The Worthington advance., 1882-01-26
Personal (iOSSil,.

| The people OF SOmMervillo, Mass. pre-
sented to their venerable City Clerk, Mr..
Charles l.. Gilman, gold watch and chain
and a seal on Now Years day; and with
good reason, for they have annually elected
him by unanimous vots during period
OF forty years to the position which lie still
occupies. 1t is doubtful il any other man
in the country can show as long continu-
GUS term of public service in an elective
Office.
| MIR. Frederick Marquand has Offered to
give $50, 900 toward the erection of per-
manent building for the use Of the Young
Mems Christian Association Of Brooklyn,
provided 100000 more can DO
ward the endowment of the
institution he also agrees to give aroth-
or $50, 900, provided simila sum shall be
raised within the time specified for endow-
| ment.
OF course this historical incident, related
by the Kingston IN. W Freeman, is truth
full: The Russell family of this country
can run back in their family history hun
dreds OF Years, though no particular record
has been kept. The Russels formerly came
from Scotland, and an amusing f.ct re-
lated is that one of them brought with hin,
to the United States horse that, when told
to hurrah for King George, would rear on
his hind legs and strike together three
times the hoofs Of his fore feet in such a
| way that the sound would ring ont full and
| clear"
A little rural burial ground at Rockville
Centre, l.. l., has ono remarkable feature.
1t is a row of sixteen little graves, in which
lie the bodies Of sixteen brothers and Sis
ters, the children of Furman and Margaret
Abrams, all Of whom died in childhood.
The last child VINO died was buried few
days ago. Only ono child Of the family, Il
boy seventeen years of age, is living. A
family SO large as this is an unusual thing
now-a a. days.
George Patterson, al engineer on the
Northwestern road, fell in love with r
Swedish girl while on visit to Boston, last
October. and she came west with him. In
November they went east again on pleas
ure trip, and both were arrested on a charge
OF stealing 81 500 from Chinaman. The
woman was sentenced to two years in jail,
but Patterson escaped on making full
confession. It seems the girl explained to
him that she was the daug g6ter of a wealthy
citizen long since dead, which accounted
for her lavish display of money.
While General Tom Thumb reclines in I
wrinkle OF his loungs, tells his friends
| about his travels and urges the CLAIMS of
| splrltualism, to which he is q recent con-
vert, Captain Martin Van Buren, Bates and
| his wife, at their farm house near Seville.
Ohio, go in and ont of tloorways ten feet
high, ride in gigantic wagon drawn by six
| stout Norman horses, and sleep in a bed rs
big as wheat-feld. In their sitting. room
| is an ordinary piano, but it is mounted up-
on blocks two feet high, so that person of
normal size, who perches before it. looks
as absurd as little Mozart did when he had
clambered up to play the big organ.
The late Colonel Henry S. McComb.
whose name will naturally be remembered
chiefly in connection with the exposure Of
the Credit Mobilier scheme, was the
| wealthiest citizen Of Delaware. His fortune
is estimated at from six to eight million
! dollars. Before lie turned to railroad en-
! terprises he was prosperous currier in
Wilmington, and made great deal of
money by furnishing knapsacka to the gov
ernmont.
Mr.. Hannibal Hamlin will doubtless
maintain at Madrid all the traditions of re-
publican simplicity. \ friend who called
upon him in Bangor just before his depart
ure describes him as opening his own front
door to his visitors, and AZ being plainly,
| even shaEbily, dressed evidently in the
| same clothes in which he had worked in
his garden all day. The very boots of a
dandy clerk in q government office would
cost as much as the entire outfit which the
American minister to Spain wore that even
ing.
The Woman's journal is unhappy be-
cause President Arthur has written letter
| of thanks to all old lady down in New
Hampshire, who sent him box Of butter
| nut candy, but has paid no attention to 4,
copy of her Woman Suffrage History which
was sent to him ky Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, although the volume was "calf.
bound and glt-edged" The trouble is
there are good many men-and President
Arthur is probably among the number
who are sensible on most subjects, but who
| prefer butternnt candy, gum drops, or some
| other variety of tatfy, to books on women's
| rights.
The old provarb that "cLeating never
thrives" sometimes proves true, although it
is by no means invariably SO. The lato
Bernal Osborne, ene Of the most entertain
ing takers and parliamentary debaters in
England. went with friend as best man !"
to visit the bride few days before tho
marriage was to take place. He improved
the occasion to displace his friend in tho
affections Of the young woman whose name
was Osborne. and they were married one
evening. His name being then Berna], he
assumed hers. But the marriage it is said
was never a happy cne.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, NJ. F., who,
in his "Yourg Ireland" ridiculetl O'Con-
nell for supposed wooing of Miss Nc
Dowell at GO, she being 80, has himself
welded in his sixty-seventh year beauti-
ful and charming blonde Of eighteen sum-
mers. This is the third time the ex-editor
OF the Young Ireland Nation has ap-
preached tho altar of Hymen. His first
| spouse he married in Ireland, his second
in Australia. and for the last few years he
has been widOwer
Minister Lowell's personal popularity is
reaching across the British channel. Tho
Paris correspondent of the London Truth
calls him rare talker under all circum-
stances, but only seen at his best when he
has his pipe in his mouth md faces around
him which call up recollections of days
that have long since passed away. He sees
through and through great many things,
which perhaps, is the reason why his phil
osophy ls SO genial. In his careless, un-
studied talk he throws off beautiful word
pictures. The United States minister has a
sympathetic appreciation of English char
acter md intellect and secs much that is
picturesque in town and country in Eng
land. But the smoke of London he dis.
likes and he is accordingly glad to escape
from it whenever he can.
How Attorney General B. H. Brewster 3
facial beauty was spoiled early in life is thus
explained by a correspondent. 1T would be,
under usual circumstances, an open, agree
able, yet somewhat conbative face, with eyes
vide apart, and light brown hair falling
over its warm: complexion. But tits face
terribly SCARED by fire. When a child, Mr..
BreWster's nurse, or some one of the fami-
~, dropped him in the fire, and he is so
badly scared that he can afford at rare
times to talk about it himself, the thing be-
ing SO conspicuous that there ,s no need of
bis avoiding tho subject"
From Ice to Flowers IN u DAY.
San Francisco Letter in the Boston Bulletin
In crossing the coast range of mountains,
whether passing from east to west or vice