New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-04-23
Personal AND LITERARY.

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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Caleb Cushing was Emcrson's tu-
tor when the latter was Harvard stu
dent.
-Bayard Taylor, like Caleb Cushing,
believed that he had years Of life before,
him.
Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, il
said to have. lost $3.50, 900 in working
Georgia plantations during the last
year.
Napoleon the First said that agri-
culture was the body and soul Of the
Empire; and, in the height Of his glory,
he gave the subject much attention and
encouragement, and established in
France Department Of Agriculture
los0a State Rsgister.
The late Representa- Hartridge,
of Georgia, while delirious, q little
time before he died, got out of bed and
dressed himself completely. and, lying
down with his arms folded across his
breast, said: "Now am ready to
de-
The Rev. H. H. Hayden, charged
VI
and now in Jail at New Haven, Conn.,,
has gained twenty pounds since he went
to prison, and now weighs 1856. He
reads and studies q great deal, and his
friends have furnished him plenty of
good food, we'll cooked.
This story is told of Nine. Sontag,
the singer: During her visit to this
country, fifteen or twenty years ago,
she was not pleased with the pitch Of
her piano. She sent for the tuner,
gave him the tuning-fork, which had q
lower pitch than the piano, and told
him to tune the piano down to that.
The man bethought himself of q labor
saving device. He raised the pitch Of
the fork by fling it off little at the
ends, and when he presented it again
to Nine. sontag. she found the piano in
perfect accord with it, and was exceed.
ingly delighted.
The sale Of photographs of Govern
ment celebrities at Washington shows
some curious facts. More of Mrs.
Hayes photographs are sold than Of
any other person. OF the Senators,
Blaine's sells better than any other by
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IN Z. Evening Post.
The physician who is attending
Justice Hunt, of the United States SUI
preme Court, says that though his
patient is improving he fears that he
will never recover the use of his side.
His mind is perfectly clear, but while
he can answer questions with "Yes''
or ..No." he cannot connect sentences.
Although Senator Sharon, Of Ne
vada, has held his Office nearly four
years he has been so little in his seat
that some of his colleagues had never
seen him until his recent arrival at
Washington, and very few of them had
made his acquaintance. He is fifty
eight years old and is described as
short and thin, lightrcomplexioned, un-
preposscssing in figure, and weighing
scarcely more than 100 pounds.-Er-
change.
"A young lady in Clinton County,
New York, DESTROYS of improving her
epistolary style by study of the best
models, has written to p. NJ Gen. KEY
as follows: . Mr.. Postmaster: How
much would the trouble be for picking
out, packing and sending about fifty or
more Of the best of the many letters
you getp don't want anything but
good, sensible! letters. Of course I ex-
pect to pay postage. Please let me
know by return mail and oblige.''
Judge Henry G. Smith, Of Mem
phis, Tenn, who died a few days ago,
is described as . man Of singular bra
very, as is illustrated BY the story Of
one Of his cases tried years ago in Ten
nessee. He was TO prosecute q man
for murder. Friends Of the murderer
let it be known that they would kill
whoever appeared az prosecutor. Mr..
Smith began. the trial BY producing two
pistols, which he kept BY him until the
man was convicted. M 7. Evening
Post.
Bishop Simpson (Metnodist Epis-
copal) was about to begin his lecture
before the Yale theological students, the
other day, when he was seen 10 pause
and look for something. Young gem
tlemen,' he said, . / find myself ii the
position. Of tho preacher who was in
formed by lady that thirdly had
6own out Of the window, a part Of
his manuscript was missing, and while
! Prof. Fisher went away to search for it
the Bishop entertained his audience
with q haf-huur's talk on President
Lincoln.
Mr.. Spruille Braden, the young
man who recently refused to renounco
his allegiance to the United States, and
thereby forfeited his position as Mid
shipman in the Royal British Navy.