The Worthington advance., 1881-09-15
Personalities,

undertaker IN fnll80elpnl8, ana ne cdlcu-'
lates that he has buried over 5O, 900 people
in fifty years. He has been through more
than one cholera panic.
It is related of Daniel Webster that once,
when he was to debate with Silas Wright,
u loquacious friend went over and said:
Mr. Webster, you will have an easy victory
| to- day: Mr.. Wright is drunk" Il would
have you know young man, said MIR. Web
ster, that Silas Wright, either drunk or
sober, is a very hard man to encounter"
There is consideratle 10 comment at Pough-
keepsie upon the fact that Martin Vassar
has by mistake bequeathed $4,000 to sew
en- churches in that city, or 81, 600 to each
one, because it is known that in the origin
al draft of the will he bequeathed 81 900
| in all, or 81 900 each. The mistake was
without doubt made by Mr.. Vassar in copy
ing from the rough original dnsft ny insert
ing the word leach" in that clause of the
document.
The supposed genuine wife Of Arthur
| Merritt, alias Thomas A. Marvin, ALIAS
General B. Arthur Morton, the wholesale
bigamist, visited her husband at Salem,
Mass. idl on Saturday afternoon. When
| she first caught sight of him she exclaimed:
"Oh. Artie, Artie, how could you do SO?
How could YOU do all the things charged
against you? You know = did everything
for you which You wanted me to. You
kpow there was nothing would not have
done for you"
Joseph Hendry, ''who sounded tho key
note Of the loud skirl of pibrochs heard by
Je.sie Brown and her beleaRuered COM
panions when covering they crouched,
hou,ly expecting horrible death within
the confines Of Lucknow" the local
paper eloqueatly puts it's now . crippled
pensioner at Arnprior. Ottawa, Canada:
Senator Ben Hill said to representative
of the Washington Post recently, speaking
of the nourishment givento the president:
There is q great deal of nourishment in the
4 koumiss which. during the last few days,
he has swallowed and retained. When was
under treatment at Philadelphia kept in
| yerv good condition with koumiss ~ my
only food for some time tits palatable and
tastes very much like butsermilk ! would
have left it with regret had it not been for
an excellent buttermilk ration which good
Philadelphia Democrat took pleasure in
supplying.
The Father of the House of Lords, the
Irish earl Of Mount Cashel, aged eighty
nike. is reported to be in hopelesly failing
health. He was born in 1892, succeeded
his father IN the title in 1882, and in 1856
was elected representative peer OF Ireland.
He is the oldest peer in the house. as
"Father" Of it by the longest tenure. But
after hila there are no fewer than tKepty-
tlree peers who number eighty winters or
| more. .-,. -.
Colonel Henry T. Titus. who died at
Titusville, Fla, few days ago, had re-
markably adventurous career. He. vas born
in New Jersey, but in his youth. went to
Florida. where he joined the Lopez expedi-
ton. In a hard to- hand encounter at Car-
deras he cleft the skull of q colonel OF
lancers at a.single blow. He essayed another
landing in Cuba, but was unsuccessful. He
took an active part in the qnarrel in Kansas
in 1859, served in the confederate army
Joined the Walker expedition to Nicaragua
led Wild hfe in Mexico, Arizona and Colo
RADIO, and in his old age founded the flourish
ing Florida town that bears his name.
The brothers Revs. Thomas X. and James
Beecher have cleared spot in the backwoods
of Ulster County, N. Y, where they pass
their summer vacations. The location is in
the mountains, near beautiful miniature
axe. They spend the time in boating,
fishing, grouse hunting and little farming.
Once week thay get their mail by a drive
Of seven miles. In reply to suggestion that
Henry Ward ought to enjoy summer here
as q change from the Fishkill farm, No.
said James, ,"he is too fond of estketical sur
ronndings for this spot. He wants too much
brc-a. brac about him, which do not care
to lumber up my rooms with" - .