The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-02

Mr.. Burlingame. though popularity asso-
ciated with Massachusetts,, is a native of the
Empire State. He was born in New Berlin,
Chenango County, N. Y, November IA,
1922. His early years were passed on the
Western frontiers, far beyond the confines of
civilization. He graduated from the Law
School, at Cambridge, Mass, in 1916: in
1852 was elected to the State Senate, and in
1854 was chosen member of Congress,
where he served three terms. In 1861 he
was appointed by President Lincoln as Min
lister to Austria, but on account of his sym
pathy with the Hungarians, the Court at
Vienna limited that another American would
be more acceptable and Mr.. B. was ap-
gointed Minister to China.
Mr.. George Francis Train has been lee
turing to large audiences in London. whose
enthusiasm to see and hear the great Amer
lean orator not even an admission fee of one
shilling can overcome. At his first lecture
he advanced the proposition that his own
election to the Presidency of the United
States was about the best redress for Irish
grievances that could be accomplished. Re-
ferring to English politics. he said he look
ed upon Mr.. Disraei as the greatest Radical
in this country, and prophesied that the
right honorable gentleman would be one day
President of a Republic i'll England.
The wardrobe of the Princess Metternich,
it is said, consists of 119 dresses of silk,
each of 119 pieces, and trimmed with 1000
yards of trimmings; 1854 morning gowns of
various materials, adorned with one mil
lion of buttons 81 walking dresses and
cloaks ornamented with one ton of bugles :;
81 shawls of various sizes and colors; 1852
petticoats. in variety; 275 other under gar
ments; 365 pairs of stockings; 1856 pairs
OF gloves of every known color ; 40
pairs of boots and shoes; II sashes and
belts; "a brooches, in variety; 70 pairs of
earrings, in variety; 81 fans; "a parasols /;
/ umbrella.
Omaha seems to be under q cloud. Dis
astrous failures have recently occurred there,
and more are threaten9l. A correspondent
writes: "Our streets look as if the place
was being deserted. Omaha can never get
spring. In my orini<n she is dead for years
to come. and if the tfutiteyEs tod by III
thew would coincide with me. Two months
ago there was not store to be rented In the
place. To day there is sixty-one stores for
rent"
The ground on which the new Post Office
in Boston is to be constructed contains
%. $50 square feet, and cost the Government
S4O0,UUU. H6 dItd OutiC\t Ill 1>O" L vi N W.
a Post Office site contains $3.50 square feet
of the most valuable land in the city, and
will cost only $500, 900, although Is fairly
worth So, 10000 That is to say, the New
York site, though much more than double
the area of the Boston site, will cost but
trif1e more than the latter.
An ingenious Englislman, not long ago,
announced in the papers of the French de.
partment of Manche, that he would send
g two beautiful engraved and colored por-
traits of the Queen of England" to any
person enclosing him the modest sum OF SIX
pence. Receiving several thousand letters
enclosing sixpences he sent to each OF his
correspondents two postage stamps exhi'
biting the august lineaments ofHer Majesty.
Investigations undertaken by the Italian
Benevolent Society of Paris show that the
little Italian street musicians and mendl-
cants, who infest the streets of that city, are
literally bought from their relatives by the
"padres" who fatten on the proceeds, and
are expected to furnish street musicians and
mend:cant all over the world.
Fanny Elsler is now 81 years old, having
been born in Vienna in 1911. She is said
to have acquired superfiuousness of vulgar
flesh, and limbs very unlike those with
which she pirouetted herself into the affec
tions and the pockets of the public.