Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-09-18
FOLK NOTES.

Mrs Celia Thaxter, the adthoress Is 40 years
OF age.
John b. Coughs physical powers are ;a..ing
rapidly.
lbe nib was broad and the slit Icing.
TX President Arthur Is credited WITH hayln.
ga ed SO no out of the presidential ssisry
cen Lew Wallace il sand 10 get 5000 y
year in royalties from his story OF BIZ !lur.r
President Cleveland will visit the irgnia
state fair and deliver an dress
October 81
Belva A Lockwood has written the Pail
Mall ia cite her approval VI that paper. el
posurcs OF loldon vice
Cheste A. Arthur has a maiden sister whose
peculiar ecct ntrcitits are said % be 'hc chief
worry OF the presidents lie.
Lieut. Dauenhower i, oppo ed 10 more arctic
expeditions. lie declare, the results not suf-
hcient TO offset the cost in human lic and
treasure
Miss Cleveland, literary style, IN the opln
ion OF the Pail Mall Gazette "rcpruduces and
curOusly exaggerates the stacvato American
ism of Emerson
Brigham Noungs son John, who is leading
a Mormon c>sOn, is the husband o. two
wives and the father of 81 chli!ren-l0 so.1
and ii daughters.
Beya Lockwood, 1t is said does not want
her name mentioned In conncctionNwith the
next pre-, ncy because blooms must ~: DC
doomed too early
Sir Moses Monteiore's viii occupies twenty
large folios and gives away an estate of about
S2OOJOo mostly 20 Jewish religious and
charitable Institutions.
Gen. sherman thinks not enough literary use
has been made Of the great story OF the settle
ment OF the West, which lie regard. as one OF
the grandest epocls I'm tue history II man
kind.
George sand never had "a drawing room ia
Paris she had but "a smoking room now and
then dining-loom but particularly a study
In which philosophers and musicians came 10.
re h r.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says vulgar persons
9nd public audiences Of inferior collective in
telligcnce. have this In common--the least
thing draws OIL their minds when YOU are
speaking 10 them"
Guy Min, the Chinese orator Of San Fran
cisco, thinks It strange that Americans should
spend S. much money in converting the China.
man for a lone n Heaven while they refuse
III III one ia the n ted states
Captain eth le yard Phelps. our Peruvian
Minister, who lately died. wa "A grandson of
the Seth Phe p who was with Mad Anthony
WAYNE at stony Point, and also connected
with the famous Lcdyard family
Edward Everett Hale saws, If YOU will re-
member the first necessity for literary work is
that you have something ready 70 saw begin
YOU will rem, mber something " Itch mo [ au-
thors have thoroughly forgotten or II .ver knew.
Helen Hunt jackson, Just dead. was an
authortss whose style was particularly simple
direct Gear, suggesting Ia an ineXpert
reader that she wrote with easy rapid ~: tut
her manuscript wa, always mass Of erasure
and interlineation.
The veteran banker andSbcne actor. W. W.
Corcoran OF Washington, has Just added 10
his many beneicent acts by putting up
monument NJ Greenwich. Va, over the grave
OF The Rev. Thomas Balch, one Of his intimate
friend from boyhood
Replying to an invitation from the Berk
shire Hills, Gen sherman sends his regards
and adds IL will not have an hour 10 urvsclf
till after Sept. II, having TO travel 5C0J or
60 y miles 10 comply with engagements TO
oblige other persons than myself.
Col. c. Chaille Long, one OF the staff Of
Gen. Gordon, but now soiourning In America,
believes that Gordon is still alive because
from his knowledge OF Arab methods, he Is
sure Gordon's head or some unmistakable
evidence OF his death would have been sent 20
the nearest English post Nothing, he SAYS,
would have given the Mahdi more satisfaction
than this terrible proosof his triumph.
Miss Kate Field who is now sojourning at
Clifton Springs, " Y, finds herself i'm the
heart OF the region where Mormouism had It's
lncipent beginnings. "ls II not odd" said
Miss Field In private letter, "that | c9-le
here not remembering how the Mormon
Church was organized az Manchester four
miles north from Clifton Springs aud tina. the
Mormon Bible was first published nj PALMYRA,
ten miles from this placer