Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-11-22

duced blocks of glass hardened by q
special process which he claims will
gradually displace wood and iron in the
construction of bridges. The cost is be-
low that of either wood or iron, and as
glass cannot be injured by insects like
wood, nor rusted like iron, it has much
to recommend it.
PERSONAL.
GEN. ROBERT TooMBs, of Georgia,
has recently become member of the
Methodist Church.
OSCAR WILDE remarked OF Henry 1rv-
ing's legs that one was "a symphony
and the other beautiful poem"
REV. JOHN S. INsE1p, well-known
New England preacher, is rendered
speechless by stroke of paralysis.
MISS MARIE VAN ZANnT, the American
prima donna, will not employ Il man
ager, but attends herself to all business
matters and engagements.
DIR. JAcHIMovIos, of Kiew, Russia,
died recently at the age of LOG. He
euperintended his large and successful
practice until within year or two.
DAVID LINCOLN, of Maywlle, Chau-
tauqua County, N. Y, is six feet high,
weighs 2l5 pounds, and is 72 years old.
He can lift 1000 pounds. In his life he
has cleared 500 acres of land, and boasts
of chopping and piling up eight cords OF
four-foot wood in a day. In his youth
he was champion wrestler.
The best fencer in England is de-
clared by the London World to be MIR.
Farquhar, and the next best AIR. Walter
Pollock, who recently became editor of
the London Saturday Review-facts
which lead the World to remark that at
last one important English periodical
possesses "a fighting editor"
EscALAIs, the new tenor, who has
sprung into fame by his singing in
{" William Tell," at the Grand Opera,
Paris, is said to be phenomenally ugly.
He is about five feet tall. round as a
barrel, with fat, unmeaning face, and
hair that stands like bristles all over his
head. He is native of Providence.
MISS BERTHA CROWLEY should take
the field as professional dreamer. She
dreamed three nights in succession that
an uncle had died in Texas, SO she wrote
to the old gentleman to find out the
facts. The letter fell into the hands of
his lawyers, who notified her last week
that she had fallen heir to $4,000 by
her uncle's death.
The artist, Albert Hendschel, whose
charming delineations of childhood are
admired throughout the world, died re-
Gently in Frankfort t-on. the Main, at the
age Of forty y-nine. Strange to say, the
author Of the "Skizzenbuck, which is
pervaded by such genial humor, was in
his private life reserved and retiring al
most TO the point of misanthropy.
KANSAS CITY society item: The state
ment that Mrs. Jesse James is exhibit
ing herself in New York museum is
very Indignantly denied by that lady's
relatives and friends in this city. 1t is
stated that Mrs. James is spending a
large portion of her time in Kansas City
in the privacy of retired life, and that
she has no intention of appearing in q
museum.
GEN. ROBERT TooMBs was baptized
and admitted as q member of Metho-
dist church in Washington, Ga, recent
ly. His brother Gabriel was instru-
mental in bringing about the generals
conversion, and the local paper states
that the sight Of the pleasure on his face
as he stood by his brother during the
ceremonies is we'll worth ones memory
for years to come.
PRINCE KRAPoTKIN has again had a
relapse into bad health and complains
bitterly to his English friends of the
state of his prison cell and the charac-
ter of the food which he is required to
eat. He is working hard, however, at
two articles for the next volume of the
Encyclopaedia Britannica" The ar
ticle on Moscow in the last.issued vol
ume was from his pen.
The great Napoleon married widow.
Scarron's widow became court favor
lite. Rcsseau went crazy after widow,
and Gibbon, the historian, made him
self ridiculous over one. Disraeli mar
ried widow, and three of the most
distinguished widows in Europe to day
are Empress Eugenie, of the French,
Queen Isabella Of the Spanish, and
Queen Victoria of the E ,glish.
CAPT. WADDEhb, the commander OF
the confederate steamer Shenandoah
during the rebellion, has been charged
with being misanthrope, hating the
navy in particular and the void in gen.
eral, but correspondent of the Army
aud Navy Journal denies these state.
ments. mo one, "he says, tis cheeriel
in conversation, frear Of hatred. or {
warmer friend than the commander Of
the Shenandoah.
MARGARET WASHINGTON is George
Washington's gr, at-grandniece, and ex.
cepting q cousin of hers who keeps ur
the old family place down on the east
shore of Virginia, she has more Of the
Washington blood in her veins than any
other American. She keeps boarding
house just back Of the Riggs Hotel, IL
the capital. Although 70 years old, she
is active and alert. Her features have O
strong resemblance to those Of Wash
ington. She is deep in every charitable
work in the city, and manager for O
home for old ladies.
In the year 1910, when Queen Vic
toria aud the late Prince Albert were
married, it was arranged that the SECOND
son should be his fathers heir, in the
succession to the sovereignty of the
duchy of Sake. Coburg and Gotha. Al
the present Duke, Ernest IT,, the late
Prince Albert's elder brother, has ne
children, the duke of Edinburgh, The
queens second son, is the heir presnmp
tive to his uncle. The duchy contains {
population of about 100000, and is sit
uated in central Germany. The report
of misunderstanding between Duke
Ernest and his presunptive heir ha.
formed the substance of late cable dis
patch to the New York press.
Romance in Real Life.