The Wahpeton times., 1885-02-19
Personal GOSSIP.

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Mr.. Whistler, the artist, is coming to
the United States in September. He
is native of Lowell and has not been
in this country since he graduated at
West Point in 1855.
Ex-G Gov. Underwood of Kentucky
says: Business is picking up in the
South in many lines. The settling up
about Jan. l retarded progress little.
But there is every prospect of the re-
turn of prosperity in the South such as
it has not known since 1860.
Judge Joseph Gillispie, prominent
and influential citizen of Southern Ill
inois, and who was an intimate per-
sonal and political friend of Abraham
Lincoln, died at Edwardsville recently.
Sherman Day, the California pioneer
who lately died in San Francisco, was
son of the late President Jerem miah
Day, of Yale College, and his mother
was daughter of Roger Sherman one
Of the committee who reported and
signed the Declaration of Independence.
Senator Hampton, of South Carolina
is poor, possessing but little income be-
yond his pay as a Senator. The es-
tates which formerly yielded him
princely income avail him but small
profit now. His family is an expensive
one and quite o large one, and his
young daughter, Miss Hampton, rarely
accompanies him to Washington.
Wade Hampton was twice married and
is now widower.
John Schuaegles, one of the Oldest
citizens of Dubuque, and who was the
owner of considerable property, died
suddenly, recently. He was in his usu.
al good health after dinner, and seated
himself in chair and soon fell into a
slumber, in which he died. He was
seventy-six years of age.
All I'll, of La Porto, Cal, is the
wealthiest Chinaman in America, hay
ing modest $4,000, 900 to his credit.
His family consists of wife and six
children, and he has sent them back to
the Celestial Kingdom to live perma-
nently, whittier Ii will follow them as
soon as he settles up his business. He
tnide his money in the mines and in
fttrade, and is going home to enjoy it.
Among the most respectable people
of Emanuel County, Georgia, are the
descendants of two women who AS wives,
forty years ago were regarded 81 so
worthless that one was traded by her
husband for Jug of whiskey, and the
other wife was given by her husband to
the whiskey trader. The first men
toned wife must have been regarded
as bad bargain by the man who
gave Jug of whiskey for her, as he
traded her for a bushel Of corn.
Elisha Gray, now wealthy through
invention of electric instruments, used
to be very unsuccessful farmer ct OBJ
erlin, O. He spent most of his time
for several years in experimenting, and
came to be regarded as aGrank. His.
own family were inclined IT, take that
view of him; and when one day he ex-
cltedly declared that he had devised "a
self adjusting helix" his uninforme,i
wife hastily consulted with physician
about putting him under constraint.
An explorer behind the scenes Of
'7The Sea of Ice," while Kate Claxton,
as the imperiled heroine Of that melo.
drama, was thrilling the audience by
perching on hoating piece of d berg,
says that he was badly shocked to find
that the waves were only row of boys
alternately humping their backs and
sql4tting under painted cloth, and
tha4the actress ice craft was rude
boxswith rockers to it like a cradle.
The story goes that the Russian czar,
Alexander l., having once heard that
one of his courtiers, to whom he was
strongly attached, had become involved
in debt, sent him book of which every
leaf was.a bank bill. A few days later
the two met at a court ball. fWell,
count" asked the czar, chow do you like
my book?" "I am'sdRlighted with the
firsty volume, your majesty" answered
the wit, significantly, "and shall be glad
to know when the seconl is likely to ap-'
pear.
An interchangeable society lady Of New
York (Mrs. MasonsJ ones) haAan pnl,su-
al record ofNPlls and entertahnentsan
which she has appeared:h hro IL Of tie
entertainer. taShe gave her frst
ball sixty years ago, aid since
then she has introduced into So
6ety through the 1heans of, balls
her sister;Aer neice, her daughters and
her granddaughters This week, at the
age of eighty three, she gave grand
debutante ball to her great -granddaugh-
ter. At the last ball she appeared in q
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