Stevens County tribune., 1878-11-07
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

The New York postOfice orders about 4,UUU,- |
600 postage stamps fortnight. vyk~y-re rs a /
South Africa is highly recommended as |
place for consumptives to spend The winter.
Count Schimmeipenninck is the name OF the |
grand chamberlain of the king of Holland.
Miss Sadie Sykes, by a vote of 20l to 103, |
has been declared the prettiest girl at kHno,s
New. SA q - q kf}@N AAtsA sFessl
Three stones placed overthe grave of Thomas
Jefferson have been, one by one, destfeyed~by
relic hunters.
Gen. Bourbaki, of the French army, rides SO
hard at reviews that none OF his stan even pre-
tend to accompany him. Afst y @4A3A-
Human milk is used as a medicine forcon-
sumptives and for old people. 1t costs eight
cents pint in Shanghai. 4A@ &le&E
Mr.. Sankey, accompanied by his family. has
arrived in Liverpool, and contemplates making
q religious tour of England m AaaJ5.4aEgid
The Rev. j. V. Douglass, of Lynn, Mass.
under bail for several offenses, has ran away
and left his Tbondsmen to pay. ~ rs-1
L Marietta, (Ga. woman of an unbounded
stomach for quail has eaten thirty OF those
agreeable birds in thirty consecutive days.
| At Sheffield, England, recently, a game of
foot ball was played at night four electric
lights being used to illuminate the grounds:
Marquis Antonio Mantilla, now Spanish
minister 1to9Washington, will probably be
| transferred to Constantinople at an early date.
Lord Bray brooke, who owns the magnificent
| fifteenth century mansion of Audley End in
Cambridgeshire, has the finest aviary in Eu-
]Eope. ,r.jE.,-,, ..,-5...sl
Two young women in Carthage, Mo-, (the
local calls them f'ladies") cowhided their uncle
| in the street because he criticised their con-
duct. ... s.
| woman was offered 81 900 if she would re-
main silent for two hours. At the end of fifteen
minutes she asked: isn't the time nearly
up2" She lost. 7s.
The temperance managers of the Oakland
county (Mich.) fair refused to permit cider to
be made on the grounds, but offered premiums
| for the best wine. a,.
] When the late Gen. Whitney, of Boston, was
interviewed" )" he would dictate both the ques-
/ tions and answers to the astounded but de-
| lighted reporter.
| Connecticut man weighing 200 pounds
convinced the jury that he was drawn around
the yard by the hair, by his wife, who weighs
eighty-seven pounds. sffs,e. zas.isrf &,
/ Mr. J. Fl. Williams, who writes the funny
paragraphs in the Norristown Herald, Is said to
have fallen heir to $50 900, left to him by a
| good old uncle in Holland.
/ The Scientific american says that if mans
| arm were long enough to let him reach to the
sun, it would be over three years before he
would feel that his fingers were burnt. (; rg
of Quebec nave been ordered to pray for the
success of the movement for the beatifcation
of Mgr. Laval, the first bishop of Canada.
The Emperor of Russia and the Ameer of
Cabul are desirous of pooling issues. The only
trouble bruin is that the tail wants to wag the
bear, which the latter considers piece OF bear
| faced impotence. uz-r----r- -r.--zsa.a
Being unable to make their wedding cake go
around ut stood four feet above It's pedestal, J
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Bell, Jr., had it photo
graphed before they went to Europe and sent
copies to their friends. G
The alcalde of Salto in the Argentine re-
public, recently seized the village barber
scissors for debt, and the unhappy man had to
scrape along with his razor only for some days
till the shears were restored to him.
An honest farmer sent some handsome game
and black Spanish fowls to the Kingston (O.)
exhibition. The judges washed the birds and
| it came out that the former were painted and
that the latter had had their legs blackleaded.
& Jones, the man VINO was recently tarred and
feathered in Reno, CAL, spends most of his
time reading the hotel register in San Francisco.
he carries two loaded revolvers and will talk
with nobody. It is surmised that he is an
| sane. ~sS-
On Nov. IA the French academy will elect a
successor to M, de Lomenie. The two candi-
dates with any chance of success are n. Taine,
we'll known for his works on England, and the
Due dAudiffret-Pasquier, president of the
Senate.
At Des Moines kitten had caught and was
playing with mouse when the frightened
captive sprang into pussy's open mouth and ran
down her throat. The kitten went into spasms,
which did not subside till the mouse had been
suffocated.
The Holly system.of heating houses with
steam sent thror gh street mains has just been
established in Springfield, Mass. where a gas
I company has bought the right.@~Springfeld is
the second city to try it, Lockport, N. Y, hav-
ing been the first.
1 Russia is compelled to economize in many
4 quarters, as result of the late war. Among
other retrenchments the funds annually allot-
ted for the construction of the University of
Siberia, and for the repair Of Siberian post
roads are withheld.
| A few months ago the city of Cera, Vene.
zuela, was destroyed by an earthquake. It lie
new site in the plain below, where several vii
lagos escaped unscathed, while every town on
the hillside was overthrown. .a.
Monsignor Dupanloup's death brings the
number of vacant seats in the French Senate
; up to ten. OF these eight belonged to repre-
sentatives Of departments, and two to life Sen
ators. Within three years the upper chamber
has lost thirty of its members.
son of ex-Mayor Stevens, of Cambridge,
4 was engaged to marry one Of the bellies of that
4 city, but on the day appointed for the wedding,
after extensive preparations had been made,
and many guests had already arrived, he de-
ciared that he had changed his mind. ar
Mr.. Martin was on his way from Madison to
Janesville, Wis, to marry Miss Foster, but he
chanced to meet Miss Cobbe, whom he had
once known and loved, and straightway mar
ried her, leaving MISS Foster and her wedding
lguests TO wait in vain for his coming.
Miss Bancoft, granddaughter of George
Bancroft, the historian fell down stairs on
Monday at the Perry house, Newport, dislo-
, eating her arm and receiving other injuries
This is the third accident which has occurred
in the family within short space of time.
, Twelve years ago Deacon Benson, of Fort
| Wayne, Ind, q man of 4S, wss worth $500, 600
He speculated, lost money, became passenger
conductor, then saloon-keeper, then street.
car driver, then pauper. Last week he died
in the hospital and was buried in potter'i
| field.
A young woman in Leon, Texas, was engaged
II to be married. That did not deter her from
{ clipping with second lover; but she was speed.
lily overtaken by the first lover, with whom she
went obediently to a clergyman and was Joined
in wedlock, the second lover returning home
{ wifeless. 'gsa slas 5, t4
Bismarcks big dog Sultan, having tried te
devour Prince Gortschakoff and having snapped
at his mistress, re sently made at an intimate
friend of the chancellors who had called te
Ioffer congratulations on the approaching wed
) ding, with such business-like aspect that ths
) In August the National wave struck Mem
phis, and Radical Workingman-i
, Greenback ticket was elected All the new
officials-sheriff, judge of the criminal court
t and chancellor--died of the yellow fever, ano
J the vacancies have been filled by the appoint