St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-30
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. Lizzie Weaver, of Bridgeton. n
j., has, after forty-seven years of labor,
finished a crazy quilt of 3O,075 patches.
Bertha c. Nelson walked out of the
Boston Jail Christmas morning, after
having passed fourteen months in that
institution for contempt of court.
Rev. Dewitt Talmage is on his way
home from the Holy Land. and will
preach to his Brooklyn congregation the
first Sunday in February.
Col Bob Ingersoll is real mad. A New
York tobacconist has seized his genial
face and is using it as a colossal chrome
advertisement Of cigar.
Gen. Boulanger Indignantly denies
that he is to lecture in the United
States. And now the conundrum, is
life worth living?" may be safely an
Swered in the affirmative.
Editor Goodwin, of the Salt Lake
Tribune, has gone clean daft on the sill
yer question. He speaks of 1.-THE 'bunco
steerer' of Wall street who is just now
secretary of the treasury of the United
States"
Chief Justice Fuller ran the gauntlet
Of PittSburg reporters the other day.
They were able to extract from him an
emphatic opinion OH only one topic, the
worlds fair. He said: Chicago will
be successful"
Herman Meriyale, poet and dramatist,
prints card deriving the word ''maSher''
from masha, 4 Roumanian term mean
ing Fascination of the eye" He gives
as his authority Leland's Dictionary of
the Roumanian Language.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
apostle, recently expressed his contempt
for prohibition by saying that 1.-THE peo-
pie of Iowa were trying to change the
Lords prayer so as to make it read.
Our Father who art in the Legisla-
ture.'"
Mrs. Halford. wife of the private sec
rotary to the President, is dangerously
i'll with consumption. Mrs. Halford 5
health has been failing for some years,
and it has been found advisable for her
to live in Florida eight months of every
year,
Gen. Jubal Early. now an annex of
the Louisiana lottery, goes slouching
about the corridors of the st. Charles
hotel in New Orleans like ghost of the
past. One of his fadS is that he will
never accept National bank note with
a portrait of Gen. Grant on it.
Secretary Blaine spends an hour or
two day on literary work. He is en-
gagged upon some historical treatise, the
subject of which is not known. Mr..
Blaine has been much pleased at the
success of his book, Twenty Years of
Congress-" and longs for further literary
laurelS.
Ben Buffers eccentric attire is the
subject of considerable gossip in Wash
in stan. When he envelops his short,
chunky figure in thick fur oyercoat.
with the fur outside, and pulls fur cap
over his ears, he is said to look like an
ESauimau. He varies this costume oc-
caSionally by wearing Sombrero in
place of tine fur cap.
Labouchere says that he has the
greatest admiration for Stanley as man
of vast energy, great courage. and I'M
daunted perseverance, but he doubts
whether the marches of Stanley through
Africa have benefited humanity in gem
eral, or African human beings in par
ticular. He thinks the Africans would
have better been left alone.
Miss Matte Bryant, wealthy young
lady of Shelbyvile, Tenn, went riding
with Capt Fyffe, a young lawyer of
Chattanooga whom she had known only
a week. Capt. Fyffe said: 'i'll dare
you to get married to-day" to which
the girl replied: Il will so YOU" They
Immediately drove to the courthouse,
procured license. sent for minister,
and went to the house of friend, where
they were married.
Russell Harrison is frequently to be
seen about New York hotel. His man.
ner is self-contaiued and solemn, not 10
say shy. Everybody knows him by
sight, but he keeps away from the other
guests of the hotel and spends great
part of the time in his apartments,
where there is usually a great amount
of writing going on. He has grown a
little stout since his return from Europe,
and he is the picture of self-contained.
well-fed, and amiable man. The crown
of his head is visible to the naked eye
from considerable distance fore and
off