The Worthington advance., 1882-09-14
Persol,alGos

~ the same car with the Hon. Benjamin
Harris Brewster, attorney general Of
the United States, says he was much
puzzled by tho feet that Mr.. Brevster
carried DIX hats with him.. one ON his
head and i've piled up ON the sat bv, :.
his side. One of them was . century. =
old in style, being Of light brown felt.
very high, and furry. For it Mr.. Brew
ster manifested . strong partiality, A.
ways wearing it wnen he left tho
car. -, IT, -
II is said that the late General Burn
sides uniform and equipments, including
the costly sword and accoutrements
presented to him by the state of Rhode
Island, are in the hands of Boston
artist, held as security for payment for
work done six years ago on = statue of
Mrs. Burnside. The statue was COM
pleted, but never paid 70, or delivered,
and still lies in the foundry in Paris
where it was cast. The same artist 10
said TO have in his studio . clay model
Of 4 heroiC-sized statue of General Burn
side, for the preparation of which the
ermeand uniform alluded to were
furnished.
According to the London World, VIC
tor Hugo is rapidly declining physically
aud mentally. His journey to Guernsey
in company with the two ladies' who
have devoted their lives to him was un-
dertaken for the sake of what is almost
"native air" to him. There is nowa .
constant silent struggle between the
sightseers who would push the old man
to write anything, and the family circle
oh - -
overflow.
The car still intends, apparently, to
be crowned in the ancient Muscovite
capitol next month. Active prepare
tiOns for the event continue; numerous
dispatches in cipher are constantly pass
ing between Count TOlstoi and the gov
ernor of Moscow; and, most significant
of oil, upon that city are converging de-
tectives, police and regiments of soldiers
from all quarters of the empire.
George Howard, . Philadelphia come
dian, is recovering from deafness that
threatened to incapacitate him. For
time he could not hear his cues, and his
wife, sitting in the audience, had to sig
nal him TO proceed when hisinterlocutOr
had ceased to speak. So cleyerly was
this infirmity concealed that its exist
ence was never suspected by the public.
Miss Alice c. Fletcher has recently
taken to Carlisle, Pa, thirty-six Omaha
Indian children. Thirteen of the party
are girls. The children range from ten
to fifteen years in age are 4 bright,
healthy and jolly lot of youngsters:
They enter the school for q five-years'
course, Miss Fletcher visited Sitting
Bull in Dakota, and selected ten children
for Carlisle from his band. Sitting Bull
is very anxious to have all the children
of his party placed in industrial schools.
Some Virginia women are a. great fools
as their sisters in New Haven who pet
ted the Malley boys during their trial.
Garland, who is ON trial At Lunenburg,
Va, for the murder of Addison, is the
object ofcountless attentions by the fair
sex, and on Monday received q bouquet
OF flowers from a woman, accompanied
by = note couched in these gushing terms:
Accept these flowers; a token ofmy
sympathy and admiration in your manly
struggle for honor, justice and right.
Sir William Eden, young baronet
Who has just reached New York, comes
ia family closely connected witl, this
country in colonial days. The present
baronet inheri's two titles, one conferred
In 1872 and the other i'm ITO on his
great grandfather, Sir Robert Eden,
second son Of Sir John, who, having
married the sister Of the last Lord Bal.
timore, was appointed governor of Ma.
ryland. The Edens always possessed
the art of getting on in the world.
Herbert Spencer is nearly sixty and
wears fringe of dark hair and whisk-
ers streaded with gray. His nose and
mouth are prominent, forehead high:
and his eyes bright. On the whole. his
face bears the marks of strong individu-
ality. Late In life he inherited money
and he no longer works diligently.
King Louis has given to Wagner two
well-trained swans, which have drawn
the small boat containing his highnese
habited as Lohengrin, on the blue and
moonlit waters of the lake in the neigh.
borhood Of the royal castle of Hohen-
swangard. In the meantime Wagner
has sold tho score of "Parsifal" for $47,-
500.
Ruskin has expressed his unalterablc
resolution not to republish "Modern
Painters" in England, on the grounds
that some parts Of it have been rem
dered unnecessary by the established
fame of Turner. while others have a.
ways been useless in their praise of ex-
celience which the public will never
give the labor necessary to discern.