The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-09
Personal Paragraphs

captain James |. Waddell, who
was the commander OF the peha,
yateer Shenandoah, drrino tba pt''
died at Annapolis, Md. VAT
Senator Philetus Sawyer, Of III.
consin, is the second Oldest menu.
OF the United States Senate. Ho;s 4
years OF age. Mr.. Sawyer has sar,: y
four years in the State Legislat,s0Aa
two years as Mayor of Oshkosb -
years In the House of Representat;u,saaa
and over four years in the Senate
Washington was born Feornarv ],
TOLD style), 1882. On the chance s
the new style OF reckoning, eleven dom.
were added, making the annivaraa ss
OF his birth occur on the ped. Rnss;s
still reckons by the old style. s9.a
Mrs. Elizabeth E. G. Emerson !,
Rochester, N. Y, lived in most sonara
surroundings and died a few DAYS a.o
when it was discovered that She istt
property worth $780, 600, and ii
queathed $50, 000t to the Presbvtsr;sr
benevolent societies of the place.
The New York Worlds Washinpto0
special says: Congressman Franz
Hiscock, of Syracuse, intends To IL
out-and-out candidate for the IInitad
States Senate before the New YorL
Legislature, which elects next Wintar
He will be q formidable candidate
against Warner Miller"
DR.. S. G. Howe was found once bv
Francis Bird with his feet swathed i
fannels and extended upon a chan.
Calling the next day and finding him
in like position he said: "Howe' what
is the natter" 81 have the CONT
said Howe. "You have thegout, such
a temperance man as your sa.Yes.N
said the great philanthropist, yves,
Bird, my ancestors drank wine and
must foot the bills"
Speaking of the Dempsey-La Blanche
prize fight, Judge Dykman, in the SD.
preme Court at White Plains, N. ".
said: "Those men must be punished.
The district attorney must pursue ev.
cry man connected withthe affair. We
cannot have such brutal scenes enact
ed III our county without bringing the
violators of the law to justice, 1t is
an outrage on hecommunity for such
an affair to occur, especially or Sun
day morning"
OF Mr.. Briggs, who was a member Of
the last parliament, but was not re-
elected, it is told that his one great
speech was made in opposition to the
Napoleon memorial III Westminster
Abbey. He came in that night in his
evening dress, and waxed eloquent
over his subject. 'Is there not, he
demanded, ''some eminent English
man who might more fifty take q
place in the national abbey?" Where
upon Briggs! Briggs" roared the
house with one voice, and the speech
was ended.
The sisters SO we'll known over in
America as Victoria Woodruff and
Jennie G. Clafin have fallen on their
feet. Mrs. Woodruff made a stroke
when she became Mrs Martin, the wife
of the head of the firm OF Martin 4 Co,
of Lombard street, and Miss Tennle
was much envied when she became the
wife OF Francis Cook OF Doughty House,
Richmond. The queen has conferred
on Tennie's husband a baronetage:
Sir Francis Cook, baronet, is the head
of the firm of Cook, Son IL Co., OF ".
Paups Churchyard, besides bearingthe
title of Visconte de Montserratt, con
ferred on him by the king OF Portugal.
OF an electric boy" on exhibition
in Edinburg lately, o gentleman VINO
closely examined him thus writes 20
the Electrician: 81 had the boy strip
ped naked. While thus naked ne
walked in my presence, and also sat
on a wooden seat with his feet on tne
ground. In every position IN when !
tried him Hound electricity proceeoeu
freely from his body when toucneais
with one finger. The electricity came
with the greatest freedom from I,c
upper half of his body, and especialiy
from his tongue"