The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-08

Texas thinks of giving ladies half of
the positions in the state departments of
the lands0ffice, treasury, and comptroller.
The young lady who is librarian in In
diana has gone and got married, she has,
and the whole state is in a tumult. But
she declines to resign her Office all the
same.
One of the lady writers believes that
''the lady rolling through the street in
her elegant carriage, while the child is
left in the care of a hired nurse, is not as
happy as the one on the sidewalk, draw
ing her babe in its little wicker carriage"
American ladies like Canada because
somany nice things can be bought there
at such ridiculOusly low prices. 1t is
Sans watchdOgs, the custom-house Off
GERS, knowing anything about it.
Private letters from London tell of the
entire and really wonderful success of
Miss Kellogg at her Majesty's Opera,
and show that the published reports have
been IN no way exaggerated. Especially
in Aida" has our brilliant countrywo-
man triumphed. She has been the hon
ored guest at the homes of the leaders of
society, and her beauty as well as her tai
emit has charmed everybody.
A lady and her parrot arrived at the
Stockton house, Cape May It was
pretty bird, an educated bird, and every
body was charmed with its prattle But
1t was soon apparent that the parrot was
too industrious. 1t never went to sleep.
and seemed to imagine that all the rest
of the world had given up that habit 1t
chanted I'm Little Buttercup" and "a
Maiden Fair to See" all night through.
The guests at the Stockton liked ''Pina.
fore, |" but here was rather too much of q
good thing. They protested in force,
and Mr.. Duffy was compelled to order
the exile of the pet, which has returned
to Philadelphia, where 1t continues to
make miserable the unfortunate folks
who reside in its vicinity.
Mr.. John Clayton, who is to be the
stage manager for Mr.. Boucicault, at
Booths, New York, is accompanied to
this country by his wife, nee Eva Bouci-
cault. Mrs. Clayton is not an actress.
With her husband she will pass the time
until the opening of Booths in Septem-
Der at the summer resorts near New
York, for the preparatory business at the
theatre will require the almost constant
attendance of Mr.. Clayton. Mrs. Clay
ton was born in this country, but the
greater part of her life has been passed
in London, and she has yet to become ac-
quainted with her native land. She was
here about year ago, but made only a
brief stay. Her husband has never visit
ed America before. In the winter they
will make their home with Mr.. Bouci-
cault, and Will be surrounded by a de-
lightful society, for young Mrs. Clayton
is bright, handsome. and cultured.
Mrs. Emil Bausch, of New York, NAV
have been kind and affectionate spouse,
but she was in rather too much of hur-
ry the other day She sent for an under
taker to come and bury Bausch, who it
must be said really looked as if he were
dead as he lay stretched out on the bed,
with sheet over him. The undertaken
arranged the ice-box, and softly lifted
the gentleman into it. 1t had been a
warm day, and the sudden change in the
temperature just as they had Bausch
nicely packed, called his attention to
what was going ON, and he sneezed.
Then the undertaken felt that he was an
intruder, and gathering together the in
struments of his trade he went home
Mrs. Bausch. going to the front door,
brought In the Grape, and wrote letters
to her friends that the funeral, owing to
circumstances over which she had no
control, was postponed for the present.
His royal highness Leopold, Queen
VictOria's invalid son, has been formally
installed master of the Lodge of Anti
guilty, the ceremony being performed by
Col. Stuart, the senior master and chan
cellor. This lodge is remarkable as be-
ing the Oldest extant, and possesses many
curious Masonic relics. The mallet used
on the occasion was presented to the
lodge by Sir Christopher Wren, an old
master, and was employed by Charles II.
to lay the fOundation-stOne of ST. Paul's
Cathedral. 1t is made of a piece of
wood taken from the old cathedral.
The ceremony was especially interesting,
from the fact that the great uncle OF
Prince Leopold, the Duke of Sussex, was
master of the lodge between 1909 and
| 1843, and instituted a medal which is
worn by the members to commemorate
his mastership. The actual medal
which the Duke was in the habit OF
wearing was presented to Prince Leopold