The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-02-07
Personal GOSSIP.

Inc late Mrs. Charlotte Piffet, who
kept famous LIGHTHOUSE in New York,
bequeathed 5000 to the Typographical
Union OF IL at city. The TYPOS consider
it one Of the "fattest'' ri Fat takes"
Mrs. Piffet also left 5000 to the News.
boys Home s., 900 to the Jewish Wild.
ows and Orphans Home, and Sc, 600 to
the Charity Hospital. Her estate is valued
at $4,000, and gees to her descen-
dants.
Mr.. James Tissot las returned to Par
is, and is said to have definitely settled
there. His first work in his new or
rather old home has been to design ten
etchings to illustrate Gohcourt's Renee
Maurperin.' 1t is said that the effect Of
shows itself prominently in these new
designs.
A curious law suit is now awaiting
trial in New York. Some ten months
ago Miss Annie Petit, a young girl of
unusually large proportions, was engaged
by dime museum manager to exhibit
herself as "the largest young lady in the
world" Miss Petit was given to under
stand that her position was life one,
and it probably would have been hadn't
nature interfered and reduced her size
! so much that she was no longer curios-
lty. The management promptly dis
| charged her and she now sues for rein
statement.
Yves Guyot, the Paris journalist, tells
how King Louis XVIII, when he re-
turned from exile, asked Fouche if his
movements had been watched by spies.
Fouche admitted that the Duo de Blacas
had been so employed. "And how
much did you give him?" asked Louis
1.-TWO hundred thousand livres," was the
reply. Good" said the monarch, II
lind he did not cheat me. We went
"ln France" says the Pail Mall Ca
zette, "the monarch or chief Of the exc.
cutive ha. always exercised the prerog-
alive of mercy independently of minis
terial control. NJ. Greyy finds it a pain
full privilege, and whenever male
all the evidence on which he has been
condemned, and really in petto rear
CUES his case. He does it so we'll that
few murderers have lost their heads
since he became president"
Austin Blair, the war governor Of
Michigan, is at present in delicate
health, and his labors during the war
are beginning to tell on his naturally
strong physique. He IS paying strict
attention to his law practice, and takes
only passing interest in politics. He
recently purchased six acres of land in
Orange county, Fla, where he intends
to reside hereafter in the cold winter
months, as he finds that, as he advances
in age, he suffers from cold weather:
Among the clerks in the treasury de-
partment, at Washington, is q young
man who was found buried among the
dead on the field of the second Bull
Run. When the burial SQUAD pulled
him out from among the dead he was
found to have terrible wound in the
side and his left hand was hanging by a
few tendons. These he bit off and
threw the hand away, gave his canteen
to dying Confederate and crawled OF
towards the hospital, preferring to help
himself SO the squad could search for
others who might he in the same fix.
The next day he received his commits
sion as lieutenant. He married the sis.
ter Of the "Johanv" to whom he gave
the last drop Of water he had, and lives
happily on Capitol Hill.
Sarah, tradition tells us, was 80 zeal.
Gus of tho preference shown by Abra.
ham for Hagar that she took solemn
vow that she would give herself no rest
until she h ad mutilated the fair face o.
her rival and boudmaid. Abraham, who
had knowledge of his wife's intention,
did his utmost to pacify his embittered
spouse, but long in vain. At length,
however, SIZE relented, and decided to
forego her plan of revenge. But how
was she to fulfill the terms of the VOW she
had entered into? After mature rehec.
ton she saw her way out of the Difficult.
ty, instead of disfguring the lovely fea.
lures of her 6ondmaid, she contented
herself with BORN" hole in each of the
rosy lobes of her ears. Turkish women
all Of whom wear earrings from their
seventh year, derive the use Of these
jewels from Hagar. who is held in VEN
Grafton as the mother of Ishmael the
founder of tn cir race,