Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-17
Items Of Interest.


ing by the window, mournfully gazing
at the dreary outlook, when the younges
suddenly said, 90, mamma, won't you
ask bod to please shut off the water?n
The fair Queen Kate, wife of Henry V.
OF England, received from Charles, her
father, a missal which afterwards became
the property of the three succeeding Hen
rvs. 1t has just been sold in Paris for
$4,000.
There is a short but pathetic an
nouncement in the English papers. Ten
nyson's sister-in-law, the widow of his
brother Charles Tennyson Turner, has
followed her husband to the grave after
an interval of a very few weeks.
Mr.. Alvan CLARK, of Cambridge, the
leader of the telescope makers of the
world, is now seventy-six years old, and
still full of energy and skill. For forty
years MIR. Clark was a portrait painter,
and earned 100000 by his art before, he
began his telescope experiments.
The memorial to Bayard Taylor-a
medallion of the poet in gray marble
which the graduating class of Cornell has
just presented to the University, has been
received with fitting ceremony Under
meath the medallion is the inscription
Lecturer on German Literature" with
the dates Of his birth and death.
Sir Garnet Wolseley, who has now come
to still higher honers and responsibilities,
hardly looks the strong commander that
he IS. He has very slender figure, and
there is something wonderfully pleasing
rather than masterful about his express
sion. He has bright face, gray hair
and quick, yet womanly eye
The Rev. Samuel S. Harris, the new
Episcopal Bishop OF Michigan, was, for
several years, a successful lawyer in this
city. To enter the church had been an
early impulse, and at last he yielded to
it, and began his theological studies I'M
del Bishop Potter. He has been for four
years the rector of the largest and wealth.
lest congregation in Chicago. He is the
son OF a wealthy Alabama planter, and is
thirty-eight years old.
Sir David Dundas, who, after Disraeli,
Lord Beaconsfeld's father was the great
est bibliopole who has lived in these lat
ter days, says that the three works, save,
OF course, the Bible, which have gone
| through the greatest number of editions,
were ''de imatatione Christi" commonly
attributed to st. Thomas Kempis, 'sThe
Pilgrims Progress" of John Bunyan, and
uncle TOMS Cabin" by Mrs. Beecher
Stowe.
The German Emperor is in good spirits,
and is transacting public business in spite
or his accident of two weeks ago. This
| aocIIanf ia 10 H.,
his foot suddenly slipping on the pol
ished floor of his study. He fell heavily
to the ground, and so injured his right
knee that blood Immediately began to
flow. He is to apt to forget his wels hit
of years, and cannot be induced to trans
fer permanently even the least part of his
sovereign responsibilities to his son.
The story of Regnault's celebrated pic
ture of Salome is an interesting one. II
was first simply an untitled head painted
from Roman model. One day Fortuny
entered Regnault's studio when he was
painting, and stood smoking and looking
first at the picture and then at the model
Then silently he walked across the room,
took down from the wall great brass
dish and Turkish dagger, put them in
the models lap, arranged the drapery,
and said: "Piece your canvas, paint hel
that way and call her Salome" Reg
nault followed the great Spaniard's ad-
vice, and Salome made success.
Mr.. Edwin Booth is quoted as writing
thus to the prosecuting attorney at Chi,
cagO: II trust that our friend Gray may
become gray indeed-yea, positively
hoary-headed-in kind but careful con.
finement, or if earlier released, that his
exit may be from this earthly stage of his
dramatic exploit to that celestial scene
where idiots cease from shooting and
actors are at rest If he be ever again al
liberty my own life l shall not value
worth rush. But I hope his Elgir
guardians will not be deceived by his
, seeming harmlessness.
) A pretty little domestic scene IS de
scribed in the local columns of The UtScc
= Herald. One of the matrons of Rome
s has talent for wax works. Her husband
t boosted that he could invariably tell at
r glance that her work was artificial. Sh,
: remembered his partially for ''boilet
t dinner" and determined to make one il
!, wax. The vegetables and meat wer
c made and set before him at dinner; ant
|. with keen relish he struck out for tn,
d platter before him. Lo! twas false din
c ner. He frankly acknowledged that b
+ was duped and with admirable docilit
e handed his pocket-book to his wife,
- A youth, oven though he be titlec
h ruler, finds it hard to resist ''good clothes,
and especially regimentals. Whe
4 Prince Alexander, newly of Bulgari,
y called upon the Emperor at Berlin, b
;, naturally wore the uniform of his rank
r second lieutenant in the Prussian Army
r, 1t was, of course, unreasonable that
! mere second lieutenant should be COZ
:, daily received by an emperor, so thu
potentate dubbed the Young man "Ma
y Or" on the spot The Prince ha
Il guessed what the Emperor might do, an
- accordingly had majors uniform read
- at his hotel. He dashed out of the pa
- ace and to tie hotel, changed his l1euter
= ants for his majors uniform, and dashe
= out again, to finish his round of stat
= and official calls.
a. A burial service IN an Episcopal churc
N in Portland on Monday afternoon, va
RS interrupted by one of the mourner
er "Why don't you make the sign of tt
s. cross r. he demanded fercely. 81 al
Tc the corpse's brother and l object" tt
m remark caused great excitement, but Il
ID rector paid no heed to the critic an
10 proceeded with the service as if nothir
ut had happened.
ia A wag brought horse driven by
p young man to stop in the street by Il