Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-17
PERSONAL.

Personal.
BONANZA MAoKEY has bonght Victor
Emanuel's country seat in Italy for
100000.
BESIDES the duchy of Cornwall, the
Prince of Wales owns real estate valued
at $50, OOO year.
PROFESSOR TRUMAN j. BACKUR, pro
fessor OF literature at Vassar College,
has been elected principal of Packer In.
stitutc, Brooklyn.
HE widow of Prof. Henry Draper
has given 5000 to the National Aeade.
my of Sciences, to be used in conferliue
medals for discoveries in Astronomy.
| IF the Hon. John A. Logan should
ever become an occupant of the White
House, Mrs. Logan would make one of
the best Presidents the country has ever
had.-BrOokLyn Eogie.
LORD WoLsELEY and Lord Clanwil-
liam are to accompany the duke Of Edin.
butgh to the coronation of the car.
Lord Wolsely is to represent the British
army, and Lord ClanwllIiam the navy.
The youngest of Delaware's Judges,
Associate Judge Wiles, is GO years old.
Chancellor Salisbury is &C. Chief JUS
tice Comegy is past 70 Judge Houston
is close on TO 70. Judge Wootten is
nearly 80.
The keeper of the English crown Jew
els, General George D. Pitt is dead, aged
81. He was a lieutenant general, but
still accepted the position OF head show
man of the show jewels, among which i
the KoL-i-noor.
MIR. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA regards
1t rs one of the luckiest and most merci-
iul things that can possibly happen to a
man that he shoulG be almost inyaria-
bly, unluclly ut cards. His own remem-
brances OF poker are brief, but full o!
acute anguish.
WAGNER was a head shorter than his
wife, who was the divorced wife of Won
BuloT. The practical side of the Ger
man character was never more strongly
| shown than when, during the Raireuth
festival last summer, Won Bulow dined
With the Wagner family.
BosTON CoRBETT, who killed Wilkes
Booth, has become religious enthusi-
| ast, and IN letter to a friend in Cam
! den, n. j., says that he has been di-
| rected by God to iuhict daily corporal
punishment upon himself as penance
for bavlng taken human life.
JAY GOULD has incurred the deep dis
pleasure OF a Glasgow, KY, newspaper
map. When Mr.. Gould was last in
Texas the reporter in question happen
lug to be there also, tried to interview
the millionaire. Mr.. Gould invited the
| reporter, who was very bothersomc. on
board his palace car, and, steaming ten
miles from town, put him out on a sandy
plain to foot it back under hot sun.
QUEEN VICTORIA has n second personal
servant in Lohlein, who came to Eng
land with the Prince Consort as valet dc
ch0mbrC, and remained III his service
till his death. Lohlein was the only
person in the royal household with
whom Brown never attempted to inter
tere. Lohleln's duties, however, have
long been nominal, and he resides for
the greater part OF the year at his house
III Windsor Castle.
THE celebrated architect, artist and
inventor, James Nasmyth, washed his
striped stockings once preparatory to
attending party. Hanging them too
close to the fire to dry they were badly
scorched. Knowing it would not do to
dlsappoint his sweetheart, he painted his
legs to represent stockings, and did it SO
e1tectualiy that he was frequently com
pllmented during the evening on the fit
of his hose.
HENRY JAMES, JR., was probably the
youngest spontaneous Anglomaniac that
IT
liked much more to think of the British
Emplro chan to indulge in the sports
natural to his tender age, and many of
his hours were spent IN making mental
pictures of the society of which the re-
current wood-cuts offered him specimens
and revelations" "He knew the names
OF the London streets, of the theaters,
OK many OF the shops; the dream of his
young life was to tNne a walk in Ken
sington Gardens and go TO Druty Lane
to see Ii pantomime."
DUMAINE, the Paris actor, claimed.
until lately, to have the most powerful
voice in France. One of his iellow.ac
tors, Machanette, disputed the honors
with him one day, and, after much
wrangling, they agreed to settle their
claims by actual test at the Porte st.
Martin cafe. "I'll lay wager that 1
can break a pane Of glass by simply call
ing Come in, said Machanette. "rll
wager that you will not be able to do it.,
and that will, said Dumaine. "Done. u
Dumaine commenced. The window rat
tied, but did not break; but there was a
panic among the walters. Then Macha.
nette tried, and 10! ten panes of glass
were shattered. Dumaine owned that
he had lost; but it was not long before
they both found out that two of their
friends, overhearing the wager, had
placed themselves outside the cafe and
smashed the windows with their canes
at tho moment of Machanette's below.
ing.