Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-11-30
HERE AND THERE.


fixed at 10000.
Grant thinks Gambetta is the great
est leader of the times and Bismarck
the greatest thinker.
Thirty eight thousand five hundred
and forty-one Smiths draw pensions
from the Government.
The rumor that the Princess Louise
is about to join the Church of Rome
meets with prompt official denial.
st. Louis Times Some papers can't
take joke and lots of others can and
do, and what's more, they pass it off
for one Of their own.
Marden House, in which John Eve
Ign wrote his famous Diary" and
in which Macauley once lived, has
been burned to the ground.
At Madison, N. J., there is hicd-
DRY tree 100 feet high that was set out
as sapling on the day Madison was
inaugurated President, in honor of
that event.
No boy ever yet had chance TO shy a
stone through a back window that it
didn't take twenty pounds of will
pressure to the square inch to neglect
the opportunity.
Advice to bachelors: Never marry
a woman unless she is SO rich that you
would marry her if she were ugly,
and SO handsome that you would
marry her if she were poor.
Arthur Sullivan, the "PinafoTe"
man, is to bring out the oratoria Of
the "Prodigai Son" in Boston. The
old maids have made him promise to
leave out the stuffed calves, however,
and the garments must be long.
Evangelist Moody, who is now in
st. Louis, said to reporter the other
day: do MT put me down Rev
erend;' I'm no preacher, I am only a
layman; call me Moody, ..and: without
any Mr."
Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, has
lost his right as citizen. The Cham.
Der of Deputies has passed law de-
claring that any native of that country
civil status.
Eureka, Ark, is town Of wonder.
fully well developed growing powers.
On July 4 Of this year there was MT a
house there, and only six persons.
Now it has 800 houses and 1000 PEG.
pie. Fine lead mines are the attrac-
| ton.
Leap year customs are all right, but
when a woman gets down on her
knees to man, and he tells her that
"really he had no idea that she was in
earnest; that he can never, no never,
be hers, but that he loves her like a
brother,n she must be prepared to take
it like man and not go into Mysteries.
The Empress Eugene has become
almost childish with grief, and she
carries about with her all day small
| dagger-shaped fan bought at some
fancy fair, and of no intrinsic value,
which happened to be her sons last
gift to her, She listens to all that is
said to her, steadily regarding the
fl over painting on the fan.
The quickest railroad building ever
done in Nebraska was performed at
Lincoln recently, on the Burlington
and Missouri extension, when a gang
of sixty men, with two trains, laid one
mile of new road, putting in two
bridges, and two crossings, and
making connections at both ends
with the main line, between s O'Clock
in the evening and breakfast time,
and the men who drove the spikes
were obliged to have lanterns held
close to their work. The work was
hurried because it passes across the
proposed right of way of the Union
Pacific branch.
An American lady, who has lived in
England, says: (" For the street, Eng-
lsh women dress horribly, but for dir
ner parties and balls they are lovely.
They wear usually either white or
black, and their skins and complex
ions are dazzling. But every English
woman when she gets to be IS or 40
has rash break out on her nose. /
believe it is because they drink so
much. They are always drinking
wine and all that with their meals.
They don't get faded and worn, look
ing as we American women do, but
they get very stout, and their beauti-
full compilations get to be really
berry,"