Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-30
Personal Gossip.

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Mrs. Mary A. Livermore is now past
SO years OF age, but does not look older
than A. She travels 2 1900 miles q
year, Her home is at Melrose, near
Boston. just tcross the street Iiges her
only married. daugh liter, whose husband
IS the principal OF an important Boston
school. (. II. B 5#..t: @s MIL @*.z 81
Castleton, VT, boasts OF a minister
who has preached for fifty years at q
salary running from $3.50 10 $1,000.
Forty years ago he was getting $500, had
q wife and four children aud lived in 8
house without a carpet or stove. Now
he has retired, has q yards of carpet
lnga tour stoves, and Eve song scat
tered through the country and doing
well This shows that by com binins
plety WITH industry a ma may attain af.
hnsnce even in Vermont if he lives long
enough. =. - -, ~. s,,,.. III IL :s7 =
1t is rumored that the eldest daughter
{AmeIie) Of the Count de Paris is to be
married 10. the Grand Duke Alexis Of
Russia. Alexis is the younger brother Of
the Gar, and he visited the United
States during President Grants ad min.
'straf10n. The Count de Paris intends
o be King of France--if he can get the
':rown. This marriage is a, ranged with
reierence to an alliance betwee n France
aud Russia.
Gen, Sheridan never wants carriage
for himself. He never uses one in
Washington if he can avoid it. II the
day is fine he walks; if not he rides in
street car. When his war horse Win
chester, died, a few years ago, eays the
flesh weut out Of him. A gentleman h.
knew him well in boyhoo,l says that
the first time Sheridan ever hestrode u
morse Was when another b " put him
on :. fiery colt, unsaddled and unbridled,
and told him to hold on by his knees.
The animal gaIloped across the country
Tor several miles q d then came to Il
halt, and Sheridan was still holding on.
Moses Waterman, who has charge of
the labor and supplies OF the Panama
Canal SAYS that enterprise will be fin
ished in 1889. The men employed on
the work number OJ0, and to these
6,WW Japanese laborers are to be added
next month.
Sir Moses Montoftore sus'a!'
nature entirely on. milk and Old
port wine, of which he drinks two or
three glasses every day, varied with
sour and a little bread and butter some
times. In middle life he smoked, but
he has given up tobacco for many years.
He rises at II O'clock, having had his
letters read to him in bed. then drives
ont for several hours, and 'retires at 9
He has q likeness of Mr.. Gladstone, o.
whom he is fond, over his bed. He
wears blue coat, frilled shirt, and goes
about in the old. fashioned sedan chair.
Boniface De Roo, native of Holland,
who had lived for the last seven cen
years in Akron, e., where he died No.
vember 3, beQueathed $4,000 to thai
ely, his entire fortune. When he was
eighteen years Ole a severe illness prac-
ticaliy destroyed one Of his lungs, but
by uncommon prudence and care be
prolonged his life 10 seventv-two years.
he visited many states and countries in
search ol the climate most avorable to hi
inirmities, and, thinking that he knew
more about bis own condition than any
one else, entertained q poor opinion of
doctors, Brought up near the field OF,
Waterloo, De Roo as q boy saw the
troops of cavalry riding to the battle,
and remembered holding the horse of q
French officer who had OCCASION to dis.
mount on his way to the conflict.
Lucy E. Maclean, formerly a literary
woman of some distinction at Dean, n
Y, was seen begging in New York City,
the other day. She was a singular and
unhappy woman, and her actions caused
much comment. A predo 'ainant char
acterlstlc WAS her mania for busties
She wore q dark calico dress Of ancient
style, Summer and Winter. She was IL
daughter of Captain Mclean, who served
in the Revolutionary War. AMI when
young she was great belle, pretty, tai
ented and gay, and her admirers were
many. Sac wrote articles of consider
able merit which found their way into
the magazines and newspapers of the
day. She also had a large number of
corresponds Hmong them Longfel-
low and Salmon P. Chase. She ut length
became insane and has. roamed about
aimlessly for twenty years.