The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-11-27
Personal Paragra phs.

Lilly Langtry has PAID OH nearly all
her fathers debts in the island OF Jer.
sey.
Mrs. John jacob Astor dresses
plainly, but years a pair Of very heavy
earrings made ofrubies and diamonds
the rubies are large as hazel nuts.
The Garrison family will derive
$4,000 from the sale of the "Life OF
Garrison"
j. Pierrepont Morgan will erect for
st. Georges church, New York, a
building for church purposes to cost
100000.
Governor Alger, Of Michigan, is a
one-term man and gives early notice
that he will not be q candidate for a
second term and will not accept O re-
nomination if it is rendered him.
Two English ladies recently captured
by Greek brigands, and released on a
ransom of SO, 500, have returned to
their home in West Kensington, thor
oughly cured of sentimental travelling
on the plains of Marathon.
'oThe Dyacks here" writes Joseph
Hatton, with reference to the hunters
of Borneo, call eat monkeys, the skins
of which they tie round their waists,
letting the tails hang down behind.
This, no doubt, is the origin of the re.
ported existence of men with tails"
An American missionary was labor
ing to convert a Chinaman, but found
himself nonplussed when the listner
retorted: "You think you know
everything. Tell me, then, why you
wear those two superfluous but
tons on the back of your coat"
Though those buttons have outlived
their usefulness, they must have been
sewed on at first with a purpose. The
two buttons are generally supposed
to be a relic of the days when every
gentleman o a sword. The but.
tons were used to support the sword.
belt.
A Clergyman who caused q sensa-
tion by pitching into the Boston An.
eient and Honorable Artillery in his
sermon on one Sunday "for spending
$4,000 in one nights revelry, and
retaining men unfit to associate with"
in its ranks, now publishes o card
withdrawing and apologizing for his
remarks, which he explains, were
made sin the heat Of DISCOURSE"
The salaries OF the British cabinet
are: Secretary OF Foreign Affairs and
Lord of the Treasury, $50, ooo;,, Chan.
cellor of the Exchequer, $25, 900; Lord
High Chancellor, $4,000; Lord Lieu.
tenant of Ireland, $1OO, 900; Lord
President OF Privy Council, $20,O 900;
Secretary for Colonies, $25, 900; Home
Secretary, $25, 900; Secretary OF War,
$25, 900; Secretary of India, $25, 900;
First Lord Of the Admiralty, $22, 500;
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, $50, 900;
President Board of Trade, $4,000.
Miss Belle Cushman Eaton, the
young elocutionist, a grand-niece OF
Charlotte Cushman, died after a very
brief illness in Boston. At the mem.
orial service held in fremont Temple,
Boston, in honor of the late Wendell!
Phillips, she was chosen by the Mayo1
and committee to read the poem, on
the occasion of which she received a
letter from the well-known actor, Will.
lam Warren, expressing much pleas.
ure at her performance, and regrettina
that her famous relative could not
have heard it.
The late DR.. Humphrey Sandwich,
of Kars, when he stood for Maryle
bone some years ago, was told at an
electioneering meeting that he wasn't
a working-man. II don't know exact
ly what you mean by working-man,"
was his CHEEKY reply, "but Ihav,
worked hard all my life. For several
months groomed my own horse, and
what is more, | ate him afterward.'