The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-02-06
PERSONAL.

10 feuu u novel Wllte one.
BY the sale of Utah silver mine, re-
Gently, Senator Spencer realized $780,
900.
Mr.. J. II. SWIFT Of New York city
has given $4,000 to the Church Home
in Geneva.
WILLIAM CLARK, Cleveland lawyer,
has been ordained minister of the Uni
versalist Church.
LOUISA NJ. ALCorT, the authoress, has
sent one hundred books to the newsboys'
reading room, Boston.
Ex-Governor BAGLEY Of Michigan
has Just celebrated his silver wedding in
pleasing manner. He distributed
$500 in silver coin among five charitable
institutions.
Miss BLANCHE DAVENPORT says there
were two hundred and twenty-five Amer
lean girls studying singing in Milan when
she was there, and that Of this number
only six have been heard Of since.
WHEN the Princess Louise was first
introduced to the Ladies Campbell, SIS
tiers OF the marquis of Lorne, one OF
them asked: "Shall we call you Louisc"'
Her royal highness made no answer.
PRINCE OSCAR Of Sweden is staying
with the Prince Of Waldcck, and it is be-
lieved he intends to marry the princes
fourth daughter, Princess Helen OF Wal
deck. The lady is 10 years old, and is
the sister of Queen Emma of Holland.
GEN. JAcKsoN's wife was about rs
handsome as bag Of straw run over in
the middle by truck, and while he used
to admit this, he claimed as IN offset
that she never broke a dish or bothered
him for clothes-line. Detroit Free
Press.
VI. SAY, who recently started for q
voyage around the world with his family
in the yacht Henrietta, but was driven
into the Chesapeake by bad weather, has
concluded his craft is too small, and has
ordered from Baltimore builder ship
to cost $500, 900.
THE illness of Senator Lamar brings
out the fact that, while he was yet child
in arms, his father, then on the bench OF
Georgia, and greatly admired for his in
tellectual and social worth, committed
suicide. No satisfactory reason was ever
assigned for the act.
Hon. EUGENE HALE will probably he
compelled to move permanently from his
home in Maine, and take up his abode III
the state OF Michigan. The great estate
left by his late father-in-law, Senator
Chandler, requires constant attention,
and Mr.. Hale will be forced to devote all
his time to superinted it.
EDWIN ARNOLD, author of "The Light
of Asia" is seriously i'll. He has been
advised to stop work and 60 to Egypt for
the winter. His trouble is the growth
of n large cystoid tumor on the forehead
the same afliiction which caused
the death Of John Stuart Mill.
HE history of the women who have
been connected with the sovereigns of
France is peculiar in that it exhibits II
number of notable instances where great
splendor has been followed by deep hui
initiation grief and suilering-especially
noteworthy being the names of Marie
Antoinette, Josephine and Eugene.
A FRUIT tree without root is shown
in the ward of William Colnon in Stock
ton, Cal. When tho gardener took hold
hold Of the tree, few days ago, II slight
shake brought it down, though it was
growing luxuriantly. Instead of roots
there was globular shaped growth,
about one foot in diameter, gnarled like
a knot.
Dr. OLIVER HoFF, of San Francisco,
who died recently, directed in his will
that monument not to exceed 81 900 i'll
cost, should be placed over his grave,
and forbade any society of which he was
II member, or any friends, to pass reso-
lutions OF coincidence over his decease,
or communicate the fact to his friends in
the east.
THE Princess Amazulu, the Zulu lady
who is ut present visiting London, is
bright and volatile person about twenty
four years old. She is graceful, but not
beautiful, has fine flow of language,
and quick show OF humor, sings well,
and loves to dance. She is accompanied
by suite of two Zulu ladies and four
male attendants.
TIE Judge of probate in England, Sir
J. Hammer, had to decide, the other day,
Us to tho distribution of the property of
whilom chimney sweeper's boy, who
died worth $1,000; aud during the
same week the Judge in the court
bankruptcy had to decide the case Of an
individual whose debts were Gl19,000
and his total assets CD los I'd.
WHEN President Porter recently sat
down to dinner with the other members
Of the Yale faculty and their guests, he
was astonished to learn that the dinner
was attached by the sheriff. A sbrewd
Boston merchant had taken opportunity
to force New Haven hotcl-keeper, to
pay debt of $500, and the money was
paid before the dinner was eaten.
WHEN Commodore Vanderbilt wished
to start in the steamboat business, says
Cornelius Vanderbilt, he had but 900
of the $l5, 900 necessary for purchase,
and his wife went to u corner where she
had concealed the $40, 900 she had saved
without his knowledge and brought forth
the needed funds, thus laying the foun-
dation of the colossal Vanderbilt fortune.
JOHN ADAMS reached the great age Of
ninety years and eight months, James
Madison died at eighty-fve, Thomas
Jefferson at eighty-three, John Q. Adams
at eighty, Martin Van Buren, ut seventy
nine, Andrew Jackson at seventy-eight,
james Buchanan at seventy-seven, and
Willard Fillmore ut seventy-four. Cen
eral Grant is the only ex-president now
living.
Or the reported rupture of Miss Julia
Fletchcr's engagement the London
GiObc says: American society i'll
Rome il now much exercised by the
abrupt termination to the matrimonial
engagement which was announced be-
tween Miss Fletcher, authoress Of Kis-
met and Lord Wentworth. In this
transaction no blame is attached to the
lady, bat the gentleman is highly CEN
sured."
GEN. GRANT Lincoln says of as story
teller: cit is said his stories were i'm
proper. have heard them, but ] never
heard Lincoln use an improper word or
phrase. have sometimes, when hear
his memory called in question, tried to
recall such thing, but can not. al
ways found him pre-eminently o clean
minded man. l regard these stories rs
exaggerations. Lincoln's power OF illus
tration, his humor, was inexhaustible."
Why Hawthorne Went Not to the Ball.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote to o
lady, who was one of his most valued
English friends, letter, from which a
reviewer in the I4MenGum makes q
characteristic quotation. She had asked
him to q fancy ball, and he answered:
"Mr. Hawthorne Segs to assure Mrs.
Il that he is quite sensible OF his
own folly aud absurdity in declining an
invitation which any other man would
90 down upon his knees to get. He
finds himself, indeed, in the position OF
an owl or bat when invited to take o