The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-09-03
Personal Gossip.

Brig. Gen. Augur graduated from
West Point and was appointed second
lieutenant ON July /, 1S43.
Prince Edward of Wales has been
elevatedto hedegree Of faster Mason.
Pierre Lorillard's residence at New
bort is worth 100000, and he occu-
pies it two months during the year.
Mrs. Stuart of New York, widow oil
the sugar refiner Stuart, is in poor
health, and has fortune of 81 ,OOO,-
600 without a relative or heir in the
world.
Ex-Secretary Lincoln, who was thir-
ty-eight years old when he entered
President Garfield's cabinet, wore a
full, closely trimmed beard until few
weeks since, when he had it removed,
and he is now said not to look day
over twenty-five. He has re-entered
his former law partnership and old Of
fee in Chicago.
The expensive habits of the officers
of the British cavalry have reached a
point where none but the rich can live
comfortably in regiment, and the
consequence is, the British cavalry is
getting short of officers. Luxury has
been disintegrating all branches OF
society and even limbering the claws
of the British lion of late years.
Whittier remained a bachelor on
account of a love disappointment in
his youth.
Erastus Brooks says: 81 have seen
12O daily newspapers established in
this city, and of these but six are now
in existence. / have calculated that
the amount of money expended and
sunk in that time in newspaper enter
prises is $25, 100000, and that in
daily newspapers alone"
DR.. Alice B. Stockton says that I'M
less woman has tried loose clothing
she cannot conceive how much she
gains in health and strength by dress
that gives perfect freedom to breathe.
"Sixteen thicknesses of CLOTH" she
says, sis no unusual number to be
found tightly fastened about a lady's
waist" Concerning this matter she
once heard a Chinese woman exclaim:
Christian women sqeeze Gods life. !"
The Rev. DR.. Charles A. Briggs, pro-
lessor of Hebrew in the Union Theo-
logical Seminary, recently declared by
The Interior to be the most accom-
plished Biblical scholar of this coun-
try, has come out strongly against the
Revised Version of the Old Testament.
He holds that the revisors made q
great mistake in accepting as the basis
of their work the same Massoretic He
brew text that was used by the au-
thors of King James version, and he
concludes that in a short time the new
version will need revising.
Horatio Seymour sits in chair that
belonged to Daniel Webster, looks out
of window which was once in Faneul
Hall, and warns his feet at fireplace
of tiles taken from the house of John
Jay.
Professor Whitney ofYale College is
referred to by the Athenaum, int re-
cent review of his article on "Phil-
ology," in the Encyclopedias Britain
ica," as certainly the highest living
authority onthe science OF language in
general"
The richest bootblack in America is
Patrick Malloy, of Saratoga. He
owns two houses and has a fat bank
account. He seems unable to explain
how he got rich in any other way than
by saying that he and another boy
started out together, and while the
other boy invested in horse, he put
his money in the bank. Once Bos-
ton swell came to him to get his shoes
polished, and said, as he dropped
dime in the old mans hand: '"That
is the last cent I've got. I've been bet
ting and have lost every dollar l
had. Now l must walk back to Bos-
ton" The bootblack took him to a
railroad ticket Office, bought a ticket
to Boston and gave that and two dols
lars to him. The grateful gambler re-
paid him with heavy interest when his
luck returned.
The attitude of the Roman Catholic
Bishop of Louisville, as regards the
holding of night picnics, is widely COM
mended. AS the ecclesiastical head of
the diocese he directs the attention of
Catholics to the grave scandals that
picnics held at night, and
uses every official means in his power
to prevent them. He does not 60 SO
far as to say that such gathering shall
not be held, as that would be an I'M
warranted interference with individual
rights, nor does he threaten to excom-
municate those who disobey his in
junction, but he gives notice that where
such picnics are held for charitable
or church purposes, all who are active
ly engaged therein shall be cut off from
holding any office OF trust in the con-
and pastors and trustees
are prohibited from receiving the pro-
ceeds of such picnics for any purpose
connected with the church.