The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-01
Personalities.


Personalities.
Charles DelmOniCo was the owner OF a
valuable library, which includes books
OH cooking from ancient times 70 the
present day.
The Rabbi Hirsh FasseI, of Gross
Kanzia, Hungary, a prominent leader of
Jewish thought and polity in Europe,
IS dead at the age of e~ighty-two years.
+. w. Thubber, who retired from
BUSINESS IN New York. is estimated to
be worth S 2 1000, 900. He began with a
few dollars, and gradually built up a
colossal grocery concern. His age is
hfty.four.
Mr.. Ks.loch, ex-preacher, returning to
San Francisco the other day, lectured in
his old temple His audience con-
sisted of a bakers dozen. His populari-
ty is gone, and he finds himself, with
Kearney, on the shelf.
Frank Steele, a life prisoner in the
Kentucky state penitentiary for murder,
is said to have been permitted to attend
the funeral of his father, Judge Steele,
last week, and unattended, upon the
pledge os his relatives that he would re-
turn to the prison.
1t is stated that the authority of Mr..
Broadley, the eminent English lawyer
who defended Arab Pasha, that Messrs.
BenneS and Barnum actually offered
ESQ, 900 for him. the Egyptian rebel to
get &l 900 to himself. Mr.. Bennett
wished the services Of Arab, first, as a
correspondent for twelve months, and
then to hand him over to Barnum. The
offer was made to Lord Duflerin.
Dean lie Breton, the father Of Mrs.
Langtry, now living in retirement at st.
B~relade's, ten miles from st. Heller's
DE Is said to be the handsomest man in
the island of Jersey, tall and upright in
be caring, with a digniied mien and feat
ures. He long ago was separated from
bis, wife, who is ~chaperoning Mrs. Lang
try. The latter has paid but one visit to
Jersey since her marriage, ten years
ago.
Many Washington ladies write them
selves down as Mrs. Secretary" MRS.
General MRS. Commodore" ETC., in
their social programme. The tempera-
ture has to be excessively low when
Washington women are not doing some
kind OF foolishness.
Colonel J. n. Browning, of the Texas
legislature, represents q district, popu-
larly known as the Jumbo district, which
is made up-of six~ty-seven counties and
comprises about 81, 900 square miles, or
nearly one-fourth of the state. His
friends claim for him that he is as big as
his district, if brain and heart may be
measured by the acre.
One of the most curious suits ever re-
corded was recently instituted by Mr..
Kreglo, Of indianapolis, against Charles
Graham. Years ago Graham had q leg
amputated, and it seems that Kreglo,
is an undertaken, has kept 1t In his |
vault since. The other day he began suit
for vantage, the account reading thus: |
seTo vaultage on a lime OF Charles Ora
ham for one hundred and sixty-eight
months, at - a month, S504."
The laws of Maryland still make a
minister Of the gospel illegiole as q Leg
"A Kew. Mr.. Hudson was rerens.
ly elected to q seat in the legislature
but was met with the constitutional OBJ
He pleaded that he was no
longer a minister, having quit preaching.
But 1t was Of no use; once a preacher,
a preacher-in Maryland.
Mr.. S. S. Cox will soon begin work
upon a book to be published by a pub
house at Norwich, Conn, which
he has contracted to finish by July, and
for which he is to. be paid about SIS, 900.
1t is 10 be o political history of the
country from the time OF Buchanan's
administration, and the publication, it is
expected, will in a measure serve as a
contrast Of political views with the forth
work By Mr.. Blaine covering the
same period.