, 1876-05-28

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| G. ". Childs is so years OF age. His business
profits, mostly obtained BY short flights Of the
| obituary muse, said to be 500 an hour.
The 1ecture-agenr of Mz. Theodore Ti1ton aenie.
unQualidedly the stories Of the latter's drunken
| ness circulated by country newspapers in ths
| West
| Mr.. Richard Scudder, the man who wrote th.t
stunninglic known the Dc Souza- Cabral weddiny-
hoax has left the Albany Journal and become
| Methodist preacher.
The latest device OF the circalators OF advertising
cards IL to place them in envelopes inscribed: ITO
! the Lady OF the House-For your life do not open
| this before eight minutes past to. night
| Dr.. J. Adams Allen has been selected as the ora
tor OF the thirty Annual Convention ofthe Chi
Psi Society," which is to be held at Middebury Col
| lege, Vermont. This will necesstate his absencs
! from the city for the next two weeks
All the large prizes at the public spelling in
London are won by few experts connected with
/ publishing houses, who know the dictionary by
heart One of the experts has lately been adding
G10 week to his salary in this manner.
Gen. Banks says his ''heart would pour itself out
in tears il the Char1estown Navy Yard should be
wiped out TO. it would be degrading and dishonos-
ing Bunker Hill. The General il supposed to have
been writing Fourth OF July Grafton when he
paused to make this remark.
The affecting story Of an old man who fell asleep
in an Omaha church, and got his nose wedsed ina
book-rack and had to be hewcd out with az,
should be warning to somnolent persons in
niddle-1ife the country over. We fear the first
effect Of 1t will be strong movement for the abo
lition OF book-racks-
A foolish young man has written to one Of the
newspapers in New York that he proposes to get
drunk every Sunday until the law forbfdding the
sale Of liquors that day is repealed 1t Is thought
that ii he should terminate his in his frenzy
the result would not he severely felt by the com
munity as by himself.
Prince Bismarck received address recently
from some ttadcsmen, complaining Of the dul1ness
Of trade In reply the Prince wrote terse letter,
saying that he was not d whit better of; that the
produce OF his estates sold only at unremunc1atiye
prices, and concluding by exhosting his fellow
fcrers to patriotic patience in expectation Of better
days.
Alta meeting lately held in New York to protest
against the enforcement Of the Sunday lquor-law,
the Rev. Father Schebel justified the drinking Of
wines and liquors by alluding to the practices Of
the founders Of Christianity and the Sacrament 1n
stituted By Christ He Indignantly denied that the
clergy had iucltcd this movement against liquor
selling on Sunday.
Susan D. Anthony discoursed at the Parker Ne
mortal in Boston, Sunday morning, on :. Woman
and Social Purity" She remarked, by way Of pre-
face, that, being Quaker by birth and education,
she didn't know as she could even read hymn,
but she made out to, nevertheless, and also wore
her pull-back and jewels as gracefully es If she
had been one Of the worlds people,
Custer committed his great indiscretion when he
wrote in the Galary that Mcclellan soldier
t'whose mental trimming and abilities we're Of q
higher ORDER and whose military qualifications and
knowledge were superior to those possessed by any
officer who subsequently led the Army Of tho
Potomac to battle" Gen. GEaat would be more
than human IL he could submit calmly to this from
u subordinate.
The Washington correspondent Of the Saturday
Erening Herald writes: 1.-THE engagement Of Miss
Frelingluysen and Mr.. Chandler Robbins is moi
only postponed, but broken of entirely, owing to
the gcntemans wish to have. the wedding post.
poned after the cards had been made ready. Thia
he did four times with his first wife, and Senatot
Freiinghuysen wisely concluded such man could
not make his daughter happy
Ernst Won EaEdel, the aged sculptor, to whose
unflagging exestions the erection OF the Hermann
monument In the Teutoburg Forest is due, Is go
ing to Italy During his stay in Southern Germany
he received many proofs Of public sympathy and
recognition He is IS years Of age, but still in
vigorous health Besides his work with the chisel,
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