Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Princeton has made Gen. Sherman an LL.D. —He is the Khediv of Egypt—not the Khedive. —Bret Harte has gqpe abroad to his little Consulate. —Jo Jefferson indulges inthe responsibilities of a grandfather. —The Earl of Beaconsfield is still dandy enough to be particular about the fit of his lavender kid gloves. —William Cullen Bryant argued that literary men should be possessed of independent fortunes, to do good work. —Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, is said to bear a strong personal resemblance to King Kalakua, of the Sandwich Islands. —Charles O’Conor, when he was eight years old, was a newsboy; al least he used to act as carrier of a paper printed by his father. —Miss Alice Hooper, daughter of Mrs. Samuel Hooper (the divorced wife of Charles Sumner), is the affianced of Mr. T. Balfour, of London. —I do not recall an instance where I was tempted to use a foreign word, but that, on searching, I have found a better one in my own language.— Bryant. „ —Charley Ross’ father has expended about SBO,OOO in the vain pursuit of his stolen child, including $20,000 raised for him by the citizens of Philadelphia. —The late Prof. Henry made twen-ty-two inventions and discoveries, not one of which he patented, preferring to leaye the fruits of his science for all to profit by who would. —Two prominent Albany physicians are wearing shoes made from the skin of Sam Steenburg, the negro murderer, who was recently hanged at Fonda, N. Y. —“The course of true love never did run smooth.’.’ At Higganum, Conn., a loving couple, after being divorced twice, have just celebrated their third nuptials. , ' —Miss Tabitha A. Holton is the first woman ever admitted to the bar in North Carolina. She is the daughter of a clergyman, and but twenty-two years of age. 11 —Samuel Williams, the oldest printer of New York, and a fellow-journey-man with Thurlow Weed sixty years ago, has just died at Rohdout, N. Y., aged eighty-nine. —When Joaquin Miller first began writing poetry he made Goethe rhyme with “teeth." But he has been reading up since then, and now he makes it rhyme with “quotha.” —Bismarck never sends away a manuscript or a letter without carefully revising it. “It is no credit,” he says, “to be right where it would be Inex* qukable to be wrong.”