Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-20
Personalities.

Little Ned =" What did pa mean when
be said sister Edith must stop getting
surreptitious letters What kind OF
letters is them? ?" Little -"Why,
1on't you know, they is love letters:
Her beau leaves them in a little box un-
Ter the shrubbery and Edith gets them"
Little Ned-"But why is they called
that?" Little Nell-".Why they is
called syruptitious cause they's so
sweet you know-iust like molasses."
Sergeant Bates has found friend in b
need in the shape Of an admirer, who
has just left him a legacy of $4,000.
The sergeant did not find s'showing the
flag" paying business, and has lately
been in extreme want. so that this
streak of fortune comes in good time.
b. Henry M. Stanley, the African ex~
plorer, is not married. When he first
started for Africa heawas engaged to a
pretty New York girl, who wept over
him for six months, gave him up for
dead in year, married another man
fore her plighted lover returned from
the dark proved continent.
Gilbert P. Cook has disappeared from
Havana, n. Y. He was private
banker-very private. E. e. Sackett,
his partner, furnished the capital
to be $40 ,000--ana Cook the expert
ence.. 1t is thought that Sackett is
cleaned OUT and that Cook is in Can
ada preparing to enjoy the ice carnival
and make himself at home generally in
the American colony OF F. F's-fast fell
lows.
B. P. Shillaber. the venerable Mrs
Darlington, is one of the few friends Of
the Rev. Adirondack Murray, who still
has a kind word to say for that notori-
Gus backslider: He is, as Father
Taylor said of his son-in -law, Judge
Russell, mot much of saint, but q
sweet sinner The world has been too
harsh with him."
The London Land Agents Record
says. II have not heard what rent Lord
Rosebery pays for Lans7owne House,
but I should imagine not less than
e. 900 IL year, which am told was the
rent paid by Lord Palmerston Cor Cam
bridge House. The Duke OF Abercorn
is understood to hate paid FL 500, and
subsequently $4,000, for Chesterfield
House. I imagine that these are the
icrb &o1o !, al,
London by the year, The highest
weekly rent I know of was paid by
Louis Philippe's widow for Chancellor
House, Tunbridge Wells, fifty guineas q
week, and the Duke of Abercorn paid
forty eight guineas for the same house"
John B. Cough, in his Wild and dis
sipated youth, fell in love with girl up
in Vermont. She refused to marry him
on account Of his dissolpS habits and
gave her hand to q promising young
lawyer of her native village. Cough
reformed and became a celebrated
temperance advocate. The lady's hus-
band went to the war, Whole he &C.
CURED the vice of drinking. He came
home, reformed and fell, reformed and
fell again, and finally died completa
wreck, the victim of whiskey.
Mrs. Howgate, the wife OF the iugi-
tive Captain, says a Washington tele-
gram to the Boston Herald, is keeping
a small boarding house in Washin gton,
and Miss Ida Howgate, his clever
daughter is an instructor in q military
academy at Cleveland About {. year
ago she passed & fine examination be-
fore the civil-seryice board of examin-
ers, and was recently awarded a 81 ,0O0
position i'll the department under it but
she declined it. She has made friends
in Cleveland, and preferred to stay there.
An Albany correspondent Of the
Tribune tells story about Mr.. Tilden.
He complained one day that his med
icine hurt his stomach. ooh, but, Mr..
Tilden," said the physician, "the medi- !
cine is doing You o great deal Of good.
II presume So. but shall not take it :
hereafter" I'm sorry to hear you say ,
that; but if you are determined on this j
course I would warn you earnestly that
You must stop using it gradually" j
"You doctors don't know verything. :
I omit 11sinr that medicina three weeks !