The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-12-13
THINGANYJIGS.

TEfINGAMYJIGS.
~ Detroit Free Press: senator Mortons last
words: Il am worn out Senator Matthews: I'm
played ont
- The only surviving male relative of Washing
ton, bearing his name. is Washington correspond
ent This Is not a pun, but Il fact Ills Christian
name is not George.
- The Cotton tCal.l .Segi- TIopie SAYS that IF
| there is man running for office in Los Angeles
County who hasn't stolen sheep, horses, robbed hem
roOsts and stolen reot he Will please stand
| up and be counted
| ~ Somebody locates Harry Meisgs' birthplace,
in Connecticut. There was n distinS Suished indivd
ual born in that State, bu. it was nutmegs.-LO,ceu
| Courier.
But they say that Harry was a '.nut,- too.
~ In lead coffin lately unearthed between
Bethany and the Mount Of Olives, there found
silver ring bearing the names of Samson and Mano-
| all.
~ portion of the stake used at the martyrlom
of Bishop Hooper, at Gloucester in England, in the
time of Queen Mary, advertised recently in the
local newspapers for sale. The two members OF Par
Lament for that city, Messrs. Monk and Wait, have
contributed the sum required for its purchase, and
the relic Is TO be preserved in the Gloucester Museum
| sF- Some said, the other day, that it
your old and trusted employees who made the big
thieves Two of the London detectives lately found
guilty of bribery and collusion with the thieves had
been on the force thirty years.
~ The Chicago Post mildly remarks that when
St Louis wants obelisk old shoe of one of her
bellies will answer the purpose. The Globe Democrat
|
/ broken savings banks.
Montreal Letter: have been amused in coming
/ the hotel arrivals in the newspapers here. to
every foreign and Canadian name printed in full, and
the list laeoncally completed thus, land seventy
nine Americans"
| yF Cincinnati Commercial: A Scotch paper re-
lates how General Grant lost thumb and finger at
the battle of Michigan. Of course it means Zach
Chandler, who met the surgeon a that battle and III
| yited him to take three fingers.
| ty The rage for coin collecting quite as great
| fifty years ago to-day. In 1924. five shilling
(Sl.2jj piece, representing Charles l. horseback,
| and a view of Oxford beneath the horse, sold for
S3I5
| II Malu,aison the favorite suburban home of
the first Napoleon and his Empress, Josephine,
lately sold at auction TO Mr. Gauer. of Paris for
| 10000 francs, or about sii6,OO0.
| ~ few days ago there died in Vienna. at the
age Of seventyseven, Count Carlo Nalieri the last
descendant of the family of Marine Falieri, the IA
nous Dose of Venice. In consequence of the seizure
of Venice by Napoleon the parents of the deceased
Count were Obliged, after contscation of their prop
erty, to leave their home. Then they settled in vi
emma, where Count Carlo Nalieri spent the greater
part Of his life.
~ There is a curious story afoat of tue Sultan
dreaming that the Prophet Mohammed appeared to
him. and warned him that the safety of his religion
and throne depended upon his making peace. There
upon, the Sultan consulted his first astroOger who
said he had also seen the same vision. The Sheik-ul
Islam, tOo reported to have had the story of the
dream narrated in the mosques, if to prepare the
public mind for peace.
~ st. Louis Times: Mr.. Hayes is a very worthy
gentleman, doubt but the who mentions his
name in connection with that of Henry Clay makes
| mistake. 1t WAS Clay who "would rather be right
than President" Hayes thought that he would pre-
fer to be President first and get right afterwards.
70 1t is odd to note how the great national fair
now open in Toxic, copies in not few details the
Philadelphia show of last year. 1t was dedicated by
the Mikado as President Grant dedicated ours and
the speecl-making by day followed by fireworks
at night; it embraces agricultural hall, machin-
cry hall, horticultural hall, fine art hall, and so
| -.
