The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-12-26

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Personal Paragfaphs:
Lord Ampthili; the English Ainbss:
sador to Berlin, has always spent from
t22, 800 TO $50, 900 year more then
his salary in keeping up his position.
May. Edmin.ter, aged 10, daughter of
William Edminster. rich farmer of
Erwin, steuben County, il slowly re-
covering from sn illness with typhoid
fever. One physician gave her dip. br.
Edminstsr j told d him: ''sn III Ivo you viii Vii
save her I will give ,yod d hihdrsd
acres bf my best land:S The promised
fee is Is good aS Is 900 In Sash:
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 an entertaining
talker:. His voice is singular power
full and resonant; snch voice, perhaps,
as that with which his gfeat grandfather
thrilled his hearers when he delivered
his "Give me liberty OF give me death"
speech, Such : voice might he heard
with case by IL, 600 people. According
to all accounts the great orators de.
scendsnt is too brilliant to be good for
anything:
Not long since ex-Judge Black
in examining a witness who had
been in the srmy,. said: "Come
soldisr, tell us what you know of this
matter" II am no soldier, 1 am an Of
ficer," J" haughtily responded the witness.
Whereupon, the old lawyer camly said
"Well, then, officer, who is no soldier,
tell us what you know" The vain fell
low was crushed.
Admiral Porter told New York in.
terviewer that his novel which is to be
published by subscription, has nothing
in it about the SEQ except in two pages.
In six mouths he ground out 2.49O
closely written foolscap pages to "oc.
cupy Ills mind" The book, which is in
the hands of the Appletons is, accord
ing to the interviewer's statement,
wonderfully sanguinary without con-
tanning word of fact. The title is
"Allan Dare and Robert le Diable."
There is certainly no salt water favor
about that.
According to the France there is
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 1879 at
st. just, and had two children, one of
whom died few years ago, aged 81.
Sir George Rose Sartorius, the SEN
ior Admiral of the British navy, has
just completed his Oath year. He has
been upward Of e,ghty-three 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 1906.
The Tichborne claimant is to be re-
leased from imprisonment on October
"a. and will ct once take up his res.
idence in Hampshire, Eng, in house
already selected by Mr.. Quartermain
East, though the exact house is as yet q
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.
Aten-year-old boy in Wallingford,
Conn.,, wrapped worsted round the head
of spin and fired it thr ough q 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 op-
GRAFTON OF tracheotomy was successfully
performed, bnt the pin was not found
because ithad gone too for 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 his end