The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-26

Personal Matters.
Owen Brown, the only survivor Of
the old John Brown Harper's Ferry
episode Of 1859, lives IN the Jay Cooke
island mansion Gibraltar" PUTIN bay
island. Owen Is now about IS years
old.
Tho Duke of Wellington was OF % in
great danger Of being drowned Al sea
II was bed time when the captain Of
the vessel came to him and said: at
will soon he all over Will, us." Every
WE'LL" answered the duke, ''then | shall
not take off my boots"
The discovery has been made recent
~ that the Baroness Won Berckefcldt,
niece Of Richard Wagner, the com
poser, is living in absolute poverty. Will
her husband and five small children. ir
one room Of house on the outskirts o,
Chicago.
Despite his failing health, King Al.
fonso of Spain persists in dcvoting his
days TO the chase and his nights to So
cial joys. by which course his attend
ants fear he is seriously aggravating the
maladies that atiiict him.
A Chicago baker lighted . fire be-
meath his oven. when he heard the faint
cries of an infant. In the remotest cor
ner of the large oven he discovered ~
ing in basket Il male child two weeks
old, which WAS taken by the police 10
the Founllings' home. Must have been
matched out by the heat.
General f. A. Perry. the democratic
Govern d. clect Of Florida, is a native
of the state of Massachusetts. He was
a young man when he removed to Flor
ida. and opened an office at Pensacola
for the practice Of the law. At the out
break of the civil war he joined the con.
federate army.
The officers in the Navy are thus
graded: The Admiral. the Vice-Ad
miral, Rear Admirals, Commodores,
Captains, Commanders. Lieutenant
Seniors, Lieuteeant Juniors. Ensign
Seniors, Ensign Juniors. Naval Cadets
The offices of Admiral and Vice. Admiral
were created Tor the present incumbent
and expire at their decease.
There is Baptist preacher at Grant.
vile, Neb., who gets for his apostolic
labor but 500 year. The recipient
does not try to live on it, but works at
mis- old trade of shoemaking. His con-
gregation do not object to this way OF
providing cheap ministry for them, but
they have made a tremendous row be-
cause on several Sundays. IN making
announcements from the pulpit, he in
cluded a notice that he would mend
shoes better and cheaper than the OPP
position cobbler.
One of the large reservoirs of the
fish farm of NJ ID. Calkins, near Neva.
ia City. New, was emptied recently in
order to ascertain how the fish placed
therein at various times had prospered.
The mirror carp, brought from Wash
ington. ID. C., and planted q year ago
last March, when they were six months
old. now weigh II pounds, and measure
2 feet % inches in length, and Is inches
uIOuuu suc t"A eSSe psie Va sHO uous.
Mrs. Crowl, the widow of q merchant
of Cleveland, O., who left fortune Of
500, 900. has been ruined by her only
son, who, being entrusted with the care
of her money, lost it all in grain specu-
lations. He has fed to South America
with girl whom he married from q
concert saloon. All her property has
been seized to pay his debts, aud she IL
left entirely destitute.
Tho new lord mayor of London il
Alderman Nottage. who was brought
up in the iron business and several
years ago was sheriff of London and
Middlesex. He founded widely known
artistic establishment, and built the
Orleans Club and other handsome
buildings at Brighton. Like most lord
mayors who, as Macaulay says, though
useful and highly respectable, seldom
belong to princely and well-renowned
commercial houses, the new magistrate
is member of a number of the munic-
ipal guilds, such as the spectacle max
ers and loriners, and was this year mas
ter of the Carpenters Company.