wonderfully quick eye, and
his is said to be as clever a fencer as the
be- famous Bertrand.
lrd The present year being the fftieth
an since the foundation OF the Smlthso
of Man Institution, the occasion will be
lis commemorated by the erection OF
uc bronze tablets to the memory OF th'
ate founder, James Smithson, upon MI
ing tomb in the English cemetery in Genoa
The and also in the English church II
lde the same city.
Charles L. Tiffany, head of the LII
rob anv house in New York, celebrated
Tho his eighty-fourth birthday the othe
will day. He is hale and hearty, and al
in tends to business affairs every day o
leo his life with clockwork regularity. ID
Tho began his career by opening a It'll
,oo stationery and fancy goods shop owe
and sixty years ago.
lich Nine. jules FaVre, "luo" VI VI
eelv French statesman who in 1871 declare
ash. that France would not yield an inc
ton of her territory, recently died at SeVre
litv For the past twenty years she had bee
tho at fine head of the Normal Trainln
the School for Women in that town an
find had been very successful as a teach
an and executive.
dred Tboro is considerable concern
hree Boston about the future OF jam
for Russell Lowell's magnificent old hon
rage in Cambridge, at the gateway OF Moul
hree Auburn Cemetery. The house IS e
this property of the poets daughter, o
head the land adjoining it is in the hands
forty real estate agents, and the tine esta
inch, will soon be cut up into building IL
orty- unless the property is rescued.
n' Tndiana's oldest residents are Ale
,,no+o ander Ferguson and his sister,
~ Frankton. Alexander is lob years
: 49, and his sister is 1O7. Alexander work
y, on his farm every day, doing
vi Wv ordinary chores of the place, until
10 oh. had passed his Tooth birthday, and
~ still in excellent health. He take
that daily walk of little more than t
per- miles. ms "ii0 10
# any gooo nooi'n
when When the la1e 1lane Anoolo'
were Rogers was curate at Fulham ne