The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-01
Personal Matters.

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messed in Westminster Abbey. Acrowd
of both sexes numbering more than
500 persons, made q pilgrimage to the
tomb of Edward the Confessor, and
there engaged for some time inprayer.
Edward died in 1865. He was the last
but one of the Saxon Kings of Eng.
land.
Miss Catharine l.. Wolfe's latest
gift to the Protestant Episcopal
Church is $4,000, for the erection oil
a clergy-house on the ground of the
General Theological Seminary in New
York.
The Omaha Bee says that at the
close of the war Major Benteen de
clined an appointment to be Major in
the Ninth (colored) Regiment, saying
he would rather be a Captain in q
white regin ent, and he was according
ly made a Captain in the Seventh,
Twelve years later he was promoted
to the very Maiorship he had declined
before, but which he then accepted.
When Rubinstein was in this country
Gosh Billings" was introduced to him
and the pianist in conversation pres.
emily endeavoreG to impress upon the
Yankee an idea of his high family
rank. "Indeed," he said, IL have as.
certained that my ancestors were
prominent men in the Crusades, and
II of them accompanied the Emperor
Barbarossa.' con the piano, | sup.
pose" said Josh.
Lord Teignmough, who died in Eng
land recently, in his ninetieth year.
could remember seeing Percevai, Can.
ming and Sheridan, all in the house OF
commons together. He was q man oil
much culture, greatly interested ir
philanthropic movements and very
religious, He lived for many years in
Edinburgh. but possessed a large estate
in the North Riding of Yorkshire and
Langton hall.
A Boston paper makes merry over
the behavior of a "Westerner" who
was invited to a fashionable wedding
in that city. On being at the dinner
table he was urged by the host to take
q croquette. The "Westerner" took
one on his fork, inspected it critically,
tasted it, and exclaimed, "Goshl
Hashl" This incident seems very
funny to the Boston mind, but wait.
ing world would like to be informed
before it laughs what croquettei is fit
isn't hash. And if hash at a wedding
feast, then why not "gosh?"
A Harvard College Professor, who is
famous for his beautiful way of speak
ing English, said to a class OF Sopho.
mores one Saturday: Tomorrow
evening you will hear Canon Farral
lecture in Appleton Chapel. You will
notice that he drops his 'g's' and says
COMM 'goin',' and so on. But / beg
you not to think that this is the thing
to do, don't initiate him in that"
Bismarck pays $3.50 income tax,
the Count Won Hatfield $1,291, and
the other German Minister smaller
sums, down to Postmaster General
DIR. Won Stephan, who only pays
$214. These statesmen are quite
overshadowed in this particular by
the kings of trade, such as Privy
Councillor Of Commerce Won Bleichro.
der, WHO pays $16,5 500, and Herr Won
Hanseman, who pays 10000.
A hitherto unknown portrait Of
Shakespeare has just been discovered
in a shop near the Haymarket in
London. 1t has been for many years
In the possession of q family at Pad
dington, by the last of whom it was
~Dequeathed to the present owner. At
the back OF the panel on which it is
painted are several explanatorycoup-
let's, dated nearly $50 years ago.
The portrait has been photographed.
Two married sisters, one living at
Newburg, N. Y, and the other in Mich
igan, recently both gave birth to a
daughter on the same day. Each in.
tended to surprise the other, and kept
the coming event q secret. The same
day the children were born they were
each named by the mothers, and a
letter was sent from each family to
the other, giving an account of the
joyful event and the name ofthe child.
The letters crossed each other on the
route, and were received about the
same time by each family. Strange
to say, each mother had given her
daughter the same name.
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