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

two IrlShmen went INTO france Whel0
they were so much admired for their in
comparable learning that they founded
the first two universities in the verdi
those of Paris and Pavia. In the ninth
century. no fewer than eve thousand
students visited the schools in Ireland.
Camden SAYS, "the Anglo Saxons Dor
rowed Sheir letters from the Irish"
1t 10 stated that John Porter, an en-
gineer sn the Michigan Central road
has benn offered SAT, 600 for his patent
on an attachment to a steam cylinder
which condenses the waste from the
steam cock on starting the engine, there
by averting that kissing noise which IS
so disagreeable to the "a and such a
terror to horses.
BenjSmin Wisner Bacon, a recent
graduate at Yale Theological School,
has been ordained and installed at the
First Congregational Church in Lyme,
CT. Hn is the second son of Rev. ID.
Leonara w. Bacon, and was recently
married. to the daughter of General A.
Aiken, a Norwich.
Londan Truth says of General ''Chi-
nese" 6ordon: Gas to religion, the
Christian hero never pretended to be a
Christian. To Judge by his own utter
ances he seems to be a sort of a Deist,
regarding his own will as that of the
Deity"
Mr.. Edward Lawrence Godkin, edi-
tor of the Nation, was married recently,
at the church of the Holy Communion,
in New York, to Miss Katherine Sands,
daughter of the late Abraham Sands.
The wedding was a quiet one. The
ceremony was performed by Rev, DIR.
Henry Mettot, rector of the church.
The couple left the city for a two weeks
trip.
1t is remarkable that Colonel Burn
side, the late disbursing officer of the
Post Office Department at Washington,
was not detected before. He paid 1925
a month for the care of his horses and
carriages, and $75 a month rent for
his house. These two items exceeded
his salary at the rate of $25 per month.
In addition to this his style of living
would have required an income of $10,-
900 q year.
Colonel Dan Rice, the famous ex-
Snowman, who has achieved renown of
late years as a temperance advocate and
religious exhorter, was billed to lecture
recently at Chattanooga, Tenn, under
the auspices of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association. But, alas for weak
humanity the ex-clown met a few of
his old c%ronies, the "spotted-horse, I"
the "white-elephant, the "gyastacutus"
and the c~amelopard," and they took a
drink for auld lang syne, and then an
other drink, and still another for good
fellowship, and the consequence was
that the genial Colonel" got as drunk
as a Lord, and imagined that he once
again owned a whole circus. The lee
ture engagement was suddenly cancelled
and Dan has now leisure to get another
divorce.
Irving Hale, the West Point prodigy,
divided the honors with the president
during commencement week. Every
one wanted to see the remarkable
scholar from Colorado. Whoever saw
him was disappointed, writes cores
pendent. He marched by himself at
the head of a company line, wearing a
red sash and a dainty lustrous sword.
He has slightly curly tow-hair, a baby
face the shape of a full moon, with a
singular little pink nose, turned up and
ending in a bulb. He is very short and
very round and chubby. Yet at the
second glance he is interesting. Good
health, good humor and high spirits
shine in his round, twinkling eyes, and
strength and grace are in his move
ments. Some of the elderly ladies re-
marked to their daughters that they
would like to kiss him. The young
ladies cast their eyes over the entire
corps and refrained from replying.
The session of the Massachusetts
Legislature just closed has lasted 155
calendar days. Only seven previous
sessions have been longer, viz: 1856,
1873 days 1868, 164 days; 1869, 40 days;
1873, 163 days 1874, 165 days, and 1883,
BOG days. The acts approved this year
number 1888 the resolves 81.
In 1870 the population of Brooklyn
was 1916, 900. In 1880 it was 500, 900.
The gain in ten years is 10000 or IT,
900 per annum, according to the United
States census. Now the directory census
shows 704, 900, a gain OF 1873 900 in four
years.
A curious result Of a recent earth
quake shock in Essex, England, was
that the wells around Colchester exhib-