The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-04-24
Personal Paragraphs.

IN"AueSiA ~ CcoISc - tliS AlOSt pros
porous colored planter in So nth Carolina
He recently bought the Reneker lands
in Colleton county, for Sou 900 cash. Ii.
offers to subscribe 5000 toward the con
struction Of branch railroad through
the section in which he lives.
Patti ascribes most of her excellent
health to Nicolin's paternal care of her
She is q selfish little woman at best
and this man has reached her heart b,
his care OF her. They live very happily
toge, her, the fact til II she has :, has
band living on one side and he a wife
and five children on the other, neve,
seemed to disturb them. Great prime
donne can afford q hiyil-minded indiffer.
encc IN dom2sti: matters Of that sort.
Miss Lolita Mi1non Crabtreo, bette,
known by the simple name cf Lolita, has
been losing her singing voice during
some time past, and by the advice of hor
physician will retire from the stage 'or
two years in order to seek expert medi.
ca! treatment III Europe. Should it be
,ound that her voice cannot be restored
her retirement from the stage will be
permanent.
Wendell Phillips wife has been an in.
valid for over thirty years, and during
all this time the great orator has beer
untiring in his attention to her. "Ne
one but You can know what it has
been to :are for her." was re-
marked to him recently. "Ah! No one
but me knows how good she isl was his
hearLsOme answer.
Sir Anthony Musgrave (son-in-law Of
David Dudley Field of New York;, has
been appointed to the Governorship OF
the British, colonial province of Queens
land, vice Sir Arthur Kennedy, with a
salary OF e2,OoO a year less than he re-
ceived in Jamaica. He wi'lleayc Queens
town on May |, for New York.
a certain Continental cou, tess was in.
terrogating her sons tutor on the pro.
gress young hopeful was making in his
studies. 'How gets on the viscount?''
said she. Wonderfully well, nv lady;
We are working hard at the sciences.
The viscount is particularly we'll up in
his chemistry" Indeed, ali! then Henri,
my child, Go tell me what is dynamite??' '
Pardon, madame" interrupted the tu-
tor, "but nowadays dynamite does not
belong to chemistry. It is conside red
as part and parcel ofpoli,ical economy
Senators Anthony and Sherman, says
the Boston Advertiser, are the only
two men now in active political life who
participated in the session of congress
in 1861. called together by President
Lincoln, after the storminy Of Sumter.
The others are either dead or retired.
Senator Beck says that his son George
is doing finely in Wyoming territory,
where he has ranch Of l, 400 acres, and
1900 sheep. He now lives in house
built of pine lumber, though when the
senator and Mrs. Beck visited him last
year he had only = log cabin plastered
with mud and with clay floor. But
1t was so healthy there that Mrs. Beck,
who was 80 i'll before starting that the
trip was delayed from day to dav, cot
we'll and felt such redundancy of spirits
that she took hold of the household
matters and taught an Irish boy how to
bake bread and do all sorts of cooking
tor the men on the ranch.
The following interesting anecdote ap-
pears in Mathilde Blinds recent bioy-
raphy. CATER translations from Strauss
Feuerbach and Spinoza, and West
Minister Review, George Eliot met George
Henry Lewes, and began to write fiction
at his suggestion. Her Scenes Of Cler ical
Life and Adam Bede' interested Mr.,
Blackwood SO much that Lewes invited
him to meet the author. No one was
present at the dinner table besides Mr..
Lewes, Marian and Mr.. Blackwood him
self: The dinner was an extremely plea
SAINT one, but when it was over, the CUES,
could not help expressing his regret that
George Eliot himself should not have
been present. Here he u.s. said Lewes,
intro ucing the quiet, low-spoken lady
who Lad presided at the table"