Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-08-03
ABOUT PEOPLE.

LIEUTENANT DANENHowER is now at
Cspron Springs, Va, where his health
is steadily improving.
CAPTAIN JOHNNIE GLEN, tho drum
mer-boy Of Chickamauga, is now an as
sistant quartermaster in the army and
stationed at the Philadelphia arsenal.
Mr.. AMOS WHrTrKMoRE, the inventor
OF the shoe-pegging machine, and Of i'm
provements in the bicycle, died in Cam
bridge, Mass, recently, aged 65 years.
WHEN the German empress travels in
summer the roof of her railroad carriage
Is covered with layer of turf, which is
watered frequently during the day as
device to keep her cool.
Mrs. A. s. PLArr, a wealthy widow
OF San Francisco, who has been travelling
with Mrs. "Bonanza" Msckay, died
while crossing the PLAINS, homeward
bound, few days ago.
GENERAL JOSEPH r. HAwLEY, United
States senator from Connecticut, is to be
permitted to receive decorations from
Holland, Japan and Spain for his ser
vices az president of the centennial ex-
position at Philadelphia.
Miss JULIA EpaUSDs, the Vermont
senator's invalid daughter, is to be taken
to New Mexico in the fall in luxuri-
ousl y-fitted special car, which her
father is having prepared for that pur-
pose.
JoIS DOYLE, young man employed
in currying shop at Woburn, Mass, on
a salary Of 80 week, was agreeably sur
prised last Friday, by notification from
a Boston lawyer that he had fallen heir
to S100, 900 by the death of cousin.
Mrs. KATE CHASE SPRAGUE is going,
with her children, to make a carriage
and horseback tour through the Scot
tish Highlands, visiting especially the
places made familiar to the world by the
pen of Scott.
JOHN BELL, founder Of the London
Bells Weekly Messenger, which has
just changed hands, was, according to
Leigh Hunt (once its editor) the first
printer who confined the letter SIS" to
its present shape and rejected altogether
the old like form.
THE four officers of the Austrian army
highest in command in Bosnia are Irish
men. The governor of Livno is Major
Gen. O'Reilly. The second in command
of the cavalry is Col. O'Herlihy, and
there are two Captains O'Sullivan under
him. One of the generals Of brigade is
Rudolph Oliver Swanston, who comes of
a West Cork family.
EX.SHS.rnR CoSKLING attracted much
atteTtlon in the New York Supreme
Court last week. He was clad fault
lessly, was in the full glow of health and
seemed to be at his best. Crowds tlocked
to the courtroom to hear his argument.
He is said to be a changed mau, striving
to win where two years ago he gave re-
buff.
A WESTERN reporter recently asked
General Harvey, the veteran of the
Florida and Mexican wars, what his ac-
tual rank on the retired list was. "I'm
a. There, confound it! / couldn't
tell you, to save me, whether am ma
jor-general or brevet-major general
Let's see; / guess it's brevet; but l
don't know. But it makes no difference
rank is for younger men,"
IT is said that the family Of Nine.
Ris.oIi, the tragic actress, disapprove
of her persistent clinging to her profes-
siou, and would be happy to see her re-
tire to private life; but acting is her
passion, and the advance of years has
robbed her of none of her energy. 1t
is said that she will retire to rest at mid
night, after a long and exhausting repre-
sentation, and will be up at o'clock the
next morning, arranging her costumes
for the evenings performance
AN officer who was with Skobeleff
through the Turkish and Tekke cam
psigD, says that, walking one day
through the advanced trench before
Geek Tspe, a bullet whizzed past the
generals head 80 near that he involun-
tarily WINGED. Instantly recovering him
self, however, Skobeleff clenched his
fist, set his teeth, and leaping from the
shelter of the trench, walked a hundred
PAGES in full view Of the enemy on the
wall. Then, with final "That will do"
he stepped back into comparative shell
ter.
CONGRESSMAN JAY HUBBELL, of Mich.
igan, is a native OF that state, and large
owner Of the celebrated Calumet copper
mine in the Lake Superior region, from
which he derives an income of $40, 900
year. He is medium. sized, thick-set,
strong necked man, with full beard,
which is generally neatly clipped, and a
very quiet manner. He is not a man
who wastes words. Like many of the
strong westerners, he smokes most of
the time. He lives in fairly good style,
aud keeps his own carriage IN Washing
ton.