The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-07-16
Personal GOSSIP.

age, and, very pleasant IN her manner.
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
THERE is an old landlady of IS in
Paris, KY, who still manages hotel.
NJ. LABoUcHERE politely alludes to
Queen Elizabeth as an "amOrous hog"
A WOMAN of "a, in Portland, Me-. has
dined with every president except
Lincoln.
SENATOR WITHERs, of Virginia, had
his foot almost cut off by an intruiing
moving machine the other day.
GENERAL BRADLEY Il. JOHNSON has
received from some Richmond friends
gift of a silver punch-bowl inlaid with
gold.
BANCROFT tells long stories. He has
been ut work on the history of the
United States 55 years, and it is not
finished yet.
MILE. SARA BERNHARDT is, by the
official utterance of the Conservative.
declared to be thirty-six years of age,
having been born in 1874.
Mr.. OLMsTEAD MosLEY, of Illinois,
aged SO, is visiting his mother, Mrs.
Sarah Mosley, aged Ill years, at Madi-
son, Ind, afteran absence of forty-seven
years.
SARA BERNHARDT has had three chill
dren, without having a husband, and
Alice Oates has had three husbands
without having any children. This con-
trast shows the superiority of American
actresses.
SIX months ago DIR. VIM. Hunter, a
heightened physician at Hoboken, ran off
with the beautiful Miss Androvette.
He deserted her, of course, and she had
to beg her way home from Bermuda, and
is at her fathers again.
FRIENDS of the late Sir Robert Bur-
dett, who died in England recently, aged
eighty, will be pleased to learn that, al
though he had been out of business for
several years, an income of $500, 900 per
annum supplied his modest wants.
A WEALTHY Chinese merchant of San
Francisco has full-bloOded negro wife.
Their six children are singular combi-
nation of two races in appearance, with
crisp, curly hair, coppery skin, almond
eyes, and Mongol expression of face.
Mrs. HORTON, of Attleborough. Mass,
widow of the late L. J. Horton, who was
lost in the Narragansett disaster, has
donated a liberal sum of money to the
widow of the late Robert Fulton, lost at
the same time, who left five young chill
dren in circumstances which suggested
the kind act.
QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain is in Lon
don, and star in the drawingrOOms of
Mayfair and Belgravia. Her majesty is
of the oldest royal blood; she has still
good many diamonds and fine pictures,
handsome palace, country seat, an
income of S135, 200, and some ready
money besides.
KING PoMARE ", of the Society
islands, has of late years been a ruler i'll
name rather than in fact. The natives
regard him as their rightful sovereign,
but the German and French traders have
acquired control of affairs. Pomare has
now abdicated in favor of Governor
Cheese, the French representative.
IT is reported that tine youngest
daughter Of Mr.. William H. Wander
bilt, who recently accompanied her
father to Europe, has become engaged
to Viscount Dupplin, the son and heir
of the earl of KInnoull and n nephew of
the duke of Beaufort. He was married
in 1871 to a daughter of the late Earl
Fife, and was divorced from her in 1876.
The Duke of Buckingham intends soon
to resign the governorship OF Madras.
He is widower with daughters only,
and if he does not marry and have son
his dukedom will be extinct. His father
collapsed financially, but the duke in
herited great sum from an uncle, has
been very prudent, and is well to do.
SECRETARY SHERMAN reads until late
at night, but is always the first man in
his Office in the morning. He owns a
large number of inexpensive horses and
drives great deal. He has always
saved his letters, and has one of the larc'.
est collections in the world. He and b s
brother, the general, have always been
MS loving us sweethearts, and his letters
from the general are in three large vol
umes. Some of these letters cover forty
pages each.
WILLIAM PENNIx was the jolliest fell
low in Lynn county, Ind. He tiddled
and sang at the country gatherings, rode
recklessly in horse races, and was SEEM
ingly incapable of serious thought.
Miss Bundy shared in the general est.
mate of his character, and laughed when
he attempted courtship. He declared
that for once he was in earnest, but she
would not listen. The dead bodies Of
10th were found in the road few days
ago. Pennix has proved his sincerity by
murder and suicide.
RUSSELL, HANCOCK. the candidates
son, was not more than twenty years old
when he married Miss May Gwynn, one
of the bellies of Louisville. Miss
Gwynn's father, an ex. Confederate, OPP
posed the marriage oil the ground thai
young Hancock was the son of a Yam
kee general" Young Hancock ferriet
his bride over the Ohio one night eigh
, years ago and they were married on thu
Indiana shore. The stern old father
gave in after the elcpement. Neithe
, General nor Mrs. Hancock knew OF thu
: affair for several months.
THOMAS STRowBRIDGE, bachelO
farmer, who died the other day at hi
home near Springfield, ILL.,. leaving al
estate valued at $40, 1000, bequeathe,
: 80, 600 to the Methodist Missionary 30
ciety of Illinois, for work in India, ant
, $4,000 as an endowment fund for tn
Home of the Friendless, in Springfield
. He also gave 81, 900 each to the Presby
terrain and Baptist churches of that city
a "a, 900 to the Methodist church, 81 90
to the Central Illinois Methodist confer
, ence, the same to the Baptist association
: of illinois, the income in each case t
: pay for the preaching of annual sermon
n on the subject of "The Glory of Jesu
: as the Redeemer and Savior of Man
e kind"
i Feminine FOrgetfulness.
= A timorous lady in Providence, who
K always looking under the bed for mar
s went to the postoffice the other day wit
| n fr;apd IN buv some OOstape stamp,