The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-21
Personalities.

An amusing incident that occurred d
the Rev. Frederick BayIis Allin, assistant
rector of Trinity church, Boston. il
called to mind by the number of wed.
dings that have taken place there ii
late. A young couple called at his resi-
dence TO be united III wediock and ane,
the ceremony had been pronounced the
groom, taking a coin from his vest pock.
ct, handed it to Mr.. Allin and departed
When they had rome Mr.. Allin looked
at his fee and found it vas a five cent
piece. ,..s
Sojourner Truths most remarkable
speeches are being recalled now that she
is dead. In 1851, at Akron, o., when
she q eighty years old, in the course
Of a wonian's rights convention, she
shouted: Den dey talks bout dis ting
in de head-what dis dcy call it," Gin.
t~ellect," whispered some one near
Oats it, honey. What's dat got to do
viii wOmen's rights or ~nigger's rights
If my cup won't hold but a pint. and
yCurn holds a quart, wouldn't you be
mean not to let me have my little hall
measure full? Den dat little man ID
black, dar--he says womin can't have az
much rights as men, because Chria
WANT a woman. Whar did your Chris
come from? WIiar did your Christ CONS
from? From God and q woman! Maa
had nothin' to do wild him"
Perhaps a more extraordinary suicide
was never heard of than that which i
reported from Venice. Three young Ia.
dies went out, took their passage to the
Lido, were observed to be very melan.
choly duringthe journey, and ended b
drowning themselves. They appear to
have taken their " lives, two out Of
mere melan 3holy and from tedium yitie,
the third out of sympathy and for the
sake of company. They had losi their
! mother, one Vi tnrtn iiad weaK sIgri.
another was subject TO fits, AID they had
all been reading"I Promessi Saosi, !" the
7, one Italian book which most English
schoolgirls have read. The least az
tlicted Of the sisters was q girl OF great
beauty.
One of the latest incidents OF the Paris
duel is thus mentioned: For a triding
matter G.. found himself drawn into a
duel, and he chose for a witness one Of
those ferocious creatures who make 4
| reputation at the expense of the skin Of
a friend. During the negotiations O.
waited at q rendezvous the decision OF
the witnesses. At last his friend ar
rived, radiant with Joy. He looked as
If he had..captured atown. "Good news.
Your affair is arranged. You will fight
in one hour-with the ~pistol-at three
PAGES. I had a good deal OF trouble to
get, consent to the three PAGES. They
would not believe that you are near
| sighted..' Fortunately. however, the
| quarrel was amicably settled.
! Lord Slckville, brother of the British
Minister at Washington, owns a magni-
fcent old house (whose roof covers five
acres and park called Knolc, near Sew
enoaks, a small town in Kent. Raft
| roads have Of late years brought it with
in half an hour of London, and multi
| piled teH-fold the crowds who wen 70
| see the house. The thing has become
such a nuisance that Lord y VIII no
| longer allow it to be seen, and all the
| Sevenoaks hotel keepers and. publicans,
| who have mainly lived on it, and deem.
/ ed is exhibition a prescrlptlve right OF
| theirs, are furious. A letter has appear
| ed IN which the writer says that u hnole
| catches fire he. doubts il men would 90
got in SeveEoaks to mat tine ergines.
Governor Terrazas, of Chihuahua,
having commissioned the frontiors'nen
OF the foothills OF the Sierra Madres 70
come for breech-loading rifles and one
thousand cartridges each for the pur-
pose of crushing, IL moi DISCRIMINATING.
thesApaches and all other hostile In
dams of the mountains, orders fnat
word be sent to all the frontiersmen o.
the Territories of Arizona and new
Mexico to join the mountaineers OF tnat
State, declaring that they can share y
the $3.50 premium offered on each scalp,
and the plumber and animals, arms, anu
captured ammunition.
When Senator Beck visited his OLD
home in Scotland, in 1876, while stroll.
ling through the fields he met an old
gchoolmate, 'You don't remember me,
Donald?" he said to him. mo- said
Donald, ST don't know your face. Bn'
/ caught a six-pound salmon t0-daySh
the firth, and whenever I have dom
that before something has happened. !
don't know YOU by sight, but you're
either John McTherson, who left u
thirty years agone, or you're Jim Beck
Nov which is it?n ssSurc enough,.
cried the senator, sits Jim Beck
"Weel, Jimmie, they tell me that ths
Americans are going to elevate You Y
the House Of Peers. Is it so? Cons
asong home then. and well eas the nsn
An American lords good enough fof
Scotch salmon