Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-10
PERSONALITIES.

DAVID PULsIFER, who has been clerk
in the Massachusetts secretary of states
Office for thirty years, will retire at the
close of this year.
JAMES G. BLA1NE's son James bas Il 4
been expelled from the college at
Georgetown, d. @. This is the boys
third expulsion from college, each time \
a different college. ~
MIR. HUNT1NGToN, the railroad million.
aire, is put down as worth $50, 100000
He is 65 years old and has no family Of
his own blood. An adopted daughter
is the sole heiress.
EX-SENATOR YU1EE, who is now
building fine residence in Washing.
ton, is said to be the richest citizen Of
Florida. His fortune is estimated at
about three millions. st,'s
THE Duke OF Edinburgh is responsi.
BILE for the latest English crsze-mule.
riding. he introduced the fashion by
himself riding one of the particularly
fine mules which he obtained in Egypt, +
MRS. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT,
who had her 34th birthday Just before
Thanksgiving, is lady of tolerably pc.
tlte stature, a trife given to embon.
point. Her hair is of reddish tinge.
Her features are large and expressive.
In conversation sue is most viyacious
and entertaining, and people who have
talked with her go away with the i'm. it
preston that sc is charming person.
ENGLISH pesso' al Lord Carmoyle
gave an os eIua isus denial 10 the 1e.
ported rupture of his engagement by
appearing in prominent box with Miss
Fortescue on the first night of "Pyg-
malion and Galatea. The Duke of AL
bany has composed waltz. The EN-.
press of Russia is said to be dying with
consumption, and the empress of Aus. {
tria to have given up hunting for sonnet
writing.
HENRY JAMES is remembered by those
who knew him in his early literary days
as delicate looking young man, hand
some, and strikingly refined in appear,
ance. He is now full in figure, but not
stout, and is of me dunn height he h $
a rather ruddy complexion, and dark 3
brown hair and eyes, and be wears bis
beard close.cropped. He is slightly bald
and is said to resemble the Prince Of
Wales in face and figure.
A SPECIAL surrogate at Butfulo, N.
Y, has decided that the widow OF ex.
President Fillmore was of sound mind
md not under dnress when her will was
executed, by which her estate was given
to several churches and schools. The
contestants, her first cousins, have made
3 bitter fight, and will have large bill
of costs to pay. The ex Presidents
on Niagara Square, Buffalo.
was sold for $26, 900 less than it cost.
IT is not generally known that Mil
toms tomb is still intact in London, and
that at the parish church of ST. Giles,
the remains of the great
poet, inferred i'll 1864, lie with those of
his father, inferred in 1646. At the
southeast end OF the church an elapor-
ate shrine, designed by Woodthorpe,
has been erected over the original mar
BILE bust by Bacon, and the poet lies a
short distance from it. The church is
the Oldest but one iu London, being built
in 1890.
THOMAS BAILEY AIDRIcH is IF light
He has fine forehead and
well-cut features. His expression is
alert, bit tastidioue, perhaps, but de-
cidedly genial. he wears q, light and
very becoming mustache, the ends Of
which are apt to be waxed. His profile
is particularly fine In dress he is neat
and stylish, but in DO wise foppisb. Iu
Mr.. Aldrich is extremely cour-
teous, and possesses generous amount
OF the delightful quality tile French call
bonhomme. s,se: Z
UNITED STATES SENATOR GEoBaE
GRAHAM VEST, of Missouri, began life
as newspaper man on small sheet in
Louisville. He has been climbing ever
since. But he has never grown any. He
is short and thick. with heavy brown
gray hair and short brown. gray mus
tache and goatee. His neck is very
short and his shoulders are very broad,
and be carries himself in very inde-
pendent fashion. q He usually wears q
military cloak and big slouch hat.
Vest was prominent figure, as a young
man, in the confederate congress. He
is prominent man i'll this congress. "
SENATOR SAM BELL MAxEY, of Tex
as, tall, straight, thin, Scotcb-looking
man, was educated at West Point, has
smelt burning powder, has seen great
deal of the world, is well.read lawyer
and an accomplished man. He knows
Mexico almost as well as he does the
United States. He has dark brown
hair, a short, circular, dark-brow
beard. Both are streaked with silver.
He has good voice and forcible de-
livery, and he always commando the at
tention of the senate,
b GEORGE WIbhiAM CURTIS. SO years of
age, is q tall man with stopping shoul-
ders, the physical result of years OF Ia
Dor ut the editorial desk. His gray HAIR
and side whiskers are sometimes al.
lowed to grow as they please, from the
pruning of the tonsorial shears. His
ears are not always observable on ac.,
count of this capillary growth. His
forehead is full, and, with bushy eye
brows, projects over pair of kindly,
bat earnest and resolute eyes. His 9th.
er features are large but flexible. ex-
pressive and good -humored.
JOHANN STRAUSS, the composer, has
been troubled for some time by severe
fainting spells that have caused his ply
sicians great anxiety. They were at first
attributed to fatty accumulations around
the heart, but.a member of the faculty
OF the university of, Vienna, a warm
friend OF the composer and his family,
being called into a consultation, came to
the conclusion that tie diagnosis that
bad been taken was iucorrect, and that
The musician's illness was caused by e1-!
cessive smoking of strong cigars, and
this view he's been proved correct by the
results of treatment designed to counter.
aef the poisonous effects Of nicotine.
! b.re is probably no country in whieh,
The medical profession are themselves so
much addicted to the use of tobacco and
where the injurious effects OF the use Of
the weed upon the human system are 50
iis'ls understood as in Germany, preem.
inently ableand scholarly t ough German
physicians are in many department Of