The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-20
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Will Minister Schickens, Of Russia,
feather his own nest
Whistling bees. That is to be the
next epidemic. Prepare to pucker.
Robert Link is singing in Canada
and they think seriously of calling him
bob'lin1.
General A. E. Burnside was once an
apprentice in an upstairs tailor shop, at
Xenia, Ohio.
Baron Schickens is the name of our
Russian Minister. He already longs to
be sent hence.
General Spinner has contributed q $40
bill over his autograph to the Mecklen
burg Centennial.
Mrs. Gaskins Of Carteret county, N. c.,
's.weighs $40 pounds, and one Of her stock
mgs holds bushel Of shelled corn.
The New York Ledger says: "Better
is the lowliest cottage exclusively to q
young married couple than the best
apartments in palace with .. mother-in-
law installed therein!' Robert, old man,
let'a shake on that.
The new building of the New York
Tribune, says the Des Moines Journal,
is ten stories high. When man comes
in and wants to know who wrote that
article, he is told that the author is on
the top floor with the elevator broken.
Chaviz, the lieutenant of the California
bandit chief, Vasquez, is carrying out the
threat he made to avenge the latter's
death. With band of mounted follow
ers he is ravaging certain southern coun-
ties, whose inhabitants clamor for legis-
lative appropriation as reward for his
capture.
The Brooklyn Argus quotes Mr.. Frank
ernorship of Massachusetts,, as saying ::
''From the time that saw Mr.. Beecher
would not arrest Mrs. Woodruff for that
publication, a conclusion was forced upon
my mind, and l am sorry to say that
every Development since then has added
to that conviction.
The New York World has been study
ing up early American history and an
noanced that on the 10th Of June, l772,
and not OH the 10th of April, ITS, and
not at Lexington, Massachusetts,, but at
Namquit, now Gaspee Point, in Nara.
gansett Bay, Rhode Island, the first blow
of the Revolution was struck. At that
time, the 8-gun British schooner Gaspee,
was captured by an improvised t1otilla Of
Providence rebels, under the lead of
Capt. Whipple.
Our esteemed Chief Magistrate, Gov.
Tilden, says New York paper, although
a man Of weight, intellectually, is not at
ponderous person physically considered.
We believe be brings down the scale at
about one hundred and thirty pounds,
but the canal ring are said to entertain
mach the same view IF him that the boy
did of the mule. ''Well, only weighed
one Of his hind legs, and l calculate that
weighed a,ont 1000 pounds"
Last December, Mollie Prescott, keeper
of q notorious designation house in Saint
| Louis. hired the Temple Hall Of that city,
to deliver lecture entitled 1.-THE Social
Evil The owner of the building subse.
quentlv discovered her character and re-
funded the rent money, and refused the
use Of the hall. Shortly aftcrward, she
brought suit for ST. 900 damages, and the
case has been on trial several days A
day or two since the jury awarded hel
SO DANA yes and costs.
Gen. Macquarie, by . distribution o.
seeds and Implements, attempted to in
duce the natives Of New South Wales t.
cultivate the ground. Among the packet!
of seeds were come which contained fish
hooks: these, together with the seeds
were given to the Governor to the sabl,
monarch, King Bungarce. Some tim,
after the Governor inquired Of hin
whether the seeds had yet come up. '.Oh
berry WE'LL" exclaimed Bungaree; "they
all come up berry we'll, except dem fish
hooks-dem no come up yet"
A. spelling match in Pulaski, Tenn.
the word "sachel' was given out. L
was spelled by the ex-rcbel Gen. Taliafer
70 without It" as Webster favors
Whereupon. according to the Pulaski
Citizen, ''the audience laid down ant
rolled over and laughed and bleated and
roared and squalled and Uttered and
hunched each other, and at last subsidet
so that the pedagogue could be heard
He blandly informed the audience that
Mr.. Taliaferro had spelled the word cor
rectly. Then they commenced to lool
blank at each other, and look gr cen and
foolish and had the dry grins and yor
could have heard pin drop"
Here's chance for wrestlers. Majo,
J. II. Mclaughlin Of Detroit will wrestl'
any man living for from $1,000 to $40,
900. and the championship Of the world
The Major will take or give expenses, !.
wrestle in this country or England. HI
prefers to wrestie with John Graham
or Richard Snabe Of England. The Maj
Mclaughlin now in London. England, Civ
ing exhibitions in Indian club swinging
and American style Of wrestling. and VII,
claims the title Of champion wrestler o
the United States. is not the great Amer
ican wrestler of that name.
Ohio has ; NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." stat
ute which goes somewhat further thai
the Minnesota law. Under il ) pseud,
champion Of Spiritualism demands Of til