Fair play., 1880-03-06
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP,

HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.
THE Boston ulster has pocket deep
enough for an umbrella.
The latest fashion in London is to
have music during dinner.
A CALIFORNIA SNOWFALL, made to hit
a Chinaman, has a rock inside it.
AND now Boston physician SAYS that
long walks before breakfast bring on
dyspepsia.
SEVERAL young lawyers of Boston,
who live in suburban towns, ride to bus
mess in fair weather on bicycles
LEATHER petticoats are worn for
walking by English women. They look
like satin and wear forever.
PHILADELPHIA has society for
Christianizing the Jews at yearly ex-
pense of about $1,000. During the last
fiscal year the Secretary baptized two
infants and two adults. In five years of
It's existence it did not report a single
conversion.
Mr. ALLEN, the American accredited
as Hawaiian Minister to the United
States. appeared at the recent dip
tomatic reception decorated like his
peers. He wore across his chest the
Hawaiian grand order of knighthUod
and its broad blue ribbon.
Mrs. URSULA HUMPHREvILLE, of
Northfield, n. H., is Il centenarian who
reads without spectacles, and last au-
tumn, to show her energy, drove 4 NOW
ing machine round Il meadow ut Il colIn-
ty fair. Her descendants of three gen
eratiOns number forty-siX, and twenty
nine of them are living.
BEN HALLIDAY is for the twelfth win
ter before the United States Senate with
his claim for S5UU,0OU for losses sus-
tained by Indian depredations while
carrying the overland mail. His route
WAS 200 miles in length through the
Indian Territory, aud he used 10 employ
450 men and 100 horses.
The Chinese are not SO generally ad-
dicted to the Use of opium as is com
monty supposed. The Chinese Reriew
makes calculation on the subject,
based on the amount of opium imported
and grown in the country, from which
1t appears that not ten per cent. of the
adult males can possibly smoke opium.
BALD MOUNTAIN, North Carolina,
has again become an object of dread to
the residents in its vicinity. Seven
shocks and rumblings were felt and
heard osl the 2Sth and 29ih ult., and on
the 10Th inst. the noises were heard at a
distance of seven miles. The people
are expecting the mountain to fall to
pieces very soon.
A LITIGANT at Owen, O., said to his
counsel, Abuse the defendant, and I'll
take all the consequences" So the
lawyer spoke of the enemy as perjured,
thieying, murderOus villain, and got
soundly whipped for it as soon as Court
adjourned. He has now sued his client
for damages, on the ground that the
promised protection was not afforded.
The new census will show that, while
there has been an increase of population
in Lewiston, Biddeford, Portland, Bath,
Auburn, SacO, and one or two other
large towns and cities in Maine, there
has been a decrease during the last ten
years in every county in the State
except AroOstook. The county towns
have almost all lost, some very heavily.
MIR. DUDLEY A. SARGENT, Director
of the Harvard gymnasium, says that
of the large number of students he has
already examined at least One-halt
suffer to Il considerable and in many
cases an alarming extent from palpita-
ton and other affections of the heart,
caused by excessive cigarette smoking
and drinking strong coffee.
TIE daughter of Spotted Tail, a iall,
ungainly young woman of Is, is study
ing in the Government school for
Indians at Carlisle barracks, Pennsyl-
vania. She has lately married the half
breed interpreter employed at the
barracks, and when sent to do some
scrubhing, the other day, her lordly
husband interfcred. His wife was of
loyal blood, he remarked, the daughter
of a chief, and he wanted her to learn
only what the white ladies do.
A NEW method of reward for those
who are diligent in the business of the
Government has been established in
Japan. 1t consists of no decoration or
gift of money, but takes the form of
great national portrait gallery, in which
those who sufficiently distinguish them
selves in the opinion of their superiors
will. henceforth, have the privilege of
seeing their likenesscs placed. The per-
functory and lazy will have no habita-
ton there, but only those who are noted
for zeal and energy. Already vast
number of applications for place have
been made with the result. i'm the opin-
ion of the "Ilochi Shinbun," that the
gallery will have 'more of quantity than
quality in it,
SAMUEL, one of the New Lebanon
N. " Shakers. was killed by light
ming. Mary, a Shaker spirit medium,
says that she met him few days after
ward, and that the following conversa-
ton was held: "Samuel! What in |
The world does this mean?'' al do not |
know. | 60 to the shop and the board |
ing house, and no one notices ME. |
What is the meaning of all this, Mary?''
"Why, Samuel, don't you know that |
you are dead?" dead. why, no, | |
am not dead" "Surely you are. You
were struck by lightning week ago
last Thursday and killed, and we buried
you in the yard yonder." "Mary, is
that really so?" "Certainly it is"
.: Then good by. Mary lie disap-
peared, and Mary has never seen him
since.