Thursday, March 6, 2014

Friday, March 6, 1868

This is a stormy day. It is snowing to day. We finished cleaning oats to day. A. Liddle went down by to day.
Thare is Singing School in Brushland to night. Jim was up to A. Liddles to night. Brushland, Del. Co. I was doing chores to day.

Farraguts* father was a Levanter born on the Island of Minorca (Spain). 
Louis Napoleon gets $14.240 a day. Queen Victoria, $6.027, Francis Joseph, $10.000 and the King of Prussia $8.210.
Lord Brougham** has lost the use of his tongue and limbs. 
Lady Fitz Maurice is said to be the best looking woman in England.


*This is referring to David Farragut, a naval officer in the Civil War, famous for the phrase "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
**This is a reference to British Statesman Henry Brougham, later Lord Brougham. He died in May 1868, a few months shy of 90.


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