Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-03-29
RIETEES,

! MI. III. NJ. BalIou Is getting ready 10
start a two cent Republican daily In
| Boston.
Minister Christiancy receives SlO,OOO
year in Peru and $500 for office rent.
| His wife Will follow him In June.
Mr.. Neal Dow, who has just passed
his seventy-fifIh birthday, is still q
very active person.
The Baroness Burdett COutts has
inherited nearly 10000 from her CON-
panion for many years, the late Mrs.
! Hannah Brown.
Governor Fremont thinks the Capt.
tai of Arizona is to become the great
railway station between this country
and Mexico.
Mr.. George William Curtis is to be
asked TO deliver the address at the
next Commencement of Bates College,
Lewiston, Maine.
A paper has been started at Lancas-
ter, Pennsylvania, called the Weekly
Bean. The prof go towards the sup
port of u soup house.
Mr.. James Russell Lowell has re-
ceived leave of absence from the
Government aud will visit America
during the summer.
A man named Marcus Wright, of
Illinois, has fallen heir to 81 1000. 900.
We'd rather be Wright thau be Pr -si-
dent.-Meriden Recorder.
Mr.. Eaton denies the title of the
President TO his office, but helps pass
bills Which can not be laws without
the signature of 4" his frauduIency.'
A man should think twice before
spending his money foolishiy. If he
puts it in a savings bank he will have
ample time to think q dozen mes
Nei0 Orleans PicoyuRe.
TIE Washington Republican says
there are several literary men lii
Washington who have an income from
their books of nearly So. cooper Cen
tury.
Mr.. Eugene Tompkins, one of the
proprietors Of the Boston Theeter,
sailed for Europe last Saturday to
meet Henry Irving, with view to
arranging for his Appearance in this
country.
If the Democrats can only get rid Of
effective supervision at the polls the
kind of ballots used will be a matter
of indifference to them. II will be
just as easy to stuff the boxes with one |
kind of ballot as anOther.-TT0y !
Times (Rep.)
In Grant parish, La, there is a
colored Child, ten months old, with |
perfectly white hair and eye rOws. |
The father aud mother are dark, and |
so is the child. / is doing well, and |
promises to be q leading curiosity in |
some of the coming mu:euus.-Picn- |
y1tRe.
As many of The most severe colds are |
he result OF imprudence in the spring |
.. .u- year, franklin : advice, " Take !
care ii your shop and your shop will |
AXE care Of you,' has been given the |
following hygIenic twist: " Stick to |
your fi4nnels uulll they STICK 10 You" |
FreSS.
The gravtst animal IL the asa, the |
gTayest bird the owl, an the grayest |
fish the oyster. l. Is the fools only
who are always serious. Gravity is
Dften the very essence Of imposture.
Gravity Of demeanOr is no test of mem
.sl capacity. There are pc pie who
hiuk they are piOus, when they are
InIy biliOus.-Arthur Gilman.
Prince Louis Napoleon is said to be
4 sunny, sweet-tempered youth. he
3 an excellent liDguist, as the attend
'nts placed about him during his
childhood were of different nationals
les; when he was only seven years
I'D he could read in four languages.
Louis Conneau, who shared his boyish
tudies at the Tuileries, is slill the
Princes most trusted friend.
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks
hat a pedestrian match between Pes
er Cooper and General Leslie COombs
night be made interesting. The in
crest might be enhanced by adding a
ew of the soldiers who marched to
Moscow with Napoleon, inter-
prInkled with all of General Wash
ngtOn's body servants who could be
on short notice.