The Red Cloud chief., 1879-04-24
GENERAL BREvITIES.

TIE Ciceronian Debating Club, OF
Princeton, KY, has decided that Cleo
patra was justified in her conduct
through life"
IT has lust been ascertained that the
Missouri River is nsvigable To within
IL miles of Helena, Montana, 30 miles
above Fort Benton.
A BILL making it a ~penitentiary o.
tense to carry concealed deadly weap-
ons i'm Tennessee, has passed the lower
house of the Legislature.
A ELL has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania Legislature to authorize
hotel-keepers to post the names OF guests
who go off without paying their bills.
THE inscription cast on a big bell
lust made for a church in Newark, N.
j., thus blossoms into poetry:
Presented by Miss Abby Coe.
Praise God from whom ali blessings low.
OUT of 972, COS pieces of baggage car
ried on the Pennsylvania lines during
1878, only one was lost. This ID unan.
swerable evidence Of the perfection OF
the American system of checking bag
gage.
A BALTIMORE and Ohio Railroad en-
ployee has computed that if the cars be-
longing to that company were coupled
together in one continuous string they
would cover q distance OF over 10y
miles.
A RoLLwAY containing eight million
feet of logs is one Of the sights at st
Louis, Mich. 1t is a vertable pine
mountain, the removal of which Will be
attended with considerable danger TO
life and limb.
ABAcHELoR who lately died in Man
chester, England, left bis property to
the 80 women who had refused his mat
rimonial offers. He said in his will
that to their refusals he owed the peace
he had enjoyed during life, and that he
felt himself their debtor.
AN Oxford Mich girl of IA, desiring
to marry and fearing that her youthful.
ness would be regarded by the clergy.
man as an objection, altered h date Of
her birth in the family Bible, and took
the sacred volume along when she eloped
with her lover.
Mr.. RAGsDALE, Treasurer OF Jefferson
County, Ind broke his engagement will
a poor girl to marry a widow, and 6 jury
compelled him to pay 5000 damages
SWELL" he said. as he handed over the
money, 81 am still about $780, 600 aheat
by the change"
In Persia a girl is expected to yield
her parents a good round sum at mar.
riage, and tie people of that country
are indignant and Mortified when told
that in America daughters are giver
away in marriage, as though the parents
consider them worthless trash.
THE Iturbide is the swell hotel of the
City of Mexico. 1t was built in the last
century by a Spanish nobleman for hi!
own residence, and is spacious, bu'
gloomy. The Emperor Iturbide select
ed it as his palace when the Spanish
dominion was overthrow.
MANY Russian peasants oppose the
vaccination of their children, though
the small pox appears periodically ant
depopulates whole villages. The Gov
eminent of Niatka have announced that
unvaccinated children shall not be ad
mitted to the schools.
AL. SMITH, of Elko, New, is a tough
man. In a fight his antagonist chopped
three chips out of his skull with an ak
and the chips were afterward picked w
on the field of battle. The Ak penetrat
ed to the brain, partly ~parslyzing him
but none of his wounds have inflamed
and it is thought that Smith will ge
well.
THE London Queen chronicles a splen
did ball given in Paris by Mrs. Hunger
ford, a rich American lady, at which
Mrs. Mackey wore white satin, trimmed
in front with a profusion of red flow
ers. The sleeves were fastened up will
diamond and sapphire agraffes, and bel
shoes were ornamented with buckle.
set with large diamonds.
RECENTLY, in one of the Lowell
Mass, Baptist churches, the Bell tele
phone apparatus wa placed in the pull
pit on Sunday, and the service wa!
heard distinctly by people having con
nection with it in all parts of the city
The singing, both tune and words, wa
heard in F~oxborough, IS miles distant
and in Boston, 80 miles away.
LORD DUFFERIN, in his speech JUS
before leaving for St. Petersburg, said
in speaking of the United States: So
was permitted to invade theil
border without receiving at the hands
of that noble and generous people tn,
most marked and iattering attention
the kindest and most generous hospi
tality."
AND now comes the adulteration o
oysters. Those of a peculiar green tin
have, in Europe, been considered thu
finest, and dealers, knowing that, have
succeeded in imparting it by immersins
the oysters in a solution Of salt of cop
per At Bordeaux q large quantity
thus prepared were lately seized by the
authorities.
A EVANSVILLE (Wis.) man claims tl
have found q sure cure for potato bugs
His plan is simply to plant one or two
flax-seeds in each hill of potatoes. He
a Y that the bugs will shun it every
time, and that for 10 years he has beer
thus successful in raising potatoes while
others have failed. The proposed rem
edy is simple, and it costs almost moth
ing to try it.
A LARGE number of residents of Tu'
lare County, California, have organized
military companies to resist the propos
ed attempt of the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company to eject them from theil
homesteads. They are located on rail
road lands, to which they claim to have
acquired q title. Any attempt to ejec'
them will bring about an armed insur
rection.
Mr.. BLACKFAN, Superintendent o.
the Foreign Mails, has received informa
ton from Thomas C. Montgomery o.
Rochester, N. Y, that . letter mailed
there on Dec. 8, 1873, accomplished the
circuit of the globe in 81 days. It LEFT
San Francisco on Dec. II, Hong Kong