The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-30
Personal Paragraphs.


Ex-United States Senator Thurman is
reported AS saying hat the only regret
of his life was that he had gone into
politics He would have been a hap.
pier and Il better man if he had obeyed
his original impulse and stuck to farm
ing.
Comte Ephrussi, who is to marry
Mademoisele de Rothschild, is in the
habit Of presenting her with flowers.
They are not such rs are to be seen in
florists windows or in cultivated gardens
but wild flowers, "A good bunch Of which
could be bought for "a few sous in Paris
month ago. This has been sufficient
To set public taste in certain direction,
and to cause high price to be put upon
buttercups and daisies, 80 closely do the
Partisan world follow popular fashion.
A woman who said her name was
Stearns, and that she lived at Utica,
kicked open the door of disreputable
house in Syracuse, N. Y, about 9
O'clock the other morning and informed
the inmates that her husband was there,
and she wanted him. 1t turned out that
she was correct, and she got him.
Adirondack Murray, who ought to
know as much about it as any body, says
that he doesn't want 10 be interviewed
about any thing. This interviewing"
he adds, sis the curse OF journalism in
America. ! believe it Is only nation-
alization ofthe sewing society. There
a lot Of women meet and pick their
friends regulations to pieces for the en-
joyment of themselves; the newspapers
pick every ones reputation TO pieces for
the delectation of their readers"
4 spurious Napoleon Nv. il said to
have lately deceived good many
peoble at Turin. He was young Italian
weaver of very good address and dccid-
edly handsome, and for some time sue
ceeded in keeping up his pretended po-
sition rs the late Prince Imperial, whom
he declared had not been killed in Zulu
land. His money having come to an
end, the pretcnder took to highway
robbery, and, when caught, so loudly
declared his NapoleOnic pretentions that
he was treated as II mad-man and sent
TO an asylum, from which he escaped
and practiced his old tricks. Being
caught again, the jury were less lenlent,
and the false Napoleon has been sent to
the galleys for twenty. one years.
The recent death of Gen. George L.
Buel has called out letter written by
him last December to southern friend
who had chanced to become his prisoner
liz the closing month OF the war III which
occurs this suggestive statement: "Once
soon after the war ] saw your good
mother, who recollect thought her boy
,,,o, a, l,,nct r,,inal hacanan "a bul onua
to work. felt sorry for her, of course,
but could not help laughing to myself,
for (though the son of u rich man who
educated his children welD had been
taught to work always. | wonder what
that good mother, if she still lives, thinks
Of the poor boy who has the responsible
ity Of POO miles Of railroad ~ his mind
every moment OF time"
Miss Augusta Stowe of Toronto, re-
ceived the degree of NJ. ID. from the VIC
toria university of Coburg, Canada, on
MAY Ii. In presenting her DR.. Ogden
said she was the first woman who had
ever taken medical degree in the do
minion. Although she had received
her instruction in mixed class Of both
sexes, there had never existed the
slightest difficulty in the class owing to
her presence. Indeed she had so en-
deared herself TO the students that on
one OCCASION, when an attempt had been
made to create some disturbance, the
entire class had champoned her cause
so successfully that the interference OF
the faculty had not been tall necessary.
The free use of intoxicants in Mos cow
during the coronation fetcs, calls to
mind a story Of the late Alexander II.
and the late Colonel Galitzin. The lat
ter officer one day came reeling out of q
restaurant disgraceflily drunk. The
Gar was passing, saw him, and ordered
his arrest. When the offender wa
brought before him, Alexander III.
made some indignant remarks, and de-
clared his determination to make an ex-
ample Of him. "Put yourself in my
place." he cried; suppose that you
were the Emperor, and that you saw an
officer of your guard in the state | see
you in now, what would you SAY to him?"
Sire" answered the Colonel, who seems
to have retained some portion of his
wits, eff were Emperor / would not
address "A single remark to such brute"
He heard nothing more of the matter.