Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-09-29
Personal Points.


"has grown quite robust" 'I
Joe Jefferson believes in spiritualism.
Old Grip Van Wrinkle" believed in
"spirits" also. - 49,. :
Longfellow'st two unmarried daughters,
with sister of Arthur Gilman, have de-
cided to spend year as students in
Newman college, England.
Mr.. Gerald Massey will deliver during
September, four Sunday afternoon lee
lures on philosophical subjects in st.
Georges Hall, London, and will then
come to this country.
The largest man in the British service
is Lieutenant Switzerland, of the Fifty
sixth regiment. He is Ell ght feet four
inches high, and weighs about 3G4
pounds.
John Wanamaker, of philadelphia has
just given the Young Mems Christian
association of that city $4,000 toward
paying off it, .,o 19l ooo The entire amonnt
u ,IeUt, SOU, 900, na- oeen mlsue up
by 'UtIIer subscribers.
The wife of J. Russell Young, United
States minister to Pekin, who recently
became mother, is now threatened with
consumption. A diagnosis OF her case
has been sent to DR.. Agnew of New
York, who expresses the hope that ma
ternlty may restore her.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
5000 per annum would be maximum
salary for a singer in church choir in
that city, except in special instances,
hot fa rf no
lie choir (quartettel singers receive
more than $500 or $3.50 per annum.
1t is said that the first trial of Frank
James for any ofence--the trial now in
progress-began on the twentieth ami
versary of the Lawrence massacre, in
which Frank and Jesse James did their
first bloody work, and in which nearly
all the, men who formed the original
Jesse James gang were concerned. The
raid was made by Quantrel's band Of
guerrillas. The town was sacked and
many residents were killed.
A story IS told of certain political eau
Gus in Maine which was attended by only
two persons, Hannibal Hamlin and one
other. Mr.. Hamlin elected the other
man chairman and proceeded to trans
act the business in hand. But the Gre
dentials of the delegates certified that
they were elected at "a large and 1e-
spectacle caucus of the republicans of
-, because" as Mr.. Hamlin explained
to the puzzled chairman, 'you are large
and am respectable"
At reception rendered General Sher-
man in San Francisco the other day he
said, in his bluff way, that when he first
knew the CITY it was the most forbidding,
God-forsaken place between Cape Horn
and the north pole, and that he would
| not have given rs cents for the whole
place, or for the inhabitants either,
Mr.. Gladstone has great liking for
his old clothes and wears suit long after
the trousers have become ''baggy'' at the
knees. When new suit has been OBJ
tanned for him and placed in his dress
| ing-room, he eyes it askant and puts on
his old friends every mornieg as before.
Then, alter few days, his servant en-
tiers the dressing-room stealthlly at night
| and carries away the old suit; thus COM
polling the premier to appear next
morning clad in the new garments.
Milton Hay, who was warm personal
I friend of Abraham Lincoln, among other
things, says Of, him.. I never saw a man
with less Instinct fer commerce., for
gain by barter, or any of the usual meth =
DDS of getting rich. He knew nothing
| about them. That is, perhaps, why he
had such happy temperament. He
| trusted Providence and did what came
| along"
Winslow Option, who has been APP
pointed professor ofastronoMy in Brown
university, is graduate of the college, is
about thirty years of age, thorough
| scientist. He has been acting at the
| chief signal office at Washington as
astronomical observer and is greatly re-
spected by his associates in meteorology
| He was an observer with the south sea
| island transit of Venus expedition. Dur
| ing the last two years he has superln-
| tended number of scientific balloon
/ experiments, and has made maps o
storm movements in mid air. ''' ''.'
DR.. Tanner, he of the irregular diet,
| has been notified Ivy the me deal socie-
ties of the regulars" to cease practicing
under penalties provided by law. The
faster" defes them, and publishes 8
card saving that NJ. D. only.means mon
| ey down. that he has practlced for
twenty-five years, and intends to contin-
ue! Furnished scalpels are glittering in
| Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties,
| New York, where he has his present
| practice.