The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-12-21
'oThe race 70 not to the swift"
Personal Gossip.

JeWett Adams, who Is elected govern
or of Nevada on the democratic ticket,
ie native Of South Hero, VT, and re-
sided there until he was Fl years old. =,
A Michigan adventurer raised 5000
by mortRaging farm which belonged to
man whom no happened to res enble,
closely, and whom he personated 30 we'll
that the money lender was deceived.
Chauncey Morse Of Canandaisua is
said to be the oldest printer In New York
state since Thurlow Weeds deatry, and
seems to have been 80 before, for he was
born in l704 and Mr.. Weed in 1897. Mr..
Morse was an apprentice in the Office of
the Ontario Repository in 1911.
"Never has she turned anyone from
her door. during tho eighty-one years
she has spent in BowdOinhQm without a
full stomach" is what local paper said
Of Mrs. Sarah Small who celebrated her
centennial in Maine last week.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin Gays that
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, in pri-
vate letter to gentleman in that city,
expresses the most decided opposition
him before the people rs candidate for
the presidency.
II met Oscar Wilde In London once"
said Nine. Christine Nilsson Rouzeaud
the other day, where we were both
guests, and he was to take me down to
dinner. He commenced to talk bis non
sense and pose to me as We were going
to the dining room. I said to him:
Look here, Mr.: Wilde, Mime. Christine
Nilsson will put up with no such stuff.
'Thia n oil ov,I <hnr 20
in It but nonsense" Mr.. Wilde said:
''Thank you. You are the first sensible
woman and true friend that I've met.
After that he acted a. a man should,
and talked sensibly."
Miss 6ypeie Gilbert is young Ne
wark, New Jersey, lady who has been
q prominent figure ofthe Garfield Mem
orial Fund Fair at Washington. Tbs
report got abroad that she set up for a
professional beauty and she was stared
at, spoken to, and treated to such inso.
lent comments upon her face, dress and
person that she was soon in a state of
raging indignation. Some one asked
her: Are you the New Jersey Lily?"
No.. she said, holly, "I'm = Tiger
Mr.. William A. B anister, Of New
York, has given TO his native town of
BrookAeld, Mass, $4,000 for a public
library building, library having previ.
ously been given to the town by Judge
Merrick. ..
Ex-Congressman Lewis D. Campbell,
who died recently at his home in Ohio,
said, a few yeas ago, that he had writ
ten the true history of the Burlingame
duel Of 1854, which would be published
after his death.
A Frenchman who was introduced to a
brandy punch In Richmond the other
evening by an American friend, appeared
at the same bar early the next morning
in quest Of q duplicate. Unfortunately.
he could not recall the name of the in.
SEPARATION which he had absorbed the
night before, but the barkeeper found
the following description sufficient: II
viii take one grand contradiction. what
You cal! 1T wis very much lemon for
make him sour, very much soogare for
make him sweet, plenty of brandy for
make him strong, and great deal of
wassar for make him weak"
John E. Lamb, congressman-elect from
the Terre Haute (1ndiana) District, is but
80 years Of age. Graduating from the
Terre Haute free schools about ten years
ago, he selected the law as his profession
and soon won the high position in the
bar OF which such distinguished LAWYERS
as Senator Voorhees,, ex-S Senator ThomD-
son, and General T. H. Nelson are mem
bers.