The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-09-28
Personal Points !.

Personal Points.
{ Clara Morris the emotional actress,
"has grown quite robust. 6
I Joe Jefferson believes in spiritualism.
Old "Rip Van Wrinkle" believed in
"spirits" also. 5,. ( s5'5
Longfellow's two unmarried daughters,
with a sister Of Arthur Gilman, have de-
,cided to spend q year as students in
Newman college, England.
Mr.. Gerald Massey will deliver during
September, four Sunday. afternoon lee
lures on philosophical subjects in st.
Georges Hall, London, and win then
come to this country. = ..
The largest man in the British service
is Lieutenant Switzerland, of the Fifty
sixth regiment. He is eight feet four
inches high, and weighs about 1854
pounds. .z s..a \. .Ys,,sag 49,.
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia has
just given the Young Mems Christian
association of that city $50, 600 toward
paying of its debt. The entire amount
of the debt, $500, 900, has been made up
by other subscribers
The wife of j. Russell Young, United
States minister to Pekin, who recently
became a mother, is now threatened with
consumption. A diagnosis OF her case
has been sent to DR.. Agnew of New
York, who expresses the hope that ma
ternity may restore her. a.[s
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
5000 per annum would be maximum
salary for singer in church choir in
that city, except in special instances.
and that very few of the Roman Catho-
lie choir (quartette) singers receive,
more than $500 or $3.50 per annum.
It is said that the first trial of Frank
James for any offence-the trial now in
progress-began on the twentieth anni-
versary of the Lawrence massacre, in
which Frank and Jesse James did their
first bloody work, and in which nearly
all the men who formed the original
Jesse James gang were concerned. The
raid was made by Quantrel's band of
guerrillas. The town was sacked and
many residents we're killed.
A story Is told of certain political eau
Gus in Maine which was attended by only
two persons, Hannibal Hamlin and one
other. Mr.. Hamlin elected the other
man chairman and proceeded to trans-
act the business in hand. But the Gre
dentials OF the delegates certified that
they were elected at "a large and re-
spectacle caucus of the republicans of
-, because" as Mr.. Hamlin explained
to the puzzled chairman, "you are large
and am respecta0l e." s
At "a reception rendered General Sher-
man in San Francisco the olher day he
said, in his bluff way, that when he first
knew the city it was the most forbiddinp,
God-forsaken place between Cape Horn
and the north pole, and TINT he would
not have given IS cents for the whole
place, or for the inhabitants either,
Mr.. Gladstone has great liking for
his old clothes and wears suit long after
the trousers have become "baggy" at the
knees. When new suit has been OBJ.
tanned for him and placed in his dress
ing-room, he eyes it askant and puts on
his old friends every mornieg as BEFORE
Then, after few days, his servant en-
tiers the dressing-room stealthily at night
and carries away the old suit, thus COM
polling the premier to appear next
morning clad in the new garments.
Milton Hay, who was warm personal
friend of Abraham Lincoln, among other
things, says of, him: never saw a man
with less instinct for commerce, for
gain by barter, or any Of the usual meth
DDS of getting rich. He knew nothing
about them. That is, perhaps, why he
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trusted Providence and did what came
along"
Winslow Option, whe has been ap-
pointed professor ofastronomy in Brown
university, is agraduate of the college, is
about thirty years of age, thorough
scientist. He has beens acting at the
chief signal office at Washington as
astronomical observer and is greatly re-
spected by his associates in meteorology.
He was an observer with the south sea
island transit of Venus expedition. Dur
ing the last two years he has superin-
tended number of scientific balloon
experiments, and has made maps of
storm movements in mid air.
DR.. Tanner, he of the irregular diet,
has been notified Ivy the me- deal socie-
ties of the REGULARS" to cease practicing
under penalties provided by law. The
faster" deies them, and publishes
card saying that NJ. d. only.means mon
ey down." that he has practiced for
TWENTY-FIVE years, and intends to contin-
ue. Furnished scalpels are glittering in
Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties,
New York, where he has his present
practice.