The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-04-16
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
GENERAL GARFIELD is said to be an
expert billiard player.
DAN O'LEARY is now worth $50, 600 as
the result of pedestrianism.
ROBERT BONNER gives $40, 900 toward
Princeton's 1926, 900 telescope.
WIZ. z. DODGE, of New York, has
built q 500, 900 hotel at Eastman, Ga.
RUSSELL HANCOCK, Gen. Hancock's
only child, is a planter in Mississippi.
Mrs. VAN Corr, the r~evivalist, is now
said to be manufacturing and selling q
patent medicine.
GEN. HANCOCK weighs 287 pounds,
but is so tall and graceful that he gives
one the impression Of weighing much
less.
MEMBERS of the family of John G.
Calhoun are now strongly opposing the
removal of his bones from Charleston,
s. g.
CONGRESSMAN RICHARD w. Town.
sHEND, Of Illinois, was a page on the
floor of the house Of representatives
during the sessions of 1S56-57 and 1857
1858.
IT is related of Peter Simmons, Of Fort
Edward, recently deceased, that on being
left $40, 600 by his brother he gave it to
his widowed sister, saying she needed it
more than he.
An English baronet, Sir William Rus
sci, has just gone into insolvency with
liabilities amounting Of nearly 1926, 900,
an assets realizing 1925.
MONROE was the only president who
died in New York. His s~on-in-law was
postmaster of that city and his last lineal
descendant was a treasury clerk in 1858.
WILLIS SCOTT, the oldest settler now
living in Chicago, has just celebrated his
10th birthday. He went to Chicago in
1926, when only five white families lived
there.
PPoF. CHURCH says that withered
leaves, having the yellow, brown, or red
autumnal colors, can be made green
again by sleeping them in water with a
title zinc powder.
JOSEPH SINGLETON, of New Hamp
shire, died the other day and left the
sum of $3.50 cash to every cross-eyed per-
son in that state. About $50 persons
will take q legal squint at that money.
THE largest market gardener in New
York has just died at Newton, L. L. He
had 800 acres under cultivation-al in
"garden saas." His name was A.
Backus, and he died worth 81, 200, 600.
SETH GREEN believes that many farm
ers have fortunes in frog ponds without
knowing it. He has studied frogs. A
little care and cultivation will insure a
large c~rop-enough for family use and
market.
M. GRAFFEToT, q Frenchman, nov
playing at Toulouse, is said to be tine
oldest actor on the stage. He is q hun
bred years old, and made his first ap-
pearance at the age of fifteen, during the
revolution.
GEN. HENRY PLEASANT, who planned
the Petersburg mine, the explosion Of
which was 30 successful, died recently
at his residence, in Pottsville, N. Y,
For several years he had been suffering
with mental alteration.
MAORI GENERAL HANCOCK has O farm
of 480 acres of fine land lei Windsor,
Mo-, which he looks upon as his home
stead, where he means to pass the latter
years of his life. Before going into the
army he was a citizen Of Missouri, and
married in that state.
MELIKoFF, during the war, was a great
favorite with his soldiers. He visited
them in their bivouac1, tasted the soup,
and inquired after their comfort. He
took especial care of the sick, frequently
visiting the field hospitals and ambu-
lnnces. At the same time he was a strict
disciplinarian, and required from all,
particularly the non-commissioned off,
GERS of his army, apunctual performance
of their duty.
PROF. AGAssIz is reported 10 have be-
come very wealthy as president and
shareholder of the Calumet and Hecla
copper mines of Lake Superior. At a
time when the stock was sold for five
cents on the dollar he visited the mines,
and his scientific eyes instantly saw their
value. His income from them for several
months past is said to be 81, 800 o day.
Since 1870 the professor has given to
Harvard college the generous amount of
$780,
RICHARD WAGNER, as a young student,
it is said, was extremely conceited and
egotistic, contradicting his elders, and
assuming superiority in all occasions.
He usually said cit u.s." or "It is not"
instead of ct think" or ct believe"
One of his phrases was, Orchard Wag-
ner q v so; that is sufficient" And
another conclusive phrase was, "You
think; I know" He is still intellectual
ly despotic, but, nevertheless, can be q
delightful companion.
SENATOR THURMAN is q great snuff
taker, and his red bandanna is saturated
with it. One afternoon, while he
was making some remarks on the Geneva
award bill, Senator Burnside came over
and sat close by him. The Ohio senator
g~esticulated with his handkerchief in
such a way as to set the Rhode Island
sneezing in the most irrepressible and
unidentified manner, and he was forced
to retreat to the lobby, while the hail
resounded with his spasmodic explosions.
TwENTY.FoUR years ago, in July, 1856,
the wife of Wilson Murray, q carpenter
living in Boston, gave birth to three
boys, who were named respectively Ben
jamin . Franklin, Henry Wilson and
Charles Sumner Murray. They are all
now living, have never had any serious
illness, have more than the average men,
tai and physical yigor, and are attending
the State Agricultural college at Orono,
Me. Mr.. Murray, their father, enlisted
in the war of the rebellion, and died at
New Orleans.
LADY CHARLOTTE BACON died at her
residence in London the other day at the
age of 70. She was the second daughter
of Edward Harley, fifth earl Of Oxford,
and though of late years only known to
her own circle Of private friends, was one
Of the most famous beauties of the first
quarter of this century, and is the Lady
Charlotte Hurley whom Lord Byron has
immortalized in his poem to "Ianthe,"
which forms the prologue to "Childe
Harold" She was the widow Of the
late Gen. Bacon.