The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-05-23
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We shall not be willing to acknowl-
edge MIR. @. w. Curtis tho greatest liv.
ing American orator until We hear
again from Congressman Warner, oi
Tennessee, who In Q recent speech a.
luded to Liberty q . "lovely babe
perched upon the Nations brow"
President Porter, Of Yale College,
receives for his services about q ,O0O q
year. The professors receive about
$500 and the tutors from 41, 200 to
4260O. Harvard tutors are paid d..
600, while most Of the professors ret
1900 and some 1000.
Bjornstern, the Norwegian poet, las
left Paris to take his trial with The other
liberal editors Of Norway who are being
prosecuted by the King. The King and
he are enemies since the day when the
poet challenged the King to mortal com.
bat and was :ontemptuously refused.
Olive Logan writes that Mrs. victoris
Woodhull is married to John Randolph
Martin, rich London banker, "and any
fine day you can see the pleased and
amiable face Of the now Mrs. Martin
side by side with her faithful sister,
Tennie G. Clafin, as they sit together
in their comfortable carriage and roll
toward their splendid residence in Court.
field Gardens over the smooth avenues
of lovely Hyde Park"
When Senator Palmer, Of Michigan,
goes to New York and stops at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, he always carries Loaf
of Graham bread in his sAtchel. Before
going to his meals he cuts couple Of
slices from the loaf and puts them in
his pocket. At the table he pulls the
bread out, and has always something
before him he can eat. In his house st
Detroit he has Q mill constructed on
purpose to grind this bread, and al
home he will never eat bread made
from -four ground ct any other mill.
Talking once with General Sherman,
the Rev. James Freeman Clarke said |:
"Oh, general, there is something want
to ask you; something I ought to know. !"
"Well, what is it?" inquired the gen.
eral. II don't know" said the other;
II can't think what it is, but am sure
there is something you know that I
don't know, and ought not to let go
good an opportunity Of asking it go by
unimproved." But it did 60 BY.
II is stated that the late Charles
Reade has not left more than about
920. 600, the bulk Of which goes to his
godson, Mr.. Charles Liston. To his
brother the testator leaves the house
at Blomfield-villas, Shepherds. bush,
and e3OO q year; to his nephew, Major
Reade, 81 600; to his nieces E8OO each !;
to the Rev. Compton Reade Cthe testa-
tors eldest nephew, GOO; after the
death Of the testator's brother the an.
nuity of 93OO q year left to him reverts
to the Rev. Compton Reade and the
testators two nieces-G1O0 per annum
each. -
Ruskin is sixty-five years old, but ia
said to act like man Of forty-five. He
is not more than five feet five inches in
height. Indeed, he is petit. His COM
plexion originally was probably fair,
though now his face pretty nearly up to
the eyes is covered with an iron gray
beard; the abundant hair is uncon-
ventionally long, and though he is per-
sonally neat and trim, his hair seems
to have had norecent speaking acquain-
tance with brush. The forehead is
low and retreating; the eyes gray and
sparkling-quizzing and mischievous.
New York is the centre Of the cigar.
making trade. She has nearly 1000
factories, and turns ont 1,OOO, 600, 600
cigars year. Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Illinois rank after New York. There
were made in this country last year
3,177, 800, 1852 cigars. about forty for
every pound of tobacco used. About
81, ,OOO, 900 we're imported, thus making
q total of about $3.50, 900 or sixty for
every man, woman and child in the
United States, and $50 for every man
over 81 years Of age.