The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-10-27
Personal Gossip.

y Mai. Arthur, p6ymaSse1 IN LILO -
learned of bis brothers accession 20 en0
presidency on his return to foIt Den''''
from on 800 mile trip in an ambulance
Congressman Rice, OF Massachuset.p'
was engaged to be married to young W.
man of that state. Just before nel "eu.
ding preparations should have oeeun sl slo
was stricken with brain 1eVe1. ~
month. 400 -she was sent to Europe and
now She returns 10 Le placed in the asylum
for the insane.
A Philadelphia police sergeant said,
year aoo that he believed his wife would
murder him eventually, and now he has
died of poison. If he bad not made the le-
mark, nobody would have suspec,ed 1Ie
cause of his death, as the do ctor SAID II "as
cholera morbus; but those wLo recoAecteo
it informed the. coroner, an autopsy ~Hs
made, and q case against the wAte seelnS
likely to be made out.
A scientific party consisting OF Pro1e>< <sor
Largly, of Plttsburg, and Captain O' ~
Michaels, U. S. A., OF the Frankfort arsen@
al, Philadelphia, and their assistants, re-
Gently planted the stars and strips on tne
Lummit of Mount Whitney, Californla, the
highest point in the United States 0'1t OF
Alaska Recent measurements show that
the mountain is about $1,000 feet high
Two very little men have become STU
dents in Hillsdale College. Michigan-two
brothers. named Christopher and Ed*1p
Sparling. Their ages are respectlseiy 40
and Is years. Christopher, the elder, Is
SO IA inches in height. and weighs 81 IL
pounds. Size of head, l-2, and wears
No. Z shoe, children's size. Edwin. the
younger, is AZ 1-2 inches in height, and
weighs 40 3 4 pounds. The size OF his
head is 6 4 and he wears No. shoe,
chiIdren's size. They are both we'll form
| ed in every respect, are active and ener-
getic, and very strong for their size.
Il have represented for many years
District in Congress whose appreciation
greatly desired, but though ic may seem,
perhaps, a little egotistical to say it, l yet
desired still more the appreciation OF orc
person, and his name was Garfield. He is
the only man am compelled to sleep with,
| and eat With, and live with. and die with,
and if I could not have his appreciation
should have had bad company. ."-Jamfs
A. Garfield before the Ohio Senate, 1880.
Two CT the most promising young men
| of Philadelphia in recent years have died
from causes which it would seem easy to
| have avoided. Henry Armitt Brown, who
! gavo promise of attaining fame as an orator
and puhticist. died from the effects OF SOW
er gaa in his residence few years ago,
and Edward Law, who, although but "a
years of age, had entered upon the work OF
| a statesman with the prospect Of much huse-
fulress. was drowned by the capsizing Of
the pleasure beat il which he Vas rowing
On the Schuylkin.
The Emperor William is notas sure-foot-
! ed as Of old. Returning alone from o call
! upon the Empress in her rooms at the pal
! ace in Carlsruhe the other day he crossed
| the court to his own apartments unrecogniz-
! ed, es he wore only his simple generals
frock- coat and cap and carried several port
| folios and letters. Suddenly he caught
| his foot against a stone and fell down
| to his full length. Three ladies, who had
of the Grand Dukes feotmen hurried up
| and lifted the cfdrer, in whom they then
| recognized the Emperor William. Ee
luckily only. suffered q slight confusion on
his nose and on one arm.
| The late Dr. Stnart Robinson, Of Louis
vile, Ky., Immediately after the close OF
tho war. bought and begged from the peo-
| pie of Kentucky thousands of bushels of
corn and many casks of bacon and sent
them TO the suffering people of the south.
| One of his last acts of Christian iberality
was to execute deeds for two pieces OF
church property, one known as Park Mis-
! sion and the other as Homes tead MISSION.
! to be held by the trustees of the Second
/! Presbyterian church of Louisville, and by
them to be decided to any Presbyterian
| church. in connection with the Southern
church whenever church should be organ
! ICED in either of those mission fields.
Senator David Davis. of ILL.,, was born in
Cecil county, Maryland, March 9, 1915, and
was educated at Kenyon college, Ohio.
He studied law with Judge Bishop in Len
oS, Mass, and in the law school at Esw
Haven, Conn. In 1886 he settled in Bloom
ington, ILL.,, where he still resides and
where he has long exercised great influence
both socially and politically. In 1845 he
was elected to the lower house of the I'LL.
no;s legislature, to the constitutional con-
vertion, which fnnaed a new constitution
for the state in 1S47; vas elected jndae OF
the Eight jade circuit of Illinois in 1S4S;
was reelected in 1855. and again in 1861,
and appointed by President Lincoln an as
eociate Justice Of the supreme court of the
United States in 1862. In 1877 he resigned
his judgeship and was elected to the United
| States senate for the full term ending 1883.
In 1872 he was nominated by the labor re-
form party as candidate for the presidea-
! cy.