Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-05-28
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regular DuSlueSS OWC0 III LOuUOu.
The widow Of Henry Ward Beecher
has the income of 500, 900 to live
upon.
Mrs. Stanley is direct descendant
the seventh in line-from Oliver Crom-
well.
a boy baby born in Atchison was
christened Hard Times" by his
parents.
Fred Taral, formerly q Harper (Kan.)
boy. gets $4,000 a year as horse
jockey, and only rides half the year.
It is said that the only bronze statues
in the United States of Humboldt,
Shakespeare and Columbus are at St.
Louis.
Cannibalism is evidently on the in
crease in Washington. An advertise
ment in one of the papers reads:
Wanted white girl for cooking"
George w. Childs instructed his as
sistant editors many years ago never
to let any witticism which reflected on
woman creep into the columns of the
Ledger.
The buffalo are in no danger of be-
coming an extinct species. Since they
have been placed under protection of
Government troops they have been in
creasing.
Sands Carpenter is Port Huron
(Mich.) character, 80 years old. He
supports himself on $50 year, and
one of his eccentricities is to chew tea
as he would tobacco.
1t is estimated that in American
cities the people have only about one
fifth as much free playground as have
the people in the cities of the effete
monarchies of Europe.
The Emir of Bokhara has sent to the
Gar present of eight milk-white
asses of the purest Central Asian breed,
and they have been duly installed
among the Cars assets.
The discovery has been made, that
there are three peachbi>w vases in this
country, and Four Hundred circles
seem to regard 1t as climax in our
affairs, or at least crisis.
De Lesseps is now SO years old. At
80 he was a rugged. enthusiastic. and
vigorous octogenarian, but since the
collapse of his great Panama Canal
scheme he has aged aud broken per-
ceptibly.
Some idea of the vastness of Lucky"
Baldwin's stock farm and vineyard at
Santa Anita, CAL. may be obtained
from statement of the fact that the
taxes on the estate last year amounted
to $4,000.
Meissonier's intense aversion to
Americans was due to the fact that
''they were not demonstrative enough
when they were introduced to his
presence. He once said that he hated
them for this reason.
Broker Robert B. Davidson of Phila-
delphia is the only surviving clerk OF
the old United States bank. He is 80
years old, and was employed in the
bank from 1882 to 1886, while Nicholas
Biddle was president of it.
Colonel Elliot F. Shepard's fierce
war upon the letter .shn in Behring
Sea has ended in a complete victory
for the letter, as was feared. The last
seen Of the Colonel he was flying in
much disorder before victorious foe.
Miss Yvett Gulbert is the present
rage in Paris. She is slim, has green
eyes and auburn hair. She can not
sing and does not try to, but chants.
Miss Guilbert is a novelty and the
town is correspondingly mad over her.
Mr.. Gladstone has three hats and
three only. One is black and very
old; the second is white and is used only
in summer; the third is soft felt and
his constant travelling companion. Its
age is unknown, but it is many years
Bernhardt's nine performances in
Boston aggregated $43, 839..87. the
largest amount ever drawn in that
city by any actress or singer in the
same number of appearances. And
yet Sarah thinks it an outrage that she
should be required to pay dog tax.
Professor Carl Meyers, of Frankfort,
N. Y, after a consultation with
weather bureau officials in Washing
ton, is about to begin experiments with
view to producing rain artificially
with balloons of mixed gases. which
are to be exploded by electric cables.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, the
novelist, is still writing, though over
75 years of age. AS to her full name.
which is Emma Dorothy Eliza Neuette
.Southworth, she says: when was
born my people were too poor to give
me anything else. so they gave me all
those names"
The latest thing is a paper horse
shoe. invented by a German. 1t is
light, elastic and said to be durable.
Moreover, it wears in such a way that
its under surface is always rough.
For the reason it is claimed that it
would be admirably adapted for use on
asphalt pavements.
a New York girl has been sent to
the insane asylum because she thought
every man she met was in love with
her, but was deferred from proposing
marriage for the reason that all sup
posed her too good for them. This
conceit is almost universal among