The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-05-18

There are $1,000 exhibitors at Paris.
Cardinal Manning is all skin and sri"'.
William Ortons estate is estimated at
sl50,00O
It is a Frenchmans instinct TO make
the most of secret.
Cardinal Caterini, the senior cardinal
deacon, is reported to be dying.
The Pope has not the facility ofspecch
making that his predecessor had.
Senator Bruce, Of Mississippi, bears Il
close resemblance to King ka(aNaua'
A daughter ofthe lat" parau Stevens
is going to marry a rich English brewer.
King Humbcrts Prime Minister i<an
intimate friend and disciple Of Cariba]li.
Boston Globe McLins "lIi>,ory Of a
crime' takes the wind ont OF Victor
Hnao'e eails.
Clara Morris hates to be called "clrver.'
she says it is a nasty little English word.
Delegate Cannon, of Utah, has $50.
600 house at Salt Lake. lie maintains
only six families.
Rossiui's unpublished manuscripts are
all to be sold at auction in may. There
are l54 Of them.
Fox never wrote his speeches. and was
fond Of preparing them in travelling. as
he said post-chase was the best thing
to arrange his thoughts in.
Miss Marie Tuck is a Petersburg, Va,
young lady, whom Strakosch is training
for the operate stage.
General the Earl ofLucan is both aged
and handsome. He is ColvAcl-iu-Chh
Of the royal horse guards.
Garihaldi has written to Victor Hugo
that age and in6rmity will prevent him
from attending the Paris exhibition.
Railway travel in Connecticut is i'm
peded by the 6end who goes through the
train taking the votes Of the passengers
on the question ofperpetual punishment.
The ancient Egyptians used to glue
the mummies of their ancestors to the
walls Of theirhouseho]ds. These are the
earliest instances of "stuck-up' men aud
women on record.
In her novel Of Gan open verdict" Miss
Braddon says: "Therc are twenty poets
born in century and about twenty thou
sand rhymesters.' We honestly thought
there were more of us.
Brown tried to quarrel with his mother
in law the other evening. He married
the eldest of seven girls. Said she.
"Brown, my boy, I'm not going to ruin
my reputation by quarreliug with You.
Wait till all the girls are married. At
present, As mother-iu-law, I'm only
an amateur"
A young man oftwenty recently took
to Pennsylvania widow Of fifty, the sole
proprietress of a couple of paying petro-
leum wells. OF him it may be truly said
that che loved not wisely, but two wells"
"Belinda," said Clarissa, "why is a
kiss like that sewing machine Of yours?'
20, l don't know. Don't bother me-
"rll toll you why. It's because it
seems so good" Clarissa is going to be
married next week.
''Bertha":-lf you have your choice Of
marrying fr love or for money, marry
for love. Then you may have bread and
milk for breakfast, and have nice little
cottage with ducks around it, and you
may keep goat"
An editors wife never goes through
her husbands other trousers pockets to
strike a package of]ove letters. Editors
rarely have the other trousers.
The men in Congress who have got
the tariff in charge should not get too
much mixed. What the American people
want to know is whether they shall put
sugar into their coffee Or coffee into their
sugar, or whether they shall start
new party and drink nothing but plain
gin
Pope Leo used to write poetry. one
of his first acts as pope was to grant
himself absolution for the offence.
How strangely JOY and sorrow are
interviewer in this world. Pain chases
pleasure like a champion pedestrian,
and the sweet tears shed by the maple
tree in the spring time, crystyalized into
sugar, will give au infant the stomach
ache equal to Doctors bill Of 50.
Harvey, the discoverer Of the circula-
ton of the blood, is to have a statue
erected to his memory at Folkestouc.
Viscountess Kingsland, the widow of
an Irish peer, has just received grant
Of $500 from the royal bounty fund.
Boston Post: Congress has made its
first move toward the census OF 1859.
Fathers Of families should reciprocate.
The Chicago Times pictures d. Davis
and A. H. Stephens walking together,
and thinks it must look like a sugar bowl
taking a stroll with cambria needle.
| New York Sun: M. Adolph Theirs
was little man, mean and vulgar look
ing, wearing spectacIes, and with a
squeaking voice. His hats were half as
tall as himself.
| Mr.. C. G. Beekman has received thu
Republican nomination for governor 0
Oregon.
Porter and PODe.