The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-01-18
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Miss West. the daughter Of tho British min
lister in Wa.hirgton, takes to American society
enthusiastically. Tho Thorntons, tho prede-
cessors of Minister West, were "dreadfu'ly
tai
Mr.. Flnerty, Of Chicago, member Of CEN
gress- elect. has made an appeal to tho Irish
men of the Northwest to raise fund for the
relief OF MI. Paraell, whose estlte is encum-
bored with debt OF $4,000.
DE. FELTON,, ex- congressman. prominent
Georgia politician, las recently turned his At
owns one of the finest herds Of Jersey cattle in
tina. State.
Gen. John Payne Of Warsaw, KY, probably
Is the Oldest pensioner on the United Safes
pension rolls. He is eighty-seven years old,
and has been drawing pension for the loss
Of an arm in the service ever since 1920
sixty years.
In 1881 the late Henry W. Lonefellow wrote
a letter from Portland. Me-, to James Berdan,
then resident of New York, in which he spoke
of Maine as land Of bsrbarians, this miser-
abe down east,' and urged Berdan to pay him
visit, saying: 81 feel as if were living in
exile here, and it will be = deed of charity in
you to come and make q long visit as soon as
you can find leisure"
A. Y. W. Van Vechter of New York, a gradu-
alto Of Williams college, entertained tbs resi-
dent alumni and friends of that institution at
'Ao "SuuSOi EOt 4, Nc" xOEh. Two uunOToO
guests attended the reception, and the most in-
teresting feature of the affair TO outsiders was
the announcement that James b. Jermain of
Albany bad given $50, 900 10 the college as a
memorial 10 his ron, Barclay Jermain. This
sum will be used to endow the professorship
given by the president
Joaquin Miller, the poet OF the Sierras, has
become prosy worker in New York. Ho
walks Broadway with hair and collar % COM
monplace that lie passes simply for one man in
a crowd. Miller married into the bookkeeping
family Of Leland, two years ago. after getting =
divorce from his Pacific coast wife. He had
accumulated moderate fortune, but has lost
it, and finds hard work a necessity.
Mes Margaret Blaine, daughter Of the
''plumed kuight' of Maine, has Just ach eyed
quite triumph in tho Paris Convent OF the
Sacre Occur, whore she is being educated. She
has been in Paris about year perfecting her
self in the French language. and quite recently
entered the school. She was at once admitted
to the highest class-a distinction rarely at
tanned even by French girls, as the preliminary
examination is quite difficult
Miss Harriet N. Morris, an Ohio girl. daugh-
ter Of woman farmer. and a graduate Of
passing through that institution, is making q
reputation for herself in Brooklyn and doug
good to l, 500 children. She has twenty-eix
female teachers under her, and gets ST. 800 a
year for his services-about ST. 600 less than
male principals are paid in the surrounding
schools Her institution is sort of modified
kindergarten. ,a $50
It 10 sad Of Jim Keene, tho millionaire, who
once edited weekly newspaper in California,
thet 50 greatly did the petty annoyances of al
editorial: room impress themselves upon his
memory that years after, in the wild clamor OF
the stock board, when fortunes were being
made aud lost in = minute. Keene has said fire.
quentiy that above ali that din he could ye,
bear his old foremau's bowl for copy"