Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-09-01
Personal Mention.

| A short time before his death Spotted
Tail said to the agent at the Rosebud
agency: Il never fought the whites except
to secure justics to my people. have
| never killed white woman or child, nor
| allowed it to be done by another, when in
my power to prevent it. f" -.
Henry Murat, aCount of Colorado" OF
one time n millionaire and leader of
fashion in the west, and who spent $50, 900
in one visit to Europe, slept recently on
the floor of barber's shop in Denver be-
cause the proprietor could not find it in
his heart to eject the now shattered old
| man.
| The Hon. Josiah Quincy says that the
young people revered Charming, but the
| distance between them was impossible. He
! frightened timid girl into awestruck si-
Ience once on q fishing excursion by asking
her, for his first remark, "Do these waves
| look to you as if they were moved by the
wind, or as,if each wave were propelled by
the impulse it receives from the one fol-
! lowing it?" And yet that is an admirable
question. '7 7t"+a
Colonel A. K. Mcclure whois SO close
ly identified with tie PhiIadelphia Times,
doesn't own any interest in that paper, but
he receives $4,000 for the ten months
work he does on it every year and the sum
is thought to be very satisfactory sub
stitute for am interest. ...-..
Gen. Robt. Patterson, Jr., declined the
proffer of military escort for his father,
saying that as his father was not in the
military service at his death he was not en-
titled to military escort. And as in life
he never knowingly accepted any heners to
which he was not entitled to, so in death
proper respect to his memory requires that
this principle should be strictly, aa-
bered to-" ..- -....7. .r.. .~
Father Hennessy, of St. Paterick's Church
in New York, is carrying on a vigorous
crusade against beer picnics. Last Sunday
he renewed the attack. exhort1ng his hear.
'ers ito beware of attending picnics,4 e1-
| carsions, groves, parks, or other places of
amusement where the indiscriminate sale
of intoxicating liquors is permitted" and
he assures them that they could not dis
regand his admonition without great peril
! to their souls. "a .......-.. 49,,
| DR.. Bliss son, who is acting as assistant
to his father, says: The fragments of
| the fractured rib that were extracted from
President have disappeared and the most
minute inquiry has failed to discover their
| whereabouts. It was intended to place
them in the medical museum. They will
| also ce needed when the surgeons COM
mence to make up their reports of the case.
A record is kept of everything that has
transpired iu connection with the case, and
in will all be printed at some future day."
The death of Matthew Vassar, the son of
the founder of Vassar College for Women,
was recently announced. He and his
brother John Guy Vassar, who is now seri-
ously sick at Columbia Springs, erected at
an expense of $40, 900, and presented to the
city of Poughkeepsie, an old mans home,
also giving to the city funds sufficient to
successfully conduct the institution for
many years. The deceased was very chari-
table, axd public spirited and progressive
i'll all matters pertaining to the improve
nent of the city of his residence.
NJ. Ambrose Thomas, the composer, and
director of the Paris conservatoir, has ap.
peared as dress reformer. He issued the
other day a sumptuary edict compelling all
the young lady students his charge to wear
at the examinations white muslin gowns
with no other adornments than silk sashes
and flowers "in moderation" for the hair.
This order was rendered necessary by the
extravagent attire in which some of the
young ladies were won't to exhibit them
selves.
His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, who
can drive locomotive or command fire
department, is no slave to tyranny in dress.
There was a garden party fortnight ago at
Marlborough House, given " the Princess
of Wales, and among the hidden guests
was the duke. The weather was extremely
warm. and in paying his respects to their
royal highness he astonished every one
even those who knew his independence of
social prejudices-by appearing in a white
linen suit of clothes better adapted to- the
weather than the occasion.