The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-01-25
Personal To,,ics,

mt of tho Tichborne estates, now serv-
ing 14-yesr imprisonment, is about to
be released, aud many OF his faithful fol-
lowers, whose STUPID faith in his cause
makes curious chapter in the history
OF impositions, propose to buy o public
Inn and set him to earning a living.
The denial of Miss Jennie Flood. the
daughter of the California millionaire,
that she is engaged to marry an English
peer. recalls the fact that she once re-
fused New Yorker because, as she con-
tempuously told him. he had not energy
enough to spatter the mud on his trous-
eIs in rainy weather. a
List is now seventy-twe and Vi
yacious as he was at forty. He seldom
touches the piano, but at unexpected
moments, in the presence of some timid
young girl overpowered with the hon.
or of an introduction, or alone with
friend when old days are spoken OF, he
will sit down for few minutes and
recall aphrass of Chopin, or quaint
passage from Scaalatti, and then, for
getting himself, will "wander On until
flash of the old fire comes back to his
eyes,"
Queen Victoria and other members of
the royal family have been greatly. an
noyed Of late by the persistent efforts Of
s'cranks" to get an audience with them
in order to secure their approval of their
new inventions. A madman, who said
he had come from America, and had a
wonderful invention for allaying storms,
tried to get into Windsor Castle the 9th.
er day and was only ousted after consid-
cradle talking hotween himself and the
guard.
Matthew Arnold" says reviewer in
the English illustrated m .gazine, "as
II poet, is rather singular; he takes his
place among tho most fortunate writer's
Of QUIZ day who have expressed them.
selves in verse, but his place is some.
what apart. He has ON Imagination of
his own, but he is less complete, less in
Wordsworth that that poet said of Goe.
the, than the others. His form at mo-
ments Is less rich than 1t might be, and
the Woldsworthian example may per.
haps be accused here and there of hay.
ing sterilized him."
A fortnight sgo man walked into q
German jewellers shop in London
whose wife only was at the counter, and
pocketed las he thought unseen by herr
q couple of watches. Presently her hus.
band entered and while the thief stood
unconsciously ut the counter, thinking
of what he should steal next. she gave In
German description of what had hap.
pened to her spouse. Whereupon, with
out the least fuss, or 60 much as an un-
pleasant word he beckoned police
man, and save the one.languaged indl-
viduai into custody.
Albert E. Kent, the San Francisco
millionaire, has added s25, 900 to his re-
cent gift Of $50, 900 to Yale College for
the purpose of erecting.a chemical labor
atory for the academical department.
Mr.. Kent was member of the class of
'53.
E. G. Stedman, the poet, who became
ago, has again returned to Wall Street.
Gen. I. B. Bunting, who recently re-.
signed from the Guatemalan army, is
now in Chicago. He denies that Presi-
dent Barrios rules the people with q
rod OF iron," as has been printed, but
says that in that country o man must
either ride or be ridden on, and Senior
Barrioa prefers to ride. "He has done
moro for Guatemala in the lost eight
years than all his predecessors have
done before him. When I first went
there there were no schools to speak of;
now there are more than lG, Jos Indian
children being educated at government
expense. There are also higher schools
and colleges in the cities Of Guatemala
and Quczaltenango."
The St. Louis POST Dispatch is certain
ly mistaken in Its ASSERTION that the car
Of Russia is richer man than our Van
derbilt. The. cars bank, account is
small compared with Wii.iam's. He can
help himself to whatever he sees, and
he can execute and exile his subjects at
will, but in other respects he is poor
man.