Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-08
small Talk.
The Priscess Bestrice, of England.
has told the Earl Of Aberdeen to
task mama"

The Priacess Bes trice, Of England
has told the Earl Of Aberdeen e
Task mama"
An American belle abroad II rc.
ported to have accepted the hand and
heart OF Bismarck's son.
Bret Hartc, in his lecture on the
Argonauts of '49, says that stealing
and civilization came together.
Judge Durell resembles JcfTreys in
his brutal fonducss for liquor, - we'll
As in bis contempt for justice and
law.
According 10 st. Paul papcr noses,
cars and fingers, which have beon
broken of while in . frozen and crisp
condition, may he picked up in large
Quantities from the sidewa alks of that
frosty city.
Maynard, OF Tennessee, aspires to
the SpeAkership Of the next House.
Maynard is thin, narrow-edgcd aud
conccited man, aud would NO doub,
render some sharp decisions on nice
parliamentary questions.
Itis proposed now to add q portion
of Wyoming Territory to Colorado
III order to swell Colorado into
State but the Cheyenne Tomahawk
loudly protests against "the rape OF
Wyoming" and the thing will hardly
be dune.
Murders are so common In New
York that when a gertlclnan wen,
home and announced TO his wife that
Mr.. Greeley was dead, his little three
ycar-old, playing Oh tho floor, looked
up aud said, "Pa, who shot him 2"
Tho surrender OF SO, ,0C0, 900 by Jay
Gould to his prosecutors reduced his
fortune somewhat, and now he only
has sec, ,OOO, 900 of Erie stock left. On
this stock ho made two million dol
lars last Saturday by . neat little
corner which he fixed up.
An Irish correspondent Of the Now
York Evening Post says truly tina,
"whcn man does we'll he 10 called an
Eng,ishman (Mr. Leckcy and Mr..
Tyndsil arc called Engliylman,
though really Irish); the momcut lac
gets into u scrapc aud acts wickedly,
he Is called Irish"
A new patent railway contrivancc
is announced, in tho shape of q
swi,ch.,endcr's box, SO placed that II
the switch-tentler sh""'d 60 TO sleep
in it, and neglects t..s switch, the
coming train would run into the
I'dormilory, and obviate any further
necessity for his switching.
Mark Twain has acquired n sensible
idea with regard to duelin.. lie
says: "lf a man were 10 challenge
me now--now that can fully cppre-
ciatc tho iniquity OF that practics-i
would 60 to that man, and tako him
by the hand, and lead him to II quiet,
retired room-and kill him."
Some Of the Cincinnati ladies ought
to adopt the plan of the owners oi
ncwly-paintcd houses aud writo the
word paint" over their lips. A
Louisville youth, after a tete-a-tete
with one in the iirtatiou-room, q
short nn.c .ince, returned ..o 80 Par
lor with his black moustachc made
almost NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Judge Arthur, Representative in
Congress from tho Covington district,
has introduced bill to repeal tho act
imposing a special tax upon farmers
selling their own raising Of leaf to-
bacco. This will be q great relief to
the farmers Of Kentucky. who last
year raised one-thiru OF the tobacco
produced in the United States.
General Banks has softened the
hearts of his enemies by introducing
a bill doubling the wages of tho Pres
ident. General Banks is q gentleman
oil angular shreWdness. lle IS among
the very few in this world who rise
with an emergency. His restoration
cost twenty-five thousand dollars a
year of other peoples money and
thereby hangs the humor of it. :
[ Washington Capitol.
Gra:z Brown is perhaps the only
man who has ever been voted for at
the same election for both President
and Nice-President. For tho frs,
Office hc received twenty-four votes,
aud for the latter tifty-1ve. lie is
also the only candidate for whom ali
eloctor of his own party has refused
to vote. One Of tho.e chosen OIL the
Greeley and Brown ticket in Missou-