The Red Cloud chief., 1877-06-14
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A feminine correspondent reports
tn At Mn. Fred. Dougiss = quite black
Baron Rothschild. who b ut the head
OF the Vienna firm, has m income OF
~esOyaoO.OO0. o. about e7spoo a day.
Mayor Butler Of Portland, Me- wrote
on an Aldermanic bill for cigar. In.
stead Of auditing II, The city does not
smoke"
Prof. -Tice Is out with the prediction
that there VIII be ffty.four thunder
storms this summer. Get glass castors
fos your bedsteads.
The Queen has granted the three
Misses Defoe, lineal decendents OF the
author 0f Robinson Crus0e," pensions
Of e375 per snnum each.
Hank Monk, the stage driver, whose
daredevil Jehuism the late Horace
Greeley once had occasion TO test, Ii still
on the road between Carson and Lake
Tahoe.
The Khedive OF Egypt Is becoming
mentally incapable. Unless he takes q
turn for the better. he will soon be a
driveling idiot. His eldest son il about
twenty-five years old, and isa quiet,
sensible youth.
Mr.. Z. T. Barnum has offered a re.
ward of $4,000 for the restitution OF
Charlie Ross, and has promised immun.
ity to the persons making the surrsn-
der. Mr.. Christian Ross, the father OF
the child. has sanctioned the arrange
ment.
Mr.. Sankey did not write: "The
Ninty and Nine." 1t is a piece that he
found in a paper and fitted up for evan
gelistic use, and was written years ago
by Miss Eliza Chaplain, then quite a
young girl, of the County Of Fife, in
Scotland.
DIR. Schaff writes from Jerusalem
that the Jews in that city number g.
OOO, or One-third Of the population. They
are all orthodox. and are growing In iR-
fiuence every year. Much has been
done for them by Baron Rothschild and
Sir Moses MOntefiOre.
Jefferson's home at Monticello is lit
tie better than q pile Of ruins. Cap
tain Levy, Of the navy. gave 1t to the
Government, and left money to endow
it as an agricultural college, but the
heirs broke the will, and the mansion
stands as a monument Of devastation
caused by litigation.
At a complimentary reception given
to Ole Bull in Boston lately. the violin
list presented the committee on the
Morse memorial acheck for $4,000, the
result of recent concerts given in the
west. The monument which it is pre-
posed to erect to the memory of the
early Morse settle rs will cost $4,000.
The sentence of Mr.. Bernard j. Rel.
ly, a st. Louis la wyer, to two years in
the Penitentiary for swindling q widow
out of $4,000 trust-fund provOkes the
special wonder of the Milwa ukee Sent
incl, which says: 1T is doubtful if any
precedent can be found for the action
of the court and jury. Surely If this
becomes epidemic it may be a danger.
GUS thing to become a defsulter."
The old King of GabOOn in Africa. is
dead at the age of nearly one hundred.
His eldest son, Adaude, at once, on sue
ceeding him, cashiered the hundred wO-
men of his fathers harem. ~liberating
fifty slaves, and abolished the sacrifice
of human beings at religious rites. Ad-
miral Ribaut and staff, of the French
squadron in the Gulf of Guinea, assist
ed at the coronation ceremonies. The
Admiral gave the King q COW and a
bull by way of starting a herd of cattle
for His Majesty.
The death, at fifty-four, lately occur
red of an Englishman, known as the
Norfolk giant. He was q farmer, and
often loaded his own wagon by carry.
ing four bushels Of wheat under each
arm at a time. When in great haste to
get far m work done he has been known
to harness himself to one of his own
harrows. His weight was 338 pounds;
height, 8 feet 8 inches; width from
shoulder to shoulder across the back, 20
inches. As is prOverbially the case
with giants, he was very good -natured
1t is well known that byron left an
autobiography, which he gave to Tom
Moore. The latter sold it to Murray
for $4,000. for publication, but subse-
quently Moore, at the instance of some
Of Byron's friends, who deemed it total.
ly unfit for publication. bought it back.
Among those who read 1t was Wash
ington Irving, who, in his later days, of.
ten gave to his intimate friends many
particulars regarding this work. 1t is
now stated that the son of one Of these
friends intends to publish a work, under
the title of The Supposed Biography
of Byron" and great indignation is ex.
pressed. Washington Irving. we are
happy to know, expressed his opinion
most strongly against its publication.
1t is a very common blunder to call
the President of the French Republic
Marshal de MacNIahon. The prefix
de" implies a faudal tenure, from
which the family name, coming after
il, was taken. 1t was brought into
France by the Franks, and it is the
translation of the Teutonic won" Gel