Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-11
ABOUT PEOPLE.

The aged Peter Cooper is rapidly fail
ing, his eyes and ears beginning to weary
Of their work and refusing TO continue
the functions they have performed for
over 80 years.
WILLIAM GRAHAM, at the age of Is
years, has become a member Of the
Carterville, Ga, bar. He probably is
the youngest lawyer in the United
States.
IT is said that the life of the poet
Whittier is much disturbed by women.
One wealthy vi dow actually proposed
to him, and other women have made
violent love to him without avail.
Mrs. MARY HALLoCK FooTE, the story
writer, author Of the Led.Horse
Claims" now publishing in the Century,
is the wife of Mr.. Arthur Foote, a min
ing engineer. Mr.. Foote is q brother OF
Senator Hawley's wife.
HE Hon. Joseph Holt, President BIZ
chanan's postmaster general and after
wards secretary of war and Judge advo.
cate general, lives in strict retirement in
Washington. He is childless widower
and is very seldom seen in public.
Mr.. RUTHERFORD STUYvEsAXT, a yes
tryman of St. Marks Church, New
York, is now building, at an expense Of
about 1926, 600, a beautiful brick church
in Tompkins Square, for the benefit Of
the mission supported by ST. Marks
congregation.
MH. JAMES PAYS, the novelist, once
corresponded with the editor of an Amer
| Al
manly "club stories" One day he re
ceived letter from the propnetors of
the magazine. delicately limiting that he
was corresponding with lady.
GUsTAvE DoRE, the artist, is Is years
old. He looks like a German, smokes
like Spaniard, has high cheek bones
like an Indian, wears his mOustach" like
a Frenchma and works like a Turk.
He has ten times as many orders a. he
can fill, and makes from $40, 600 to S50,-
900 year.
Mr.. Ross K. WISANS and family, OF
Baltimore, move this week INTO their
new mansion, which two hundred men
have been engaged in building for a full
wear past, at IA cost OF nearly half a mil
hon dollars. The house is seventy feet
square, five stories high, aud looks like
Il French chateau.
The home of Robert Toombs is close
by the spot OF his birth, at Washington,
Ga, and he has never lived permant ntly
elsewhere. Fifty years ago" he said
recently, IL brought my wife To this
house, bride, and here We have lived
all these years. We have been blessed
more than the most, and | thank God
for it.
JOIN q. WHITTIER writes the follow
ing note III response to an inquiry as :"
the truth of a published rumor that a
play from his pen was shortly to be pro
duced: "Thy time will be lost in gO'ug
IN search of the drama Of the news
paper slip. | never knew of it fore.
1t is very foolish lie. The idea of
Quaker playwright is uuspeakably ab-
/ surd.
The Earl Of Dudley, who derives
more from minerals than any man IN
| England, and whose income has often In
good years approached s., 600, 900, has
| for some time been in a meBtal condition
bordering on imbecihty. Consequently
| his wife and children live very quietly,
and, is he may last for years, the aC-
cumulatlon Of money thra atens 70 become
enormous.
THE late Robert Morris, u colored
| lawyer Of Boston, died worth SlUO, 600.
| A curious feature Of his practice was
that it was largely among Irish people,
who believed i'll him and bis abilities
| and one of whom said: al should think
| he was too smart MAJ 10 be naygur.
On the other hand, citizens OF his own
color were quite shy of him, and he
never reckoned upon them for bis sup
port.
W. Fl. GLIDER, the New York Herald
correspondent who crossed Siberia IL
sledges to carry the news of the burning
of the Rodgers, has arrived IL New
York. He doesn't look AS though he
had undergone some OF the severest
hardships that ever befell a man. he
SAYS, however, that he does not feel very
we'll; that the horse he ate on tn'
journey had not been well fed, fud
didn't agree with him.
EVERY man has his price. Once upon
a time when General Ney, the Duke OF
Elchingen, who committed suicide last
| year, was commanding the cavalry at
Versailles, q circus manager was intro
duced who came TO obtain dozen
cuirassiers to take part Ill the grand
triumphal entree of his circus. "Oh, |
suppose you can have them," answered
the duke. "Whatll yos pay them ?,
"Three francs head" Three fancs"'
exclaimed the duke, who was very pru-
dent in money matters; why, man, III
go myself. PARTS Paper.
The evangelist Barnes, now IN New
York, is cousin of Elizabeth Tllton,
and he has been to see her. He says
"she is iearfully altered by those awful
years. Her personal beauty, once very
marked, is almost gone. Her delicate
hands, once as soft as velvet, are bard
with toll. The lustrous dark brown hair
is very gray, and the pink and white Of
the once beautiful complexion are re-
placed by dull sallow. But her life is
full of peace and rest that the world
cannot give. The seven times heated
furnace has purified, not consumed her,
and to-day she has what others have not,
"a conscience void of ofiense toward
God and man."
An Electric Rat Trap.
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