The Worthington advance., 1882-08-31
People and Tlaines.

| Over = grave in Brompton cemetery.
London, has just been set up i. beautiful
cross, on which appears the following
inscriptions: I'm memory Of ElizahetSS
Jones, who died May Is, 1881. for Il
years the faithful servant and friend of
Alexandra, Princess Of Wales, by whom
this monument is erected. Lies race
well run, LIES work we'll done. ife's
crown we'll won. Now comes rost
Blessed are the dead who die in the
Mary Agnes Colbert, who died at Mt.
Dechaim seminary, near Wheeling on
Monday was one of the most note lteach.
ers OF vocal music in this country. Pa
repa Rosa once visited the seminary and
after hearing "Sister Agnes" sin9 al. AT
pine BelP' declared, it Is said. that ahe &
was one Of the greatest singers in the
world. Shortly afterwards MAJ StrsI.
osch offered 'Sister ARnes'' $50. 900 for a
season OF nix months in concerts, but
Bishop Whalen declined to permit her
to accept the proffer.
Mr.. John Bright has been asked by
Manchester gentleman to define his po.
sition in regard to war, and has made =
reply. He says that he believes that all
the English wars from the time of VIII
liam III. might have been avoided on
principles which do not require the ab-
solute condemnation of war in every pos
sible case that can be suggested or imag-
med. 1.-The policy and aspect of our
country and the Horld," he adds, twill
be changed If the demon war is left to
the cases in which there seems to Chris
tian and rational men no escape from
the miseries it intiicts upon mankind"
George Francis Train, only few days
ago, promised to keep still; but here he
is again: "How can people live who eat
death: 1s not meat, fish, game, eggs,
butter, milk dead? Entailed diseases Of
all living things in creation, added to en-
tailed corruption of mankind, kills of
humanity at an average OF thirty-three
years. Corn, oats, wheat, barley, 3,0OO
years old taken from Egyptian mummy
in Thebes catacomb, will sprout to-day
and produce life to man. But will dead
pig? calf? sheep? oyster? egg? milk?
fish sprout if planted? Death in this
case only produces DEATH"
A correspondent writes of David Dud-
ley Field: HE owns some l,50O acres
in Stockbridge, Mass, much of which
was acquired in order to keep modern
improvements from deso]ating the quiet
old town. He bought SIC, 600 of the stock
of Il new railroad company to keep the
road from coming there; bought fifty
acres around the rapids in the Housaton.
IL to keep paper mill from going up
there; bought 800 acres around Ice Glen
to keep vandals from cutting off the
wood and destroying the grandeur OF
that famous frigid gorge, where I cut a
good clip of ice from the surface of the
cavern pool only yesterday. And he
bought a mile square of the Swamp to
keep the cool retreat from being i'm
proved out ofsight."
Ex-senator Eugene Casserly, of Cali
, fornia, although still vigorous in body,
has completely lost his memory. He
was recently summoned in San Francisco
as a witness to prove the forgery of q GER
tificate of stock of . company of which
| he was once president, and testified that
he did not recollect that there was ever
in existence any such corporation: that
he could not tell whether the sigma
ture purporting to be his as presi-
dent was his own or not, and that he
could not recollect that he had ever been
the president of such company.
Alexander Salvini, the second son of
the Italian tragedian, now in this coun-
try, says of his fathers attempts to mas.
ter the English language: HE has tried
many times, but has finally given up in
| dispair. When was at home q teacher
came to the house in Florence three
times week, but father made but little
progress. My sister was q fair English
scholar, and she was constantly being
called on to assist the old gentleman with
his lessons. How is this?' he would saw.
the soldiers ara on foot? 1t is bad era a.
mar; should say the soldiers are on
feet 1t was useless to attempt an ex-
planation, and at last he gave up in de-
epair."