Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-11-22
FOLK NOTES.

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English visitors bother Victor Hugo r
o much that he frequently refuses TO Il Il
zee them. II
Ex-Cadet Whitaker has startedA q :,
military school for colored youths in
Charleston, s. G.
Charlie Ross mother very seldom q
reads the newspapers for fear she will G
see her lost boys name. |
Nathaniel Green, the only living (
grandson of General Nathaniel Green,
s practicing physician in Middletown,
X. /.
Senator Anthony's health is said to
be still feeble. but his frequent remark
is; 81 want to go to Washington and
die in the harness."
Mrs. Beecher is described by Texas
reporter as singularly handsome old
lady, full of sweetness, with CHEEKY
smile and graceful carriage |
The aged mother of Senator Jones,
of Nevada, who has been great suffer-
or from illness for the past few years,
has recently become totally blind.
A gentleman on being introduced to
Mr.. John Holmes, of Boston, remarked:
What! Are you brother of Oliver
Wendell HolmesP" mo" replied Mr..
Holmes, who inherits the family skill |
at repartee, she is brother of me"
A Michigan paper says that Ex-Sen-
ator Thomas w. Ferry, of that State,
will probably spend the winter in Eng
laud. Travel and English air are cred
tied with so far conquering his insoma-
mia that he can now sleep six hours
nightly.
Mrs. Southworth, the story writer,
still lives in Washington, where she was
| a school teacher thirty-five years ago.
Her home, Prospect Cottage" is en-
bower ed in honeysuckles, and occupies
commanding position, overlooking
the city.
A correspondent who has been allow
ed to gaze on Mr.. Blaine in hisliterary
workshop at Augusta says he break
fasts at 8 O'Clock, writes from until /,
then strolls along the Kennebec and
goes to bed at 10 p. m. His health was
never better.
Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia,
who is eccentric, received g letter ask
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Baptist Church. He replied that he
could not leave the Senate long enough
to be of much service, and that he was
not good stonemason, anyway.
Mr.. M. +. Bell, the new Supervising
Architect of the Treasury DEPARTING Mt
was born in Chester County, Penn.
and now lives, with his wife and five
children, in modest style in Des Moines.
Iowa. He is boyish-looking man, of
quiet manners, and he IS an active
me nber of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The wedding ring given by Martin
Luther to his bride is still in existence,
and has been lately placed on exhibition
in Frankfort on-the-Main. 1t bears q
representation of Christ upon the cross
and the instruments of the Passion, an
in it is set small ruby. The inscrlp-
ton is: '.Dr, Mcrtin Luther; Catherine
Bora, June 10, 1925"
Gen Sherman has received houses
and other presents worth S50,00u since
he became General of the army, exclu-
sive of the $4,000 worth of diamonds
given by the Khedve to Mrs. Fitch, and
since divided among the Generals dau.
ghters. For the past fifteen years he
has been paid 81, 300 ii year, and he
will draw this salary until his death.
clara Louise Kellogg it is said, has
earned over half million dollars with
her voice. At a recent concert given
in Morristown, N. j., her accompanist
failed to put in his appearance. The
prima donna was equal to the emeI-
gency. however, and took off her gloves,
and played, not only her own accom-
paniments, but those of all the other
artists of the evening.
Miss Adele NJ. Fielde has been telling
chow not to do it, in Sunday school in
struction, She believes in nenorizing
: scripture but thinks children should be
helped to do it intelligently, As an il
,, lustration she tells of little girl in her
class who on being asked what text had
been of special comfort to her in any
of her little trials, replied: "This one
has helped mo considerably "And last
of all the woman died also.
1t has been stated repeatedly that
the author of BREAD Winners" the
strong experimentation serial now
} running in the Century. was a Clcve-
land capitalist recently deceased. The
editors of the Century have never pro-
fessed to edify their readers with COM
munications from the spirit word, but
in the "Open Letters in the November
plumber appears communication sign
ed "AuthOr of Bread Winners.
General Sherman never wants car
riage for himself. He never uses one in
Washington Il he can avoid il. If the
day is fine he walks. Ii rot, he rides in
a street car. When his war-horse, Win
chester, died, few years ago, saws The
Washingto Post, his love for horse
flesh went out of him. A gentleman who
knew him well in boyhood says that
the first time Sheridan ever bestrode a
horse was when another boy put him on
fiery colt, unsaddled and unbridled.
and told him to hold ON by his knees.
Tie animal galloped across the country
for several miles and then came to a.
halt; and Sheridan was still holding on.
Judge Black has one of those Gears
for music" that cannot tell one tune
from another. Once he heard his daugh-
ter Becky, who is fine pianist, play a
piece that Pleased him, and inquired its
title. She replied that it was Lucy
Neal" and the Judge ever after declar.
ed it to be his favorite, Whenever Becky
would be playing for visitors the Judge
would say, ''Now, Becky, give us nv
favorite, Lucy Neal" and Becky slv-
ly winking at the guests, would play
"Old Dan Tucker, or ''Old Hundred =,