The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-04-25
Personal Paragraphs.

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Miss Gabrielle Greeley viii occurs
the old Greeley homestead al Chan.
paqua during the coming season. Sha
is still a lovely young woman. exceed.
ingly retired, and has, it is said refused
many ambitious suitors for her hand.
Lately at a dinner party given by
some homeopathic doctors in Paris. az
ter the memory of Hahnemann had been
toasted and the health of various cele.
brities drunk, Alphonse Karr was asked
to propose a toast. Your patients.
gentlemen, ? he said.
Charles Barrett, OF Ashburnham.
Mass, now SO years old, had his life In
sured for S1,000 in 1916. Having
reached the extreme limit of life, accord.
ing to the table of morality on which
the insurance company does business.
the president sent him the other day q
check for the amount of his policy. II
is believed to be the only case on record
where a man has beaten an INSURANCE
company by OUTLYING a death policy
The son Of j. L. Trowbridge, tho
novelist, who recently died, was a young
man of 20, of fine promise. He had
overworked in his studies, and went 90
Colorado Springs to recuperate. "A
sudden cold arrested his progress ofre-
coyery, and in a few days terminated
fatally.
President Arthur is an Episcopalian,
as are Secretary Of State Frelinghuysen
and Attorney General Brewster. Sec
rotary Folger is a Presbyterian. Sec
rotary Chandler is a Unitarian. See
rotary Lincoln attends the Presbyterian
Church, as does Postmaster General
Gresham; who, it is said, is of the
orthodox stamp, while Secretary Teller
is a Methodist of the Rocky Mountain
quality.
A remarkable case Of longevity Of =
family has come to Light in Westville,
O. The family is named Cave, and con-
sists OF eight men and four women.
The children, grandchildren, great
grandchildren number 1877. The res
pectiye ages Of the twelve are as follows:
BENJAMIN Cave, SO; Thomas Cave, S5i
Joseph Cave, 104; Jonas Cave, 100;
Rebuen Cave, rs: Noah Cave, 81; John
Cave, 81; William Cave, 96; Nancy Jen-
kins. 50: ] ..aex eaL:es 81 pclly < .ge-
So; Sally Price, 95. Their combined
ages are 1886.
Mr.. Charles Barrett, Of Ashburnham,
Mass, is 95 years old. In 1876, when
he was So years old, he was insured Tor
81. 900 in n Of the best-known life in
surance companies. The policy was
payable at death only, but within . few
DAYS Mr.. Barrett has received from the
company a check for the full amount q
the policy, together with the diylsenu
for the current year. In transmitting
the check the president of the company
writes that Mr.. Barrett is the only
member of that company who ever ouS'
lived the mortality table, and that there
has not been a similar instance q lon
geyity in any other company n TINS
country
Two promising young men have LOS
their lives from q too ardent devotion g
athletic sports. A son Of Oliver Dyer
the New York Journalist, died sudden
ly al d of the eastern universities 0 fep
DAYS ago from the effects OF over-train
ing and oyer-exertiou, and recentl.
Lewis ". Seal, a student IN the uniyef
sity Of Philadelphia yielded up his ~
from the same causes.
The journal des Debats CONTINUES
the publication Of M. Darmsteter's pa
psrs on George EIliot's letters. IN
papers deal largely with George Elliot
religious opinions. A notable passag
IN one letter is as follows ~ nav
faith in the marking OF higher possiblll
ties than the Catholic church, or an.
other church, has presented. Thos
who have strength to wait and endur
must accept no formula which thel
whole souls and intellects, IS well z
emotions, do not embrace with entlr
reverence
did you reveal your identity n aske
q New York politician Of one Of hi
minions. well, you bet I didn't.
Just told him who Twas and ii brok
him all up. : Merchant Traveller.
A lfe-insurance sharp reports as q
result Of his observation that habitls
(temperate) beer drinkers, after q while
die of, generally with typhoid symT
toms. They seem to be all gone y
side, and the conclusion is that totl
abstainers 1--we longer than moderat
beer drinkers