New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-24
A Matter.Of. Fact Romance.

Now that mysterious disappear.
ances" appear to have set in with un-
exampled severity, it will be of interest
to recall very remarkable instance
which made a great impression on the
mind of Nathaniel Hawthorne. A gen
tleman whom Mr.. Hawthorne names
Wakefield, being happily married, and
dwelling in London, one day hit upon
the idea that he would mysteriously
disappear. There was, or at least
there is, nothing peculiar in that. Only
Mr. Wakefield determined that he
would not disappear further than the
next street. Accordingly he took lodg.
ings in the street next adjoining that in
which his once happy home was stu
ated, and there. lost to sight though to
memory dear. dwelt for twenty years.
During that period, our authority says,
he beheld his home every day, and fire
quently the forlorn Mrs. Wakefield, but
was himself never recognized. After
this gap of twenty years in his matri-
monial felicity, when his death was &C.
cepted as certainty, when his estate
had been administered, and his wife
long resigned to her autumnal widow
hood, he one evening quietly knocked
at the door, walked in as if he had just
arrived after days absence in the
city. and thenceforward lived loving
and home-staylng spouse. The advan-
tages OF this Typographical arrangement
are obvious. at least as far as Mr.. Wake
field was concerned. His propinquity
would have enabled him at any time to
appear Gu the scene, supposing his wife
had bser less faithful to his memory,
and had seen disposed again to embark
upon .1;at rimony. To that extent he
seems we had his wife at a disad-
vartas 4 on the whole his conduct
is not. endable. But there is one
grain Il TT to be derived from the
story we should add, is not
born O, tile brain that weaved
the weird tale of '.The House with the
Seven Cables" but was related as a
matter of fact in contemporary news
paper. It goes to prove, in support of
more modern and notorious instances,
that when gentlemen, and particularly
married gentlemen, mysteriOusly dis
appear" there are alternatives to the
acceptance Of the theory of robbery and
murder.-Loado Nea0s.
AN English Duke hnds q deficit OF
%, SOC. OOO. -Ezcha,sge. That's moth.
ing. We just looked in our purse and
didn't find $2O, OOO, 900 that we felt sure
ought to be there. Boston Transcript.
Acr one. he meets her at the croquet ground;
Act two, to see her 1t the house he calls;
Act three, most regularly be come. around;
Act five. hn manly passion Be declares,
And for an afterpiece pa kicks him down the
stain.-BuFsts1tos Ho,0k-Eys.
A BABY in the house is said to be
Well-spring Of pleasure. This may be
true, says the Owego Times, but for
genuine felicity most Of the young men
prefer . buxom young lady Of about
sixteen summers.
AN Assistant Postmaster at Pitts
field, Mass, added one thousand dol.
Lars to his income in . year by remov.
ing fresh postage stamps from letters,
putting on those that had been used,
and selling the stolen ones. He used
the money in maintaining his social
pretensions.
In recognition Of the mathematical
powers Of Miss Christine Ladd, young
graduate Of Vassar College, she was re-
Gently invited by the Trustees Of Johns
Hopkins University to continue her
studies there, with an annual stipend
equal to that Of q regular fellowship.
She has Just been asked. also. to pllr.