Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-12-14
PURELY Personal.

Considerable stir has been caused in
London society by the conversion 10 10
manism of a niece Of Rt. Hon. John
Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland.
Colonel Ingersoll closes his lecture on
Lincoln with these words: Lincoln |
was the grandest figure Of fierce civil
war. Lincoln is the gentlest memory OF
our world"
A little lad named Otto Freisel, but 0 |
years OF age, is delighting Viennese audi |
ences with his elocutionary and mimetlc |
powers. He is an infant prodigy in this
respect, they say.
When a child of 5 Lord Claude Ham
iltOn, the new Chairman OF the Great
Eastern Railway Company, resented a
supposed affront by obstinately refusing
to kiss the Queen when che vas on a
visit to his parents.
Nine. Blanc, the widely-known writer
OF Paris, who is in Chicago, will remain
six months in this country, spending
portions of the time in various cities,
including a stay in Boston as the guest
Of Mrs. James T. Fields.
The announcement has been made
that Captain Horatio Mckay, the COM
mander of the record Cunarder
Lucania, and Miss Elizabeth Swan, the
daughter OF Edward J. Swan OF Oyster
| Bay, l.. l., are to be married some time
before Christmas.
John Fl. Miller, son of William the
Prophet, who founded the Second Ad-
vent sect, long known as Millerites,"
many of whom have prepared to ascend
bodily to heaven at various times, died
recently at Whitehall, n. Y, aged IL,
strong in his adherence to the views OF
his father, who died in 1S49.
Few things are too insignificant to en-
gage the attention OF the German En-
perOr. He recently decided that the
gavotte lancier should be known in the
future as the court dance in his capital
rather than the "quadrille a la cTur,"
which has long had that distinction.
The revival OF this empire dance is due
TO the petition OF the association OF Ger
man dancing masters.
James G.. Blaine, Jr., the grandson OF
the late Secretary Of State is now 6 years
old. He has been under the care OF one
nurse since he was years old. The lad
attends kindergarten in New York, and
it is said that he has some marked traits
OF his fathers family. He is very slow
to make friends with grown-up persons
but boys will chum with him instantly
He is quite a sturdy, healthy lad.
Sir Benjamin Richardson, the eminent
London physician, has been interviewed
about bicycling. He expressed the opin
ion that the sport was decidedly injurious
: The spine becomes almost an arch; the
chest bone is then affected by the unnat
ural pressure, circulation is impaired
and no doubt the lungs are interieret
with, too. In fact, there is hardly any
possible evil effect it does not produce.
The railroad chapel-car evangelist
Rev. Boston Smith, is meeting will
| great success in the Northwest. Mr.
l Smith was the first missionary to utiliz
the railway car as a chapel. The one h
. uses now was built for him by John d
, Rockefeller and others interested. |
will seat 100 people. 1t is sidetracke,
at lonely settlements, where services ar
- held on Sundays and often through tn
! week.
I The Sultan has contributed 700,0 90
francs from his private purse, to be uset
in the prevention OF the spread OF chol
: : era in his dominions. Part of the none
=, will he devoted TO the construction O
dwelling-houses in Hedsjas for the suf
ferers and the building OF hospital il
D which several thousand patients can b
: accommodated. The running expense
a OF the hospital will be borne also by tn
Sultan.