Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-12-26
Personal Paragraphs.
Lord Ampthill, the English Ambas

! Personal Paragraphs.
| Lord Ampthill, the English Ambas-
satlor to Berlin, has always spent from
500 800 to $50 600 a year more then
his salary in keeping up his position.
May Edmins ter, aged IS; daughter OF
! William Edminster, q rich farmer of
Erwin, Steuben County, is slowly re-
covering from an illness with typhoid
fever. One physician gave her up. DR..
Brown of Addison, took her case.
Eduli' or told him: "If you will
save i, I will give you a hundred
acres :, ny best land" The promised
fec is u, good as s., 900 in cash.
The grandson Of Patrick Henry, who
has made an unenviable reputation for
himself in the South by his dissipation,
is described as cripple but remarka-
bly, handsome man. He is brilliant,
finely educated and all entertaining
talker. His voice is singul arly power
full and resonant, such voice, perhaps,
as that with which his great grandfather
thrilled his hearers when he delivered
his "Givo me liberty or give me death"
speech. Such voice might be heard
with ease by 10000 people. According
to oil accounts the great orators de-
scendant is too brilliant to be good for
anything.
Not long since ex-Judge Black
in examining witness who had
been in the army, said: "Come
soldier, tell us what you know Of this
matter" ~ am no soldier, I am an Of
fcer," haughtily responded the witness.
Wlercupon, the old lawyer camly said !:
"Well, then, officer, who is no soldier,
tell lis what you know" The vain fell
low was crushed.
Admiral Porter told q New York in
terviewer that his novel which is to be
published by subscription, hes nothing
in it about the sea except in two pages.
In six mouths he ground out 2.490
closely written foolscap pages to "oc-
cupy his mind" The book, which is in
the hands Of the Appleton's is, accord
ing to the interviewer's statement,
wonderfully sanguinary without con-
tanning a word of fact. The title is
"Allan Dare and Robert le Diable.
There is certainly no salt water flavor
about that.
According to the France there is q
woman living at St. Just-de Claix, in
the Department of Isere, who was born
in 1861, so that she is now in her 124th
year. Her name is Marie Girard, nee
Curand. She was married in 1779 at
] St. Just, and had two children, one of
whom died few years ago, aged ST..
Sir George Rose Sartori1,s, the SEN
ior Admiral of the British navy, has
just completed his Gath year. He has
been upward of elghtythree years
in the navy, which he entered in
June, 1901, and rose to the rank of
Admiral of the Fleet in 1869. He is
the only surviving officer who took part
in the battle Of Trafalgar in 1903.
The Tichborne claimant is to be re-
leased from Imprisonment on October
"a, and will at once take up his res-
idence in Hampshire, Eng, in house
already selected by Mr.. Quartermain
East, though the exact house is as yet a
secret. During the imprisonment of
their father, Mr.. East has taken upon
himself the responsibility Of maintain
ing and educating the claimants two
| daughters. The young girls have had
all the advantages enjoyed by the chill
dren of their protector, and the elder
will, upon her fathers release, go to
live with him and keep house. In Or
der that the claimant may not, at any
rate for some time to come, be worried
by pecuniary matters, Mr.. East pur-
poses making him an ample weekly al
lowance, and will further place a consid-
erale. sum Of money in, his hands on the
day Of his release.
A ten year old boy in Wallingford,
Conn, wrapped worsted round the head
of a pin and fired it thr ough a blow-pipe
at various objects with more or less sue
cess. At last he sucked it back into his
throat. Sixteen doctors tried to get it
out and failed, and the boy was sent to
the New York Hospital, where the OPP
Grafton of tracheotomy was successfully
performed, but the pin was not found
| because it had gone too far to be reached
/ with any of the usual Instruments
They Kept the boy alive, however,
while special instrument was made at
Philadelphia, and when it arrived they
| captured the pin. !. The boy returned to
his home, after being nearer death than
he is likely to be again until lis end
actually comes. ,. So. I. =.