Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-08

And sudden at my feet mark
A daffodil that lights the dark
Joy, Joy, tits here, the spring, the spring!
PERSONAL.
HUMPHREY MOORE, the successful
American artist in Paris, is deaf and
dumb. He recently sold two pictures
for SIS, 900. ..sss is is asssys>sss*s;sse: -
!. MRS. J. C. AVER OF. New York, has
rented the villa at Newport built by
Charlotte Cushman, who hoped to
end her days there. ss..ss : >..s:ss
THE gypsy violinist and composer,
RACE Pail, who died recently, had four
wives and thirty -four children. Nearly
10, 900 people attended his funeral.
UNITED STATES SENATOR STANFORD,
of California. is much annoyed by the
reports of his belief in Spiritualistic
mediums. He declares that there is
no truth in them.
RICHARD WOODWARD, a London
banker, is soon to marry Miss Kate
Hastings, of New York, a daughter of
the late Hugh Hastings, of the Com
mercial Advertiser.
LOUIS KossUTH, the Hungarian pat
riot and orator, who is now in Turin,
has within the last few months gained
much in health and spirits. Kossuth
is SO years old.
DIR. PEABODY, OF Boston, now 80,
astonished his friends last week by
lecturing at Lowell, attending a party,
and getting back to a party in Cam
hr11uo Tho mo oyoninO
"CAMP MEETING" JOHN ALLEN, now
80 years old, said the other day:
"Fifty-fve years ago l throwed out
tobacco and haven't touched a parti-
Gle as big as a mouse's ear SINCE"
The bust of Robert Burns in marble
by Sir John Steel to be placed in
Westminster abbey is finished. 1t is
the outcome of shilling subscription
among Scotchmen in all parts of the
world.
A JOURNALISTS organization, known
as the "Gridiron Club" has been
recently formed in Washington, with
Ben: Perley Poore as president and
Charles II. Murray as secretary and
treasurer.
PosTMAsTER-G GENERAL Villas nameis
pronounced Villas, with the ri" short
as in will, while the secretary of states
name is properly pronounced By-ard,
and not Ba-ard, as some of the name
prefer to have it.
MRS. GEN. SHERlDAN's favorite pict-
ure rests on an easel in her parlor. 1t
shows q long stretch of dusty road,
and single horseman riding for life.
1t is entitled: "From Winchester,
Twenty Miles Away"
EX-SENATOR GEORGE S. Boutwell,,
of Massachusetts, has taken up the
thread of the discourse of Lincoln, so
suddenly broken by Mr.. Colfax's
death, and is lecturing upon the martyr
in New England towns.
MRS. POWERS has presented to
Emanuel Reformed Episcopal Church,
of Philadelphia, the deeds and insur-
ance policies, aggregating $35, 900,
which her late husband, Thomas II.
Powers, held against the church.
The Rev. DR.. Storrs, of Brooklyn,
has made it rule for years not to an
nounce from his pulpit public meetings
to which an admission fee is charged.
It is only at extreme rare intervals
that he departs from this custom.
Mr.. G. w. CARLETON, the New York
publisher, has snatched the laurels
from Joe Mulhatten's brow. In
private letter, some time ago, he says
an entire family was frozen to death
while picking strawberries near st.
Augustine, Fla.
CRAUK, the sculptor, who has been
chosen by Edmond About's family to
design a monument to the academi-
clans memory, was one of About's
Oldest and closest friends, and lived
with him for many years at Schlitten-
bach.
LUTHER's hitherto unpublished
documentary on the Minor Prophets"
will soon be edited by DR.. Linke from
two recently discovered MSS. and be
added to the Erlangen-Frankfurt edi-
ton of the great reformer's complete
works.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has been in the En-
eish House OF Commons for fifty-three
Years, and was first elected when 20
Years old. His leadership virtually
dates from l845, when he became
colonial secretary in the Ministry OF
Sir Robert Peel.
BISHOP WORDSWORTH has refused to
accept the retiring pension of FL ,5OOa
year, to which he became entitled on
resigning the See Of Lincoln, Eng; and
he also declined the offer OF Riseholme
Palace as O. residence during the re-
mainder Of his life.
THE Boston Beacon says: miss
Maria J. c. Beckett and Miss Bertha
Won Hillern, artists and inseparable
friends, make it q point to attend
mass every morning, very often before
daybreak. Miss Beckett is q convert
to Catholicism, Miss Won Hillern ls O.
born Catholic.
THE Princess Friedrich Won Hohen-
zollern has revived the use OF crino-
lines. She did so, with several ladies'
of her suite, at Berlin court ball.
But fashions do not come from Ger
many. One OF King Cetywayo's staff
described the hoop-skirt as IAN iron
bird cage for English women's legs"
| He Got 1t.
from the Detroit Free Press.J
"Boss," he whispered, as he leaned
| over the counter, ode ole woman
| wants some tea mighty bad, an l
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