The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-09-11
Personalities.

Maj. Ben: Perley Poore in 1852
planted old Indian Hill, on his Massa-
chusetts estate, with timber when the
Agricultural Society offered premium
of $40, 900 to the man who should raise
the best forest timber within the next
ten years. The Major took the prize.
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, is en-
joying to the full the sweets of private
life. He was found by a correspondent
the other day On pilot boat at Norfolk,
Va, in his shirt sleeves, sprawled out
on the deck reading Guizot's History
of Civilization"
Last Saturday New York news
paper reporter met in that city Sioux
Indian Chief named Nooga, his squaw
and sixteen-year- old daughter. They
had just returned from Europe, having
been travelling through Germany,
France, Spain and other countries for
a year; where they had been we'll re-
ceived and had made cheap money!"
They were ticketed through to Nebras-
ka.
The Michigan State University is the
largest beneficiary from the liberality
of the late Hon. Henry G. Lewis, of
Coldwater. His will bequeathes his fine
art gallery to the University. The COL
lection is valued at from 5000 900 to
$500, 900. He leaves his library of 3O,-
600 volumes to become Free Public
Library for Coldwater, where he &C.
| quired the bulk of his fortune Consid-
cradle statuary goes with it. Besides
these liberal requests are $4,000 to
Kalamazoo College, $4,000 for mis-
sionary purposes, and 81 900 to the Bap-
fist Sunday-School of Coldwater.
The two British Peers who have lust
died suddenly were among the most
eccentric of their order. Lord Laud-
erdale, disappearing for years, was
finally discovered acting as a baggage
porter on railroad line. The Duke of
Wellington was chiefly remarkable for
his fierce quarrels with his illustrious
father. Once the old Duke was con-
doled by friend because of carica-
ture of him in comic paper. His re-
ply, in presence of his hapless son, was
that "the only caricature that annoyed
him was that" poinning to his heir.
The point of the remark was that the
son bore an extraordinary but grotesque
likeness to his father. He had the
hooked nose and high cheek bones, but
all this was rendered frightful by q
small and weak chin, and thin irreso-
Lutte jaw.
Mrs. Rebecca Smith of Paradise town
ship, Monroe county, Penn, in reply
to an advertisement of her husband,
Charles, cautioning the public not to
trust her on his account, as she had
left his bed and board without any just
provocation, replies sharply that "the
facts in the case, as he calls them, are
false in every particular. FIRST, he don't
own nor never had bed of his own not
even straw tick to sleep upon. Second,
and not the least, he has no board, as
he alleges, nor anything to eat what.
ever of his own that can or will satisfy
hunger. AS for getting goods on his
account, don't think'I could buy any,
thing ON his credit, regardless of his
notice, whatever. Fortunately l don't
have to buy anything on credit, and,
even if should my own credit would
be equally as good, if not better, than
his. AS for cause and provocation I
have sufficient. Truth will prevail
caution all persons against trusting him
on my account, as I shall POSITIVELY pay
no depts whatever contracted by him"