The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-12-29
PERSONALS


OK. Minister Elihu B. washburno viii
winter In Now Mexico.
In recognition Of bis great services
at Constantinople, II IL reported that
Lord Duhetin Is 70 be made marquis.
Kinglake is finishing the last volume
Of his Crimean history ii will appear
just twenty years after the Grst one.
Mrs. g. G. Washburn, wife OF the
late governor, who has been 10 the
asylum for thirty years, Is now likely
10 recover.
| Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley, the African
explorer, has gone 10 Nice 70 recnit his
health. lie will return to Africa carly
in 1883.
A picture by Meiasonier, measuring
only six by four inches, "PolicIIinelle, +"
was lately bought by NJ. secretan, a
Partisan amateur, for $4,000.
One Of the drst men TO reveal 10 the
average American the wonderful clear
neas Of the Hindoo mind was tho Rov.
DIR. Scudder, in bis lectures Of twenty
three years ago.
Washington city is to bs the perma-
nent dwelling place Of the inventor Of
the Bell telephone. Mr.. Bell was born
In Scotland, and took out bis natnraIi-
zAtiOn papers only the other day.
The establishment Of Darwin
Scholarship Of Biology, which will sup
port an American student at the Euro
pcan school, is likely to be tho form of
a memorial 10 Darwin selected by the
United States.
The Hon. Joseph Gtinnell Of New
Bedford, a brother Of Moses II. and
Henry GrinnelI, celebrated the ninety
fourth anniversary Of his birthday last
Saturday. lie is the oldest man in
Massachusetts who was ever a member
Of Congress, and still possesses good
health and unimpaired faculties,
A tribe Of civilized and Christianized
Indians in New York State, have been
found by Mr. Frank Cushing to pos
ssss a complete acquaintance with Zoni
ceremonials, war and medicine dances
and the rest, which they have guarded
30 carefully that he was only able 10
learn them in bis character Of initiated
Indian chief.
Lncy Hooper writes from Paris that
among the articles taken from the body
OF the lats prince imperial was a small
morocco case which be had worn upon
bis hrca I. containing the picture of tbe
daughter ola London trsdesman and
the latest romantic story concerning the
prince is that his mother sent him to
Africa to prevent an imprudent war-
riage.
StsG Commander James Charles At
kinson, the oldest officer in the British
navy, has just died at the sge Of 100
years. lie commanded the Penguin,
and was captured and bis vessel Destroy
ed by the American corvette Hornet
in 1915. For the past fifteen years he
had been quite blind, but otherwise re-
tained all his faculties unimpaired up
to the very moment Of bis death.
The Chinese minister's wife does not
like to be thought person Of tender
years, and claims TO be twenty-five.
She is petite, weighing ninety-four
pounds, and her feet are not unduly
small, She dresses on the street as
American ladies do, having lately been
seen in wine-colored brocaded velvet
polonaise over plain velvet, with hat
whose brim droops over the brow, anj
on the sides hang long dropping plumes.
Not long ago, Mr. Peter Cooper, whc
is within three months of being ninety
two years old, called on Miss Glars
Louise Kellogg. and was entertained
by her with several charming songs
Then he asked her il she knew, or haC
heard an old ballad called "The Tor
toise-shsll Cat" She answering in th'
negative, he at once sang verse of j
for her, in clear, firm voice, and ia 1
manner that won from her hearty
encore. a7
| Ex-Gov. and Congressman Cyru
Carpenter, Of Iowa, will soon be retiret
to private life, having failed to secur,
a denomination for Congress last Sum
mer. But he accepts the situation
with cheerful philosophy. "My de
feat" he says, "did not hurt me no
sour me. / have as good farm a
there is in Iowa, and no man who ha
that needs any ones sympathy" An
the Iowa State Register adds "Bless
ings on man who has been thirt
years in politics and its wrangles an
still keeps so pure name and SO goo
q heart as this Paul ameng public me
in Iowa.
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