Barton County democrat., 1892-08-25
PERSONAL AND fMPERsoNAL.

Nero was not the only famous man
addicted to 6ddle-plaYing at critical
moments Immediately after the bat
tie of Polotsk the great French general,
Saint-Cyr, shut himself up in Jesuit
convent and fddled for two days But
he had won the battle.
Mrs. Sadie Crandall. of Michigan,
after marrying Rev. MIR. Crandan nine
separate and distinct times without
ever having divorce, now wants one
Her husband is a matrimonial crank
and insists on being united in the bliss
full state by every new denominational
rite he can hear OF
"A practical joke caused the reform
alton Of q topper in Peoria When he
was in drunken slumber, his partner
entered his room and filed the bed and
his pockets with living horned toads
Half an hour later he saw the topper on
his knees, praying. and vowing that he
would never touch intoXicants again
Mr.. Gladstone's maternal grand
father provost Robertsen) was at one
time chief magistrate of the burgh OF
Dingwall, and Mr.. Gladstone himself
till lately owned a quaint one-storied
house opposite the Bank of Scotland,
OF which he granted the town the free
use, as an alInshouse. The building,
however, was sold and removed in 1885
to make room for new block Of shops
and Offices known as the Gladstone
buildings
-''The old William" said Prince Bis
marck recently, twas not, it is true, a
great statesman, but he was a man OF
mature and sound Judgment He would
! never act without consulting one or
more of his counselors. Then he was
q perfect gentleman. I was deeply at
| tached to him The Emperor Frederick
was noble man. He was not perhaps
a man of great strength, yet he was one
of considerable perception, discretion
| and tact He was sharp sword with
8 short blade
Gen. Easement lives at PaineSville,
! O., now, but is well remembered west
| Of the Missouri as the builder of the
| Union Pacific railway, which he pushed
/ at the rate of five miles a day-a pre-
I viously unprecedented achievement
| The general was an intimate friend o.
! the late Sidney Dillon, whom he charac'
| terizes as q ''warm-hearted, honest
| Irishrnan, true to his friends, plain IN
| his ways, and Indifferent to show, q
plain, blunt man to whom many mil
Honaires OF to-day owe their fortunes
Col. Hodgetts, who died recently ii
| Canada at patriarchal age, was the
! last survivor of the Niahratta war o,
1617-'1S. He was probably the oldest
| officer in the British service, for, after
| having served for many years in the
ranks, he was promoted from sergeant
major to ensign and adjutant Of the
Twenty-fourth regiment in 1880. Ht
was staff officer a Drogheda for severa
years, and in 1851 he went to Canadi
On receiving the appointment of stat
| officer Of pensioners at London in tha
colony.
Lord Albemarle told Mrs Beeche,
! Stowe, when she was in England, thi
story about the duke of Wellington
Sitting next a lady at dinner, who hat
a smelling bottle containing musk, tn
duke is alleged to have said to her: ''Il
India, ladies put muskrats into thei
smelling bottles" ''They must be yer,
small rats, then,'' the lady observed
Not at all-about the size of Englisl
| rats ''Then their smelling bottle
must be very large" Not at aIl-nt
bigger than yours" When the gentle
men entered the drnwing-roo1n, Lor,
Fitzroy Somerset whispered to the lady
''You ROW see the sort of difficulties w
have at the Horse Guards; we are re
euired to put very large rats into YER,
small bottles