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hene6t of the widows made by the
p 'wdeF rveF massacre, has reached
tl2.43G.
Nearly every lady At a Washing.
ton party the other evening wore .
diamond necklace.
England has pointed to her back
bone several times since the Euro
pean war discussion broke out, but
she has not shown any of it.
There are female pickpockets in
Baltimore so handsome and ladylike
that it is a pleasure to have them get
away with your watch or pocket
book.
There have been 100 marriages
in Salt Lake within the last two
weeks. The name of the happy
bridegroom isn't mentioned.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton says that
the present political complication is
a terrible muss with which no wo-
man is connected.
They talk of cutting Queen Vic
toria's salary down from $4,000 a
day to "a, 800, and this right in the
face of hard winter.
According to the French statis-
tics for 1876, 125 men became luna
tics through love, while the heads of
only 81 women were turned by the
same cause.
A good deal has been said about
the gold business in the Black Hills,
but what we ache to see is some man
who has got rich there.
The London Times looks upon our
architects and builders as men who
desire to kill the greatest number of
people in the shortest time.
Valentine Day will be big one
next time. That is the date upon
which Congress will count the elect
oral vote. Let it be done like two
doves cooling over each other.
Died, at San Francisco, on Dec Sd,
Tilden Hendricks, infant son of Jo-
seph and Kate Craig.
Miss Bertha Won Hillern was to at
tempt the feat of walking So miles in
26 hours, at Music Hall, in Boston,
on the Goth inst.
At Augusta, KY, last Thursday
week, seven young men who were
skating on the Ohio river, were
drowned.
When they see man in London
wearing a sealskin coat and dia-
monds they whisper, "There goes
an American forger."
A New York milk dealer has been
fined $3.50 and sent TO prison for 10
days for adulterating milk. There
are over 100 indictments for the
same offense now pending.
The Presidents message to the
House concerning the river and har-
Dor expenditures closes with the re-
port Of the Secretary of War, which
recalls the Presidents message on
the subject last August, declaring
no money should be spent on any
works not purely national. This
principle governed the action of the
chief engineer, who asked the engi-
neers in charge of various works
what works could be postponed for
the present. Their answers indicat-
ed that about nine and half mil,
lions would be required. This was
not a general saving, and conse-
quently the secretary, under the or
der of the President, directed the
chief engineer, who was we'll able to
Judge of the requirements, to make
allotments from the appropriation
aggregating not over two millions,
taking care that no new works should
be begun and none continued not
purely national in character. Two
millions proved two little, and the
President, after a long interview
authorized the chief engineer to in
crease the amount to $2,270,000, to
which sum there have been small ad-