The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-06-18
ABOUT PEOPLE.

The late Chief Justice Church was
worth $50, 900, and he left all his money
to Churches.
Mr.. BURDETTE, the HdWkCyc humor-
list, has removed his residence to Nam
tucket, Mass. He still writes for the
UdWkCyC.
ALEXANDER DUMAS has, in the past
six years, received from the Theater
Franchise, ms authors fees, S4S, 900. Vic
tor Hugo has received from the same
Chatrain have received for their play
CLAIMS Fritz" $4,000.
ADMIRAL PORTER is said to have mil
itary air, looking no more like an old
salt than any business man. He is of
medium height, his figure is erect and
shapely, his dark hair and whiskers are
tinged with gray, and although sixty-five
years old he looks fifteen years younger.
The marriage of Mile. Collette Dumas,
the daughter of the novelist, is certainly
a romantic one. Her father took her to
fancy ball, her costume being in the
quaint fashion of the directory. Her
future bridegroom was SO deeply inn
pressed at first sight upon that occasion
that the next day he demanded her hand
from her family.
SAMUEL S. SCATTERGooD was con-
sentative importer of Mediterranean
fruits to Philadelphia, and had amassed
nearly $250,O00. A year ago he invested
nearly nil his money in Leadville mining
projects, and they have all failed. Not
only his own fortune, but friends were
led by him into similar loss. He could
not stand this adversely, and hanged
himself.
ANDREW ALMERs, the oldest compost
tor in Scotland, lately died i'll Edin-
burgh. He had helped set up the Wa
verify novels. He recollected the beacons
which blazed through the country to an
nounce Napoleon's invasion on false
alarm, and his grandfather pointing out
to him the place where he saw "Princc
Charlie " entering Edinburgh after Pres
tonpans."
TIIE rank of the distinguished generals
of the late war, at the time they were
graduated from West Point, was as fol-
lows: Sherman 6, Rosecrans 5, Gill
more l, Mcpherson ], Grant 81, Sheridan
"a, Custer "a. 1t is only fair to add as
to Custer, what he has stated in his
"reminiscences, that if there had been
more than "a members in his class he
would probably have stood lower on the
list.
ROBERT LINCOLN is about thirty-five
years of age. He is tall, has n manly
form and bearing, and carries his head
erect and thrown backward. His face is
covered with full beard, worn after the
English style. He moved very quietly
among the crowd, and is not as fussy as
Douglass. Dirk circles surround his
eyes, and he looked to me like man
who INDUCES in spells of illness. He is
a man of character and integrity. He
enjoys the good opinion of his neighbors,
is n good lawyer and fair talker.
THE Countess de Noe, the widow of
the caricaturist Cham, has since the
death of her husband sunk into deep
dependency, from which it is impossible
to arouse her. She fears imaginary enc
mics, and won't eat lest she may be pois-
oned. A fortnight ago, while evidently
still haunted by dread of these mythical
beings bent on taking herlife, she opened
her window after midnight, and scream
ing Here they are!" threw herself into
the street. No bones were broken, but
the shock sent her into dangerous state
of prostitution. She has a large fortune,
and no children to inherit it.
QUEEN VICTORIA's attitude ut the re-
cent drawing room reception is described
to correspondent of the North Ameri-
can by young LAZY presented to her:
81 was very much disappointed" says
this irreverent young lady; "she seemed
so small and insignificant. She did not
smile at all, but looked very cross. She
did not take the slightest notice Of me,
beyond holding out her hand for me to
kiss, nor say anything. My aunt had to
courtesy as she passed the queen, but
she did not take any notice; but the
Prince of Wales and the othefs spoke to
aunt. 1 didn't like kissing her hand at
all. I'm very glad it's over"
SIR WILLIAM GULL says that great
part Of the art of nursing rests wholly on
the science of medicine. Only the man
who knows what the danger Of moving a
typhoid patient is can properly be trust
ed to give orders as to the treatment of
such patient by the nurses. Only q
man who knows what the danger of
getting poisonous germs into a wound
can be trusted to give the right orders
for the cleansing of that wound. Only
the man who knows the relation OF the
position of the body to the action of the
heart can be trusted to direct the nurses
how to deal with patient whose heart
is attacked.