River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-09-13
Personal Points.

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| straight and fast their courage failed, anc
| they got out of its way without delay
| New York Times.
Personal Points.
Said Emory Storrs in group Of rich
men at Saratoga; "You fellows think
yourselves highly essential. Have yot
observed that there are only two ricl
men of antiquity whose name survive
| Cansus, who served to turn a poet,
| figure, and Dives, who was fortunately
| associated with a pauper?" Before the
languor following this remark had sub
sided Storrs ADDED: "How many as
well-known fellows as you were sitting in
Athens once, observing that that obscure
cuss, Phidias, was long time doing that
Ornamental work up stairsf"
The late Judge Black is said to have
received the largest fee ever paid to q
LAWYER for success in a suit. He defen-
ed the New Almaden Quicksilver Com
pany of California in a suit in the United
States Supreme Court, the opposing
counsel being Reverdy Johnson, Charles
O'Connor ard Judah p. Benjamin. His
fee WAS said at the time to have been
$3.50 eco This is doubtless an eXagger-
alton. but 1t is known that he received q
very large fee.
As an illustration Of Thaddeus Stew
ems deIicacy of feeling, the following
story is related: Early one morning
during the legislative session of 1885,
while walking to the capitol with DR..
Worthington of Chester, Pa, they over
focb n vroD,op opparaDtlv, in o,raat dis
tress. Mr.. Stevens stopped and asked
her what was her trouble. She replied
that she was on hel way to market, and
had lost a 81 bill, all the money she had.
Putting his fingers into his vest POCKET
and turning to his companion, he re-
marked, doctor, this is fortunate. That
81 bill which picked up down by the
entrance belongs to this woman" Thus
he presented the money to her without
her knowing that he had made a
gift.
1t is related in the Cincinnati Enquir-
er that when Dean Richmond was con-
nected with a prominent railroad a
young man presented himself before
him and requested a pass Upon
what grounds dc you want pass?" said
L. l
to pay my fare" replied the young man.
it for your truthfulness," and turning to
his secretary he said: Give this young
man a pass He is the first applicant
that has told the truth for ages"
One thing which Lord Coleridge said
on his arrival in New York is worthy of
especial note. In conversation with
some of the gentlemen who escc rted
him up the bay on Friday morning, in
the yacht Pastime, he remarked on the
beauty Of our national banner. "In the
old church in Northamptonshire, where
George Washington's ancestors lie
buried, said Lord Coleridge, Il found
some years ago, the Was lington family
coat of arms, and was surprised to see
that it was identical with your national
hag. The stripes were fewer, ann the
stars also, but there, in the quiet gray
old church, was the origin ofthe emblem
which now flies in every part of the
world" Is it possible that Washington
gave US our flag, and that we must give
up the poetic tradition about the hunter
VINO saw in the morning sky the com
bination of colors and stripes which sug-
ges ed the "Star Spangled Banner?"
President Seelye of Amherst College
evidently does not agree with Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., as to the advantages
to be derived from the study of Latin
and Greek. While the four years scien-
tific course Of that institution was so or
ganzed that student could pursue it
with no knowledge Of Greek and only a
slight knowledge of Latin, he has found
of Tor a n bof
the best scientific students have, in
eve ry year, without single exception,
been the classical Students, and the col
lcge has become SO thoroughly convinced
that the best work in science is to be
done only on the basis of a thorough
in the classics that it has dis
its scientific as separate from
its classical course.
Mrs. May Croly Roper, wife of Lieu
tenant jesse NJ. Roper, United States
navy, died at Portland Springs, Me-, last
Monday, at the early age of %. Mrs.
Roper was the daughter of Mr.. David G..
and Jennie c. Crojy, (Jennie June) and
inherited much of the literary talent
and tastes of her parents. Her bright
young life was 6lighted by an affection
of the spine, which WAS the immediate
cause OF her death.
A London correspondent of the New
York World writes that it is the pre-
valing impression there, that Miss
Chamberlain, the American beauty
abroad, will get herself severely talked
about if she does not soon cut the soci-
ETY. of the prince of Wsles. Prudent
mothers here" writes the correspond
ent, would prefer that their daughters
should contract the small pOX rather
than attract the favor of his royal high
ness. lie is a deadly upas-tree, and
smites the poor girl who thinks to rest
under the spreading branches of his adj
miration with the poison of the yilest
scandal. Miss Chamberlain is boauti-
full girl, with all the wit and self-reli-
ance that characterize your fair maid
ems, but these will not protect her. This
is hard for a loyal Briton to say, but it
is the truth"