The Mineral argus., 1883-09-20
Personal Points.

men at Saratoga; "You fellows think
yourselves highly essential. Have you
observed that there are only two rich
men of antiquity whose name survive7
Cansus. who served to turn a poets
figure, and Dives, who was fortunately
associated with a pauper2" Before the
l~anguor following this remark had sub
sided Storrs added: "How many as
well-known fellows as you were sitting | n
Athens once, observing that that obscure
cuss, Phidias, was a long time doing that
ornamental work up stairs?"
The late Judge Black is said to have
received the largest fee ever paid to a
LAWYER for success in a suit. He defen-
ed the New Almaden Quicksilver Com
pany of California in suit in the United
States Supreme Court, the opposing
counsel being Reverdy johnson, Charles
O'Connor and Judah p. Benjamin. dis
fee was said at the time to have been
$25O, 900. This is doubtless an exagger-
alton, but it is known that he received a
very large fee.
As an illustration of Thaddeus Stew
ems delicacy Of feeling, the following
story is related: Early one morning
during the legislative session Of 1885,
while walking to the capitol with DR..
Worthington of Chester, Pa, they over
took a woman apparently in great dis
tress. Mr.. Stevens stopped and asked
her what was her trouble. She replied
that she was on her way to market, and
had lost a 81 bill, all the money she had.
Putting his fingers into his vest pocket
and turning to his companion, he re-
marked, Doctor, this is fortunate. That
81 bill which / picked up down by the
entrance belongs to this woman" Thus
he presented the money TO her without
her knowing that he had made a
gift.
1t is related in the Cincinnati Enquir-
or that when Dean Richmond was con-
nected with a prominent railroad a
young man presented himself before
him and requested a pass. Upon
what grounds dc you want a pass?"'s said
Mr.. Richmond. because / don't want
to pay my fare" replied the young man.
Said Mr.. Richmond: You shall have
ii for your truthfulness," and turning to
his secretary he said: "Give this young
man a pass. He is the first applicant
that has told the truth for ages"
One thing which Lord Coleridge said
on his arrival in New York is worthy of
especial note. In conversation with
some of the gentlemen who escorted
him up the bay on FRIDAY morning. in
the yacht Pastime, he remarked on the
beauty of our national banner. ain the
old church in Northamptonshire, where
George Washington's ancestors lie
buried" said Lord Coleridge, II found
some years ago, the Washington family
coat Of arms, and was surprised to see
that it was identical with your national
flag. The stripes were fewer, ann the
stars also, but there, in the quiet gray
old church, was the origin ofthe emblem
which now flies in every part of the
world" Is it possible that Washington
gave us our flag, and that we must give
up the poetic tradition about the hunter
who saw in the morning sky the com.
binRtion of colors and stripes which sug-
ges'ed the 'Star Spangled Banner?"
President Seelye of Amherst College
evidently does not agree with Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., as to the advantages
to be derived from the study of Latin
and Greek. While the four years scien-
tifc course Of that institution was so or
ganized that a student could pursue II
with no knowledge of Greek and only a
slight knowledge of Latin, he has found
after an experience of ten years that
the best scientific students have, in
every year, without a single exception,
been the classical Students, and the col
lege has become 30 thoroughly convinced
that the best work in science is to be
done only on the basis of a thorough
grounding in the classics that it has dis
continued its scientific as separate from
its classical course.
Mrs. May Croly Roper, wife Of Lieu
tenant Jesse NJ. Roper, United States
navy, died at Portland Springs, Me-, last
Monday, at the early age of %. Mrs.
Roper was the daughter Of Mr.. David @.
and Jennie c. Croly, (Jennie June) and
Inherited much Of the literary talent
and tastes Of her parents. Her bright
young life was blighted by an affection
OF the spine, which was the immediate
cause Of her death.
A London correspondent of the New
York World writes that it is the pre-
valing impression there, that Miss
Chamberlain, the American beauty
abroad, will get herself severely talked
about II she does not soon cut the soci-
ETY. ~ the prince of Wales. prudent
mothers here" writes the correspond
ent, would prefer that their daughters
should contract the small box rather
than attract the favor Of his royal high
ness. he is a deadly upas-tree, and
smites the poor girl who thinks 10 rest
under the spreading branches Of his adj
miraton with the poison Of the vilest
scandal. Miss Chamberlain is a beauti-
iui girl, with all the wit and s~elf-reli-
Qmra that hoWorfnw1w. ~lw- 81 IL