The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07
Personal Paragraphs.

50, 900 per night for her opera season
in Europe. In this country she got
So, 900 night, and heldh her nose 5000
feet above timber-line because the
amount was so paltry.
Emperor William is eighty-eIght
years of age; Bismarck is seventy-one,
Won Moltke will be e~ighty-fve in Octo.
Der. OF the historic group at Yer
sailles in 1871, when the Empire was
proclaimed, the Crown Prince is the
only one that seems to have any con-
siderable lease on life.
, Richard Short, who tried to assas-
sinate Captain Phelan, in O'Donovan
Rossa's New York Office, was private
ly married to Kate Deasy, a sister OF
one. of the men hung for the slaughter
of Cavendish and Burke in Dublin.
Short'stir first wife died only afewmonths
ago in Cork.
Railroad president-'Don't you
think that rather exorbitant, Mr..
Badger-$11,OO O for the loss of your
wife and her diamonds in the acct.
dent?" Mr.. Badger Indignantly
"Exorbitant? Well, I should say not.
l value,the diamonds alone at $10,.
900.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen D. Travis will
long remember Shrub Oak, q few miles
from Peekskill, because they passed
their wedding night there in a carriage
under the horseshed of q church, hav.
ing been locked in the yard by the
sexton after their marriage. All their
shouts for relief were unavailing and
they resigned themselves to the sitna.
ton. Travis is 20 years old and his
wife is Is. Both live III Peekskill.
In Naples, Ontario county, Super.
visor Irving Lyons, while restrainingh his
brother Simon, a lunatic, from doing
injury to himself or others, heldhim SO
long by thethroat that he was checked
to death, The brother was making
most violent resistance and would,
without doubt, have killed him if he
could. A coroner's jury has exonerat-
ed the Supervisor, who IS overcome
with sorrow.
. Miss Minnie H. Vorhis, of Spencer,
N. Y, received the Hall prize essay at
Elmira College and graduated in a
halo of glory. The subject of her es.
say was "The future of the Western
Man" Many people who read it in
Scribner's Magazine five years age
thought it was good then. 1t vas
stolen by Miss Vorhis almost bodily,
By the will of the late Henry Sing
master of Stroudsburg, Pa, who died
recently at an advanced age, his estate
which is estimated at between $160,
600 and 100000, is to be sola after
the death of his wife and divided into
two equal shares. One share goes to
the Lutheran Theological Seminary o.
Philadelphia, and the other to the
Lutheran Theological Seminary al
Gettysburg.
Rt. Hon. John Bright, the English
statesman, isagain FRUSTRATED with i'll
ness similar to that which compelled
his retlrrment from the Cabinet II
1870. He is IA years old, and his
friends fear that his constitution Ii
breaking, His physicians have order
ed that he shall take a prolonged resi-
from public and private affairs.
An old lady over s0years ofage, ant
who was once a great beauty, died re
Gently in Paris, leavingaftcr her adiary
in which she endeavors to show upth,
alleged vanity of women. From th,
age of 20 to 80 she spent three hours {
day in her toilet, which foots up fol
the period ! year, 81 days and 8 hour,
employed in dressing her hair, pow
dering her cheeks and paintinghe lips
From SO to so the toilet labor'
amounted to five hours a day, the ex
ira hours being consecratedto thee %
aring of the tracks OF time, includin,
the obliteration OF crows feetando 9th
er necessary filling in and grading
Time, A years and 40 days. After so
her efforts had to be redoubled. tt
the last she resisted the effects oftime