The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-10-25
Personal Gossip.

This time it is mysterious Russian
princess. of remarkable beauty, but AZ
vet without a name. who is to make her
dphut in Washington society this win
tsr What theater will make her its
leading attraction is not yet announced.
HerrLasker thinks that America in its
infancy. parti ,uIarly in politics, the par.
t;aa seeming to him in comparison, OF
course. with those of Germany. to be
ill.deiined aud crudely organized.
Mr.. Garrett, the railway president,
avs that during his last European trip
he was impressed with the Importance
of places of amusement. He IS satisfied
that no city can thrive as 1t should with
out theaters, gardens, parks and the
like. "Wnile the old folks are trading,
he saws, "the young folks are seeing tun.
Every city should make itself attrac'
tive"
Rev. DIR. Albert Nicholas Arnold died
in Providence. r. l., recently, He had
been for eleven years q missionary to
GREECE. lie had also been professor
at Newton Theological Institution. Ham
ilton The logical Institute and Chicago
Baptist Theological Seminary.
Tue late Colonel George Knapp. tn G
owner of the St. Louis Republican, left
all his property to his widow and ten
children, In his will, dated 1867, Col
onel Knapp requests that she kepuhll.
can be kept in the family. A codlcll
made in 1870 substitutes a son In pace
of n brother as the executor.
Miss North, the English artist who ie
studying the fora of Africa, writes with
enthusiasm of her discoveries, every
fresh place showing her fresh flowers
In one place she had sight of one Of
the largest aloe trees in the world, or
rather, three staining to-ether, forty
feet high, with hundreds of heads on
the ends of their branches, each Of
VIII Oh, when in bloom. has bunch o.
red hot poker" flowers coming out Of
it, forming mass OF flowers which, it is
said, c'uld be seen thirty miles Of.
Several hundred citizens of Raleigh
N. c., were caught in an awkward pre-
dicament few nights ago. There was
a fire on the penitentlary grounds, and
all old building was destroyed. The
ti.emel and cltizens turned out gallant
Iy and did good work. When they had
finished it they were ready to retire,
but that they found no easy task. Sew
enty.tWo guards with Winchester rifles
were On duty, and no man Was let cut
except reporter and two pressmen.
Four hundred others were kept in the
main building and not released until 6
O'clock III the morning. They were,
however, treated TO re .rcshulcnts.
President Willard, of the Northern
Pacific, was comparatively poor in 1865.
Northern Pacific stock Was down to s
and 10 cents per share. He examined
the road, the country through which it
passes, and saw the crops it was capable
OF producing. He resolved to buy not
only all the stock he could get, but the
,ranch,se as we'll, which he and his
associates finally did, 1T less than mil
lion dollars. Since then he has sold
$.;O,UOn,,GO worth of land and has
>lu,, UOD,O0O worth left. At tina time
('76) he Was a ne wspAper reporter; now
lie is one Of the richest men on the
globe. and has really but just got started.
IA French medical journal has been
amusing ITSELF" says the London Graph
ic, "by prescribing for the ailments OF
ilustrious people who have been long
dead but VINO, according to this au hor-
| ity, ought not to have died as early as
they did. 1t seems that Moiiere could
nave ueen saved by a few era us Of
ca cine; Racine's neurosis would have
yielded to bromide of potassium; while
| any modern uoctor could have cured
Napoleon Of his biliousness, and altered
the course of history by making the
great emperor live to a green oil age
| All this brings such satisfactory evidence
as to the progress of science that our de-
scendents may wonder how Gambet,a
was allowed to die in the prime Of life
| and why the most expert physicians
| of a moving aye have sound it so dllti.
| cut to understand the Comte de Cham
! nur Us illness" This makes no account
| Of Garfield and his Surgeons.