Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-07-09
Personal Gossip.

A rural gentleman, standing over a
register in a city store, attracted some
attention to himself by observing to his
wife: Marian, / guess I'm gom to have
fever; feel such hot airs a-runnin'
up my legs. Exchange.
Judge Phelps of Vermont, father of
the new minister to England, was a
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.
There is a five-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
remedy for collie. II 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 floor 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
can 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 green bow
in honor of st. Patrick's Day. The
school authorities have called Mrs.
Davis, tho 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 to Lord Will
lam Venables. Vernon, an English Lord
with large rent roll. Her mother,
Mrs. Francis Lawrence, was Garner,
and is the owner of several millions in
her own right. II is said that Miss
Lawrence will have a marriage portion
of $500, 900 given to her by her parents
on her wedding day.
A Mexican had become jealous of his
mistress, 4 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 delib-
erately proceeds 10 cut strips OF flesh
from various parts of her body and UNI
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
/ fiend hGd finished cutting of the end
I Of her tongue. The brute was arrested
and Jailed. His victim is dying.
Samuel d. DELPHI, prominent bust
ness man of Norristown, Pa, recently
| deceased, is reported to have been an
embezzler to the extent of s2s, 900 from
/ the funds of the William Penn Saving
/ Fund and Loan Association, OF which
! hs was secretary. Most OF the members
Of the association are women.
A party of Yale students is said to
nave captured police officer who was
endeayoring TO extinguish fire that
had been lighted on the campus IN hon
or of Professor Phelps appointment as
Minister to Great Britain, took ms nat'
coat belt. badge and revolver from hmm,
and handled him very severely into the
bargain.
In the twelve years that the late DIR.
w;,ov va. bishop of the Methodist
Church he travelled 10000 miles over
ne olJ and New World. ordained near
I ~ 800 deacons and 600 elders, wrote
Il 600 official letters and spoke nearly
every Sunday.
Three members Of the Sanborn fam
;Iv brother and two sisters. all 81
| whom are over four score years Of age
and now residing at Haverhill, N. a.,
wara .neyer married, never rode IN a
ra;Iroad ear. and have never had stove
- their house. The old fashioned TIN
baker. fire crane and hooks have always
been in use by thsm.