The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-11-24
Personalities.

General B~dldy ctte,S IeIldlHS lie neg
lected and almost forgotten in the old
Piapus Cemetery, on the antskir!s of
Paris. Very few tourists ever ask to be
shown there, and when they do make
the request refuse to go on being told
that they would be compelled to drive
through narfo%, crooked streets, en-
tirely deserted save for the few solemn
and gloomy-tooking converts which line
the way.
The wedding ring given by Martin
Luther to his bride is still in existence,
and has been lately placed on exhi,
bition in Frankfort on-the-Main. 1t
bears a representation of Christ upon
the cross and the instruments of the
Passion, and in it is set a small ruby.
The inscription is "Dr. Martin Luther;
Catherine Bora, June Is, 1926"
Colonel Samuel Shock, of Columbia,
Pa, has reached his eighty-seventh
year. lie attributes his long life TO his
careful diet. Before breakfasting, he
always drinks a cup of water just as warm
as he can swallow it. AS to his diet, he
says: 81 have entirely quit the use of
tea and coffee, do not use them at all; |
use a quart of milk daily, dividingit into
three equal parts one for each meal. l
eat but little meat, only using it at
one meal per day, and | find that al
ways feel better if eat very moder-
ately."
Mr.. Edmund Clarence Stedman has
been annouced lately by ill-founded re-
ports to the effect that he has abandoned
his banking business, and will hence
forth derote himaelf exclusively to lit
erary pursuits s'Thaiis.is just now ealea-
lated to injure me-" he said recently
TO q correspondents of the Chicago Inter
Ocean. II have in fact, abandoned
writing to go into business, because |
could not make a living for myself and
family by mere brainwork."
Chicago News: One ofElia Wheeler's
Poems Of Passion" begins: "She touch
es my cheek, and / a~uiver--I tremble
with exquisite pain; she signs like an
oyercharged river, my blood rushes o n
through my veius; she smiles-and ia
mad.tiger fashion, as a she tiger fondles
her own, [ clasp her with ierceness and
passion, and kiss her with shudder
and groan.' Ella may call this a poem
Of passion, but here We call it drunk
and disorderly.
The romantic experience Of the hat
maker at Bethel, CT. who wrote he,
name on the band of a hat, and finally
married the New Orleans man into
whose hands it fell, has had an unex-
pected sequel. OF course the other
girls in the hat shop did the same thing,
and now a western firm has refused a
consignment OF hats, sent OIL their order
because so many of them have young
women's names written inside the band.
Trees are scarce in the 0rkneys, and
a single specimen adorns the principal
street of Kirkwall. When Mr.. Glad
stone recently visited the place, his en-
tertainers at first intended to make a
Joke at the expense of the grand old
Teller" by placing upon the solitary yes-
tige of arboreal beauty a sign, Wood
man, spare this tree,o but finally deci-
ded to serve the humor of the occasion
by conducting him carefully along the
| opposite side of the street, and explain
ing ttG% bic. that as this Was the only tree
In the town, they wanted TO keep 1t out
of harms way.
Il: COLuc peOplc arc uuluCk9. "A w HibC
county (Ga,) man, while attempting to
cross the river in q batteau the other
dag was capslzed and thrown into the
water. Trying to reach the boat his
foot caught in a snag and was sprained,
and at the same Time he lost a $40 watch,
his hat, a shoe and the boat. He finally
| reached the shore, and was hobbl:ng
across a field when a ~ferocious bul! start
ed for him. Reaching a tree, he climbed
it lively enough to escape the bull,
bnt also lively enough to get into q hor-
nets nest Tie hornets objected. and
he sprang to another limb, VIII ch broke,
letting him fall to the ground, fracturing
his wrist With the broken branch he
kept the bull at bay, and finally es-
capeu.
One of Prof. Nordenkiold's compan.
ions, DR.. Lathorst, tells how sultry it i,
in the Arctic regions. At Waigatz
Island they walked about in their shirt
sleeves on the slopes, covered with
| plants and shrubs, with butterflies and
| bees swarming around. Bathing was