Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-16
Personal Matters.

Personal Matters.
General William Randall Smith, one
Of the best-known lawyers in the state
| of Connecticut, died recently very sud-
ly of apoplexy, at Norw TX. He was
formerly brigadier general of Connect
! lieut. National Guard. and was counsel
! for Buchho|z, now serving life sentence
| in states prison for the murder of John
Il. shuttle, wealthy German at South
| NorWalk,
! The Wedding ring given by Martin
Luther to his bride is still in existence
and has been lately placed on exhi' j.
ton at Frankfort-on- the Main. It bears
a representation of Christ upon the
cross and the instruments the passion,
md in it is set a small ruby: The in
scription is, CDR. Martin Luther; Cath
crime Bora, June Is, 1857
Lawrence Barrett, the actor closed a
nine weeks engagement in New York
the other evening, and in response to
calls by the audience made a speech
from the stage, gin which he recnm:
mended Henry Irving to their patron
age, and hoped his own foreign tour
would be successful. The engagement
! just ended, 1t is claimed, nets Mr.. Bar
rett about $4,000.
Mr.. Blaine gets from the publishers
Of his new book SIS, 600 cash down and
royalty OF Is cents a volume There are
advance orders for lOD,Un) copies.
and it is expected that fully 3lO.UGO will
be sold. This would yield the author
$l20. 200 in all.
Mrs. Southworth, the story-writer,
still lives in Washington, where she was
Il school teacher thirty-tive yerrs ago.
! Her home prospect Cottage" is en-
! powered in honeysuckles, and occupies
| a commanding position overlooking the
| city.
The number of wealthy members of
| Congress increasus. Col. Lyman, of
Massachusetts, is one Of the new mem
| bers who will entertain e]aboratelv this
| winter. He inherited great wealth.
Washburn, of Minnesota has rented
Don Cameron's house, and will give Law
! ash receptions. Of the new senators
! nearly all ure rich. Bowen. of Colorado,
| is a mining lord. Sabin, of Minnesota,
| went from Connecticut twenty years
| ag), and Is now very rich. Dolph, of
Oregon, is thrifty corporation attorney.
Coiqui;t is one of the best to DO men in
Georgia, ana Gibson. Of Louisiana, in
herlted wealth. There are not many
poor men left in the senate. Count out
Blair, Frye, Kenna, Jones, of Florida
! and Riddleberger, and the rest are &C.
! counted rich.
The appearance Of Pere Hyacinthe is
very striking, and his smooth. broad,
| intellectual face reminds one strongly of
Henry Ward Beecher in it's general out
line. He talks nothing hut French, al
though formerly he passed a good deal
! Of his time in this country, where he
| weoed and won his wife, and thus
| GLAZED chasm between hianseli and the
Roman Church which nothing could
bridge.
William Portion. who was born on the
English man-of-war Saturn on August H.,
l7s3, who jo!ned the navy as !, youth
| and stood close to Nelson when he re-
! ceived his mortal wound in the battle of
Ira algar, has just died at Wolverhanp-
| ton, where he had earned a livelihood
| for more than sixty years. The Globe
| adds that he died in the workhouse, g.
touching illustration OF how English
delights in honoring her heroes, espec-
| tally her naval heroes, being mistress of
the sea-
A. German statistician has calculated
the chance which leading actress has
ofestablishing herself we'll in life by
| marrying into royal or noble families.
The results show that she has one chance
in 846 Of becoming the consort OF O
FRINGE belonging to a reignlng family,
| one III 405 Of becoming the wife of a sec
onl rate or younger brother rrlnce, one
in SIP Of shuftlny off her mortal coil IN
the capacity vi Duchess, one in 200 Of
/ breathing her last as q COUNTESS, and
/ one IN ITO OF dying Baroness, ii she is
our aud out killing"
i Miss Dickinson's dresses in Anne
Beylen are spoken OF as "marvels of
azs." The first is a white satin with a
/ front of solid crystal embroidery, trlm-
! ln1ngs OF crystal fringe, and 81 court ira in
/ OF dark blue velvet. Then she wears q
+ eanary-colored MORE antique, with =
very dark crimson velvet front with in
i teracinxs OF gold over it, and golden
/ tassels depending from the openings,
I the corsage being tnimmed to match.
AIO tuAiu 40 et hCafy CAAn W @ SGIJ IFAt
terra-cott, shade approaching pink, with
a beautiful front Of lowered stripes that
/ are nlaryels of beauty as the lights and
| SHADES iaii UPON shem The fourth is q
| fooe OF crlH4sou velyef ana white erm1nr
in which she looks indeed a very queen.
| The fifth and last is q black velvet.
Last week Marshall Il. Mallory OF the
| Madison Square theater,. went over from
New York to Philadelphia to visit his
brother, the Rev. DR.. Mallory, editor of
the Churchman, who is in Philadelphia
/ during the Episcopal convention. At
/ the Hotel Alden he met a beautiful and
accomplished young lady whose person
a and social araees quite charmed him.
/ One evening he invited her to accom-
pany him to see the Queens Lace
Hand kerehief," one OF the sprightl:est
lpf modern comic operas. Gu, Mr..
i Mallory 3 exclaimed tho fair creature,
I'm 30 disappointed, but I have anoth-
ier e,gageHent for this evening. I'd
give anything to sec i1I didn'E know
she had It on ex hieitian here,