Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-18
PERSONAL AND iMpERsoNAL.

Thomas E. Breckinridge, who crossed the plains with Fremont's expedition in 1s45, is living at Telluride, Col. in destitute circumstances. Petitions praying the federal government to grant him q pension are circulating in Colorado and California.
 Thomas B. Reed is noted for his fearlessness in debate and parliamen- tary fencing. There is only one thing that will unnerve him and make him an abject coward, and that is the pres cnee of his wife and daughter, or either of them, in the congressional gallery while he has the floor for a speech.
 Nicolas de Savin, Frenchman, is living at Saratof, in good health. Ac- cording to a Russian Journal he was born at Paris in 178s, witnessed with his own eyes the horrors of the revolu- ton, took part in the Egyptian expedi- tion, fought at Austerlitz and Jena. and received the cross of the Legion of Honor for wound incurred at Sara gossa.
 Miss Geraldine Morgan, of New York, is now the owner of Stradiya- rius violin, which Dr. Joachim has loaned her for the past eight years. It was purchased recently by Mr. George i Greer and Miss Greer, and presented by them to Miss Morgan. Joachim letter has just been received. acknowledging receipt of draft. The instrument is valued at S5,00G.
 It is the opinion of Prof. James Taft Hatfield that that region of Mas sachusetts in which Northampton is situated has contributed to this country a larger share of intellectual ability than any other of it's size. He regards Dr. William D. Whitney, the Sanscrit scholar, as the most distinguished na tive of that region who has recently joined the army of the dead
 The present executioner in Ger many is gentleman called Herr Rein del and, as in the case of favorite actor, as he performed recently his one hundredth execution, numerous tele- | grams of congratulations were sent to him from various parts of the kingdom to Gleinitz. where the interesting so- lemnity was to take place. An hour before the execution he received as a token of felicitation and good wishes a l superb basket of Marechal Mel roses.
 The minister of certain Highland parish arrived at the church one stormy Sabbath to find that only one worshiper had braved the clements. Anxious to propitiate him, the minister as6ed ''Shall go on with the sermon, John?" John (gruff1y)-''Of coorse. The min ister got up into the pulpit, and, lean ing over the blackboard, inquired of John: Shall l give you the Gaelic ser mon or the English one?" John (more grufiy)-"Gie's baith ye're weel paid fort.
 "A woman who has gone abroad for the summer has left her carriage and l pair at the service of some hospital nurses in an institution with which she l is connected. At the hours when they are off duty, in turn the carriage takes them by twos for a long drive, and how much this will mean to these workers shut away for the most of the 1 time from any change of air and scene can hardly be estimated. If there were more such breaks in the lives of these women pursuing q hard calling, the startling average of life which, accord ing to Prof Tyndall, is theirs, might be raised. He stated not long before his death that hospital nurses only at tain, on an average, the age of twenty five years, while non-nursing women reach the comparatively mature point of fifty-eight years.