Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-03-12
Personal Gossip.

PERSONAL Gossip.
h Lord Wolseley has nearly completed
his life OF the duke Of Marlboro ugh. d.
The 500 Lords Of England have an
average income Of $40, 900 each, and
their gross income is about $75, OOO,-
900. /: 81 szs$ .1.5 3Ss
Viola Allen, who is to support Sal
VIM during his coming tour, IS only
nineteen years old, the youngest Lead
ing lady on the stage. ., .5 d 4.
The youngest Mayor in the United
States, Mayor Aaron, of Van Buren,,
Ark, twenty zone years Of age, recently
quarreled about q woman with q man
named Taylor, and shot him to death.
Mayor Hardy, of Lincoln, Neb., has
incurred the enmity of the liquor men
by his radical stand on the temper
ance question. The other day coffin.
was left at his door as warning. He
promptly sold it for $l3, and turned
the money into the treasury of the To-
cal temperance society. ~ss
Mr.. Larkin Leonard, Gold Mine
Township, N. c., always lived in one
place, wore pair Of shoes thirteen
years, used the same plow-l lines nine
teen years, never saw q railroad or
bought pound of meat, -four or corn,
or snapped horses, or was out ofhon-
ey, and had good teeth and read with
out spectacles up to the day OF his re-
cent death at the age OF over eighty
one.
DIR. Neyron, Professor OF Anatomy
in Notre Dame University, Ind, is the
nestor OF physicians in this country.
He is 81 years of age, and was sur
geon in N&poleon's army during the
Russian campaign and at Waterloo.
After the restoration he became a
priest, and was an early missionary
II the Northwest. He is still able to
conduct his classes, and few men of
~, 1t is said, are so strong and active.
General Schenck grows old. II saw
him recently" says one writing from
Washington; che seemed thick, griz-
lied, grimjawed old man Of seventy.
Schenck Was always picturesquely un-
couth even in his prime. His hay-col-
ored hair, as why as a Scotch terriers;
his small, hafclosed, deep-set eyes
and dubious nose made him an I'M
couth figure at best. He is only REM
lnlscence now, and the fire of youth
has gone out of the once sturdy
frame. Old age has added seams and
wrinkles to his homely features, and
given him no grace to compensate for
them"
The most striking feature of the
Magazine of American History for o.
tober is General Grants autograph
letter in facsimile, covering SIX pages.
1t was written in 1883, on the death
Of Alexander H. Stephens, and is now
published for the first time. It was
addressed to Rev. Henry Whitney
Cleveland, formerly a colonel in the
confederate service, who contributes,
with the Letters an intensely interest
lngpaper on General Grants Military
Abilities arguing that the south UNI
derrated General Grant from the first,
and that both The north and the south
underrate his generalship even now.
At Midd]esborough, Eng, the other
day, DR.. Strathern appeared as wit
ness at Petty Sessions, but declined
to take an oath on the ground "that
it was q very serious thing to kiss
book which was handled by all kinds
OF people" After some argument,
the doctor offered, by way of com
promise, to kiss the book if g. clean
sheet OF paper were placed over the
cover. The bench declined to accede
to this or to allow the doctor to make
an affirmation, and eventually he con-
sented, under protest, to run the
risk of catching disease"
A Georgia couple were married Gun
der fire. as it were, the other day.
While W. H. Willis, a substantial
young farmer OF Pike county, was
stealing Miss Jones from her home for
the purpose OF marrying her he was
discovered by the lady's brothers.
The clipping couple succeeding in reach
ing waiting carriage, but they were
no sooner on their way than they
were pursued by volleys of buckshot
from the enraged young men. Several
OF the shot perforated the lady's bon
net. The lovers succeeded in reaching
a clergyman and being married just
before the pursuers burst in.
A correspondent of a. Boston news
paper says that Mr.. Nast's wife is the
original of Columbia, the tall, beauti-
ful woman with the classic face who
has been SO prominent in the allegor-
ical pictures during and since the war.
These pictures gave Mast his national
lame. In beauty of conception and
execution they have never been excel.
ed, and are chapters of the history of
the Nations mind-photographed
moods, as it were. Columbia, let it be
noticed, is altogether different figure
from the Goddess of Liberty. She is
Nast's special creation in the world of
art.
His Occupation.