The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-08-27

now writes that the habits Of intemper.
ance did to some extent cloud the poets
early life, but not his later years. Poe's
constitution was such that he could not
become a dram drinker, and for four
years previous to his death he was per-
fectlY temperate. His death was caused
by i'll treatment and exposure suffered
from u party Of Baltimore roughs, who
caught him, cooped him up, drugged
him and voted him during an excited
election. In attending him during his
last illness DR.. Moran saw that his
patient gave no signs Of a debauch. He
refused q glass Of spirits the day before
he died.
The appearance of Mrs. Oscar Wilde
at a recent social gathering in London
is thus described: Estheticism cul-
minated in Mrs. Oscar Wilde's costume
Of q wollen stuff in dull reseda trim
med with pink, a kind of Kate Green
away dress, tied at the waist by a droop-
ing pink sash. Round the neck she
wore q wide Toby frill of two rows Of
ficelle lace with various colored beads
and a large pink bow fastening q bunch
of yellow marguerites; on her head q
small Tam o. Shanter cap of the same
greenish-grav material was the accom-
paniment to this eccentric costume.
Mrs. Helen T.. Capel of Pleasantown,
KS, has abandoned the newspaper bust
ness, after some years Of successful
management. In her yaledictory she
says: aAs the editor and business man
ager of a newspaper my business is
more with men than with women, and
my work, to be done successfully, must
be done as men do it. III / do not fol-
low the beaten path, the business must
suffer. If / do my work like a man, /
am made the subjects of such a continual
fusillade of malicious gossip that 1
choose to abandon q profitable business
rather than to bear it any longer"
James Knox Polk, a nephew OF the
late President Polk, who for many
years was a bachelor of independent
means living on a farm in Westport,
Conn, about three years ago married
q Swedish lady. Later he showed
signs of insanity, and until March last
had been some months in the insane
asylum at Hartford. He then returned
home for a short while, but the change
did not prove beneficial, and he was
taken back to the asylum. He stole
away from the institution, and was
found at Stratford. 1t was necessary
to use force and apply handouts to SCI
cure his return.
The statue to be erected to the
memory Of Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry has arrived at Newport. The
statue is of bronze. 1t pictures the
naval hero in q striking attitude. Heis
represented as he reached the deck 81
the Niagara, after his perilous trip in
small boat from the disabled flagship
Lawrence. The commodore is hatless,
his right arm is uplifted, his index finger
extended, showing clearly that he is in
the act of giving directions to those who
were about him. He wears a jacket
adorned with epaulets, his sword beng
buckled on, while his large pistol is
stuck in his belt. The statue will be
unveiled Sept. 10, the anniversary Of the
battle of Lake Erie.
The Boston Recorder tells this story
about a distinguished clergyman Of
that city who went out to a country
town the other day to lecture. He ar
rived early in the afternoon, and all the
town of course, spotted" him within
five minutes as a very great and very
sanity aian. He went into q drug
store, and, in tones that froze the young
blood of the clerk behind the coun-
ter, said: observation-disclosures
smoker" Eyes, SIR said the trem-
bling clerk; I'm sorry but I learned the
habit young and haven't been able to
quit it yet" "Then, " said the great
divine without the movement Of
muscle or the abatement of a shade Of
the awful solemnity of his voice, @can
you tell me where I can get a good
cigar?"
Ex-senator Chaffee made this remark
about General Grant: II see that q
scribbler in the World says that the
general cannot write, and that he oily
makes memoranda, which General
Adam Badeau fills ont for him. That
is a great mistake. Badeau does moth
ing of the kind. Everything General
Grant has prepared has either been
with his own pen or dictated to q steno-
grapher. / have read much Of it in his
own handwriting. He can put more
in a few words than most men. He
thinks a great deal. He is not a
classical writer by any means, but You
know what he means when he once
puts it down, without any trouble. All
his messages as President were pre-