Japanese grounds forms vast contrast to the cram
med dairies and reeking restaurants of the Centen
| NAL
| ~ The overhauling of an old church in Lcipsic
| number of original paintings of great value, by Al
brecht Durer. They we're placed with quantity of
old rubbish, in lumber room, in the church tower
and forgotten. After nearly hundred years of neg
lect and oblivion, they have just been accidentally
found, and have been transferred to tn, Lcpsc Mu-
| scum.
~ Let us give thanks for Hayes, next Thursday
that there is less of him than there was by eight
| months and a half.-St Louis Globe Democrat
- If Senator john Patterson is purchased by the
| Democrats ii will he by human slavery again that
| they get control of the Government PHILADELPHIA
Press
~ The expected breakup of parties in the South
which was TO be the effect of Hayes policy, is far
confined to the Republican party Riehn,ond En-
| qtirer.
~ The Indignation of the Democrats at the asser
ton that they brbed the carpetbaggers very beau
tful but will they cite precedent where men
| have sold out for nothing w y. Tribune.
| ~ The iMenGnm asserts that "A romance bitIler-
to unknown, by Edgar A. Poe has recently come into
the possession of Mr. John H. Ingram. Ii is entitled
THE Journal of Julius Rodman, and is description
of an imaginary First Passage Across the Rocky
Mountains Of North America Achieved by Civil
| lied Man."
~ Henry b. Northrup, who died recently at Sandy
ll N Y, was of the most prominent abolition
lists of other days. and especially achieved wide rep
utaon the deverer of Solomon NOrthrup. the tale
of whose adventures under the title Of Solomon
Northrup; or, Twelve Years a Slave was one of the
| books which aroused the Northern people to a know-
| edge of the barbarism of slavery.
" Hon. Neal Dow, of Portland, Maine the well
known temperance advocate, went down to the station
i'll hot haste, Saturday night, to confront a some
what inebrated book agent who alleged he recently
drank brandy and water with the apostle of sobrety
on board the steamer Massachusetts He finally ex-
| planned that he drank the brandy and Mr.. Dow the
water, statement voted by all parties be entirely
| satisfactory.
~ when said would die bachelor explains
the ready gentleman in the play, 81 did not think
should live till were married." And so perhaps the
Democratic party will now explain to Messrs Pater-
| son and Conover that when Il called them compound
adjective carpet-baggers. it did not think they wonld
live till they were Democratic ~
| ~ Journal.
~ Among the many canses for Senator Morton's
death, this, from the New York World is the latest
Careless living, late studying night after night fol-
lowed by hearty suppers may be said to have caused
| his DEATH
| rP The seating of Kellogg is proclamation by
the Republican Senators that Packard is the legally
elected Governor Of Louisiana. 1t is slap in the face
| to President Hayes
| " Conklng says of Morrissey: 81 never saw him
but learned something" That's the experience of a
good many persons hut il costs like the deuce to
| .'see" him.
- When we see q civilian tearing the record of
hard fought and hard battles from the tattered
colOrs brave regiments il reminds us of how the
| camp followers used to follow up the line of battle
at a safe distance, and rob the dying and the dead
| Ha,rkeye.
sg1 quaint, ollfashioned Democrat from the
| North-west-not member Of Congress-who is now
here, said to your correspondent to-day: Il have
only one fear for our men in the House. Idont know
that they drink any more whiskey than the Republi-
| cans but it goes to their heads. That sort Of
thing is never safe-except with settled policy and
| an Administration of your own Washington Dis
| patch 10 the World, (Dem.J
We learn now, from satisfactory authority, that
Secretary Evarts telegrahed TO Col Ingerso asking
| him if he would accept the German mission and he
| replied personally that he would not-Chodgo Hi
| dHcc.
~ Some very interesting rock painting have been
discovered in New Zeland, in the Welka Pass ranges
The paintings belong to three distinct periods. First
| of all thre are some in red paint new almost Obt-
Grated Above these also Others in red paint and
| above these more primitive pictures III black. All
anterior to the arrival of the Maors whose art is
| of a wholly difernt nature According to a Maori