The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-07-23
Personalities.

feCSOnalC1eS.
~ Some idea Of theextent Of Queen Vic
toria's private correspondence may be
gathered, it is stated, from the fact
that the account for kilograms des-
patched on her private affairs alone
during her stay at AK and Darmstadt
amounted to 1856.
The death is announced 81 Rev. H.
A. Stern, D. D., at the age of sixty-four.
Mr.. Stern, who had been for more than
forty years q missionary among the
Jews, and was one of the Abyssinian
captlves, who, after years of protracted
and cruel Imprisonment, was delivered
BY Lord Napier, of Magdala, in the year
Marriage on the. installment plan is
an ingenious scheme, for the invention
of which a Massachusetts, town claims
the honor. A Weymouth couple that
didn't have enough money for thepa
sons fee agreed to pay installments of
81 q week for five weeks. Under this
agreement the knot was tied. US
A country correspondent writes Of
how the average farmer spends the
summer Sabbath. The good man
walks out after breakfast, looks over
the stock and his broad acres, and
then comes in and lands himself onthe
couch with the caution to his wife to
"keep the children quiet while he
sleeps" -,
Mr.: Hamilton Cole, the well-known
New York Lawyer, who bought a copy
OF the Gutenberg Bible in 1881 at the
Brinley sale for SIS, 900, sold it recent.
ly for $4,000. .7.,s-;sfss
A man named Bowen died in Brook.
Ign thirty-two years ago, leaving an
estate valued at 81, 500, 900, to be di.
vided between three heirs by two trus.
tees. It has been III the courts ever
since, and now all Of the heirs, two OF
the lawyers and one, ofsthe trustees
are dead, the surviving trustee being
more than ninety years Of age. An Eng
fish Chancery Court could hardly have
done better. 100 ~ stsfa
B. P. Cheney, of Boston, who will
present statue Of Daniel Webster to
the state of New Hampshire, has been
consulting the trustees, and the foun-
dation work will soon be commenced.
The statue will cost $4,000 and the
base $4,000, all of whichSwill be given
by Mr.. Cheney.
The poet Whittier once lent volume
of Plato to one Of the neighborine
farmers, and when the book was re-
turned asked: "Well, friend, how did
thee like. Plato?" "First-rate," said
the farmer; II see he's got some. Of my
]. idees." ~ +. r. .s, - Is :
Captain Ephraim D. Ellsworth and
wife, the parents Of Colonel E. E. Ellis.
worth, who lost his life in that famous
staircase at Alexandria, at the out.
break OF the war, are living at Mechan.
icsville, N. Y. in q comfortable little
cottage, adorned with numerous me:
mentoes sacred to the memory of their
son, whose monument can be seen from
one of the windows
The Russian soldier in: the field is a
man of many virtues. At home in
| kO1SOs AlACCu3 llC lttS Dut Oll6 tlC6 To
speak of. He will get drunk when he
can, and keep drunk as long as he can.
He is docile by nature, and he obeys
his officer, whom, indeed, he addresses
as s'little father" as if he were child.
Heis contented in hardship, heat takes
no, effect ON him, and he has become
well Injured to cold. His weakest
point in campaigning is his suscepti.
bility to homesickness, of which NAL.
ady thousands of soldiers actually died
Will: the Russian army was lying be.
fore Constantinople waiting for the
ratification of the treaty ofBerlin.
The versatile Ellen Terry, the famous
English actress, first married Mr.,
Watts, the artist. That gentleman,
having obtained divorce, was sue.
ceeded by Mr.. Wardell. Not satisfied
with her second choice, Miss Terry di
vorced him, and setting her affections
upon Charles Kelly, became his wife.
1ncompatibility soon separated them.
and now death by the removal of Mr..
Kelly, has severed all entangling al
liances. The London papers are say.
ing that Mr.: Irving will marry Miss
Terry now that she is free again. He
will prove himself a venturesome man
if he does. q, IT,. 81. ..-.. :, ,.,.