The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-06-14
Personal Gossip.

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Malaria, they say, is what ais Jcffer-
son Davis. He caught it while visiting
some OF his overlooked lands on the
Yazoo, and then stubbornly refused to
take Qulnine until he was seriously i'll.
he Is now convalescent.
Princess Louise, by kind act, has
proved herself a practical sympat hizer.
While going through one of the war,ls
Of Q hospital she was moved by the tale
OF ono OF the inmates, q poor woman
who was distressed about her three
young children. The Princess discover
ed that the father was in the peniten-
tlary TOR larceny, and having him re-
moveu, sent him home to his family, to
the great joy of the sick mother. ~.
Governors Curtin, of Pennsylvan-
Ia; kirkwood, of Iowa; Sprague, of
Rhode Island; Blair, of Michigan; Ram
sey, OF Minnesota; and Stanford, Of Cali.
fornia, are the survivors of the loyal
Governors at the outbreak of the war.
An Ohio woman has applied for d.
vorce on the ground of refined cruelty.
her petition setting forth that her hus-
band, who is a devout church member,
conducts family worship three times .
day, and selects passages from the scrip
lures which strongly condemn all man
ner of sins, and then In the presence OF
the family makes the application to her,
accompanied with bitter denunciatory
epithets.
The city house which T. B. Aldrich
has just purchased on Mt. Vernon street,
in the old and mellow west end of Bos-
ton, is next adjoining that of Charles
Francis Adams on the top of Beacon
Hill. It is near that of ex-Cov. Clat]in,
and in the row of large, roomy, and com
Portable dwellings,, with generous front
pied by Judge Gray. The estate extends
through to Pinckney street. one of the
most picturesque old streets OF the pic
turesquo west end.
The full name of the man who is to
succeed Lorne as the Governor General
Of Canada is Henry Charles Keith Pet
ty FitzmAurice. He is the fifth Marquis
Of Lansdowne and the "eldest son efthe
fourth Marquis by his second wife Emily
Jane, daughter ofthe Comte de Flahault
and Of the Baroness Keith and Marine"
Now there need be no mistake as to the
gentleman's identity.
The Moscow papers occupy themselves
with stories of our Mr.. Mackay's wealth.
They seem to be under the impression
that he has the financial care of the
American special mission and that he
intends to spend 3, 600 900 of rubies dur
ing his stay in Moscow. They describe
his mines of such immense depth and 80
near the center, of the earth that the
workmen can only labor an hour at a
time. To the Muscovites, the Herald
man SAYS, he is one of the most inter.
esting personages attending the corona
ton fetes.
Herbert Hackney, who was gradua.
ted from Cornell in 1873, has been more
successful than any other graduate of
that college. The Ithaca Journal says:
HE began at Milwaukee at 81 600 a
year, has since been engaged at Youngs-
town, ILL.,, at salary of 81 600, later at
Chicago for $4,000, and has recently
signed an agreement to go to Portland,
Oregon, where he is to remain three
years, and will receive the sum of $l2,-
GOO per year for his services as an engi-
neer."
When the duke of Newcastle was in
Chicago the other day he was engaged
rs GR bi 1 a nsfk and af emn
notices. There was nothing in particu-
lar to say of the duke himself, but the
reporters were able to spread them
selves on the boil, as the boil was
spreading itself on the duke. Lucky for
all hands around that boil. But for it
the papers would have been compelled
to let this sprig of nobility 20 without a
word, and how embarrassing to them and
how humiliating to him would that have
been. But the boil saved them, and
now the duke can send the papers
home to the royal family and the rest,
and show them that in America we
know how to treat great folks when they
honor US with their presence. But it
was narrow escape.