The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-29
Personal Gossip.

a rural gentleman, standing over q
register in a city store, attracted some
attention to himself by observing to his
wife Marian, I guess I'm gom to have
q fever; / feel such hot airs a-runnin'
up my legs. Exchange.
Judge Phelps of Vermont, father of
the new minister to England, was q
descendant of the first Of that name who
landed at Nantasket in 1880, some OF
whom afterward settled in Vermont,
and Of John Phelps, assistant clerk of
the court which condemned Charles /.
to death.
Leopold Won Ranke is considered in
Europe the most astonishing author of
his time, in respect of the preservation
Of his mental powers. There is not an
other living example of a man occupied
with historical work in his goth year.
He believes he will be able to continue
his studies and writing till he has
reached a hundred.
There is a fi~ye-year-old girl near
Weedsport, N. Y, who is addicted to
the use of tobacco. When between two
and three years of age tobacco smoke
was blown into milk and given her as q
remedy for collie. It proved effective,
but created an uncomfortable desire for
tobacco, and by various subterfuges the
child has ever since found means TO
crafty her craving for the weed.
There are ladies in this city, says a
New York f~oor-walker, "who move in
the best society and possess all the
money necessary to meet their demands,
but they can hardly enter a dry goods
store without appropriating some arti-
Gle, and, strange as it may seem, they
very seldom take anything of material
value; they don't seem to choose any
thing because of its worth, but me-
chanically pick up The first article they
car appropriate when they think no one
is looking. We have to watch them
from the moment they enter the store
until they leave"
Miss Clara Spain was orderd out OF
a school room in Troy, New York
recently because she wore a green bow
in honor OF st. Patrick's Day. The
school authorities have called Mrs.
Davis, the teacher, to account for it.
Miss Fanny Lawrence, daughter Of
Francis Lawrence, of New York, who
will be one Of the greatest heiresses Of
this country. is engaged 10 Lord Will
lam Venables- Vernon, an English Lord
with o large rent roll. Her mother,
Mrs. Francis Lawrence, was q Garner,
and is the owner of several millions in
her W right. 1t is said that Miss
Lawrence will have q marriage portion
Of $500, 900 given to her by her parents
on her wedding day.
Mexican had become Jealous of his
mistress, q young Mexican girl about
eighteen. Going to her room in day
light, he locked the door, Invested her
of all her clothing, securely tied her to
the wall with heavy ropes. then DELHI
erately proceeded to cut strips of flesh
from various parts of her body and IN
der the threat of cutting out her heart
he compelled his victom to eat her own
flesh. Her frantic screams finally
brought assistance just as the inhuman
iend had finished cutting off the end
Of her tongue. The brute was arrested
and jailed. His victim is dying,
Besides the Asters, Kingslands, Goe-
lets and other great landholders in New
York, there is a new generation Of land
lords building up great estates. The
Germans are rapidly accommodating real
estate in that city. They own much
more property than any other national
ity. The rich German brewers are all
large landowners. 1t is said that the
humblest German grocer will start in
business with only q few dollars. yet in
six or seven years be will W a house
and lot.
Mr.. Beecher, who is engaged in q
lecture tour in the South, says that he
cannot mix society with 1ecturing.
When on a tour, he says, / never 60
to q private house, except against my
will. The worst hotel is better than the
best private house. especially if it be at
the house Of a friend. Carl Schurz has
had q funny experience on his leo
ture tour down there. They got mp o
grand reception for him, and they re.
ceived him with speeches, ~victuals and
crowds, calliopes and q brass band.
But when evening came he found only
twenty or thirty people to hear his lee
the on franklin So his agent tele-
graphed ahead, No more receptionsl
no more n~onsensep Then he got down
to work and Jared better. That's the
universal experience of the garrulous
biped called lecturer"