The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-09-30

avorthiugten &dranfe.
. A. p. MILLER, Publisher.
WORTHlNGION, MINI.
NOTES OF THE TIMES.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE writes that he
has had most delightful trip to the
Pacific coast and is only sorry that he
waited so long before taking it.
ANARCHIST PARSONS father was once
a confectioner in Montgomery, Ala.
but somehow the sweetness of the avo
canton was not transmitted to the 50
MRS. PARNELL, who sailed for Eu-
rope on the Celtic, will spend the great
or part of month with her son
Charles S. Parnell, at his country home
at Avondale.
Mrs. LAWRENCE BARRETT, and her
daughter. Miss Gertrude, sailed for
Germany by the Lloyd steamship
Elder. Sept. 22d, to pass few months
with the son-in-law and daughter of
NJ po~ro%% %l,o Do,o~ o,,J
Van Roder.
DIR. E. o. SHAKESPEARE, who went
abroad as Government Commissioner
to inquire into the causes of cholera,
writes to friends in this country that
he has carried his Investigations into
1ndi and hopes for good results.
MIR. ABRAHAM EMERSON, Of Canada.
recently celebrated his eighty-sixth
birthday by digging forty bushels
potatoes in seven hours. The spunky
old gentleman was member of the
New Hampshire Senate in 1867.
ROSWELL SMITH, of the Century Pub
fishing Company, says that he prefers
female clerical force to male force.
. The many bright girl faces that glance
up to the visitor entering the Century
parlors show that Mr.. Smith practices
what he processes.
Mrs. GEN. CUSTER has spent the
summer at her home in Gramercy
Park. New York city, at work on a
book on Kansas and frontier life lust
after the war. The work will be based
on thrilling scenes through which she
passed while accompanying her husband
on his military duty.
MAGAZINE readers will remember
the name of Frank H. Cushing. who
has written many interesting articles
for those periodicals about the Zuni In
dams. Mr.. Gushing has three of the
Indians at present with him at his
home in Massachusetts, and the trio
are engaged in getting up dictionary
and grammar of the Zuni language.
MAJOR JAMES PHELAN. who has Just
been nominated for Congress by the
Democrats of the Memphis (Tenn.)
District, is the editor of the Avalanche.
Several years ago he was challenged
by Capt. Brizzolori on account of Of
fensive matter in the Avalanche. Bril-
zolori was shot through the right lung,
while Phelan escaped unhurt.
ASHER B. DURAND, who died at
Orange. N. Y, last Friday, at the sge
OF ninety years, was one of the pioneers
among American landscape painters.
He first lie rned the rudiments of En-
craving in the shop of his father, who
was matchmaker, and made repu-
tation by his engraving of Trumbull's
"Signing of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence.'
Mrs. GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN. wife o
the palace-car millionaire, usually trav-
els in train of four private cars one
drawing-room for reception and
reading purposes, with easy chairs,
lounges, piano, &c.; another dining
car, equally elegant; another sleepf
ing'car, perfect in its appointments,
and another for the accommodation of
SIX blooded trotters and carriage
horses.
LOUISVILLE has long had social as
pirations that always seemed to come
little short of realization. But the
town has struck it high up now, accord
'ngto the Post, which says: 1.-The
fashion here this year will be not for
the gentlemen to escort the ladies to
parties but for the ladies to go accom-
panied by chaperones and meet the
gentlemen at the house of their host"
PRINCESS BISMARCK is represented
by a French correspondent as a wo-
man OF great worth and, though of
somewhat vulgar manner, possessing a
good heart and great amount of COM
mon sense. She has the most un-
bounded love and admiration for her
illustrious husband. She is not in the
least proud of her position. She is
greatly liked by everybody around her
though she is always brusque toward
them and sometimes even bearish.
GEN. FREMONT is seventy-four years
old, hut is said to look young enough
to pass for man of sixty. He lives in
a commodious house near the British