Morning journal and courier., 1880-04-22

Lay captured it the first night and burned it \ It was then on successive nights left at the smoke house, in the wood-pile, under the
 ,water-trough and in the hay-mow, but all te no good end, for the active and bigoted Mrs l Lay was always oR the watch, determined | that her husband should not have 8 Democratic newspaper anywhere on | the premises. Mr. Lay found him | self obliged to choose between his Democratic newspaper and his Republican wife, and chose 1 the paper, which must have been rather flat tering to the editor. The developments In the coming trial promise to be very entertain ing.
 A sketch of Senator Blaine's career, pub lished in the Chicago Tribune, contained Q
 pleasing little story to the effect that the Sena-
 tor being invited to meet party of English
 men of noie somewhere in the country at din
 ner, he carried with him an evening costume,
 the advice of the ladies to the contrary not
 withstanding. When the foreigners appeared
 at table in conventional swallow-tails and i'm
 maculate white ties, tho fsir Americans were
 glad their distinguished compatriot had disre-
 garded their counsel, and could show the
 swells from abroad that he was not behind
 them in knowledge of the ways of tho world
 The narrator gives point to his tale by ex
 claiming "How different was the absence of
 tact attributed to poor Schuyler Colfax, when
 visiting Virginia City, Ney. Noting that the majority of the men there wore, in their daily
 pursuits and visits to their mines, blue flannel
 shirts, he seemed to think it would be polite for him and gratifying to the vanity of his en- tertainers If he adopted their favorite garment. grand dinner was arranged in his honor.
 Great was the amusement of his hosts and his own modification when he appeared at the banquet clad in blue dannels in the midst Of a company of world travelled gentlemen attired as bsftted tho occasion" Poor Schuyler self with MT. Blaine, and declares that ''this Co!fax" doesn't appreciate this contrast of him blue flannel story is a manufacture out of whole cloth, and is, in warp and wool B fraud
 April fooling in Italy is the genuine article. The newspapers are hoaxed freely, and this year they seem to have proved themselves more than usually gulible. Some Roman journals announced that Lieut.. Bove, of tke Nordenskjold expedition, was going to ad- dress meeting on the advisability of ex- petition to tho South Pole, at the Roman Uni versity, admission free. The porter had hard work to persuade the hundreds of people who wanted to gain admission that it WAS sell. A mandolin concert was advertised for the evening, and parties of oonfding tourists and natives made their way to the Coliseum to fnd only silence and darkness. Another tale was that of respectable citizen of Mondovi, who was attacked by four ruffisns while turning home, wrapped in large cloak, ard hurried eff to the Founding Hospital, where his captors forced him into the wheel, made only of course for infants, rang the bell, and scandalized the Sisters of Charity very much by introducing 8 man into the convent pre- cincts. The paper which inserted this item of news was very indignant when it found it had been hoaxsd, and put the matter into the hands of the public prosecutor. As the Aurora, the pet organ of the Vatican, was go ing to press official-looking note was de Iivered, desiring the insertion of the names of sundry promotions among prelates, of a change of nuncios and appointment of bish- ops The document was drawn up on official paper, and signed and sealed appar- ently by the usual authority. When the newspaper arrived in the Vatican there was great wrath. His Holiness sent for the editor and rated him soundiy; and when he produced the document he had received to justify himself, the Pope ordered it to be submitted to experts, that, if possible, the forgery might be traced home. The list, from the names it contained, was considered especially offensive, and the Pope thought himself personally insulted, while of course all the papers of the opposite party were de- lighted ct seeing the Aurora get into trouble.