Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-03-02
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

PERSONAL GOSSIP.
JOHN RANDOLPH used to wear blue
riding coat and buckskin breaches in the
senate chamber. He nearly always rode
to the capitol, attended by black SER
want, who was as we'll mounted as him.
self.
ARCHBISHOP LANG, of Santa Fe, N.
NJ, is fortunate ecclesiashc. He owns
a gold mine. recently discovered, which
is mentioned as giving $1,000 in gold
from two bucketfuls of ore. A nugget
was found in it worth $4,000.
GENERAL BEAVER who for O time re-
ceived the votes of a majority of the Re-
Republicans of the Pennsylvania legis-
lature for senator, lost one of his legs in
the war. He is a stalwart, and was
chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation
at Chicago.
HENRY T1MRoD, the South Carolina
poet, was not given bread during his last
days, but the people of his native state
are about to give stone nowthat he is
dead. A little book concerning his work
has been published in aid of a memorial
fund.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON is now seen
in public life but little, and he writes no
letters. Every morning he spends in his
study, for reading is his chief pleasure,
and every afternoon he walks in spite Of
his dislike for cold weather, Once in q
while the venerable man goes to hear
some friend give an evening lecture.
He will be IS years old on May 25.
ABRAHAM JOHNSON, a pioneer of Salem,
Mass, died few days ago at the ripe
old age of 1O9. He amassed fortune in
his early years, and was an active bust
ness man. By injudicious manage
ment, however, he lost it all, and died a
pauper. He could read the finest print
without glasses, and was rapid penman
up to the time of his death.
NEARLY twenty.fv years ago the
people of Brattleboro, VT, were sur
prised one day at finding the figure of
an angel nodded in snow standing on
one of their streets. It was discovered
that Brattleboro youth, Larkin G.
Mead had done the work, and he was
helped to pursue his artistic studies.
To-day, at his studio in Rome, this
American sculptor is making for Brattle-
boro marble copy of the snow angel
which first brought him into notice.
GENERAL GRANT is one of the busiest
men in the country. He is to-day in
Mexican railroad enterprises, has an in
terest of $50, 900 in broker-house here,
is president of the New York Interna-
tional Exhibition company, and director
in Victor Newcomb's new bank of the
United States. It is understood that
$3.50, 900 in money has just been raised
for him, and his stomach holds out, not
withstanding the innumerable dinners he
takes, while he looks down upon all his
critics with substantially and compos-
ure terrible for them to regard
"Qnth."
"CA1As11rY " LAPHAM is the name of q
man who lives in Ottumwa, Iowa. He
acquired his unhappy sobriquet from the
numerous accidents Of which he was the
victim. He was shot dozen or more
times during the war; was run over by a
caisson and went to the bottom of the
Mississippi river with a transport sunk
at the siege of Vicksburg. Since the
war he has had the cholera, small pox,
yellow fever, been bitten by snake,
struck by lightning, and had three ribs
broken by falling wall during an earth
quake il one of the South American
states. A few days ago his left hand was
cut off in an Ottumwa mill.
A WASHINGTON correspondent, in
speaking of the outgoing cabinet, says
that Secretary Evarts will go back to his
lucrative law practice in New York; Sec
rotary Schurz will 20 to st. Louis to
edit paper; Secretary Sherman will
take his place in the United States SEN
ate as senator from Ohio; Secretary Golf
will (probably) resume the duties of
United States attorney in West Virginia,
and Messrs. Ramsey, Maynard and
Devens will return to private life.
+. E. K1MBAhL, a Troy letter carrier,
began three years ago to put away five
cents every time he walked to and from
the post-ofice- distance of one mile
and a half. During the period he saved
$113.25. By record he faithfully kept
it is seer that he rode on the horse cars
sixty-three time in 1873, thirty-two times
in 1879 and seven times last year-mak-
ing the total number of rides 1O2. Kim
ball walked the distance between his res
idence and the post-ofice 226 times, ag-
gregating $780, miles, showing that Pc
destrianism agrees with man. It might
be stated this "Uncle Sans boy" never
lost q single trip through sickness since
he assumed the duties of letter carrier,
over four years ago.
The following is pen picture OF the
Baroness Burdett- Coutts: She is tall and
graceful, and has dark brown hair and
hazel eyes. Her energy and vitality are
extraordinary, and when she is well she
defeats her age by dozen years. Her
hands are very small and delicate, and
have been modelled as specimens of per-
feet beauty. She usually dresses in
dark velvet or silk of q weu-chosen and
subdued color. She wears nohead-dress
in the morning, but in the evening she is
to be seen in an Angot cap. She has an
abundance of most rare and costly jewel
~, but she rarely makes any display of
it on her person. Occasionally she wears
tigers claw, richly set, as pendant to
to the gold chain round her neck. It
was present to the baroness by Sir
Garnet Wolseley, and she values it high
~. The baronessis q good horsewoman,
and is fond of exercise, and she walks
with an elasticity that many q younger