The Mineral argus., 1884-07-17
Personal Mention.

Mr. Bronson Alcott attributes his long
life To subsistence on dry Concord Phil
osonbv and plain vegetables. But there
Ia Mrs Baker of Taylorsville, Va, who
10 more than a dozen years Mr.. Alcott's
sonior and she has made a practice of
oo+;na meat and drinking a dozen cups
81 strong coffee every day. The coffee
U1iobt have killed old Alcott, but certain
- e that Mrs. Baker would have starved
n death long ago on a diet of Concord
philosophy and baked potatoes.
Some time since Miss Lizzie Newmon
stopped in a doorway on Second street,
Louisville, during a shower. A pleas
~ant-voiced lady noticed her standing
there and invited her up stairs. Miss
Newman took advantage of the offer.
Up stairs she met William Crittenden.
a man who had lost both eyes while
berding cattle on the plains of Texas.
Crittenden thought it would be pleasant
DO court the girl. and make love to her
desperately. What he said jokingly,
she understood in hard earnest. Be-
fore they separated Crittenden had
changed his mind, and asked the girl
seriously to marry him. She accepted
the offer, and on the next night at 8
o'clock the two were united by Justice
John Gosnell.
The following incident is told us of
the Duke of Buccleuch. who recently
died in England. Not very long ago,
while travelling with the Duke of North
cumberland, they found themselves in a
carriage with a commercial traveller.
The conversation between the three
soon became general. At Alnwick
station the Duke of Northumberland got
out and was driven away in a showey
equipage. "That must be a swell"
said the commercial traveller. "Do YOU
know who he is ?" "He is the Duke of
of Northumberland" replied his grace
OF Baccleuch. "And yet they say that
our nobility haughtyl Why, he talked
to us two snobs as though we had been
his pals!"
Following is a list of the prominent
m~illionaires of the United States: VIII
liam H. Vanderbilt, 5000, 600, 900;
Fair, of California, $50, 900, 900; Flood
of California, $50 900 900; Mackay, of
California, $50, 000, 900; August Bel
mont, $50, 000, 600; Senator Sharon.
SIS, 000, 900 Senator Jones, $40, 0OO, 900;
Aston, of New York, $75, 900, 900; James
G.Bennett, $50 ,000, 900; Jay Gould $685.
600, 600; S. j. Tilden, $25, 900, 900; So
Ion Humphreys, S15, 000, 900; Sidney
Dillon, SIS, 600, 600; Edward Clark.
$25, 200, 900; Cakes Ames. Jr., SIS, 000,-
600; Perry Fl. Smith of Chicago, $I5,-
OOO, 600; Pierre Lorillard, $15, 000, 900.
1t was in the mild September of 1888
that James Ham vent into a saloon in
Brooklyn with some friends. In the
course OF the evening he yielded to the
somnlfic influences of beer and dozed.
gas was turned down, a pair of
scissors was procured, and in a few
minutes Mr.. Ham was shorn of his
beautiful beard. 1t was not until he
had an interview with his wife on reach !
ng home that Mr.. Ham fully realized I
force of the calamity that had be- |
iallen him. After nursing his wrath l
or many months he at length resolved !
10 seek redress in the courts. He has O
brought suit in the supreme court, q
Brooklyn, against the saloon keeper to
recover 81 900 for the loss of his beard. y
Touching her recent marriage, Mrs. l
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes to a Chica-
20 friend as follows: al have been ex- 9
'eedingly surprised and panied at the \
3ad taste which the press at large dis t
in reference to this occurrence in
ny life. All the severe and often cruel :,
rlticisms relative to my book 1 looked Il
Ipon as SO many dollars, and accepted :
hem with good grace. But in this
vent which concerned my private life '
most sacred feelings, l have felt a
hat l deserved greater courtesy from n
he newspapers, especially as all that d
as been written concerning me must b
seen and read by strangers who are q
0 be my future associates, and must i
aturally influence thei impressions of
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