White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1870-03-10
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be sadly denpralised il the following story of
q corre-po ndent be true:
A scene at a lato reception. at the house Of
no ultra fast political people either, was a.
follows, or sufficiently near it: Wife Of a
moaeyed committee man, in blssfnl state, en-
tiers the p1nch.room on her husbands arm. A
Radical politician passing. she greets him:
"Say, Charley, won't you drink some cham
pagne in my shoe?" Radical politician blush
es dangerously. Husband. appealingiy: my
dear, / think the carriage must be ready BY
this time" Such things happen in New Yo,k
at the Bel d. Artistes; here they are incidents
of Washington Society"
p The Chetops Advance speaks of the
Kansas Legislature A. the State Economical
Council. and says is will adjourn as soon a, the
Commonwealth finishes writing up the biosra-
phies of the different members.
p One OF the Southern women who fed to
Brazil when the rebel lion was crushed, has
written back an appeal for aid, saying: aft the
American government means to take us home,
hurry and do SO, or it will have the dying curse
of starved Americans. For Gods sake, take
the unfortunate, deceive ed people out Of here
while they are able to walk"
p. There is an old eurmu Jgeon in Indiana
polls who buys all the rancid. stinking butter
that he can find in the city, and works it over,
sweetens it, and sells tito the people. He re-
tails for thirty to thirty Eve cents per pound
what cost him from eight to fifteen cents. He
sells about one thousand pounds per week,
and does it under the style and garb Of a far.
mer.
| p The Grass Valley Union. in view Of the
controversy which has arisen in reference to
the name of 4 lake which lies partly ih Cali
fornia and partly in Nevada, proposes a com.
promise on one Of the following names: BIZ
glertahoe, or Taboebigler. or Bistaholer, or
Tabiglerhoe. .
p Winchester, a truly virsirian town. du.
ring the war changed hands eighty seven times
sometimes as many ~ three times 10 sin.
gle day.
p Commodore Stephen .Champlin, United
States Navy. the last surviving officer of the
battle of Lake Erie, died a. his residence in
Buffalo few days ago. He commanded the
Scorpion, from which the first and last gun was
fired in that engagement.
| IL The house in which Prince Bona parte
shot Noir ia All historical one IL fcrmely be
longed to the celebrated Madame Helvetius,
and one Of her frequent visitors Vas Berj jxmin
Franklin.
u An old lady in England kept her coffin
in her room for five years, and when she died
the other day, she couldn't be got into it. The
carpenter hadn't calculated for sropsy.
~ A Kentucky Colonel recently said to
Grant: "Mr. President, my papers are indor-
sed by every leading Radical in the State. u
"Well, SIR" said the warrior. "I.m truly glad
to hear it. fer this is the only time our party
in Kentu cky have ever been able to agree"
IL paper in Canada very solemnly asks,
"What does shoe fly mean p
~ Coon skins, it is said, are still ,egal ter.
der in vermillion County, Ind.
IL Free Masons will be interested to know
that Msstai Feretti, better known as Pope
Plus TX, once belonged to that order, having
Joined it in Philadelphia when he was Papal
Nuncio ,o..this country; and that he continued
to be Mason two years after he became Pope
These assertions are made on the authority Of
the Fra Paolo. Sirpi of Sarpi. of Venice. a
Catholic journal devoted to. ecclesiastical re-
form, and, if true, they are certainly very pc.
culiar, especially when taken in connection
with the we'll known devotional character oil
the Pope in his earlier years.
D All the business houses at Sitka, Alaska,
have succeeded in getting in their ice, and the
crop is said to be very 6ne-almost a quarter
of mile ihick.-Deiri0t Free Press.
u Blighte1 affections has caused Yer.
mont youth of fifty to sell his house. live in q
hay.mow in his barn, and never have his clothes
washed. 1850
u Mrs. Abbie Sage Mcfarland Richardson,
according to the New York Commonwealth. is
to have fund raised for her by subscription
ard it is said, also, ttat she is to have an edi-
tiorial position on the New York Tribune, and
a sineeure in the sb-Trcasury q, Gotham.
p A man in L'Esuqicours L County, Ne
braska, tried to light his fire with coal oil the
other day. He was highl. respected. and Ief'
moOey enough to have new roof put on the
house-which was badly needed.
], D The Brookly Union says that N. p. vii
lis was the fret person who called Washington
"a city of magnificent distances"
u 1t is aaid that "James Gorden Bennett,
never made a speech. never voted, never was
naturalixed, and 10 stiN subject Of Queen VIC.
toria."
: D A clear conscience Is wall Of brass. and
this is the reason why George Fra.cis Train
never told lie.
u Lynn woman blew her stove in pieces
smashed her windows, half burned up her kitch.
en- furniture, and injured little, boy, the othe.
day, by thawing on. a tightly .corked jug oI
frozen water in the stove oven.
u Senator Nye carries in his pocket book
a note from the late President Lincoln written
in pencil on Ay leaf of a book, which runs .,
follows: "Dsar General. come up to. nigh,
and swap jokes-Lincoln.
| u A Sunday School teacher in New York
gave nsescham pipe to one Of his scholar.
as re ward Of merit.
p Clara Barton writes to the soldiers ol
the late var that she stood BY them during the
rebellion, they should nov stand BY her in her
ambition. She wants to vote.
T Brigham Young says that while Anna