Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1879 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—London papers speak of the Marquis and Princess Louiso as the Viceroy and Vicereine of Canada. The Princess Louise, following her mother’s example, pays a bounty of $5 apiece for triplets born in the Dominion. —M. Grevy, as President of the French Republic, will get SIOO,OOO a year as salary and $50,000 for household expenses. —Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes used but one pen for all his literary work between 1857 and September, 1878. He has just sent it to be repaired. —Four of the new United States Sen-ators-elect—Messrs. Vest, of Missouri; Call, of Florida; Walker, of Arkansas, and Jonas, of Louisiana—are ex-resi-dents of Kentucky. —Mr. George W. Childs is said to have ft peculiar fondness for clocks. He has more than ferty of the scarcest kind, and has one in his business office that is sajd to have cost $6,000. —Mrs. Ursula Humphreyville, of Northfield, Conn., is in her one hundred and first year, and is still able to be about. Two years ago she rode on a mowing-machine, driving the horses through the field. —Prof. Swift, of Rochester, N. Y., has been for years carrying on his astronomical studies in an old ciijpr mill, but the citizens now propose to build him an observatory, the plan of which be has approved. —The person longest in the employ of any of the Departments in Washington is Lindsey Muse, a messenger at the Navy Department, who was first appointed to that position by Sec’y Southard during the Administration of John Quincy Adams, in 1828, and has served there continuously to the present time. He has autograph letters from almost all the Secretaries of the Navy during his service. —A sudden wedding in high life took place in Niles, Mich., last week, between Ex-Gov. Miller, of Minnesota, a widower sixty years old, and Miss Elizabeth Magoffin, niece of Ex-Gov., Beriah Magoffin of Kentucky, a young lady twenty years old. Miss Magoffin was accompanying Gov. Miller from New York to Minnesota, to be governess in his lamily, and tho match was agreed upon in the cars.— N. Y. Evening Post. —A friend of Richard Henry Dana thus described his personal appearance: “ His whitened locks and flowing beard attract attention on the street. His forehead is high and broad, and his head, altogether, I should judge, is one that phrenologists would place fn the highest class. Of slight person and a little below the medium height, about that of Milton, he is neat and old-fash-ioned in his dress, which corresponds with the real gentility of his manners |md surroundings.”