Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-06-09
Personal Paragraphs.

While making arrangements for trip
to Europe for his health's sake, the Hon.
Alexander Mackenzie, formerly premier
of Canada, was surprised by the advent
of a party of friends who presented him
with purse of $4,000, as "pocket
money that might come handy"
Colonel Cockerel, late of the st. Louis
Post Dispatch, who killed Colonel Stay
back, a lawyer of that city, last year. and
was acquitted on the ground that he
killed him in self-defense, is now the
managing editor of the New York
World.
Charles James Jessel, who has been
made baronet as mark of respect for
his father, the late Judge Sir George
Jessel, is % years old, and is studying
for the bar. He was lately graduated at
Oxford, and was with a single exception
the tallest man of his time in that uni
| versity.
The following marriages are announced
as soon to take place in New York
upp tendon; Miss Jones to Henry
Stevens, at Newport, in July. Miss
Mary Agnes Condit to Randolph Henry.
Miss Marion I.angdon to Congressman
| Perry Belmont, in June; Mr.. Perry Bel
mont has bought Admiral Stanlevs
house at Washington, Miss Marie Louise
Morgan to Edward Firth, on June 4, in
the sacristy OF the Roman Catholic Ca
| thedral.
Three widows, Mrs. Rachel Steve s,
born in February, 1856, Mrs. Mary IL.
Gilbert, born in September, 1856, and
Mrs. s. S. Mackey, born in 1889, all ma
tives of Gloucester, Mass, are now living
there within few hundred yards of
each other. Although older than the
constitution of the United States, two
of them can remember affairs that have
taken place~during every presidential
administration of the republic, and still
retain their faculties to remarkable
| degree. Mrs. Mackey is actively engaged
in attending to household duties
every day.
A San Francisco lady who went to
New York was perfectly delighted" be-
cause she had seen real dude. She
wrote home; 81 wanted TO tell you how
excessively funny the real dude looks
with the buttons of his swallow-tall half
way ND to his shoulders, which gave the
| tail sort of melancholy droop which
fits in with the gentle melancholy OF his
drooping shoulders and young mustache.
| He is very funny, and the girl he es-
corts to the theater wears bunch OF
| roses as big as ones head on her bosom,
and she has to look around them to
catch the melancholy smile of her mel
ancholy companion. He looks as If a
| life were made up of very green cucum-
bers and he had swallowed them ALL"
Carp" writing from Washington to
| the Cleveland Leader, reports long
conversation with Parson Brownlow's
son regarding candy" Johnson, in which
| the narrator recalled a romance asso-
ciated with the late president. 1t was
Johnson's love affair. Mr. Brownlow
said: The president fell i'll love early.
| He was only nineteen years old when
he married, but two years before TINS,
while he was a journeyman tailor IN South
| Carolina, he fell in love with the dangh-
| ter of small planter. His love was re-
tnrned, but the girls father, who had
few acres Of land and a couple OF ne
groes, would not consent to his daughter
marrying tailor, and the future presl-
dent was rudely 1epulsed."
A young lady belonging to all aristo-
cratic family in Konigsberg, in Prussia,
gradually lost her power of vision and
became entirely blind. Her eyes, on
being examined, were found to be per-
fectly sound, whence it followed that
the cause of the trouble was in the brain.
All treatment proved unavailing until
| the discovery was made that she had re.
| ceived some months previously heaVy
blow on the head from falling board.
Professor Munck, the famous expert
mentalists, who examined her, convinced
the oGalist and the surgeon that the
affected part must be that section of the
brain which his experiments on mon
keys had proved to be the central sta
ton for sensations of sight. The blow
had Injured the membrane of the brain.
This made perforation Of the skull
necessary. The operation was success
| fully performed and the patient recov-
cred her eyesight completely.