The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-27
Personal Gossip.

This time it is mysteiio ious Russian
princess, Of remarkable beauty, but az
vet without u name, who is TO make her
debut in Washington society this win.
ter. What theater will make her its
leading attraction is not yet announced.
Herr Lasker thinks that America in its
infancy, parti, ularly in politics, the par.
ties seeming to him i'm comparison, OF
course, with tnoSe OF Germany, TO be
ill-defned ami cruiely organized.
Mr.. Garrett the railway president,
SAYS that during his last European trir
he was impre >sed with the lmportance
of places Of amusement. He - satisfied
that no city can thrive ~ 1t should with
out heaters, gardens, parks AMI tine
IKE. NV ,ile the Old ioka are trading,
he says, "the young folks are seeing iun.
Every city should make itself attrac
tive"
Rev. DR.. Albert Nicholas Arnold died
in Providence, Il. L., recently, He had
been for eleven years missionary to
Greece. He had also been professor
at Newton Theological 'nstl, ,utoI, Ham
llton The logical Institute and Chicago
Baptist Theological seminary.
Tne late Colonel George knapp. tn @
owner of the st. LCJls Republican, left
all his property to his widow and ten
chllIrrn, In his will. dated 1867, COZ
onel Knapp requests that the Repupi.
can oe kept ia the family. A codlcll
made in 1870 substitutes u son in pace
Of a brother as the executor.
Miss North, the English artist who is
studying the fora Of Africa, writes with
enthusiasm Of her discoveries, every
fresh place showing her fresh flowers
In one place she had a sight of one Of
the largest aloe trees in the world, or,
rather, three stan ling to ether, iorty
feet bigh, with hundreds OF heads Oh
the ends Of their branches, each OF
VIII ch, when in bloom, las bunch oi
red hot poker" flowers coming out OF
il, forming mass ot flowers which, II Is
said, could be seen thirty miles of.
Several hundred citizens of X leigh,
N. e., were caught in an awkward pre-.
dlcament few nights ago. There was
tire on the penltentlary grounds, aud
an Old building Was destroyed. The
Ii enIen aud citizens turned out gallant
Iy and did good work. Wuen they had
finished IL tney were ready 10 retire,
but that they found 40 easy task. Sew
enty-two guards with Winchester rifles
were on uuty, and no man was let oul
except "a reporter and two pressnen.
Four hundred others were kept In the
naiu builuIn, ana not released until
O'clock III the morning. Tney were,
however, treated To re ,restmenls.
President Willard, Of the Northern
Pacific, was comparatively poor In 1865
Northern Pacific stock Was down to 3
and III cents per share. lie examined
the road, the country through which 1t
passes, aud saw the crops IL Was capable
OF producing. He resolved to buy not
oulv all the stock he cuu.d get, blt the
FRANCHISE as we'll, which he aud hls
associates finally did, at less than mil
lion dollars. Since then he has sold
$50 UUb.,dO worth OF land and has
Slu,, 800 worth lett. At tta time
(76l he Was newspaper reporter; now
lie il one of the Richest men on the
globe, and has really but just got s,art:d
"A French medical Journal has been
amusing itself" says the London Graph
ic. by prescribing for the ailments OF
illustrlous people who have been long
dead. but VINO, according to this au hor
ity, ought not To nave died AS early as
thev did. 1t seems that MoiIere could
have Ueen saved by few Rra ns ol
ca cine; Racine's neurosls would nave
yielded to bromide of potassium; while
any modern uoclor could have ured
Napoleon of his billion -ness, and altered
the course OF history by making the
great emperor 1--we toa green oi age.
| All this brings such satisfactory evidence
a. TO the progress IF sci9nce that our de-
scendents NAV wonder how G,nbata
was allowed to die in the prime Of iife,
and why the most expert physicians
OF IL kn wing a.e have ,ounl It SO dihi
cu,t To understand the Con,e de Cham
bpr rs il ness" This makes no account
of Garfield and his surgeons.