The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-06-05

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questions.-Fron Cassell's Magazine,
London.
Personal Gossip.
Sergeant Ramsey, the signal-ser vice
officer on Pixies Peak, is philosopher.
After he had been alone on this stormy
summit, cut off from all communication
with the world below for seven weeks,
the relief party that finally succeeded in
reaching him found him sitting content
edly beside the stove, playing the banjo.
Miss Chamberlain, known as beauty,
will spend the summer at Newport. II
is said of her: "She affects q combin-
alton of white and silver in all her
gowns, and it is remarkably harmonious
with her golden hair, exquisite Italian
coloring and delicate features"
For putting in defense extraordinary
in breach of promise suit hotel-keeper
Of Wood Haven, N. Y, takes the
doughnut. II was deceived, he AYERS,
'by the plaintiff, who told me she was 80
years old, when she was 10 years Young
er than that. am middle aged man,
and wanted wife of corresponding
age"
Prince Bismarck, who was once adj
monished for whistling on the Sabbath
day in Scotland, and has never forgotten
it, will not be in the least surprised,
whatever other people may feel, when
he hears, as he will with grim satisfac-
ton, that Mr.. Gray, a member of the
Helensburgh, Scotland, United Presby-
terrain Church, who had been elected to
the office of elder, has just been refused
ordination by the Session, OH the ground
that he "took walk in the country on
the Sabbath afternoon.
Jay Gould will be setting up as pro-
phet next. In 1876, when it was an
nounced with flourish of trumpets that
James r. Keene had started East from
San Francisco in private palace car,
with four or five million dollars, with
which he was going to break several
Wall Street magnates, Mr.. Gould is
said to have remarked: "Well send him
back in a freight car"
Alice Gertrude Crawford, beautiful
brunette of seventeen, ran away from
her home at Chelsea, Mass, and went to
New York to become an actress.
Thither her mother followed her, and
fewdays agothe police turned the fool
lsh girl over to her parent. Alice kissed
her mother Repeatedly, and said to her:
IL love you dearly, mamma, and am
awfully sorry to give You trouble, but
l shall be an actress yet"
There are four Jonses in the present
National House of Representatives, all
democrats. There is only one Smith,
There are three Taylors, two Brewers.
two Davises and one Davidson, two
Browns, two Campbells, two Matches,
two Adamses, two Peeles, two Rogerses.
two Wilson's, two Winanses, two Wises.
two Calbertsons, two Coxes, two Evan
ses, two Rays, two Summers, two
ONeills, two Warmers, two NIillers,
two Robinsons, two SINNERS, two Stew
arts, two Hewitts and two Turner's.
Truman Smith, of Stamford, Con-,
the oldest ex-United States Senator,
died, at the advanced age of ninety
four years. He entered congress in
1889, where he continued four terms and
he was elected to the senate in 1849,
He was one of the leading factors in the
nomination of General Taylor for presi-
dent in 1848, and was then, next to
John NJ. Clayton, the most potential
Wing leader of the country.
Jefferson Davis recently said to a
Northern visitor that General Grant was
a great military commander, but that
Meade was the most skillful general ii
the Union army. Sherman was looked
upon In the South as Alaric was bv the
Romans. He was their "scourge of God. {"
He was cruel; yet a great strateeist.
Nc Clellan was the best trained soldier
in the war.
Mr.. Henry Labouchere, of the London
Truth, says he has about made up his
mind to cross the Atlantic some time
next Autumn. When he was % years
old he was an attache of the British En-.
bassy at Washington. That was in 1854.
when Pierce was president. Mr.. La.
bouchere said that he had been so con.
stantly in communication with his Am
erican friends, both by correspondence
and frequent meetings on this side of
the Atlantic, that he did not believe he
would find himself stranger in the
states, although, of course, he would be
prepared to find an immense growth
which, he believed, was in the right di.
rection.