The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-04-04
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Probably the only persons in this
country who attended Napoleon's funeral
at st. Helena, are two men now living
within one hundred miles of each other,
in Michigan-Frsncis Martin, Of Detroit,
and William j. Palmer, of Battle Greek.
General Robert Toombs, Of Georgia,
owns large tracts Of land in Texas. He
refused $40 an acre for one tract Of T..
600 acres. A writer in the Atlanta
Constitution says: II suppose il was
this land General Toombs referred ia
whom he replied to the inquiry Of thu
Yankee in Paris. II was Just after the
war and the General was living there in
easy style. Tell him. replied the
General, that am eating an acre Of
dirt day. He was selling Texas lands
ct IS an acre, which was about his daily
expenses"
Mr.. Edison ssys that in fifty years 81
the furthest We shall reach the electri.
cal millennium. All the town-boy, who
would fly his kite secure from those
vexatious wires, has to do is to wait.
The London Atheneum reviews two
current English editions Of Emerson in
an article which announces that the
practical task now offered to English
literature Is the Education Of the Amer
lean people! The main bulk Of this ed
ucational work il to be done by English
authors. Two Americans, however,
rise above the mediocrity -Longfellow
and Emerson. Then, after the admis.
sion that Emerson is one of the most
valuable personalities in the modern
world, follows an elaborate disparage-
ment and his qualities Is . writer, NOR
alist and philosopher in which the COM
plant was made that he was never suf-
fciently pessimistic.
the Arly Closing Association Of
New York smashes the plate-glass win
dows Of dry goods stores that do moi
close early. They want more time To
improve their minds.
DR.. Francis NJ. Gunnell, Medical di.
rector Of the navy, who has been nom.
mated by the president to be surgeon
general and chief of the Bureau of Med
icine and Surgery, is native Of Wash
ington, and has always made that place
his home. He is the son Of the late DIR
james s.. Gunnell, and was born in q
house which stood ON . lot where nov
stands the Department of Justice build
ing. Educated ct Georgetown univer
sity, he received from that ancient Col
lege the degree Of bachelor Of arts il
1916 and the degree Of master of arts il
1S48. During the thirty-fi years il
the medical corps he has had more Sc,
service than any other officer in tn,
corps. The register shows that he ha,
been at sea sixteen years and seve1
months.
II John Adams had taken Benjamin
Franklin by the arm some fine after
noon about the year 1884, and had said
"Ben, within hundred years they viii
stretch wire from New York to George
town, and will talk over il, }" in all prob
ability Benjamin would have said tt
John, $50 away; you are visionary =
but this il what they have been doing
every day the past week.
Somebody thus feelingly writes Of
well-known gentleman Of leisure: "A
tramp may be very bad man, but {
tramps LIE i bad enough for any bai
man. No house. no home, no friends
no money, no food, no IRE, no regular
meals, no warm room or blankets q
zero, no smiles from his 3allow-maa;
his food pickedsoat q tlls autter.ssadd
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