The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-01-01
Personal ParaQraphs.

Maggie Mcdonald of Philadelphia,
aged fourteen, rosy checked, strong
and healthy, weighing nearly 100 pounds
has habit of barking, over which she
has no control: Physicians attribute
disease of the brain as tho cause of the
strange affection:
Stanley, the African explorer; de.
scribes strong man who was & feet s
inches, and rather disproportionately
slender. He could toss an ordinary
sized man ten feet in the air and catch
him in his descent. He would take one
of the large white Muscat donkeys by
the ears, and with sudden movement
of his right foot lay the surprised ass
on his back. He could carry 3-year-
old bullock half way round his masters
plantation. Once he actually bore IL
men on his back, shoulders and chest,
a distance of 800 feet.
Mr.. Albert S. Warner, the very bril-
liant young business man at tho head
of the First National Bank of Albion,
N. Y, and chief executor of the great
Burrows estate, to which the bank be-
longed, has gone to join Emo and Dick.
inson. He had plundered the estate Of
everything he could lay his hands on,
and lost all in stock speculation. One
by one the very brilliant young bust
ness men are going over the border.
A copy Of what purports to be the
will of the late George W. Rice, photog.
rapher of the Greedy EXPEDITION. has
been produced in Washington. The
will is in the informal character of a
letter writer at Camp Clay, Ellesmere
Land. February 1, 1884, and directed
to Lieutenant Kislnbury, who is re-
quested to act in conjunction with Ser
geant Brainard and NJ. P. Rice, as an
executor. The letter is written in an
ticipation of a journey upon which the
deceased was about to start, in the en-
deavor to find q cache of food for his
starving comrades. It is of . melan.
choly interest throughout. After dis.
posing of keepsakes and other personal
property, he leaves 81 900 to his be.
trothed in Washington, and the rest of
his estate to his father, mother and Sis
ter, who are now living in Nova Scotia.
Mrs. Clemmer once wrote of her
early experiences: II once entered
into written contract to write one COL
umn per day on any subject I was in
structed to write on, for three years in
advance, and at the end of that three
years I had not for single day failed
to fulfill my task, which included every.
thing from book review, comments on
government, public men and affairs, to
q common advertisement paragraph.
You see did not miss the apprentice
ship of literary work. It was toilsome
time, but it cured me utterly of the
mental perversity that awaits for in
SEPARATION of creative moods to do what
is necessary to be done" Her sister,
Miss Maggie Clemmer, lives in Utica.
There was most impressive moment
in one Of Surgeons sermons few
Sundays ago. He was urging his hear
ers to prayer against besetting sin.
"Let us breathe it now" said he, and
as he raised his hand it seemed as II
with that oct he lifted the vast congre-
CATION up on the heights of prayer.
There was perfect Stiffness, and you
could feel that the whole assemblage
was silen ly praying. The sermon was
plain, direct, matter Of fact in the high
est degree. absolutely without sensa-
tionalism of any kind, and showing lit.
tie claim on the part of the preacher to
brilliancy or eloquence. A preacher
more unlike Beecher, with whom it is
natural to compare him, could hardly
lie imagined. He seems to owe his great
success to strength of character and
that mysterious quality called leader.
ship.