Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-24
Personalities.

Some idea OF the extent of Queen Vic
toria's private correspondence may be
gathered, it is stated, from the fact
that the account for kilograms des-
patched on her private affairs alone
during her stay at AK and Darmstaelt
amounted to 1856. F4
The death is announced OF Rev. II.
A. Stern, D. D., at the age of sixty flour.
Mr.. Stern, who had beenfor more than
forty years missionary among the
Jews, and was one Of the Abysslnlan
captives, who, after years fprotracted
and cruel Imprisonment, was delivered
by Lord Napier, of Magdala, in the year
1868. ~.
Marriage on the installment plan is
an ingenious scheme, for the invention
OF which a Massachusetts town claims
the honor. A Weymouth couple that
didn't have enough money for thepar-
sons fee agreed to pay installments OF
81 week for five weeks. Under this
agreement the knot was tied.
A country correspondent writes Of
how the average farmer spends the
summer Sabbath. The good man
walks out after breakfast, looks over
the stock and his broad acres, and
then comes in and lands himself on the
couch with the caution to his wife tc
"keep the children quiet while he
sleeps"
Mr.. Hamilton Cole, the well-known
New York Lawyer, who bought a copy
of the Gutenberg Bible in 1884 at the
Brinley sale for IS, 900, sold itrecent.
ly for $4,000. g..
A main named Bowen died in Brook.
Ign thirty-two years ago, leaving al
estate valued at 81, 500 900, to be di.
Vided between three heirs'by two trus.
tees. It has been in the courts ever
since, and now all of the heirs, two of
the lawyers and one of the trustees
are dead, the surviving trustee being
more than ninety years ofage. An Eng
lish Chancery Court could hardly have
done better.
B. P. Cheney, of Boston, who will
present statue OF Daniel Webster to
the state OF New Hampshire, has been
consulting the trustees, and the foun-
datlOn work will soon be commenced.
The statue will cost $4,000 and the
base 81 900, all OF which will be given
by Mr., Cheney.
The poet Whittier once lent a volume
of Plato to one OF the neighboring
farmers, and when the book was re-
turned asked: "\Nell, friend, how did
thee like Plato?" "First-rate," said
the farmer; II see he's got some Of my
idees."
Captain Ephraim D. Ellsworth and
wife, the parents of Colonel f. E. Ellis.
worth, who lost his life in that famous
staircase at Alexandria, at the out.
break Of the war, are living at Mechan-
| icsville, n. Y. in q comfortable little
cottage, adorned with numerous me-
mentoes sacred to the memory of their
son, whose monument can be seen from
one OF the windows.
The Russian soldier in the field is o.
man OF many virtues. At home in
peace, indeed, he has but one vice to
speak of. He will get drunk when he
can, and keep drunk as long as hecan.
He is docile by nature. and he obeys
his officer, whom, indeed, he addresses
as ''little father" as if he were child
Heis contented in hardship, heat takes
no effect on him, and he has become
well Injured to cold. His weakest
point in campaigning is his suscepti.
bility to honesickness, of which NAL.
ady thousands OF soldiers actually died
Will: the Russian army was lying be.
fore Constantinople waiting for the
ratification of the treaty of Berlin.
The versatile Ellen Terry, the famous
English actress, first married Mr..
Watts, the artist That gentleman:
having obtained q divorce: was sue
ceeded by Mr.. Wardell. Not satisfied
with her second choice, Miss Terry di.
vorced him, and setting her affections
upon Charles Kelly, became his wife.
Incompatibility soon separated them:
and now death by the removal OF Mr..
Kelly, has severed all entanglng al.
liances. The London papers are say
ing that Mr.. Irving will marry Miss
Terry now that she is free again. He
will prove himself a. venturesome man
if he does.