The Columbus journal., 1885-01-14
PERSONAL AND lMPsRsoNAL

Sitting Ball has cleared $4,000 by
selling his autographs Caicdgo Inter
Ocean.
AT twcnty-ons years OF = A1rS-
ham LincoiE was WITHOUT trade. pro-
fession or manual skill of any kind.
Chicago Herald.
"A Boston young lady. cultured and
intellectual. of COURSE, received Il prop
osition of marriage printed Wit, u typo
writcr.-N. Y. Sun.
Stanford, the Caiifo-ria milliouairp,
has purchased a $1,000 residence in
New York. and will make his home
there. Frdncisco C,iH.
DIR. Emma L. Call has the honor of
being the first woman admitted to
membership in the Massachusetts, Med
zeal Society. Boston Journal.
MIR. Philip Armour. the Chicago
pork king. is credited with 4 fortune OF
$4,000 W, Or enough to buy up the
entire kingdom of Grcece.-N. Y. Star.
"A Parsee girl has ustonished her
race in India By bringing u suit for
breach of promise Of marriage. 1t is
the first episode of the kind known in
that land, and it has created q great
scandal.
The coming g~iantess is now devel-
Oping in q village in L.icestershire,
England. Though barely fourteen
years of age she is six feet five inches
in height, weighs two hundred and
iifty-twO pounds and has only just CON-
menced to grow.
-Orme Wilson and Carrie Astor
start out passably well on the matri-
mOnial sea. John Jacob Aston gives
them a Fifth avenue home to dwell in,
and their respective parents have
settled upon each a 100000 income
for life.-N. Y. 4aR.
-Tennyson fled from North Wales,
says the New York World, because he
was asked to preside at the National
Eisteddfod at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Todd, and he feared he would be COM
PEELED to pronounce both words on
taking the chair, so he took leave in
stead.
Mrs. Haley Rogers. a Boston
widow lady, after b~equcathing her
modest fortune to a few surviving rela-
tives, adds to her will: land 1 hereby
give and bequeath to the Home for
Aged COlOred Women in Boston nv
cloak and red flannel gown."-Boston
Globe.
"A curious case of imposture has
come to light. A man travelling in
New Mexico and other of the Terri
tories has claimed to be Dr.. Joseph
Ray. the author of Rays arithmetics
and algebras. DR.. Ray died in 1855,
and his only son died two years ago
Chicago Tribune.
"A correspondent of the London
Lancet SAYS that ne has practiced for
g ut years or steamers running be-
tN."rn Liverpool and American ports.
During It's time he has had charge of
fifty Thousand people. and the deaths
were less than n per one thousand.
Five Of these were suicides and the re-
mainder occurred mostly among chill
dren.
Reports from Ireland state that
the hotel keepers have never had such
a prosperous season. Little villages
on tie coast. that have hardly ever seen
a tourist, have become places of i'm
p%Ortance. and the railway companies
are placarding their newly discovered
charms with great vigor, and offering
facilities to those who arc willing to
test them.
The tune of '.John Browns Body"
is an old Methodist camp-meeting tune
and the words were adapted to it by a
Boston glee club in 1861. 1t was first
published at Charleston, lass. Cap
tain James Greenleaf, an organist OF
the Harvard Church, set the notes for
music, and a M%assachutts regiment
made them first noted by singing them
at Fort Warren in 1S61.-Chicdg0 Times.