The Mineral argus., 1884-06-05
Personal Paragraphs.

NeOIBe EllOb, alGef meeting Lord,
then Sir Garnet Wolseley, describes him
in one of her letters "as one of those
men who have the power to command
by e of g%entleness of character,
calmness of bearing, and inf1exibility of
resolution"
D.. o. Mills is another millionaire who
has been heavily hit by the decline in
stocks. He has been suffering for years
from Brigbt's disease, which has been
much aggravated lately by heavy pc
cuniary losses, and his physicians fear.
unless some favorable change C
that he may be carried off suddenly.
Alphonso XII. of Spain has insured
his life. In an age when crowns, if not
crowned heads, topple over this is a wise
provision for his heirs.
A British parson publicly declares
that the association for legalizing mar
riage with o deceased wife's sister is
casting it's deluded victims, body and
soul, into hell"
Signor Sella, the late Italian states
man, would never receive a gift, V
from the King. He once declined a
snuff box sent him by the Emperor of
Austria, and valued at Is 900. He even
refused a horse that Victor Emanuel
once offered him, saying, Iaugbingly,
that he had one already, and that If he
accepted this one he would have to sell
his W horse to buy food for the other.
Colonel Preston Johnston, a son of
General Albert Sidney Johnston, is re-
ported by the Rev. DIR. Henry M. Field
as saying of the battle of Shiloh:
when my father was shot, and fell
from his horse, he had gained a great
victory; and if he had not been killed
at that critical moment, in two hours
more he would have captured General
Grant and his whole army.
One Of the teachers in a school in
Lawrence, Mass, sent home for an alb
sent pupil recently, and when the boy
arrived he gave as an excuse for his tar
diness that his aunt-who was alone in
the house-had tainted away. An old
er pupil was sent to the house to learn
the condition of the woman. and came
back with the startling intelligence that
she was dead in her chair. The rest of
The family were in the mill.
EVERYBODY through Mr.. Bronson AL
colt, the Concord philosopher, was
stricken down for good last summer,
but the old man, at eighty-fve, has re-
covered from his paralysis, is as clipper
as ever, and is preparing to start out to
deliver his customary course of philos-
ophic lectures. Many persons look up
on this case as a miracle. But it should
be borne in mind that Mr.. Alcott has
taken good care of himself through life.
he has exercised good Judgment in
his diet, and has not made a practice
Of getting drunk.
Old Uncle Frank Juniper, a coIored
man who lives three miles from Mid
way, KY, plowed up a silver box the
other day which contained a number Of
iilver dollars, halves and quarters. The
)ox contained about $40 in American
md Spanish coins, the one of most re-
'ent date bearing the stamp of 1907 show
ng the money must have been buried
bout that year or the years follow
ng. The most peculiar part of the cir
'umstance is that in the early part of the
resent century, within a year or two of
hat date, a remote ancestor of the find
7 was hanged for numbering a peddler.
made nc confession and no trace OF
he plumber for which the crime was
ommitted was ever found.
Adelina Patti was born in Madrid.
pain, April 8, 1S43. She first APP
cared on the stage at New York in
ne Winter of 1880, before she was
I. Christine Nilsson was born at
near Wexio, Sweden, August
1843. Her first appearance in opera
as made in October, 1864, at the
heater Lyrique, Paris, in Verdi's "Tra-
Marcella Sembrich was born in
III 1858. Her first appearance
opera was il 1877 at Milan in Il
Fran Amalia Materna was
orn in St. George, a small market
of Syria, III 1847. Her first sue
,ss in opera was won at Gratz in
uppe's "Flotte Burschen," when she
as IS.