Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-11-15

MISS ETHEL SPRAGUE, daughter OF
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague. will spend
The winter in New York city studying
for the stage
JOHN RUsKIN has at length permit.
ted photograph of himself to be
given to the public. Ruskin loves
beauty, but he is not beautiful.
JOHN G. WHITTIER's great ambition
when he was q boy was to become
politician. But the world gained by
the fact that he did not lay his pipes
but piped his lays.
The late Sir John Rose is said to
have left fortuae of 81. 700.0 900. His
widow. Julia Marchioness of Tweed
dale. gets settlement of 81. 900 ayear,
and the rest of the property is divided
between his three sous and two
daughters. .. ....
NINE. DIEULAFoY. the intrepid wife
of the explorer of north Africa. is one
of the latest women to receive the
decoration of the Legion of Honor.
Rosa Bonheur is the only artist who
has been honored, though thirty -four
women in all have been given the red
ribbon.
DWIGHT L. MOODY. the evangelist,
who arrived at San Francisco a few
days ago. has decided to spend the en-
tire winter on the Pacific coast, and
will begin a series of meetings in San
francisco on Jan l. He has gone to
Portland. Oregon. to hold series OF
meetings at different points in the
northwest
The Jews comes from Europe that
Mime. Nicolini Patti. not being able 10
find a purchaser for Craig-y- Nos has
decided to turn the castle into an insti-
tuition for the cultivation of the voices
of poor but gifted girls. If she shall
carry out this design, her farewell
concert" tours and even her high
prices will DO forgiven.
The will of Susan p. Allyn, widow
of Timothy M. Allyn. founder of the
Allyn House at Hartford. makes be-
quests amounting to So. 1000. Among
the public gifts are the following: The
Connecticut Industrial Schools for
Girls, $40, 900; Old Peoples Home of
Hartford, SIS. 900. and the same amount
to tho Hartford Orphan Asylum.
Mrs. TowHoM, who had been
housekeeper at Warwick Castle, Eng
land, for great many years. has just
died. leaving a fortune of $3.50 900.
All of this money she bequeathed to
her master. who is not wealthy. Mrs.
Towhom made her money from tips
obtained from sightseers-a case of
getting wealth in fee simple, as it
were.
IsIDoRE. grand rabbi of France,
whose death is announced in Paris.
was a man who rather dwelt on high
morality than on the observance Of
rites. His sermons were eloquent
and showed him a man of thought
feeling and conv cton. He was truly
kind, never forgot face or name. and
had pleasant way of showing poor
Jews that he remem bered them and
was interested in their welfare.
DR.. HINzPETER, the German Emper-
or's former tutor. has told an Ameri-
! can who talked with him recently that
in his opinion the young Kaiser owes
much to the fact that he had four years
of hard school life and strict dicipline
elbow to elbow with the average Ger
man school boy. As a result OF this he
knows the people rs thoroughly as any
man in so high posit.o on ever can.
The engagement of Louise B. Drex-
ell to Edward Morrell, both of Phila.
delphi a, is of especial interest from
the peculiar provisions of the will Of
her father. the late Francis A. Drexel.
Mr. Drexel left IN estate valued al
SIG, 900. 900. all of which is to go to the
Roman Catholic Church il his three
daughters die childless. If they have
children the property is TO be divided
among their offspring. In case only
one child is born to amy one of them
the fortune goes to that child.
THE landed property of the lat'
Alexander H. Stephens. vice-presi
dent of the.southern confederacy, wa
sold by auction few days ago a
Crawfordville Ga, The six acres lying
near the cemetery were bought by
tho Crawfordville town council a
S35 The "home place" four hun
dred acres. was sold for sos. The
Num- place. containing 325 acres. wa
sold for 1925. The Kent place, 19C
acres, for $3.50. The wild lands be-
longing to the estate were not sold.
SITTING BULL, the rascally Siou,
chieftain. has made quite sensation in
Washington. He has strolled about tho
streets in naughty solemnity. with a big
blanket wrapped around him and hi
face clothed in contemptuous smile
He has also added the white man
"smile" to his belongings, and carries
huge flask concealed somewhere in
his blanket. He seems to exercise bu
little influence over his companions
who look upon him with suspicion
They have doubtless learned that hi
is essentially red skin.
SPEAKING Of Leopold H., King o