, 1874-12-20
PERSONAL.

| pl8t6 a0U SuQu44 D8 d NA1luu1 W A4A
high and low.
| PERSONAL.
Glendenning is sustained. or course. He lived
pretty high, and needed something to sustain
| him.
George Butler says Hart Jackson could not
"adapt" j" bill OF fare, let &1ono 4 French
| drama.
| Hrs. Potter Palmer, Miss Coolbaugh, and Gen.
Stager will be at the Art Reception tomorrow.
Goldman, the artist, has portraits Of thon.
Congressman James Wilson, OF Iowa, went
East on a cattle-train- Ungene1ous inferences
will please be withheld for further particulars.
Ben Sherwood, OF Booths Theatre, when
asked for the plot of a Tho Hero of the Hour, !"
| said the stage-carpenter had it. And he kept it
| concealed.
Garibaldi was diagusted at first to find thnt
his povert5 Was made public, but the generous
| contributions OF his friends consoled Lin 4
| little.
| Canniba1ism prevails in = mild form in France.
| No less than LESS mules and aeaes weto de-
! voured during the past three months in the City
of Paris.
l. lady Of Worcester, Mass, against her
husband for School Commissioner and beat him
two to one. He can base an application for
divorce On cruelty.
Foote'S "reminiscences occupy post Of
honor in the Congressional Library, being placed
| on the same shelf with :: Baron Munchau6en
and IT sinbad, the Sailor
Muscatine owns the latest. The charge
against him is forgery, and nothing more. He
In or of %haE Tr,th Thfyro}
thereof, aud his name is Lange.
The Rev. Galbraith B. Perry, Of Baltimore,
is to be presented and tried for Ritualisn. He
used the prayer for the sick at tho burial service,
thus admitting tho doctrine Of purgatory.
John T. Wright. Of New York, is President Of
society for the prevention Of cruelty 10 chill
dren. 6olomon's maxim about sparing the rod
has been expunged from the constitution.
Elihu Burritt has formed class OF young
ladies' st New Britain, Conn.,, to study Sanscrt-
They say that this is appropriate enough, for
the language Was dead and Burritt long ago.
4 rich Peruvian Ii. Ply c. committed suicide
in 7 aris because i Queen Of tho Partisan demi-
monde preferred her gay life to sedate respecta-
bility coupled with Il. Ply G. She loved wisely,
and he too well.
An Engshman recovered Fl in suit for
damages against clergyman for causing the
death OF his wife BY communicating smallpox
to her Wives are held cheaper in England than
the United States
The late Col. Sam Pike started thirty-six week.
II papers in forty-one years. And the parag-
rnphists complain that typographical nomen-
clature allows no joke on the subject Of their
being principally in small plea
Manager Hooleg's business in Brooklyn occu-
pied five minutes exactly. It Was the renewal
Of his lease Of Hooley's Opera-House in that
city. How can he account for his ten days
absence from home? Let the Campbell an-
sEcr.
Gen. Butler tells OF a civil-service candidate
writing against the question, ''What is the
distance of the sun from the earth ," that he
couldn't tell the exact distance. but ho didn't
think it WAS near enough to Interfere With his
duties as Post-Ofice clerk.
Because the Hon. Ebenezer Ayres, ex-Speaker
Of the niunesota Legislature, could not be ro-
elected Master OF the Saltwater Grange, Mrs.
Ayres cleaned out tho hall with the de1terity of
Philadelphia ''rounder." And Ebonezer paid
her S25 fine without 1uurmur.
Ciucin matt ladies express their disapprobation
OF theatrical performers By drawing pistols.
Mrs. Chanfrau WAS the latest target, but tho lady
at the other end Of the revolver wGs charitably
removed to the Insane asylum- Thus are the
liberties Of the public restricted.
A colored Methodist church in Baltimore has
had split on the subject Of singing societies,
aud Deacon Thomas Short and friends extended
the split to the heads Of the other party with
chairs, in a manner uncqualed by the iveliest
Chicago Good Samaritan Society yet organized.
Ger. Clngman, Of Raleigh, N. c., attended =
public meeting. As he descended backward into
plaudits Of the crowd, he sat on the floor.
Now expect artillery practice vendetta, and
generous contribution to the population OF
Hadcs.
James Fisk, Sr sire Of the Late lamented |
Prince of Erie and Darkness, has invented !
new peg for hanging up things. Had he e1- |
pe1imented On his son few years. earlier, or |!
even On Stokes few years later, how much the
world would have been spared. It is Of uee
still. however, and the old gentleman should be
en- couraged instead Of suubbed.
Mr. Handwerk, Of Allentown, Pa, has been
b1icked up In & cell feet square for u years,
by tis relatives- He was said to be insane, and
his kind-hearted parents thought this the most
economical way Of dlsposing Of him. He owned
s., 900. which the state would hare appropriated
to pay his expense at an asylum had he been
sent there. This careful foresight on the part
IT relations il unspeak&bly touching and disin-
;szested4