The anti-monopolist., 1878-06-06
GENERAL NEWS.

If Arthur, the chief of the locomotive engi-
neers, is to be believed, the reported strike on
the Western railroads is all nonsense.
Several young ladies in Harlem, N. Y, are
forming boat club, for which they have
adopted the motto, I'VE paddle our own ca
noe.''
The Prince of Wales has put up his brother
| ln-lsw, the Crown Prince of Denmark, at the
Paris Jockey Club and hopes he will not be
black-balled
MIR. Jefferson Davis has just received judg-
ment IN the Mississippi court of appeals in
favor of his claim to the plantation of Briers-
field, in that State.
1t is related that when Miss Ophelia at an
art exhibition, cast her eyes for the first time
upon Powers Greek Slave she Immediately
exclaimed How shiftless.''
The Chicago common council, after trying
for eighteen years to drive out an Irish woman
who scuatted and built shanty in the middle
OF one of her streets, has been obliged to buv
her off.
There have been only three ecclesiastica
trials of bishops in the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States since 1887. and only
one involved criminal OF immoral conduct
McCoskrey's flight renders 2 second crimina
trial unnecessary. for which the church is to be
congratulated.
The greatest benefactor of the female sex on
this continent is Judge Grant of Davenport,
Iowa. He has adopted seventeen girls raised
them, and married most of them off with gen.
erous endowments.
Chicago IS III great stew over the custom
house frauds recently developed there. 1t
would be more extraordinary and excite more
comments if any honestly built public build
ing there would be unearthed.
Sir James Paget, baronet, has in due course
of time bossomed into a surgeon ex-
traordinary to Queen Victoria, and acquired
lucrative practice. He is much admired by
thousands of the proprietors of damaged
frames
4 lively discussion on the subject of elective
judges is just now going on in the English par
lament and press. 1t seems that there is only
one elective judge in England. the recorder of
London: bat be has just raised a scandal bv a
decision.
According to an English paper the yokcs
family returned their 'shanks' the audience
for their cordial reception. The item might
have been appropriate if the troupe had been
Lydia Thompson's, 5, and the audience composed
of saw-mill owners.
Indianapolis Haald: 1t never occurred to
the old gentlemen how to account for the pc
culiar odor and taste of the rain water until
his hopeful son. an aspiring NJ. D.. remarked
that he bleaching some skulls on the
roof of the house
A weekly theatrical sheet in New York has
been replying vigorously to an attack upon the
dramatic profession made in Worptr's NonthiY |
On investigation it was found that the attack
appeared in the magazine for August. 1852 and
that its author died last year.
The story is told of the present Pope when
legate to Brussels. that a free-thinking marquis
had the audacty at time to call his atten- |
ton to shockingly immodest Venus which |
was painted in ivory the Marquiss snuff |
box, with the purpose OF disconcerting the |
clerical dignitary. Mgr. Pecci examined c-iti |
cally without any apparent suspicion of its in |
decency. and handed it back to the MARQUIS |
quietly: Beautiful, very beauti-
full The marchioness ] suppose:"
The ages Of the regning sovereigns Of Eu- |
rope follows The Emperor of Germany |
o. NcaiHr tHt Mug VI W years anu ~
months. the Emperor Of Russia 50 wears and |
months, Victoria 50 years. Victor Emmanuel
died comparatively young at 81 years and 8
months. The youngest sovereigns the En-
peror of Austria II years and months; King
Humbert of Italy, "a years; the Sultan SO
years and months; the King of Greece 81
years. and the King Of Spain 30 years and
month.