The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-02-06
Current Gleanjn%S.

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President Kruger of the Transvaai
republic has two cousins who live IN
Kansas.
AS administrator of RhOdeSia, DR.,
Jameson ruled as satrap territory
not inferior in area to the German
Empire.
At the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth
Kelly at Ceredo, W. Va, her thr9e
daughters were in attendance. aged re-
spectively 20. "A. and 80 years.
Embezzler CadaIlader. serving five
years sentence in the Milwaukee house
of correction, has his sentence com
muted by the president to two years
Elizabeth Ney, daughter of Marshal
Ney, lives in Texas. She is married 10
a man of the name of Montgomery
and is we'll known for her work as i
sculptures.
/ Judge Culberson, of Texas. now
congressman, has defended 10 mon
charged with murder in the first do
gree, and has never had a client ssf,
fenced to death.
| The relatives of the late Mrs. Anaa
r.. Aspinwall of Pittsburg, who Left
&3.OOO,OOO to the Episcopal Hospital %
Philadelphia, have withdrawn thetr
opposition to its probate.
Gomez. the wonderful Cuban insuc-
gent general. is man of sixty, aboI5
) feet inches in height. and weighing
not over 40 pounds. He is described
by an English officer serving with the
rebels as alert. cool, calculating aud
intrepid.
4 woodman in Laurel County, ks:'-
lucky, lost his thumb in an odd way
few days ago. He was feeling tho
edge of his AK by running his thuutj
along it. when an Overhanging limb ot
tree. that had been partly severed
fell on his thumb and severed it con
) pletely from his hand.
George l.. Wellington. who has be3tt
elected to succeed Senator Gibson or
MARYLAND. is what is commonly termst
a self-made man. He attended school
only a year and half in his boyhOot
but afterward, while at work. spens
! his evenings in securing an education,
which included thorough grounding
in history and literature.
. The income of StrattOn. the Cripple
e Creek mining millionaire. is now est
a mated at $4,000 month. 1t all comes
! from the Independence mine. which,
: he once tried in vain to sell for SlOV,Up
0 and there is enough ore on the walls ut
}. the shaft to yield perhaps Sl.OpOO. II
), the aforetime carpenter would pern9'1
a it to be removed in body. l'ut no
o. thinks it safer underground than III
0 banks.
Senator IIoar told some friends the
other day that ex-Secretary EvartS is
Y. leading a secluded life in New ors.
:" His evesight is impaired and he occu-
q pies himself chiefly with matters tnae
, cOntine him to his rooms. Now ana
[. then some old associate visits him and
d he lives over again. III memory al 'eaof-
n his political life. Senator iioafs "a
- ther was Mr.. Evarts' guardian. a'st
:. Mr. Evarts and the present senator
IS from Massachusetts were brought III
g. together.
10 Booker T. Washington, the famous
n Southern negro leader, at a recent SO
s. cial gathering told how he acquuei
r. his last name. as follows: "befofe toe
war the slaves all went by the mana
- of their master, but as soon as 1re15
a they almost invariably wished u
t. change it. feeling that they were h's
,S nronerty no longer. My mother cais3
I! X,irginian families. When | entered
ne school at Hampton and one after ali
If. other was called on to give his nam1
TO the teacher, it suddenly occurred TT
me that | had no surname. anu a.
~ suddenly decided to take that OF ASA
nd ingtOn.'
ct Nine. Jeanne de Chantal, superior o
n a religious order of Providence Is ueao
-. bn1 n !
=" slams came into France III 1870 she wa
by snner;or of the Chateaudun commu
it nifty. She concealed i'll the cellars
m the convent great number of soldier
,,a and guerrillas. One of the latter wa
Il" cantured and ordered to be shot. >h
~. stood between him and the squad an
I'll the order to fire was not gwen. I
W. convoy of wounded French soldier
,or was ordered to Germany, but she stoo
in front of it. and the soldiers were "a
~ turned to the ambulance This ach'es'
II ment has been made the subject OF
tai celebrated painting.
ces TiIlie and Lizzie Of Philadelphia
we raars old are remark able twins, II ST
in ries told of them be true. W hen on
suffers pain the other feels 1t also Il
oo- ther sister can find the other In Gro"
to Of any size without hunting, as the
rst exnress it. The resemblance bet wee
ar the two girls is remarkable BOT
IVA weigh exactly the same. Their reco
I'VE lections of past events are preciSe
ter the same. Neither one can recall
lax single occurrence that did not happe
us in the presence of both. 1t takes Il
o.. minds of both to retain lasting fect
a." lection of any happening, but, whf
AS the fact is once impressed upon Il
led minds of both, neither one forgets l
in least important feature.
of There is janitor in the capltoi
and Washington whom members freqoei
III. lv mistake for x-COngressman Sper
~ of Connacticut Recently \ Orthe