Morris tribune., 1883-01-18
PERSONAL GOSSIP

Miss West. the daughter Of the British min
lister in Wa III. gton, fakes to American society
enthusiasucal y: The Thornton., the prede
| cessors of Minister West, were ''dreadfuily
bored" during their stay at the national CAPT
tai.
! Mr.. FInerty, of Chicago, member OF Gen.
| gress-elect, has made an appeal to the Irish
men of The Northwest to raise d fund for the
relief of Mr.. Parnell, whose estate is encum-
bered with a debt Of $50, 600.
DR.. FELTON,, ex- congressman, q prominent
Georgia politician, has recently turned his at
tentiou to farming and stock raising, and now
owns one of the finest herds of Jersey cattle in
I that State.
Gen. John Payne of Warsaw, Ky, probably
is the Oldest pensioner on the United Safes
| pension rolls. He is eighsy-seven years old,
and has been drawing a pension for the loss
of an arm in the service ever since 1920
sixty years.
| In 1881 the late Henry ". LonCfellow wrote
a lie ter firm Portland, Me-, TO James Berdan,
then a resident of New York, in which he spoke
of Maine as a land of barbarians, this miser-
able down easr," and urged Berdan to pay him
a visit, saying: 81 feel as if | were living in
exile here, and it will be a deed of charity in
you to come and make a long visit as soon as
| you can find leisure"
A. '. W. Van Yechter of New York, a gradu-
ate of Williams college, entertained the resi-
dent alumni aud friends of that institution at
N~ -N~ " ~ AOLhs w hdIOICo
guests attended the reception, and the most in
t%eresting feature of the affair to outsiders was
the announcement that James B. Jermain of
Albany had given $500 600 to the college as a
memorial 10 his ron, Barclay Jermatn. This
sum will be used TO endow the profeseorship
of natural theology, instruction in which is
given by the president
Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, has
become a prosy worker in New York. He
walks Broadway with hair and collar SO CON-
monplace that he passes simply for one man in
a crowd. Miller married into the bookkeeping
family OF Leland, two years ago, after getting q
divorce from his Pacific coast wife. He had
accumulated a moderate fortune, but has lost
1t, and finds hard work a necessity.
Miss Margaret Blaine, daughter of the
"plumed knight" of Maine, has just achieved
quite a triumph in the Paris Convent of the
Sacre Occur, where she is being educated. She
has been in Paris about a year perfecting her
) self in the French language, aud quite recently
entered the school. She was at once admitted
to the highest class-a distinction rarely at
tanned even by French girls, as the preliminary
examination is quite difficult.
Miss Harriet N. Morris, an Ohio girl, daugh-
ter of a woman farmer. and a graduate of
Marietta college, who supported herself while
passing through that institution, is making q
reputation for herself in Brooklyn and doing
good to ], 800 children. She has twenty-six
female teachers under her, and gets 81, 800 a
year for his services-about $1,000 less than
male principals are paid in the surrounding
schools. Her institution is a sort of modified
kindergarten.
1t is saId of Jim Keene, the millionaire, who
once edited a weekly newspaper in California.
that so greatly did the petty annoyances of an
EDITORS. room impress themselves upon his
memory that years after, in the wild clamor of
the stock board, when fortunes were being
made and lost in a minute. Keene has said fire.
! quently that above all that din he could vet
hear his old foremau's howl for 'tcopy,"