The Mineral argus., 1883-11-29
Personalifies.

/. PERSONALITIES.
General Lafayctte's remains lie neg
lected and almost forgotten in the old
Picpus Cemetery, on the outskirts Of
Paris. Very few tourists ever ask to be
shown there, and when they DO make
the request refuse to go on being told
that they wouid be compelled TO drive
through narrow. crooked streets, en-
tirely deserted saw for the few solemn
and gloomy-looking converts which line
the way.
The wedding ring given by Martin
Luther to his bride is still in existence,
and has been lately placed on exhi-
bition in Frankfort on-the-Main. II
bears a representation OF Christ upon
the cross and the instruments of the
Passion, and in it is set a small ruby.
The inscription is "Dr. Martin Luther;
Catherine Bora, June Is, 1925"
Colonel Samuel Shock, Of Columbia,
Pa, has reached his eighty-seventh
year. He attributes his long life to his
careful diet. Before breakfast g, he
always drinks a cup of wateriu just as warm
as he can swallow it. As to his diet, he
says: Il have entirely quit the use of
tea and coffee, do not use them at all; l
use a quart of milk daily, dividingit into
three equal parts enc for each meal. |
eat but little meat, only using it at
one meal per day, and / find that | al
ways feel better i'll eat very moder-
ately."
Mr.. Edmund Clarence Stedman has
been annouced lately by ill-foundsd re-
ports to the effect that he has abandoned
his banking business, and will hence
forth devote himaelf excl usively to lit
erary pursuits. "This,is Just now calcu-
lated to iniure me-" he said recently
to a correspondent of the Chicago Inter
lOcean. IL have in fact, abandoned
writing to go into business, because |
could not make a living for myself and
family by mere brlinwork."
Chicago News: One ofEila Wheeler's
Poems Of Passion" begins; "She touch
es nv cheek, and 1 quiver-I tremble
with exquisite pain; she signs like an
overcharged river, my blood rushes o n
through my veius; she smiles-and in
mad.tiger fashion, as a she tiger fondles
her own, { clasp her with %ferceness and
passion, and kiss her with shudder
and groan." Ella may call this a poem
of passion, but here We call it drunk
and d~isorderly.
The romantic experience Of the hat
maker at Bethel, Ct. who wrote her
name on the band Of hat, and finally
married the New Orleans man into
whose hands it fell, has had an unex-
pected seQuelS OF course the other
girls in the hat shop did the same thing,
and now a western firm has refused a
...~....a- aF LoHa cant on THAR nrAaV
because so many OF them have young
women's names written inside the band.
Trees are scarce in the Orkneys, and
a single specimen adorns the principal
street Of Kirkwall. When Nh. Glad
stone recently visited the place, his en-
tertainers at first intended to make a
Joke at the expense of the grand old
Teller" by placing upon the solitary yes
tlge of arboreal beauty . sign, wood
man, spare this tree but finally deci-
ded to serve the humOr OF the occasion
by conducting him carefully along the
opposite side Of the street, and explain
ing 10 him that as this was the only tree
in the town, they wanted 10 keep ii out
Of harms way.
Some people are unlucKy. A White
county (Ga.J man, while attempting to
cross the river in a batteau the other
day was capslzed and thrown into the
water. Trying to reach the boat his
foot caught in a snag and was sprained
and at the same time he lost a $50 watch
his hat, a shoe and the boat. lie finally
reached the shore, and was hobbl:ns
across a field when a ferociOus bull start
ell for him. Reaching a tree, he climbed
it lively enough to escape the bull
bnt also lively enough 10 get into u nor.
nets nest. The hornets objected, anC
he sprang to another limb, wh'ch broke
letting him fall 10 the ground, fraeturinG
his wrist With the broken branch he
kept the bull at bay, and finally es-
capped.
One Of Prof. Nordenkjold's compan.
ions, DR.. Lathorst, tells how sultry it i
in the Arctic regions. At Waigat.
/, Island they walked about in their shir
sleeves on the slopes, covered viii
plants and shrubs, with butterflies and
bees swarming around. Bathing was
enjoyed and mosquitoes were plenty.