New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-11-25
Personal Paragraphs.

PERSONAL Paragraphs.
| Lily Langtry has paid off nearly all
her fathers debts in the island of Jer-
sey.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor dresses
plainly, but wears apair OF very heavy
earrings made ofrubies and diamonds
the rubles 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 a candidate for a
second term and will not accept a re-
nomination if it is rendered hun.
Two English ladies recently captured
by Greek brigands, and released on a
ransom OF $4,000, have returned to
/ their home in West Kensington, thor
! oughly cured OF sentimental travelling
| on the PLAINS OF Marathon.
''The 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 missi. nary was labor
ing to convert a Chinaman, but found
himself nonplussed when the listner
retorted: lyon think you know
everything, Tell me, then, why you
wear those two superhuous but
tons on the back OF your coat -
Though those buttons have outiived
their usefulness. they must have been
sewed on at first with q purpose. The
two buttons are generally supposed
! to be relic of the days when every
! gentleman wore a. sword. The but
!! tons were used to support the sword
belt.
A Clergyman who caused sensa-
tion by pitching into the Boston An
Gent and Honorable Artillery in his
sermon on one Sunday ''for spending
| $40, 900 in one nights revelry, and
retaining men unfit to associate With
in it's ranks, now publishes card
withdrawing and apolosizing for his
remarks, which he explains, were
made sin the heat of scourse."
/ The salaries OF the British cabinet
! are: Secretary of Foreign Affairs and
Lord OF the Treasury, $50, 900; Chan
cellor OF the Exchequer, s25, 900; Lord
High Chancellor, $4,000; Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland, 100000; Lord
/ President OF Privy Council, $4,000;
| Secretary for Colonies, S25, 900; Home
Secretary, $25, 900; Secretary OF War,
$25, 900; Secretary of India, S25, 900;
First Lord OF the Admiralty, So, 500;
Lord Chancellor OF Ireland, $4,000;
President Board OF Trade, $4,000.
Miss Belle Cushman Eaton, the
young elocutionist, grand-niece OF
Charlotte Cuslman, 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 Mayor
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 regrettins
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. Il don't know exact
/ ly what you mean by working man, y
/ was his CHEEKY reply, s'but have
worked hard all my life. For several
months groomed my own horse, and,
what is more, ate him afterward. u
Lord Bute's new palace, just com
| pleted, covers andacre and cost nearly
81, 100000. It contains grand
marble staircase, made of Carrara
marble, and three libraries and bill
lard room, all in carved stone. One
wing contains Turkish baths and a
swimming pool.
"a locomotive engineer with rec
ord OF forty years Of uninterrupted
service and no accident" says the
Boston Transcript, s'is not a man 20
be met with every day. Such ono is
a Saxon OF the name of Henze. who
has just gone intoretirement. Daring
his forty years Of service he Travelled
over 1858, BAT geographical miles, a
distance equal to forty-seven Journeys
roundthe earth,''
Frost is never known theyear round
III Clark's Valley, Cal.
! Woodstock, Conn, had what is cali
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