, 1879-03-29
DiverSitieS.

IuS new OTh W OItu
Washington was once rebel Brigadier.
The Ameer can't read, and We feel safe TO
say that he's q cowardly, treacherous old
fraud
A society has been formed in France for
the purpose of finding situations for returned
Communists
Brigham Young's widow has married off
so expeditiously that there are scarcely
dozen of her left now.
Miss Dickinson got no valentines. She
thinks the critics must have poisoned the
entire country against her.
Clara Louise Kellogg Indignantly declares
that she has never been jealous of Cary
What never. Hardly ever
Wendell Phillips says the greenback party
ain dead yet, but will hold the b.iance Of
power In the next congress.
The Hartford Tunes, the leading demo-
cratic paper Ill Connecticut, declares in favor
of the nomination of Tilden in 1850.
The Pension bill unjustly excludes from
ITS benefits the prima donnas who have sus-
tanned wounds In operate wars
We hope, for the peace and comfort of the
administration of NJ Grevy, that there is no
New York Custom house In France.
A son was born to Yung Wing. the Cal
nese commissioner at Washington, recently,
which, We suppose, Will be called Yungest
Wing.
Professor Huxley says there is no reason
why twins should look alike; and twins
must at once stop this stupid and unreason-
| able practice.
The New York Commercial Bulletin says
Henry VIII. never popped the question.
He married his wives first and axed them
afterwards
Carver and Bogardus are going to shoot a
match, but unfortunately the terms of the
be the others target.
He was twitted on his badness, and re-
torted sharply: ''Well, there are two
things you never saw in this world red
headed Niger or bald d-headed fool.
There is a rumCr that Carl Schurz is
about to re-marry. 1t really seems that
no matter how thin are some mems legs
there are women who will fall i'll love with
them
Even as amiable man as Dom Piatt has
come to the habit of carrying his head IN a
sling. Dom has been known before to use
language liable to be construed rs disrespect-
ful, and We have been uneasy about his head.
Horatio Seymour says he babe farewell
to public life long ago, and Is trying to
close up his personal and business affairs,
that he may get ready TO die. ''Under
no circumstances shall ever again be 4
candidate for any office.
'.To fall in love with a plain-faced but
noble-mannered and interesting girl has
become one of the prevailing uSages of
New York society" says the Home jour
nal. It's true, then, Is it, that the PLAIN
girls have all the money!
1t is now stated that Prince Napoleon has
gone to South Africa for other purposes than
to get experience in fighting. The Prince
! has shown desire, recently, for low COM
pany, and his mother. who has been shamed
by many of his exploits, has taken this means
of getting him away.
"Perley," the veteran Washington cor
sespondent of the Boston Journal, pre-
diets the revival of sectional spirit IN It's
bitterest forms, and say that the struggle
for supremacy between the North and
South seems about to receive new lease
Of It's unbIessed existence
Psacbs advice to the young man about to
get married is applicable to those who think
of going TO LeadvilIe Don't" At first 1t
was pixies Peak or Bust, and afterward
it was pixies Peak and Bust" So it will
he With Ilcadville. As it is hard to get
there, and much harder to get away, the
better policy is to stay at home.
DIR. Schliemann has Just deposited in
the British Museum dagger believed to
be made of meteoric steel and exhumed
by HIM in the royal palace of Troy.
This is said to be the first iron discovered
by him in his excavations, either in the
Troad or the Peloponnessus, and Is of
very great archaeological interest.
"The Public works" of Ohio are a
pending" joke. They consist of some
long bitches where young catfish and
large bullfrogs flourish in damned water
which furnish feed for mills, and breeds
miasm over a large track of country
The profit on "the Public Works OF
Ohio" in year would not pay for the
quinine they make necessary to use IN a
single week
We've as good a right to it as anybody
else, as the original owner can't be found
Most likely the effort was too nueh for his
brain, and he doubtless expired With his
ewes in n "fine frenzy rolling"
"He was sitting by the FIRE
With Marier,
And towards her every hour he
Drew higher,
Till his chair did interpOSe,
When he kissed her on the nose
THEY'LL be married when this sloppy