The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-11
pergenal Gassin.

5stcf 10 GSi;fS, wf3se &c @ts.e!a s-s2rs-
ford recently, saying: '"The rumosa
| about my wife's health are exaggerated.
She has tendencies which require care
| on her part--no more"
The Bourbons are All very wealthy.
The villa at Cannes of the Count de
| Bardi, n OF the Parma branch Of the
family, is so expensive that the late En-
press did not feel justified in renting 1t
| ~ the price asked.
The highest sum realized by George
Eliot for any one of her later works was
ST., 900, while the lowest she received
was $4,000. Scott obtained only $35E'
for Wayerly, while Miss Burney was paid
only 500 for "Evelina."
a gentleman of Enterprise, Fla, has
spread muslin under many Of his orange
trees to collect the orange blossoms when
they fall. He will make perfumery out
OF them.
Washington Irying's former rector, in
his address 1T the T%arrytown celebre-
ton, said he remembered meeting his
famous parishioner, who was a parish
warden. after a service, when MIR Irv-
ing remarked to him, with n twinkle
in his eye: II have passed that plate
so often up and dewn the aisle that !
begin to feel like a highway man.
feel as though l conld stop u man On
the road and say: Your money or
your lfe!"
April 6, 1865. was the concluding day
Of the battle Of Shiloh. On that day Mr..
Z. s. Hammond Of East Tennessee was
in the confederate army, and stontly
conteniing against the Union. Sixteen
years later he was appointed n United
States district Judge for the West,rn
district OF his state, and the seventh of
this month, exactly 81 years after tho
battle of Shiloh. judge Hammond adj
ministered the oath of office TO Judge
George Il. Sage, recently appointed for
the district of OHIO.
some fortnight ago, Mrs. Gladstone
received a letter from Sir Henry Pom
sonby, the Queens Secretary, written
by her direction, advising her to urge
her husband to accept a peerage. The
| Queen has of late frequently publicly
| expressed her wish to visitors that he
should accept a peerage, which, while
lessening his labors, would enable him
TO continue Prime Minister. he prefers
to remain in the House of Commons, but
retires from Office.
81 am an entire stranger to University
life inythe University sense said John
Brighti In his address on being installed
as Lord Rector of Glasgow University.
81 may De said to be q man who never
had the nd vantage Of education. ! had
| the teaching of some French-as En-
glishmen teach French; and had the
advantage of a years instruction III Lat
in by a most admirable tutor-a country
man Of yours from the University
| or Edinburgh. But there vas rot mucn
i Greek, not SO much that any truce OF it
is left. There was nothing in the shape
of mathematics or science. Looking ut
education. as yc@ take it, ! am q person
who had the misfortune to have almost
none of it in my youth.
The sword of John Hampdenh has been
| sold at auction in London far 5S guineas.
1t is the sword he wore during the civil
war, and is a long raPier with across hit
and scroll guard. 1t was made in Ger
many, and had always been in the pos.
session Of the Hampden family, when III
1861 a second John Hampden died leav-
ing the sword among his possessions. His
brother, the Bishop OF Hereford, then
ordered that it be sold. 1t fell into the
possession OF MI. Robinson, who had Of
| ten seen this John Hampden point to
| the sword proudly, saying: This ID the
sword of John Hampden, my great an-
cestor.n Mr.. Robinson gave it TO d Mr..
Friswell. who recently died, and With
whose effects it has now been sold.
Rear Admira: j. w. A. Nicholson, who
! on March 10 turned over the command
! of the European Station to his relief,
Rear Admiral Baldwin, and went ON the
retired list. after forty-fye years of ac-
tive and patriotic service, was the last
representative in the United States Navy
| cfa family one or more of who Sc mem-
bcrs had been p~rominentin hat branch
ofthe public service ever sincethe foun~
dation of the government. His grand
father, Commodore Samuel Nicholson
one Of the three brothers, Commodore
in the navy-was Lieutenant under Paul
| Jones in the action between the Bon
| Homme Richard and the Serapis. He
was also the first commander of the
Constitution cOld Ironsides), and was
senior officer of the Navy at his death.
| He left a son--AdmiTai NichotsDn 5 faith
er-who was an officer In the Navy, and
served CALAMITY during the last war with
Great Britain.