The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-07-11
Personal Mention.

Personal Mention.
ME Bronson aioott attributes his long
life to subsistence on dry Concord Phil
psopiIy and plain vegetables. But thera
is Mrs. Baker Of Taylorsyille. Va. who
is more than a dozen years Mr.. Alcott,s
senior, and she has made a practice of
eating meat Snd drinking a dozen Guns
Of strong coffee every day. The coffee
might have killed old Alcott. but certain
it is that Mrs. Baker would have starved
to death long ago on a diet of Concord
philosophy and baked potatoes.
Some time since Miss Lizzie Newman
stopped in a doorway on Second street,
Louisville, during a shower. a pleas
a~nt-yoiced lady noticed her standing
there and invited her up stairs. Miss
Newman took advantage OF the offer.
Up stairs she met William Critfenden.
a man who had lost both ewes while,
herding cattle on the plains Of Texas.
Crittenden thought it would be pleasant
to court the girl, and make love to her
desperately. What he said iokingly.
she understood in hard earnest. Be
fore they separated Crittenden had
changed his mind, and asked the girl
seriously to marry him. She accepted
the offer, and on the next night at 8
o'clock the two were united by Justice
John Gosnell.
The following incident is told us Of
the Duke of Buccleuch, who recently
died in England. Not very long ago,
while travelling with the Duke OF NORTH
CUMBERLAND, they found themselves in q
carriage with q commercial traveller.
The conversation between the three
0 % became general. At Alnwick
station the Duke of Northumberland got
out and was driven away in a showey
equipage. "That must be a SWELL
said the commercial traveller. "Do you
know who he is? HE is the Duke of
of Northumberland" replied his grace
of Baccleuch. "And yet they say that
our nobility is naughty Why, he talked
to us two snobs as though we had been
his palsl"
Following is a list of the prominent
~millionaires Of the United States: VIII
liam III. Vanderbilt, 5000, 600, 900;
Fair, of California, $50, 900, 900; Flood
of California, $50, GOO, 900; Mackay, of
California, $50, 000, 600; August Bel
mont, $50, O0O, 900; Senator Sharon,
SIS, 000, 900; Senator Jones, $40, 000, 900;
Astor, of New York, SIS, 600, 900; James
G.Bennett, $50, 000, 600; Jay Gould $685.
900, 600; S. J. Tilden, $25, GOO, 900; So
Ion Humphreys. $15, 000, 900; Sidney
Dillon, SIS, 900, 900; Edward Clark,
$25, 600, 600; Cakes Ames, Jr., $15, 000,-
900; Perry H.. Smith Of Chicago, $15,-
600, 600; Pierre Lorillard, SIS, 900 900.
1t was in the mild September Of 1883
that James Ham went into a saloon in
Brooklyn with some friends. In the
course of the evening he yielded to the
somnific influences of beer and dozed.
The gas was turned down, a pair of
scissors was procured, and In a few
minutes Mr.. Ham was shorn of his
beautiful beard. 1t was not until he
had an interview with his wife on reach
ing home that MI. Ham fully realized
the force of the calamity that had be-
fallen him. After nursing his wrath
for many months he at length resolved
to seek redress in the courts. He has
brought suit in the supreme court,
Brooklyn, against the saloon keeper to-
recover $1,000 for the loss of his beard.
Touching her recent marriage, Mrs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes to q Chica-
go friend as follows: "T have been ex-
ceedingly surprised and panied at the
bad taste which the press at large dis
played in reference to this occurrence in
my life. All the eve and often cruel
criticisms relative to my book / looked
upon as so many dollars, and accepted
them with good grace. But in this
event which concerned my private life
and most sacred feelings, / have felt
that / deserved greater courtesy from
the newspapers, especially as all that
has been written concerning me must
be seen and read by strangers who are
to be my future associates, and must
naturally influence thei 7 impressions of
me"
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