Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-01-17
Personal Gossip.

Personal Gossip.
John Rassell Young, American min
lister to China, wrote to afriend in Hart
ford recently, saying: The rumors
about my wife's health are exaggerated.
She has tendencies which require Cur
on her part-no more
The Bourbons are ali very wealthy.
The villa at Cannes of the Count de
Bardi, one o fthe Parma bransh Of the
family, is SO expensive that the late Em-
press did not feel justified in renting il
at the price asked.
The highest sum realized by George
Eliot for any one of her later works was
5000, while the lowest she received
for Wayerly, while Miss Burney was paid
only $l0G Cor "Eveina."
A gentleman Of Enterprise, Fla, has
spread muslin under many OF his orange
treest to collect the orange blossoms when
they fall. He will make p%erfumery out
of them.
Washington Irving's former rector, IN
his address at the Tarrytown celebra-
ton, said he remembered meeting his
famous parishioner, who was q parish
warden, after a service, when Mr. lrv-
ins remarked to him, with a twinkle
in his eve: 81 have passed that plate
20 often no and down tire AISLE that I
begin to feel like q highway man. ]
feel as though l could stop a man on
the road and say. Your mcney or
your life"
April 8, 1865. was the concluding day
Of the battle Of Shiloh. On that day Mr..
E. s.. Hammond Of East Tennessee was
IN the confederate army, and stOutly
| conteniing against the Union. Sixteen
years later he was appointed q United
States district judge for tile west rn
asrfFict OF his state and sflassexspsh of
khis mouth, exactly II years litter the
battle OF Shiloh. Judue Richmond Ad-
minisss-Sa tue oath of Office 90 Judge
George r.. Sage, recently appointed for
the district of Ohio.
some fortnight AGO, Mrs. Giadsto no
received a letter from Sir Henry Pom
sonby. the Queens Secretary, written
by her direction, advising her to urge
her husband to accept n peerage. The
Queen has &c late frequently publicly
expressed her wish to visitors that he
should accept q peefage, which, while
| lessening hIs laOors, would enable him
| to continue Prime Minister. He prefers
to remain in the House ofCoinmons, but
| retires from Office.
81 am an entire stranger to University
life in the University sense" said John
Bright in his address on bein, installed
as LORD Rector of GlaseeE University.
81 may be said to be a man who never
| had the ad vantage of education. ! had
the teaching of some Frencfs-as En-
| glisllmen teach French; and | had the
advantage of a years instruction IN Lat
| i'm by a most admirable tutor-a country
man of yours from the University
| OF Edirtburgn. But there was rot much
Creek. not so much that any trace OF II
is lett. There vas nothing In the shape
of mathematics or science. Looking az
education. rs You take it, am a person
who had the misfortune to have almost
none of it in my youth
The sword of John Hampton has been
| sold at auction in London for 6S guineas.
1t is the sword he wore during the civil
war, and is a long napier with a hnt
and scroll quart. 1t was made in Ger
many, and had always been in the pos
session OF the Hampden family, when IN
| 1867 a second John Hampden died leav-
| inc the sword amonl his 20 sessions His
| brother, the Bishop of Hereford, then
ordered that it he sold. 1t fell iato the
| possession of Mr.. Robinson. who had of
| ten seen this John Hampden 20 mt to
| the sword proudly, saying: sTnisis the
| sword of John Hampden, my great an
cestor." Mr.. Robinson gave 1t TO 9 Mr..
| Friswell. who recently died, and with
whose effects it has now been sold.
Rear Admira. ]. w. A, Nicholson, who
on March 20 turned over the comnland
of the European Station to his relief,
Rear Admiral Baldwin, and went on the
retired list, after forty-ive years of ac-
| tive and patriotic service was the last
representative in the United States Navy
off family ONE or more of who Sc mem
beers had been prominent in hat branch
! ofthe public service ever since the
dation OF theS government. His grand
father, Commodore Samuel Nicholson
one OF the three brothers, Commodore
in the navy-wasL Lieutenant under Paul
Jones in the action between the Bob
Hoinme Richard and the Ssrapls. re
was also the first colnmander OF a
! Constitution tOid Tronsides), and was
senior officer of the Navy nj his death.
lie legt q sou-Admiral Nlehols ,na satn.
er-who was an ofiicer in tile Navy. ana
served CALAMITY during the lass WAT wath
Gree. Britain.