The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-09
Personal Paragraphs.

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Charles Kellogg, a prominent Buffa.
II bridge builder, has just closed a con-.
troot for g. 600, 900 worth Of steel pipe
made according to = patent OF his own.
Nobody knows what he wants 1t for.
The emperor of Morocco, having sub
s,ribed for a newspaper, reads all the
oanortisements first. They tried to get
him to read the editorial page first,
h,t he remarked that he had been a
monarch too long not to know what
was interesting reading. d
Mr.. Aver, a wealthy grocer of Bos-
Ton. has built on the Back Bay section
# that city, a $3.50, 900 pile of granite,
tbe First Spiritual Temple"to be used
by the Splritualists'
The President has signed an order
Diminishing from the service Captain
George T. Olmstead, Jr., of the army.
who was tried and convicted by court
martial on charges of ~embezzlement
while on special duty in charge of mill
tary telegraph lines in Arizona.
The Prince and Princess of Wales will
he entertained in December by Lord
and Lady Dudley at Whitley Court, in
Worcestershire. Whitley cost Lord
Dudley 81, 500, 900, but has been almost
deserted for a long time. There has
not been O party there for five years,
and the Dudleys have not spent a week
there in that time.
"Do You know why that lady is so en-
thusiastic in her expressions of admira-
tion for the music of the future of the
great 'German master and prophet,
etc. and why she is so earnest in de-
claring that his language speaks to her
soul as no other could, and so on, and
on. and on ?" II don't know, unless it
is because she is fond of Wagner music"
mot at all it is simply because she is
fond of Wagner tongue"
The Contemporary Pulpit of Eng
land recently took a vote Of its readers
on the question as to who are the ten
greatest English speaking preachers,
and the following is announced as the
result of the vote: Canon Liddon, 296;
G. H. Sturgeon, 292; Joseph Parker,
218; Alexander Maclaren, 212; Arch
deacon Farrar, 2O6; Henry Ward
BeecAer, 1853; Bishop Magee, $50; Can
on Knox Little, 149; Bishop Boyd Oar.
penter, 1O1 and r. w. Dale, 100.
Not long ago a Scottish clergyman
reproved a member of his flock for being
drunk. "Gin it please ye," said Jem-
my, II dinna drink rs meikle rs yer
se." "Why, how is that" said the
minister. "Aweel, dinna ye aye take a
glass o whusky and water after din
ner?" why, yes, Jenny, sure | take
a glass of whisky after dinner to aid di-
gestionp' "And dinna We take a glass
o'toddy every NIGHT when we are gang
ing to bed" Eyes, to be sure, / just
take a little toddy every night to help
me to sleep. "Well" continued Jenny
that's just fourteen glasses a week, and
about sixty every month. ] only get
paid once a month, and then if I'd take
sixty glasses it wud max me dead drunk
for q week. Now, ye see, the only differ
ence is that We time it better than / do
The dying sayings Of celebrated men
possess a curious interest. Louis XIV,
remarked II thought dying had been
harder" DR.. VIM. Hunter said: "H I
had strength to hold q pen / would
write down how easy and pleasant a
thing it is to die" Vespasian and
Louis XVIII. both said: "a king
should die standing" The last words
OF Charlemagne, Columbus, Lady Jane
Grey and Tasso were: Lord, into Thy
hands / commend my spirit" Accord
Ing to Cicero, Augustus, after asking
now he had acted his part in this life,
ssid to those around: Give me your
plaudits," and died. Dsmonax, the
philosopher. according to Lucian, said
lou may 60 home, the show is over"
AS is well known, Rabelais said: "Let
down the curtain, the farce is over"
Goethe asked for more light, and Talma
said: "The worst is, I cannot see.p