The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-09-18
Personal aossip.

Personal Gossip.
Prof. LOOMS, of Yale, states that
with two exceptions the month of Feb
ruary, this year, was the coolest Feb.
ruary in that section for 100 years.
Parson Newman's successor in the
Madison Avenue Church, New York,
Rev. w. F. Price, Is only 20, but
weighs $50 pounds.
A Maryland man has twenty-five
Of his daughters living with him. II
he could give out the impression that
it is u female seminary, and that all
the young ladies are kept under lock
and key, he might work of some of his
surplus stock on some enthusiastic
but misguided young man. No young
man likes to visit place which hasn't
enough front gate facilities to 90
around unless there lisa necessity for u
little cover the garden wall" perform.
ance.
A colored clergyman who had been
put OIL trial before jury in Darien,
Ca, for some offence, was brought in
not guilty, the other day. The de-
fendant said: "Read that again."
"Not guilty." was repeated. With a
spring he bounded into the air, giving
vent to religious calculations. The
colored women who crowded the court
room, set up q hallelujah chorus, III
which the preacher Joined, and the
Judge had to sit still and let them
have it out.
A recent traveller in a Corsican
village says lie saw troop of young
girls carrying ON their heads jars con-
tanning five or six gallons OF water.
Before them marched their male rela
tivcs bearing flaming torches to light
the burden bearers on their way.
Hon. James Oliver, of the New York
assembly, has been before the public
through an encounter with Broad
way flower girl. The pleasant feature
of the engagement is the fact that she
struck out from the shoulder and
landed the aspiring statesman into
congenial gutter.
A surprised man is J. B. Ham, who
went to the New Orleans exposition to
care for Names interests. He writes
to the Lewiston Journal that rum
shops are plenty and teetotalars in
the minority, but in the whole six
months OF his residence there he had
not seen six drunken men within
the city's corporate limits, Mr..
Ham, who is u prohibitionist, does
not attempt to explain this singular
fact. He says: at may be in the
quantity or the quality of the bever-
age drunk, and it may be in the eli
mate" But he leaves the solution of
the problem to longer-headcd philos.
opher.
Sergeant Lewis Loffman, the Oldest
veteran of the United States army,
died at Niagra Falls recently. Hewas
lightweight years old, and some years
ago was retired on Il salary of ESQ per
month: lie fought ut Waterlo under
Napoleon and carried amedal present.
ed to him by that Emperor forgallant
conduct upon the field.
Glass drinking cups, having round
bottoms, have recently been found in
Anglo-Saxon graves. Such cups could
not be made to stand upright, and it
has been supposed they were designed
to cause the drinker to empty them at
once. This feature is said to havegiv.
ell rise to the word tumbler, which has
been applied to our drinking vessels,
though these do not possess the curl
Gus shape OF the ancient cups.-Tem.
perance Banner.
OF one of the navy chaplains the
Christian Advocate relates that hch has
been on leave now for something more
than two years. For the past six
months he has regularly supplied a
pulpit i'll u certain church., and has re-
Gently accepted Il call from that church
for one year. He makes no secret of
his distaste for work in the navy, and
has often said that he only wishes to
keep along for eight or nine years more,
when he hopes to be retired, and to be
able, in the mean time, to draw his
pay without the liability to be called
Oh duty. According to his own &C.
count he has not been ut sea for four
years, and has been OH leave most of
the time. He is a robust man, in the
enjoyment of excellent health. He
draws 81 900 a year, and does moth.
ing for it, while he paid S5OOor 5000
for preaching.
John Esten Cooke of Virginia has
made a searching investigation of the
Pocahontas matter, and heis satisfied,
from all the evidence to be had, that
Smith was captured by a party of IT,
dams in 1907 and carried to the In
dian capital on York River, where Pow
haitian ordered him to be slain: Poca-
hontas interfered to save him, She
took Smith head In her arms, SO that
twas impossible to beat out his brains
without hitting her. Powhatan con-
sented to spare the prisoner, and
treated him kindly. Afterward Smith
released some Indian prisoners, stat
ing that it was for the sake of Pocu-
hontas. He told his friends in James
town that Pocahontas had saved his
life. In q letter to Queen Anne hesaitl
that he would be guilty of the "dead.
ly poison of ingratitude'' if he forgot
the goodness of Pocahontas. In sew.
cfli ieCIciS III HitNc W UNls Slfi circuit
for his rescue from death. 1t was on
this account that Pocahontas was
fatteringly received at the English,
court. After her marriage to Role
she was baptized, and lived "civilly
and lovingly with her husband"
An Amusing Marriage Ceremony
Performed by a Negro.
From the Woodford (Ky.) Sun.
Thomas NJ. Field has written out
from memory a description of q color.
edwedding, under the old regime, which
he said, used to be related with gusto
by Major Herman Bowman: A tall
dignified and clerical dressed-lookina
negro tom Menzles), officiating, said,
i'll pompous tones: