Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-09-04
Personal Gossip.

Personal Gossip.
Brig. Gen. Augur graduated from.
West Point and was appointed second
lieutenant on, July 1, 1913.
Prince Edward Of Wales has been
elevated to the degree of Master Mason.
Pierre Lorillard's residence at New
port is worth 100000, and he occu-
pies it two months during The year.
Mrs. Stuart of New York, widow OF
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
tull, closely trimmed beard until g. 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 d 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.
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, Els no unusual number to be
found tightly fastened about 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 revlsOrs made a.
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 sversion, and ne
concludes that in a short time the new
version will need revising.
Horatio Seymour sits in a chair that
belonged to Daniel Webster, looks out
of a 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 Athenseum, in re-
cent review OF his article on "Phil-
ology," in the Encyclopaedia Brit tan
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, ne put
his money in the bank. Once Bos-
ton swell came to him to get his shoes
polished, and said, as he dropped a
dime in the old mans hand: '"That
is the last cent I've got. I've been bet
ting and have lost every dollar |
had Now I must walk back to Bos-
tom" The bootblack took him to a
railroad ticket office, bought a ticket
to Boston and gave that and two dol
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
accompany picnics held at night, and
uses every official means in his power
to prevent them. He does not go so
far as to say that such gathering shall
not be held, as that would be an un-
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 picnies are held for charitable
or church purposes, allwho are active
ly engaged therein shall be cut off from
holding any office of trust in the con-
gregation, and pastors and trustees
are prohibited from receiving the pro-
ceeds of such picnics for any purpose
connected with the church.