, 1880-02-01

Susan Anthony is visiting Washington all
alone.
Senator Blaine's fortune is estimated at
$6O0,0oo.
Parson Hayden is good carpenter, and
proposes abandoning the ministry and rcsumtng
his original trade.
The present winter has been an unusually
pleasant one, barring a few challenges between
Hanlan and Courtney.
The trial Of Charles De Young, editor of
the San Francisco Chronicle, for shooting Kali
looh, will soon be begun.
Miss Lizzie Hammond, pretty white girl
of Is, has been sentenced to year. in the Vir-
ginia Penltentiary for horse-stealing.
monument has been erected at Warren,
n. c., to Anna Custis Lee, daughter ct the dead
General, who died during the carly part Of the
War.
The City-Attorney of San Francisco has
decided that bill Of sio5, presented by the
Palace Hotel for entertaining Gen Grant, can
not be paid BY the city.
A Washington paper notes the fact that
vfce-Prcstdent Wheeler went to a state dinner
at the White House one day lust week on foot.
Did it expect him to use velocfpede?
AWcstern paper wants the Government to
"eiye the Indians show" We hope Mr. Hayes
will not be SO inhuman as to hire Juvenile
"Pinafore" Company for this purpose. OF
course the red men are tough cltfzens, but it
should be remembered that America claims to
be civilized nation.
A lady who has been trying, without sue
cess, to secure employment for her son, writes
to TIE TRIBUNE about 1t, and asks: "Why 1s
the world so full 7'' You are wrong, madame.
OF course, there are now and then isolated In
stances where people arc full, but as rule tho
world is cold sober.
Ladies who arc inclined to flirt will be in
terested in this item. George Brooks and his
wife were prisoners in the Chattano ooga, Tenn,
Jail, he being confined in cell and the woman
allowed the liberty Of the Corridors She per-
sistently 1irted with an adjacent horse-thtef,
and although her wretched husband could wit
ness tho performance he was poWerless to pre-
vent it. The novelty Of the situation did not
atone for the torture it inflicted, and he COM
1nittcd suicide.
Francis Joseph, says London paper,
showed himself generous cousin to Afonsos
bride. He gave her 200 thalers out Of bis
oxn ~ nriyate fortune, and sent her away in great
er state than was observed at the departure Of
bts only daughter when she was married. The
trousseaux filled five railway vaus- Under
olothinr was on the scale Of twelve dozen
dozens. The twelve robes which Alfonso pays
for. are said to be STACEY, overladon With metal
lie embroidery, and unsuited to an extremely
slight young girl.
The cultured and esthetic residents OF st.
Louis are interested just now in the suit for
divorce brought by ''Wlll" MARBLE, an artist Of
that city, aRainst his wife. One OF "Wi1l's' "
principal grievances is the fact that at q recent
art exhibition the stony hearted female sent to
the Committee having in charge the arrange
ment of the works Of art broken frying pan,
with a request that the gentlemen would give
it q conspicuous place, as an example Of the way
in which the talented Mr.. MARBLE provided for his
family's necessities.
History repeats itself. *'When Commodore
Vanderbilt wished to start in the steamboat
business" says Cornelius Vanderbilt, "he had
hut 90, 900 of the $15,000 necessary for pur-
chase, and his wife went to d corner where she
had concealed the $4,000 she had saved without
his knowledge, and brought forth the needed
funds thus laying the foundation Of the 'andor-
bilt fortune" Not long ago a Chicago woman
wanted to start spring bonnet, but had only:
s17, Her husband went to q corner In wheat
where he had concealed $4,000, and took out $12'
which he gave to his wife, thus establishing q
bonnet which was such duck OF thing that
the gearer captured the affections OF another
woman's husband, with whom she subsequently
ran AWAY.