People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1893 — MINIE BALLS. [ARTICLE]

MINIE BALLS.

The duke of Cambridge, who is commander in chief of the English army, has never smelt powder except at a review, and is not likely to if he can help it. lie was a major general at the age of twenty-six, thanks to his good fortune. Sergt. Prokop Doqobirnko, a Russian soldier, committed suicide lately because a young girl would not marry him, but instead called him an “old man.” This was more than the giddy fellow, who was not much over ninety* - nine years of age, could stand.