New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-15

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swers we'll"
Personal Paragraphs.
Sam Jones the evangelist, saysa ger
man is nothing but hugging set to
music"
The Bayard family of Delaware is
descended from Anna Bayard, sister
Of Peter Stuyvesant, Governor Of
New Amsterdam. Thomas Francis
Bayard's grandfather, James Ashton
Bayard, was a member of Congress
from Delaware His son, likewise
James Ashton Bayard, was United
States Senator from Delaware from
March 4, 1851, to March 5, 1850
Thomas F. Bayard succeeded his IA
ther in the Senate in the same year.
A considerable sensation has been
excited in Vienna society" by the an
nouncement of the bethrothal OF Prince
Lichtenstein to the daughter OF mer.
chant in the city, such marriage be-
ing regarded as a mesalliance by the
austerepurists of the Court Of Austria
This Prince was formerly we'll known
in London, and his first wife was Miss
Fox, the adopted daughter OF Lady
Holland.
Rev. NJ. ]. Cramer, late United
States minister to Denmark and
Switzerland, and who has just been
elected professor of systematic the
ology in the University of Boston,
speaks the German, French, Italian,
Spanish and Danish languages huently,
and ranks high as a Hebrew, Latin and
Greek scholar. He studied at Leipzig.
A Lewiston physician, says the Lew
iston (Me.) Journal, relates a case in
his own family Of the possession Of
peculiar mark from one generation to
another His father, when quite
young, was one day bitten by a
vicious horse-the horses teethclosing
over his ear lobe and taking out a
small piece OF the upper part. The
mark OF the wounded ear skipped one
generation and has appeared in the
Lewiston physicians son, there being
on the little fellows ear the plain
marking OF the ear that showed years
ago upon his grandfather.
The first person born in the White
House, and perhaps the only one born
there, is now candidate for office in
Washington. Mrs Mary e. Wilcox
was daughter Of Andrew j.. Donald
son, the adopted son of General Jack
son. Donaldson was private secreta-
ny to Jackson during his term as Presi-
dent and resided there with his family,
Mrs. Donaldson being lady OF the
house in the absence of the presidents
wife. 1t was during Mr. and Mrs. Don
aldson's time that, their daughter
Mary was born. This child of the
White House married in the course of
time, becoming Mrs. Wilcox.
Says the Bainbridge, Ga, Democrat:
There is a negro woman now living
within five miles Of this city, who, we
are informed by good authority, is the
mother Of forty-two children and who
does not look to be a day over forty
years old. The name of this remark
able female is Jane Gatwell, and was,
up to the time OF death, the wife OF
old Charley Gatwell, the ferryman for
Col. T.. G. Arnett in the days of lang
syne. Old Jane is yet hale and vigor-
GUS, and tips the beam at about 200
pounds. Her youngest child is now
the mother of children herself. Old
Jane was a very valuable negro, when
negroes were negroes, having, during
her bondage, presented her owner with
twin children on fourteen occasions.
According to the statistics of Mr..
Spofford, librarian of congress, there
are still on the pension roll some three
thousand survivors OF the war Of 1912.
These veterans must be nearly cen
tenarians, and the survival OF so many
of them gives another proof ofthesan-
ative and conservative results of be-
ing registered on the pension list.
A Pittsburg Bible peddler has been
keeping some statistics, and says: eff
the man of the house is to be believed
in all cases, this country is in a bad
way. Out of 1000 men I have ap-
preached, only $50 signified that they
owned a Bible, 42O said they didn't
want any, $50 said they didn't have
any use for one, 125 ordered me away
without hearing what I had to offer,
and 25 of these made some little re-
mark about setting the dog on me, or
kicking me into the middle of the
street, or some other little pleasantly
so familiar to book agents ear.
Seventeen OF these tried it on, ofwhich
about dozen got left. The other IS
either signified their willingness to look
at the book or their readiness o,buy.
How many Bibles did ! sell out Of the
l,OOO?' Oh, about 700, l think
Despite the heroic efforts OF the Ger
man students, England still retains
her reputation as the greatest beer