Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-23
Personal Matters.

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Dick Luke is the owner of a whole
coal mine in Michigan, and yet he is not
lnuch of q capitalist, for it is very small
property, He personally works the
only tunnel, into which he
crawls in the morning, to get out an
average Of a ton OF coal before night.
Rev. John S. Inksip, the veteran
Methodist revivalist. camp meet ting con-
ductor and editor ofthe Christian Stand
ard, was stricken with paralysis a week
ago at his home in Westown, Pa, and
has since been in a precarious condi-
ton.
Senator Justin S. Morrill,, of Vermont.
will be seventy-fve years of age at the
expiration of his term next year.
Mackay, the bonanza king, is said to
be working hard to make up the detects
of his early education. and burns the
midnight oil over his books.
Fanny Davenport walks twelve miles
per day to keep her figure from its form
er enbonpoint. While her form is thus
rendered as beautiful as it was twenty
years ago, her face is wrinkled and old
in appearance. She is said to be forty
years of age-and is probably forty-tive.
Acknowledgement Brewster has prob
ably the most tastefully arranged Office
in Washington. 1t is on the second floor
of the old Freedman's Bank building,
looking out upon Fifteenth ST., Pennsyl-
vania ave y and the White House grounds.
In the centre Of the room is an elaborate
iy carved, fat-topped mahogany desk,
inh fbo IT Co Cjf C md
signs his name vi h a Quill pen. Mr..
his Office.
Judge Tourgee, who has lost the bulk
ofhis fortune trying to publish Gull
tured magazine in Philadelphia, pro-
poses to get even 10y writing Ii novel on
Philadelphia life. One of the newspa-
per of the derided city suggests as a
title, ''Tne Fool and bis Money are
Soon Parted"
Frank Rande, the terrible bandit who
Elmo: Ill.,, in 1878 and topped of with
Filling policemen in St. Louis, is serv~
Ing life sentence ln the Joliet, ILL.,,
prison. He pts in MS spare time in
venting fire escapes, long-range guns
and new systems Of telegraphing. He
has also taken hack at perpetual mo-
tiCn."
Prince Edward, the son of the Prince
of Wales, has been en.ered as student
of Trinity College, Cambridge. 1t is
stated that he is not to attend the ordi-
nary lectures, and spe :lal tuition will be
provided for him; but he is to keep
ct,apels and halls. In the chapel the
masters pew, on the right OF the mas
ter's stall, has been given up for the use
OF the prince and his suite. In hall he viii:
dine at the high table, sitting on the
right Of the president; and he is to wear
silk gown instead of the ordinary blue
stuff one of the Trinity undergraduates.
Mr.. Martin F. Topper, whose exploits
on the back ofthe winged horse Pegasus
have given him SO peculiar place in lit
erature, has been lecturing on "hying."
He is reported as expressing the belief
that "some condensed form of tame dy~
namile" might be utilized for the bene-
fit of those who tain would fly. o.
course. Poetry" Mr.. Topper well
knows can be made tame enough. But
the trouble would seem to be, Mr., Tup"
per, that OVnAmlle ike Tue tongue, can
not be tanned. Even a small and unob-
trusive case Of it has been known to
tame several able-bodied men in one
round. But where is the dynamite
tanner? Who is he that can so work up
on it's disposition as to render it gentle
and harmless? Has Mr.. Upper the art
Of breaking dynamite, like poetry" to
harness?
Madame Modjeska to reporter of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette said: Il
mean to retire from the stage after two
years more, while I am in full posses
sion of all my powers. To me there is
something inexpressibly sad in the last
years Of actors and actresses who linger
on the stage. Last year I met Janau-
schek-sick, pale, feeble. She bad lost
nearly all her large fortune trying to
sustain her great reputation before a
public that cared no longer for her
when her powers began to wane. why
do you not retire?' assed. Alas she
said, "my love for the stage kept me, I'M
til am forced to play in order to insure
a living have no mawkish sentiment
about i'll love the stage because it has
been good to me, but it is an exactlng
mistress, and shall ioreswear allegiance
to it while am in position to do SO
gracefully and crtditably."