The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-06-06
GENERAL NEWS.

| If Arthur, the chief of the locomotive engi
neers, is to be believed. the reported strike or
the Western railroads is all nonsense.
Several young ladies in Harlem, N. Y, ar
forming a 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
! in-law, the Crown Prince of Denmark, at the
Paris Jockey Club and hopes he will not be
black-balled
MIR. Jefferson Davis has just received judy
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 buy
her off.
There have been only three ecclesiastica
trials Of bishops in the Protestant Episcopal
church in the United States since 1857, and only
one involved criminal Of immoral conduct.
McCoskrey's flight renders a 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 in 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 blossomed into a surgeon ex-
traordinary to Queen Victoria, and acquired
lucrative practice. He is much admired by
thousands of the proprietors of damaged
frames.
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; but he has just raised scandal by a
decision.
According to English paper the vokes
family returned their 'shanks" to the audience
for their cordial reception. The item might
have been appropriate if the troupe had been |
Lydia Thompsons S, and the audience conn posed
Of saw-mill owners.
indianapolis Herald: 1t never occurred to |
The old gentlemen how to account for the pc
culiar odor and taste of the rain water until |
MS hopeful son, an aspiring NJ. d.. remarked |
that he was bleaching some skulls on the |
.oof of the house,
weekly theatrical sheet in New York has
been replying vigorously to an attack upon the
profession made in Ho,pers Monthly.
IN investigation it was found that the attack
appeared in the magazine for August 1852, and
hat its author died last year.
The story lis told of the present Pope when
egate to Brussels, that free-thinkng marquis
lad the audacity at one time to call his atten-
ion to shockingly immodest Venus which
vas painted in ivory the Marquis's snuff
'oy, with the purpose of disconcertng the
lerical dignitary. Mgr. Pecci examined crit-
ally without any apparent suspicion of its in
lecency and handed it back to the marquis
quietly Beautiful very beauti-
ul. The marchioness, suppose!'
The ages of the reigning sovereigns of Eu-
ope are az follows: The Emperor of Germany
Il years, the King of Holland 60 years and 10
months. the Emperor of Russia SO years and Z
months, Victoria so years. Victor Emmanuel
lied comparatively young at 81 years and
months. The youngest sovereigns the En-
oeror Of Austria. a years and months; King
aumbert of Italy, "a years; the Sultan 33
Tears and 3 months; the King of Greece 50
ears and the King of Spain 20 years and
month.