River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-03-15
Personal Items.

At the ball masaue at Cannes innon-
or of the Prince of Wales visit Lady
Randolph Churchill ssseored all the
honors.n She was so closely masked
and 'dominoed" as to defy recognition,
while her pure and exquisite French
quite dlspelled the idea OF her being an
English woman or an American She
knew everybody, yet nobody spotted
her until the prince eventually succeed
in unravelling the charming mystery be-
fore supper.
Scion Humphreys, who is now at the
head of the great firm of E. d. Morga n
4 Co., came from Hartford forty years
ago. He began as Morgan's clerk, but
eventually became partner. and is
now worth s., COZ, 000 The ex-governor
had but one son, who is dead, but he too
left son, L. ID. Morgan, Jr., who will
inherit half dozen millions. He is
society man and knows how to use mon
ey, and if he should yet see the bottom
of his pile he would not surprise the
correspondent of the Utica Herald.
There has been wedding of in
terest to Americans in Yorkshire,
England. The bride is daughter of vii.
liam T. Grinnell, the United States con-
sui at the manufacturing town of Brad
ford, and a granddaughter of the late
Judge George Grinnell, of Massachu-
sets, as well as a niece OF the Hon. Levi
p. Morton, our minister to France. The
groom, Edward H. Landon, of New York
is young gentleman of high social
standing, means, and lawyer The cere-
monv took place in st. Marks church,
which was beautifully decorat q with
camelias, roses, and plants in bloom and
the main entrance effectively wreathed
with vines and flewers.
Dore received from his Bond street
gallery in London something like $50, 900
annually. The English liked his pictures
and especially his Biblical ones. County
curates rejoiced in the gallery as an in
expensive and perfectly proper form of
amusement combined with instruction.
His pictures of London itself are not al
ways real: they have phantom
quality which is sometimes disagreeable
to anY one who has lived in the enor.
nous capital, but they are tremendous
ly impressive.
In his sermon last Sunday in Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, 1.-THE Rev. H.
w. Beecher labored to show that science
is not inconsistent with belief in Christ.
He said: ~ hail the incoming of new
thought. Science is bringing us to- day
into realm of religious and spiritual
life, such as the world has never seen
before. Young men, don't believe all
flat you read in the infidel books, and
don't believe all that you read in the
minister's sermons either. The men that
diffuse evolutionary doctrines may be
foolish as the men who rail at them and
attempt to put them down."
The recent sale on some of the late
Edwin Forests effects in Philadelphia
recalls singular circumstance concern
ing his estate. Pending the divorce pro-
ceedings between him and his wife he
decided his property in equal shares to
his three sisters. Soon one ofthe sisters
died, and her share reverted to the
other two and to Edwin. Then the
second sister died, and her share, with
what had been left her by the first sister,
came to the third sister and to Edwin,
Finally the remaining sister died, and
Edwin Forrest, being the sole heir,
again became possessed of all the estate
he had decided away.
A New York correspondent OF the
Chicago Tribune says: 81 have heard
why Mr.. Connery left the Herald, of
which ne has been managing editor for
many years. A man whom he suspend
ed for some error swore vengeance, and
in pursuit of vengeance he praised him
in every paper he could get access to;
eulogized him Systematically; praised
his ability, his tact, his genius, his
scholarship; told how Connery had
shaped the policy Of the Herald, had
given tone to it, had organized its great
feats of journalism; how Connery direct
ed the editorial writers; how Connery
wasindispensible to the Herald. Every
thing the Herald did he, with fiendish
malignity, attributed to Connery-leav-
ing Bennett quite out in the cold. 1t
took a year. he tells me, but at the end
of that time | saw his head drop in the
ba ket.' Probably there is not subor-
Innate writer on the New York press
who could not be ruined by praise"