Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-05
Personal GOSSIP.

Mr.. Nathaniel Barker, author OF ben
Bolt" q wen-known vocalist, is lying 80.
riously i'll at his residence on Western
avenue, Lynn. He is about 70 years OF
age. and sustained a few days ago frac-
tare of his h,p, which adds to his criti.
cal condition. .>.&;.< ~ =. + ~
Mr.. Blaine gets from the publishers O,
his new book $75, 600 cash down and o
royalty of fifteen cents volume. There
are advance orders for one hundred
tn eusand copies, and it is expected that
fully three hundred thousand will be
sold. This would yield the author $780,.
900 in ali which is somewhat more mon.
ey than the average writer of books gets
Mrs. Hymus Eastman, of Leon, N. Y.
is now her own mother.in-law, having
just married her deceased husbands
father, who is 72 years of age
Hon. James Russell Lowell, American
minister at London, is reported to be a
candidate for the rectorship of St. An.
drews, Edinburgh, university.
It now appears that the wedding Of
Miss Rebecca Williams, of Baltimore, to
Henry A. Herbert, member of the Brit.
ish parliament, which was to have oc
cured last Wednesday, was unexpect.
edly postponed, owing to the fact that
Mr.. Herbert wished to control the birds
fortune, $500, 900, to which her father
objected. It was the money, and not
the maid, the fellow was after.
Immediately after the presidents call
for troops, James V. Guthrie. q resident
of Covington, KY, and w. E. Woodruff,
major commanding the Marion Rifles, Of
Louisville, offered their services to the
president, and asked authority to raise
two regiments, as part of the quota oil
their state. The authority was given on
the 23d Of April. Their camp was estab.
lished on the north Tank of the Ohio
river just above Cincinnati, and was
designated Camp Clay"
The Rev. Newman Hall is universally
known in England as the author of the
tract "Come to Jesus" Some time ago,
it is related. he wrote reply to some of
his critics, and, having q good deal of
1.-The old men Adam" in his natural
makeup, used some pretty stinging Ian
guage therein. Before publishing it he
read it to his friend, the late DR.. Kinney,
and then said: ,"Now. Doctor, I'm CO.
ing to print it in tract form, and want
you to suggest name for it." "Well,"
said the other, while you were reid
ing. some Of those hard hits at your en-
to call it $50 to the Devil; by the author
of "Come to Jesus" Mr.. Hall saw the
point. and didn't publish the tract al
all.
A singular suit was brought before
Judge Baxter, Of the United States cir
;uit court, in session in Nashville, Tenn.
1t was nothing less than the effort Of
Alice Marguerite King to defend her
beauty against the assault of the Daily
American Miss King has figured as an
actress, and the American said that she
~as small woman with q pug nose. and
ugly. She claimed $50, ZOO damages, but
her suit was dismissed.
The New York Hour remarks: 1.-THE
accident TO Mr.. Vanderbilt excites prec.
ious little sympathy for him. Every
body says: Serve him right; he never
will observe the rule Of the road.' For
man who has so much to do with horses
Mr.. Vanderbilt is surprisingly igno.
rant of horse matters and driving. It is
3 standing joke among roadmen that on
the day his team made the phenomenal
record, they simply ran away with him."
Mrs. Oliphant says in tho November
Century, where she writes of Queen
Victoria: "We hold it one of the most
absurd of poetical fallacies that love' in
the ordinary sense of the word is wo-
mans whole existence yet it is very
true that the history of 4 woman is chief
ly the history Of her affections and tho
close relationships in which her dearest
interests are always concentrated. It is
true also of q man that in these lie the
real records of l is happiness or misery:
put there is more of the external in his
life" 40 A'0