The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-07-27
Personal Gosslp.

Miss Whinnery, school teacher at
Benton, Ind, pointed out to Fred Plen-
gle, one of her pupils, the folly of falling
in love with her. "You're good boy"
she said, "and I would like we'll enough
to be your mother. but I couldn't think
OF becoming your wife," Fred thereupon
attempted suicide.
The daughter of an earl stopped dane
ing with the Prince of Wales, and openly
refused to 60 on, because he was hold
ng her too closely and otherwise misbe-
having himself in a large ballroom.
She left him in the middle of the floor
and asked an acquaintance to take her
to her mother.
Mr.. Morosini, confidential secretary
Of Jay Gould, says that Mr.. Gould has
abandoned the projected yacht voyage
around the world. Mr.. Gould will, he
says, spend next winter cruising in the
Mediterranean, but the date of his de-
parture from this country has not been
decided upon.
The Ccmte de Cha;mbord, who is said
to be dying from intestinal troubles, has
been terrible gormandizer all his life,
A gentleman who saw him dining at
holel IN Bruges some years ago saws that
the divinely appointed count ate two
roasted chickens, two large dishes of
salad, no end of vegetables, and lot of
dessert, and washed the whole down
with two quarts OF Burgundy. OF late
years he has been so fat that locomotion
was at times next to impossible with
him.
An intelligent young Englishman Of
good family, a baronet's son, who has
been investing largely in lands in Tex.
as, was asked how it was that so MANY
Of his countrymen were buying land in
tell you," he said. "There is a verv
general feeling that there will be q
great change in England soon, equal to
that made in the south by your civil
war. Although they would laugh at the
idea if you suggested it, nine out of ten
men in England believe that Albert Ed
ward, prince ofWales, will be the last
king England will ever have"
Ananecdote Of Chopin's magical charm
in music appears in the life of George
Sand. It is evening in George Sands
salon. cat the piano is Chopin; and
she: her son Eugene Delacroix and the
Polish poet Mickiewiez sit listening
whilst the composer, in an inspired
mood, is extemporizinp in the sublimest
manner to the little circle. All are III
silent rapture; when servant breaks
in with the alarm-the house is on fire.
They rush to the rooms where the
flames are, and succeed after time in
extinguishing them. Then they perceive
that the poet Mickiewiez is missing. On
returning to the salon they find him as
they had left him, rapt, entranced, I'M
conscious ofthe stir around him.
Many of the great English lawyers
have been very uncultivated men. This
was pre- eminently the case with Sir
William Po.lett, the most brilliant adj
vocate of the century. He knew moth
ing but law, to which he gave almost
oil his time when student at Cambridge.
In regard to the dismissal of r.Mary
Walker from her position in the PEN
sion Office, Washingto Star reporter
who inquired at that Office was informed
that neither her absence nor her pecu-
liar manner Of dressing had anything to
do with the dismissal. At the beginning
under the law to make a number of
changes, twenty-five of one class of
clerkships having to be abolished. DR..
Walker was selected, among others, for
dismissal because she was Inefficient.
A gentleman in Paris who was in the
habit Of bestowing five sous daily upon
a blind beggar, by mistake one day gave
him Napoleon. Afterward, discover.
ing the error, he hunted up the beggar's
residence, and called to recover his gold
piece. A tidy maid opened the door of
a comfortably furnished suite of apart
ments. Monsieur was requested to take
q seat, and in a minute or two the beg
gar made his appearance, neatly dressed
and with iaultless shirt-front. The
object of the visit was stated. my clerk
is just making up the days account" he
observed; If a Napoleon has been
70 nd in the box, it shall be restored to
you" The piece Of gold was found, and
t beggar banded it back to his vi.itor.
AS the latter was retiring, the beggar
called out to him: 81 beg your pa den,
sir, but you have forgotten to give me
the half-pe my out of it."