Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-12-17
PERSONAL AND =:.MPERSDrena-

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Mrs.z Sudden Rich is the name saf a.
lady who resides in Boston. e. .
. Mrs. Sarah West, who Beoeafag
died in New Washington, Ind, sagea
ninety-nine years, was never fifty miles
from her home, where she was No1n
and died. s ,~@ :. |
Miss Kitty Austin, eighty three
years old, stepped over from her home
in Clarksburgh, Md, to Rockville to
call on some friends. These neuages
are just fourteen miles apart, y sss
Mr.. Benoni Austin, of North
Woodstock, Conn, ninety-tive gears
old. stands at the head Of five genera
tons, having a living son, grandson,
great and great-great grands0ns. =.
Mercer, buried in Philadelphia thirty
eight years ago, it was found to be
petrified, The body weighed one
thousand pounds in its petrifed state.
Uncle Billy Day, Of LONDON, Ky,
who is over eighty-one years old, she
father Of thirteen children, and who
has seventy-six grandchildren and one
hundred and eighty-tw, great-grand-
children living, Is noted in his neigh
berhood for the ability to read by
''iirelight'' without spectacles, and to
jump up and crack his heels together
twice before coming down.
The hangman of Vienna, Heinrich
Willcnbacker, who died the other day
in his ffty-frst year, held his office for
twenty-four years, and during that time
executed thirtr-six criminals. This is
not large n, 4nber for city with "a
million inhabitants, bat murders and,
indeed, all crines of violence are Of
rare occurrence in Vienna, the manners
OF the inhabitants being proyerbially
gentle. I -"
The Judges of the Estate OF Delaware
are the most venerable in years in the
country. Chief Justice ComegyE, an
ex-senator of the United States, is
seventy three years old; Justice Wotton
is eighty, and SO is Justice Houston,
who has been onthe bench thirty years,
and is the only Republican there.
Chancellor Salisbury is the youn gest,
and he is sixty-six. He was the prede-
cessor Of his brother, Eli Salisbury, in
the United States Senate.-N. Y. San,
Sheriff Coons, OF Sacramento, Cal. :,
last winter was in the habit of putting
bis knee upon the edge of a table in his
office in order to reach the gas burner,
but after doing 80 number of times
he found that the sharp edge of the
table was hurting his leg, and after
ward he stood upon a chair when
lighting up. l2ecent]y the leg began
to trouble him, growing worse daily,
and the result is that amputation of the
limb will be necessary to save his hfe.
--'Se'a Francisco C15roaaicle.
The Emperor of Aus tria performed
the usual interesting ceremony OF
washing the feet Of twelve old men,
and afterwards serving them at,dinner
in the imperial palace, Oh the morning
Of Maundy Thursday. The youngest
of tie old men was eighty-nine, and
their united ages were nearly one
thousand one hundred years. Owing
to the absence of the Empress the same
ceremony with twelve old women did
not take place. There is always great
rivalry among the old people of Vienna
for this honor.
alice Cook, daughter of Hon. Hen
ry Il. Cook, formerly of Lenox, Mass,
and once State senator, is thirty~six
years old and handsome. Her home
was in Pittsfeld with her brother~in-
law, Hon. A. J. Waterman, district at
torney Of Berkshire County. John
Acres, twenty-three years :old, Was Mr..
Waterman s coachman. 1t has Just
'transpired that the coachman and the
lady have been married for some time,
and Acres has this week taken her to, 4
hHmble home in Nortk Adams, where
he will work in a shoe factory. Mrs.
Acres says she is perfectly satisfied
with her husband.--N. Y. ;Sun.