The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1885-12-10
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PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

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w. s. Gilbert, Mr.. Sullivan's coll
aborer, is to pass the winter in Egypt.
king Theebaw is a handsome young
fellow of twenty-six. -., I'D, j.
Col. j. Annoy Knox, of Teas
SitlingS, has admitted that he is the
author Of beautiful Snow"
George w. Cable, the novelist,
has become q Sunday-school teacher
at his new home in Northampton,
Mass. 80 g.. 49,. AR. 81
Edwin Booth was fifty-two years
old on November, GOA nd celebrated
the anniversary in q quiet way in Bal
timore. 'a&a
DR.. Albert Thompson, young
Irish physician, has been presented
with the Abel medal for removing
poison in case of diphthcria by suck
ing it away. -. st.
-Lr. Alvarez, the famous French
homGopathist, bnt who believes in big
doses in the way of bills, sued for
$l25,000 for medical attendance on a
600, though he had refused $4,000 toA
compromise the matter.
"A colorcd citizen of Prince Edward
county, Virginia, ascribcs Gen. Lees
election to the fact that he carried
charms. lie says he "sced 'em."
When asked what the charms were, he
said, the left hind foot of graveyard
rabbit, a vial of stumpwater, and :
coon bone toothpick. nf..,m
Frank Hatton, Assistant Postmas-
ter-General, says it makes him sick to
hear the word "reformer," and tells
the reason why. thus: "Thc men who
called themselves reformers used to
come up and camp out in the corridors
of the Postofiice Department while
they demanded offices for their rela-
tives and even for their wives rela-
tives."
.-Schmfcr, the billiardist, when
playing wears full evening dress. He
has fine diamond stud in his shirt.
Maurice VignauX also wears q full
dress suit. His diamond stud is worn
in the shirt-collar. SchWfcr carries
his cues in green sack, and piece
of chalk in one Of his vest pockets.
Vignaux carries his jointed stick in q
leather case.
jay Gould's father, q staid, honest
old farmer in Delaware county, New
York, had very little faith in his sou's
capacity to get on, because he was not
fond of chopping, ploughing, sowing.
or reaping. When the lad decided t
quit his rural home, the elder Gould,
it is said, handed him half q dollar,
and told him he would certainly 90 to-
the devil. And he is still going there.
Judge Kelley says that his present
good health is largely due to his mas
terry Of the tobacco habit. He burned
the weed five and fifty years and he
actually has slept with the Quid in his
mouth. Now he neither touches nor
tastes the stuff and the blood feels
much better in his veins than when
the globulcs bore with them burden
of nicotine.
Sir Noel Patton has at present on
his easel, far advanced toward COM
plction, picture for Queen Victoria,
which deserves some notice ON account
of the purpose for which it is designed
as well as for its own sake. The pic
turo is to be the centrepiecc in the
private oratory at Osborne. Its sub
jcct is Christ in the Garden finding the
three Disciples asleep, and its proper
title is "Vigilate ct Crate" 1t is to
be placed over the prayer desk, be-
tween two other pictures by the same
artist, rcplicas of larger works, cnti-
tied respectively, "rhe Good Shep-
herd" and "The Man Of Sorrows"
The three pictures thus form in effect
q trirtych, though they will not be
aflectually joined. ..