St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-23
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

Ferdinand de Contamination, who
married the eldest daughter of De Les
seps, is an own cousin of his bride.
George Package, of Tom Green
county, Texas, is one hundred and four
years old, and is probably the original
Package.
Mrs. Adolph Dahlgren, of Nashville,
who is considered one of the prettiest
women in the South. is tall, slight and
very graceful, with gray eyes and golden
hair.
eCoquelin, the French actor, does not
entertain very high opinion of
Shakespeare as dramatist; but he still
entertains the same exalted opinion OF
CoQuelin, the actor, that he always did.
Gen. Pleasonton is picturesque fig
ure of war times, and occasionally may
he seen strolling down Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, wearing sOmbrero hat
which he has worn for nearly score OF
years.
The king of the Belgians is said to be
very anxious that his youngest .daugh-
ter, Princess Clementine, should marry
one of the sons of the Prince of Wales.
Ciementine wishes in the matter have
not yet been announced.
The Prince of Wales has an income of
$500, 900 a year from the Duchy of Corn
wall alone, and this is but one of sew
eral prolific sources from which he gets
revenue. And yet the prince puts in
part of his valuable time lodging
creditors.
Bellamy is accused Of taking his book,
''LoOking Backward" from an old Ger
man author named Bebel, who wrote a
novel on the same lines entitled:
"Women, Present and Future" Bell
amy meets the charge with the state
ment that he cannot read German and
never heard of Bebel.
r. J. Benton, of Dent county, Mis-
souri,, gives the weight of his family as
follows: ''All of our family except
father, who is eighty-three years old,
are stout. Father weighs 100 pounds,
Tom weighs 335, Elijah 240, Henry 200,
Sweeney POS, and weigh, as told you,
336, making total weight of the five
brothers of 1,376 pounds, pretty heavy
load for one horse to pull up hill"
Miss Grace Gridley, of Amboy, ILL.,.
18th of March. One week after she fell
asleep her nurse left the room for few
| minutes, and on returning found that
Miss Grldley had arisen from bed and
gone into all adjoining room, where she
was found sitting in rocking chair, an
open Bible in her lap, but as sound
asleep as ever. She was taken back to
bed and has been sleeping there ever
since.
Miss Hunt was alone in small cabin
in Iowa Gulch, Col, when three tOnghs
came and ordered her to get out three
square meals, and be quick about it.
She asked how they liked their eggs,
hard or soft, and at the same instant
covered the nearest tough with a re-
volver and pulled the trigger. Pieces
of his iawbOne ratified against the side
of the cabin, whereupon Miss Hunt,
with delicate sarcasm, observed that
perhaps two square meals would be
enough" The two tOughs begged for
mercy, and were permitted to carry
their wounded companion into the
| brush.
Citizen George Francis Train. since
his record-breaking trip around the
world, has quietly settled down on the
shores of Puget sound, near Tacoma.
| He is eommuning with the birds, culti-
waiting Psychic force and breathing pure
| air. He lives alone, never goes to Ia
| coma, which is only three miles dis
| tant, and cooks his cocoa on three-dol-
| lar stove. He has his books and manu-
| scripts. and as he wanders through the
| primeval forest his magnificent crop of
| white hair is occasionally anointed by
| the falling gum from the lofty pines.
| His quiet retreat is now and again
broken in upon by delegations of school
children, who come to sit at the feet of
| the DhiIOsopher,