Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-04-17
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Personal Paragraphs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., nova
Judge On the Supreme Bench Of Massa-
chusetts, was an officer in the Federal
army, and was once left for dead upona
Southern battle-fiel 49,
Judge Thomas NJ. Cooley, for twenty
years on the Supreme bench of Michi-
gan, and we'll known writer on legal
topics, Will retire from the bench at the
close of the present year, when his
term expires. There is a very general
disposition among the legal fraternity
and leading men Of parties to secure
Judge Cooleys denomination by both
parties, but be now positively declines
to serve longer.
Is Superintendent Bennett of Piqua, O.,
has been investing the extent to
which tobacco is used by boys in city
schools. He finds that in two grades
of 70 boys from II to Is years old,
81 habitully smoked cigarettes. and
only could say they never had smoked.
OF SO boys from 10 is IL there were 6S
smokers, and in the A B G class many
had begun the practice.
The late Edmond About was writing
Germaine, one Of his best novels,
which was being published as feuil1e-
ton in one of the daily papers. The
story, relating to a young consumptive
glrl who was in love, was approaching
the fatal end, when the Empress
| Eugene wrote to the author: II conjure
You, do not make the heroine die"
About complied with the request, and
Germaine was made TO live in the novel.
-Galignani.
The ex-Empress Eugenie was taking
q carriage drive at Marlborough recent
ly, when one Of the horses took
fright. The animal was killed by being
impaled upon the shaft Of the cart.
The ex-empress and other occupants
of tho carriage were thrown out, but
escaped unhrrt. Another account says
the ex-empress was riding with the
Due de Bassano in his carriage, and
both were thrown violently to the
ground and severely bruised and cut.
The duke is eighty two years of age,
and there are fears that his injuries will
prove fatal. The empress was less Sc
riously hurt.
Rev. Charles G. Ames, of Philadel-
phia, speaking at Springfield, Mass,
recently, said that g native Of q Connect
icut town once told him that on return
ing there after thirteen years absence
he found that all the young men of the
place he had known in his youth as the
sons Of wealthy parents had become
either sots, paupers or criminals. And
yet Connecticut is sometimes called the
land Of steady habits.
The latest biography of George Eliot
which is now being extensively reviewed
iii the newspapers, says that before her
identity was made public Thrckeray
thought that her books were not writ
ten by woman. Mrs. Oliphant was
sure they were not written by woman.
Mrs. Carlyle conceived the writer to be
IMAM of middle age, with wife, from
whom he got those beautiful feminine
touches in his book, q good many chill
dren, and dog that he has Us much
foudness for as I have for my little
Nero" But Dickens said: IF they
originated with no woman, | believe
that no man ever before had the art of
making himself mentally SO like woman,
since the world began"
Some years before Abraham Lincoln
became President New York firm ap,
piled to him regarding the financial
standing Of one of his neighbors. Mr..
Lincoln sent the following suggestive
reply: "Yours of the 10th inst. Ie-
ceived. am we'll acquainted with Mr..
and know his circumstan noes. First
of all, he has wife and baby; together
!! they ought to he worth $50, 600 to any
man Secondly. he has an office in
which there is table worth ST so, and
three chairs worth, say. 81. Last OF
all, there is in one corner large rat
! hole, which will bear looking into. Re-
! spectfully yours. A. LINCOLN.
Washington Z. Conner, who is re-
ported as about to marry Jay Gould's
daughter: is almost twenty-five years
; her senior, and has withstood the ten
! der and fascinating endearments Of sew
eral of New York's most famous bellies.
! Young George Gould is his chum, and
betweenE them the sincerost affection ex-
lists. Many have had the erroneous i'm
! preston that Mr.! Connors SUCCESS and
his present wealth aie due to his close
intimacy with Mr.. Gould. This is a
great mistake. Mr.. Corners present
position has been secured by lndomit-
able nerve, financial honor, and a
/ shrewd and vigllant determination to
gras all opportunities offered him.