The Mineral argus., 1884-06-26
Personal Mentioning.

A cruise along the romantic Hudson,
from New York to Albany, will be
made in June in an eight oar shell, by
twenty members of the Nonpareil Boat
Club Of New York. The voyage will last
six days and the voyagers will camp on
the banks at night and spin yarns
around their camp fires.
Henry Wheeler, one of the oldest of
the residents of Cherokee county, Ind,
has lived on the same land for half a
century. He has never had to buy a
bushel of corn or a pound of meat in
his life. The first dollar he ever earned
was a silver one. He punched a hole
in it and fastened it in his clock with 81
screw, where it now is. He has nine
teen children and 1872 grandchildren
and REORGANIZATION.
Mrs. Ferdinand Ward is said to be dy-
ing ofnervous prostration at her moth
er's home in Brooklyn. 1t is conf
IDENTIFY expected that Ward will make O
startling confession, and then blow out
his brains with a r%volver. He told a
lIICDo ell1O LC MOh1h AlCNCl AbCC a la
inal trial.
The oldest Postmaster in the United
States is Roswell Beardsley, of North
Lansing, N. Y, who was appointed in
1928. John Wilson, Postmaster of Pla-
to, ILL.,, has held the office since 1855, and
seven other incubent Postmasters in
State were appointed under Presi-
dent Pierce.
Lars Olsen Smith, the great brandy
king" of Sweden, has been converted,
and will give up liquor selling. II
think it is better, +" he says, "to use the
money [ have gained in demoralizing
and poisoning the people in undoing, as
far as possible, the mischief that unwit-
tingly / created"
The Philadelphia Call notes that "a
young Philadelphia lying at deaths
door, given up by his physicians,
mourned as already lost by his friends,
gasped but a desire to be married, and
the ceremony was very quietly per-
formed. Instead of dying he sank in
to a sweet sleep, and is now getting we'll.
The remedy is not patented"
A Bridgeport, Conn, man we'll adj
vanced in years, was married a few
months ago. He found that his wife
was the reverse of a comfort to him, and
set out to apply for a divorce, but when
he had arrived had forgotten his wife's
name and had to appeal to the clerk who
issued the marriage license. He seems
to have married too late or too soon, ac-
cording to the point of view one takes.
While Joseph Knight, of Brush
Creek, Mo, was blowing, the earth sud
denly gave away and precipitated his
valuable span of horses, valued at $500,
into a cave, some ID or 20 feet deep.
Being unable to extricate them they died
at s o'clock that evening. The field
had been III cultivation for II years and
no one knew of the existence of the cave
beneath it. Mr.. Knight was blowing
with the lines Over his neck and came
very near being dragged into the pit
and losing his life.
Henry Irving tells a good story apro-
pos OF American respect for the sex of
sexes. While somewhere out west he
and Miss Terry visited a county Jail.
The jailer took them through his bird
cage, and was vastly gratiied by their
praises of It's condition and management.
Finally Miss Terry asked him where
the female ward was: 1--WE are in it
now, miss" said he, ''but the fact is
there are no ladies in the Jail at present.
The only daughter of James Russell
Lowell, United States Minister to Eng
land, is the wife of Edward Burnett,
of the famous ~cocoaine manufac-
turer. She is a demure little lady, and
bears a slight resemblance in looks to
her distinguished father. She is noted
as n of the best horsewomen in New
England. Last summer she went across
ocean alone, in order to spend a few
weeks with her father, and returned as
she went.
The Jews are beginning to waver ia