The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-11-22
Personal Gossip.

&x1Is AOOIlOS SllO AOLOu 0uSl1SA tCu1~
perance advocate, h as just completed his
self:iruposed task of walking 1000 miles
in AS hours, walking an average of IA
miles an hour TO show that the physical
system of man who new er uses alcohol
is capable of sust aiming greater and
more protracted fat igue than is the ply
steal system of an eQua lily sound mn &C.
custOmed to its use even in moderation.
Nine. Je my Lind still suffers much
from a neuralgia affection of Ter throat
and chest-the same which wears ago
lsed to cause her an agonizing headache
after every appearance on the stage.
Senator Don Cameron, who is now in
Paris, writes that he is going to Ger
many, Italy and Spain before returning.
He adds that he will not be back until
congress has finished its president maxi
ing. This is construed to mean that he
will return next summer. Senator M.
G. Butler will maintain his pair with
Camera except on political questions,
and Senator Malone is ITO decide what
political questions.
The Chevalier Wikoff who is we'll
known in this country is reported by
the English papers to have been strick-
en- with paralysis, and his case is re-
garded as avery serious one. He has
had a remarkable and very brilliant
career, having always been engaged in
some enterprise requiring diplomatic
skill and the expenditure of much
energy. He was the dear friend of Ed
win Forrest, the actor, and travelled with
him through Europe. He took Miss
Fannie Elser to America, and was often
the contidant of princes.
Ex-Governor Stewart of Vermont,
member of the new congress on
metropolitan side, is said to be phe-
nomenal orator and the most eloquent
man in the state. He passes two sum-
mer months each year under canvas on
an island in Lake Champlain with
party of Mlddlebury professors and
keeps open house for mu(titudes of
visitors. They live on Lake bass and
good old wine. He is immensely rich.
The Philadelphia Times says that one
of the clerks employed in the postoffce
of that city eceived recently this letter
from Postmaster Huidekoper: 81 am
Inform ed that there is considerable dis
cussion of political and other matters
which do not pertain in any way to post
Office business during the time when
you are on duty, and that You are one
of the principal disputants. This being
the case, do not consider that your
services are worth $500 per annum, and
unless am satisfied that you totally re-
train in the future from discussing all
matters not connected with the regular
business which may arise in the course
<oE 1s1fx an{ nj
ary to be at the rate of $500 per annum"
A famous old soldier died in Water
ford, Me-, on the 25d ult., Alexander
Mills, aged eigh ty-two years. He was
on board the Government transport COL
umbia, in the Seminole war, and also
was in service on board the United
States revenue cutter Jackson, situated
at New Orleans and Newport. He was
on board a United States ship on the
coast of Africa, and was one of the crew
who landed and riddkd with bullets old
King Kraka, an African king. Soon aft
er this ne visited Arabia and the Holy
Land. He was in the war between Tex
as and Mexico, where he was severely
wounded. He assisted in the lombard
ment of Vera Cruz and other places in
Mexico, and has been a sailor on board
town.
A work recently publishedin England
contains the following letter from the
late Charles Darwin, the naturalist.
penned not long after his death: cit
seems to me absurd to doubt that man
may be an ardent Theist and Evolution
list. You are right abou Kingsley. Asa
Gray, the eminent botanist, is another
case in point. What my own views may
he is question of no consequence to
any one but myself. But, as you ask,
may state that my Judgment often fuc-
tuates. Moreover whether man de-
serves to be called Theist depends on
the definition of the term, which is
much too large subject for a note. In
my most extreme fluctuations bave
never been an ATHEIST in the sense of
denying the existence of God. I think
that gen orally, (and more and more as 1
grow older, but not always. that an Ag-
nostic would be the more correct de-
scription of my state of mind"