The Mineral argus., 1883-12-27
Personalities.

An amusing incident that occurred to
the Rev. Frederick Baylis Allin, assistant
rector of Trinity church, Boston, is
called to mind by the number Of we'd
dings that have taken place there OF
late. A young couple called at his resi-
| dence to be united in wedlOck and after
the ceremony had been pronounced the
! groom, taking a coin from his vest pOck-
! et, handed it to Mr.. Allin and departed.
When they had gone Mr.. Allin looked
at his fee and found it was a five cent
piece.
~Sojourner Truths most remarkable
speeches are being recalled now that she
is dead. In 1851, at Akron, o., when
she was eighty years old, in the course
of a wonlan's rights convention, she
shouted: Den dey talks bout dis ting
in de head-what dis dey call it," C'in-
t%ellect," whispered some n near)
Oats it, honey. What's dat got TO do
viii women's rights or nigger's rights?
If my cup won't hold but q pint. and
y3urn holds a quart, wouldn't you be
mean not to let me have my little half
measure full? Den dat little man in
black, dar--he says womin can't have as
much rights as men, because Chfist
want a womlnl Whar did your Christ
conIe from? Whar did your Christ come
from? From God and a woman! Man
had nothin' to do wild him"
Perhaps a more extraordinary suicide
was never heard of than that which is
reported from Venice. Three young la
dies went out, took their passage to the
Lido, were observed to be very melan.
choly during the journey, and ended by
drowning themselves. They appear to
have taken their own lives, two out OF
mere melancholy and from tedium vit;e,
the third out of sympathy and for the
sake of company. They had losi their
mother, one Of them had weak sight,
another was subject to fits, and they had
all been reading II Promessi Sposi," the
one Italian book WHICH most English
schoolgirls have read. The least af.
fiicted of the sisters was a girl of great
beauty.
One of the latest incidents of the Paris
duel is thus mentioned: For a triling
matter G. found himself drawn into a
duel, and he chose for a witness n of
those ferocious creatures who make a
reputation at the expense of the skin of
a friend. During the negotiations G..
waited at a rendezvous the decision of
the witnesses. At last his friend ar
rived, radiant with joy. He looked as
if he had''captured a town. Good news.
Your affair is arranged. You will fight
in one hour-with the pistol-at three
PAGES. l had a good deal Of trouble to
get consent to the three PAGES. They
would not believe that you are near
cfOhfaA ~ EnpfInotnlU hnWnUaF fhn
quarrel was amicably settled.
Lord Sackville, brother of the British
Minister ct Washington, own a magni-
fcent old house (whose roof covers five
acres) and park called Knole, near Sew
enoaks, a small town In Kent. Rail-
roads have of late years brought it with
in half an hour of London, and multi
piled ten-fold the crowds who went to
see the house. The thing has become
such a nuisance that Lord S. will no
longer allow it to be seen, and all the
Sevenoaks hotel keepers and publicans.
who have mainly lived on it, and deem
ed its exhibition 2 pTescriptive right of
theirs, are furious. A letter has appear
ed in which the writer says thatifKnole
catches fire he doubts if men would be
got in Sevenoaks to nan the engines.
Governor Terrazas, of chihuahua.
having commissioned the frontiersnen
OF the foothills of the Sierra Madres to
come for breech-loading rifles and one
thousand cartridges each for the pur-
pose of crushing, if not exterminating.
the Apaches and all other hostile In
dams of the mountains. orders that
word be sent to all the frontiersmen of
the Territories of Arizona and New
Mexico to join the mountaineers of that
State, declaring that they can share IN
the $3.50 premium offered on each scaln
and the plumber and animals, arms. and
captured ammunition.
When Senator Beck visited his old
home in Scotland, in 1875, while stroll
ling through the fields he met an old
schoolmate, 'You don't remember me.
DoRald?" he said to him. ono" said
Donald, "I don't know YOU face. But
L caught a six-pound salmon to-day in
the firth, and whenever | have done
that before something has happened.
don't know You by sight, but you're
either John MCPHERSON. who left MS
thirty years agone, or you're Jim Beck.
Now which is it?" "Sure enough .
cried the senator, cts Jim Beckn
"'Weel, Jimmie, they tell me that the
Americans are going to elevate you TO
ne House of Peers. Is it so? Come
along home then and Wen eav the isn
An American lord is good enough for a
Scotch salmon"