, 1876-04-14

Int mi smsll, aud l,e reserved no authors rights;
he dled m!sorhbly poor, and. but for tho aid OF
aicpor verdI, would have been utafved to death.
Improved reading Tho New Orleans Ieepub'
,ieop eays that = monkey laughs without VIM
ntno your respect. We nlwsys laugh At tho
Repu5lcan'e tokes.-Nerv York Herald. Il 10
dla}cult to imagine Jamcs Gordon Bennett
laughing vhlle tho oxiatonce Of tho 1so1ey BoIey
Association IL hanging upon s!endor thread.
Emmy Elsa1or, tho onoo famous dancer. IL
nav living quietly 1t Hamburg. Bho Ia reported
10 bc WORTH at least 81, 100000. A correspondent
writes "Elsator might pass for q nonsn Of
middle ago. thanks, no doubt, to her ski!l in
coucoallng tho raynges OF tino, 4. ehe ID now in
her 9th year. IIor oyos are bright, and not
trace Of gray ie Visible In her hair"
Mr., George Smith, Of tho Dritlah Museum,
1rbo has thrown more light On ChAldean htsiory
and tradition within tho Inst year or two thaa
had beon shed by the scholarship Of ttrco csn-
tur,es previous, l1aa obtained permission from
Tho Turkish Government to loivo among tho
ruins Of Nlneveh for tvo ysnrs moro. Ills for-
.ner researches wesn much hampsrod by tho In
reference Of tho local officials, lIo now Ina
credentials which place Linn far abovo their au-
thorty.
Tho Duke Of Richmond. Desiring to obtain tho
loan Of Dno painting for the American Centon-
NAL, wrote note requesting thla favor to tho
lady who ownod It. no signed himself by tho
double title which 1T. Dsraoli has procured for
him, "Rlchnond aud Qo1don." Tho lady did
not recall any titled acquaintance of thns name
md wroto In roply to "MesRrs. nichmand &
Gordon" donying tho request. Tho mistake
has besn focti1cd, aud tho picture will come by
The next consignment,
Jamea Fisk, Jr., once tried to secure Orcn-
bach for IN engagement at bis Opera-lIouae.
Mo one will over forget tho famous cable dis
patch Of Fisk to Minister glcklos at Madrd
s'8ecuro Onenbach at onco. slust have hin, at
suY torms. SEQ him without dclay.-FlsK."
Blck1cs thought tho dispatch must DO from
Fish, Secretary Of State, aud was puzzled to
think what tho United States Government could
want With tho famous vritor Of opera-ooufres.
Ills private secretary explained tlo matter to
him, and after cursiug Fisk for bis impudnnce,
oyersuros really vere made to Ononbacl, which
hp declined.
A number Of aornan Bnvana wor0 l&to1y taken
In and donc for by apecimons OF pottery manu-
featured IN Jerusalem. and sold at hish prico
to the Berlin MuBeum AZ genuine hIosb1tish an-
sauitieB. English and French scholars exposed
tho forgeries; but tho clenror tho impoaturo
became the angrier the German aayans got like
tho Profossors who stood sponsors for tho Car
diG, Giant In this country. Prot. MommHen said
Of tho controversy the other day, In tho PruH-
eau ulet' kno" OF. no lntoEaatlonat aclen"
tito controversy which uaa eyor fought upon
either aldo In 30 uugontlomanly vay "a this by
tho German Professors"
Charles @. Halborp testified IN marine in
susAnce case in Nov York City last wcok that he
scuttcd schooner In tho Gulf of. aIc1ico many
years aso' tnA1 10 s"ofo u pFos1oue SUE TINT
tho resHel WAS vreokod that ho had bean paid
.onsu ".a ~. oou.u ~ u 'a1n1ooaple noseI
Tor four years by tho insurance company' that
he tlreatepod to nut TN a iub on thu owner Of
ths v.ssol ~ ,a ~ ~. ..sro ~, ,"t.,. 49,. ~
sno Soshol" NV ""EeS "e1o uo1 paln thht 10 "as
knew tho statute OF limitations r,,l3ovoa him of
1,.hi.a ss5 49, - ,,ss,. ,.s "s".,." aN ~
haolt7 anu that he didn't knoz Wbether tho
statute Of limitations would apply IN case OF per-
tu1y or not. He was badly used m bv tho Inv.