The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-06
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.


The municipality of Besancon, France, has
resolved to affix q tablet on the house where
} Victor Hugo was born and to rename the
street after him.
The revival OF operations In tho national
armory at Springfield, Mass, has probably
been oGcasioned by the rumor that Paul dc
Cassagnao intended to visit tuis country
ISt. Louis Times-Journal.
The New York star notes the fact that Clar-
ence Cook is the only living writer who can
bring tears toehe eyes OF his readers In dis
GUESSING such questions as architecture and
upholstery.
Philadelphia has Society for Organizing
Charitable Relief and REFRESHING Mendeancy.
1t publishes o manual for the use Of those
who desire to visit the poor containing nd
vice as to the proper mode OF help and warn
ings agains imposition.
When the news Of the sudden death Of the
Duke Of Newcastle reached his wife, who was
an ilegitimate daughter Of Adrian Hope, ut
Paris where she resided she hastened to Lon
don, drove to the hotel. and asked II 1t was
true. Then she drove away. Meantime he
lay cold and stiff In darkened room upstairs.
The most magnificently conspicuous by his
gallant and solderiy bearing at the marriage
OF the Duke Of Connaught was the Grown
Prince Of Prussia. He wore the uniform Of
the white cuirassers which Prince Bismark
has made the visible ensign Of power and
military sway.
4 The Omaha Herald says that the appro-
priations made by the last Nebraska legisla-
ture give the total as $760679 30. or $3.50 679 33
more than can be raised by taxation under
born In fraud, Nebraska had scarcely put on
her garments of statehood before the riot In
robbery began, and 1t still continues"
The splendid Bohemian estate OF Ybrow,
belonging to DIR. Strousberg, the celebrated
railway contractor and promoter, both In
md Hmm
the end Of last month, under al order of the
Court at Prague. Prince Colloredo Mansfield
was declared the purchaser at the price Of
81 $4,000
New York club society Is considerably ex-
ercised over what Ia, for an American club,
two gentlemen played for eight hours at q
stretch. and when leaving off the winner had
pocketed four Thousand odd dollars. In Lon
don they would call such little game as that
an appetizer.
DIR. Newman, the new English cardinal.
plays on the violin and ylnloncello with *
quisite taste and skill. The symphonies Of
Beethoven are his evenings delight. On be-
ing challenged by an eminent Methodist
divine to discuss tho merits OF their faiths In
the Birmingham Town Hall, he declined, but
said no would play the violin against him"
Sir Richard Wallace has given ten new
fountains to the city Of Paris, which are to he
erected against the walls In different parts of
the capital. They are Of cast iron, and OF the
same pattern throughout like those now
seen In the streets. A constant supply Of fiji
tered water will thus be at the command Ut
the poorer inhabitants In the vicinity Of each.
A Nevada surgeon is in trouble through
trying to improve woman's nose. She had
broken it when n child, and the mishap had
lett 1t ia q slightly crooked condition. The
surgeon bargained to stratghten IT, and at
tempted to do 81 by breaking 1t anew. The
operation left the nose In u worse shape than
1t was before. The woman sues Tor $4,000
damages.
Field Marshal Prince Bariatnski, whose
death ut Geneva has been announced. will b.
best remembered by the capture of Scharn ]
and the submission Of the Caucasus lii 1859
The prince, who was a descendant oUf enc ot
the few old families who claim Rufik as their
ancestor, retired In 1862 from public life, and
lived chiefly In Poland, where he tried to con
ciIiate the Poles, without, however, finding
much support at st. Petersburg.
ut seems to me your loaves are not OF the
same weight" muttered fault-hnding
housewife to a baker, as she poised a couple
OF loaves from his basket; edo you suppose
you can cheat me z" don't want to cheat
you," replied the man Of bread, not relish
Ing such an insinuation; II know the loaves
were weighed, every soul OF them, and one
| weighs just as much as tother, by gracious /!
and more too, day say, Ii the truth was
known"
4 At the Marlborough Club, London, Count
Schouvaloff, the Russian Ambassador, played
away In few hours sum equal to his whole
| salary, and one OF the wealthest commoners
| has been 50 heavily bitten that he Is going
into bankruptcy Tor q total exceeding half a
million pounds. Another young politician,
heir to o historic coronSt, who had been going
at terrible pace, was dragged out OF the
| club tp the amazement of the members, by
| his mother, who said: "You are not going to
| follow Hastings and Newcastle"
Little pigs In gold and silver are now worn
| by everybody In Vienna as jewelry. Pins,
charms, bracelets, stick handles-eve thing
is for the moment precise. The Court began
and the rest of the world naturally followed
the lead. The fashion has come from Ger
| many, and was introduced to commemorate
| he happy escape Of the Emperor William
from all the risks and dangers he has lately
run, and his "Schwens guck, or pig s luck
meaning splendid luck-as the German phase
goes, In coming nut OF 1t all SO well.
Lieut.. Darien who escaped at Isandua, was
the champion three-mile runner VI the Uni
versity OF Oxford, and won the inter-univer-
sity prize at Lille Bridge grounds. By the
habit OF swift running he had thus acquired
he was enabled to outstrip the swiftest ZuIus,
who are considered the runners in the world
The iie+tness displayed by Lieut.. Darien must
have astOnished his pursuers, who after a
while gave up the chase, striking their shields
with their assegais in token Of defeat.
A curious specimen of the tramp family
turned up at Danbury, Conn, last week.
When arrested and searched nine pairs OF
trousers, dozen waistcOats, and an equal
number OF coats were removed before the
searchers came upon the framework of
the man himself. These articles of cloth
lug, with the contents of their pockets,
weighed some 200 pounds, and the officers
turned out nf them rubbish Of all sorts in
quantity sufficient to fill an ordinary flour
barrel. Amid the various bits OF old iron,
rusty scissors, knives, etc, were found Slain
greenbacks.
The Russian judges in the recently an
nexed provinces Of Tul kestan are apt to
blsnder through ignorance OF the language
aud habits Of the people. One Kirguiz farmer
charged another with having burned his rick
of wheat, but the defendant claimed that the
damage had been done accidentally by him
through his having set fire to the house of
Kalamush who had ruined him. 'And what
about Kalamush and his ftuily?" cried the
judge. cali were burned" The Judge or
dered the defendantto be put in chains and