Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1880-10-27
WHOLE NO. 1921.
Personal,

.oa A Me- New Yorker has bet bis yacht, worth
$4,000, that Garfield will be eicctsd
Mr.. II. II. Warner of Rochester hos nro
sented Professor Lewis Swift of 49, Pc pr.
with check for 500 for the discovery of
the new comet, VI
Senator Mcdonald, of Indiana, will be
married next February The lady who
mas chosen to console him after the In.
diana election IS from his own State.
President Hayes visited saw.mjlI at
Fort Blakel J, W. r., and with his own
nanuS Na|ed log ninety eight feet LONG
IKE an Old mill-hand, it is reported
Some of the saleswomen of PbiladeI.
Phia have acquired the baby stare and
Practice 1t on customers. 1t is tolerably
effective on man, but the woman who on.
counters 1t IS always made furiously angry.
The approaching marriage Of Ida, oldest
daughter of Senator Don Cameron. to Mr.
Bradley has already been announced, Miss
Cameron Is noted in Washington for her
very beautiful eyes. Miss Bayard is to be
one OF the bridesmaids.
Mr.. Schuyler Colfax, who has been snol.
en- OF as the prospective United States
| senator from Indiana, writes TO reiterate
what he has frequently declared, that
under no possible condition of affairs will
he ever consent to re-enter public life.
a handsome colony of small cottages. to
cost between $1,000 and $4,000 a piece
are 10 be erected at once at Ochre Point,
Newport, for Mr.. Pierre Lorillard. The
houses VIII be tasteful in design, and when
furnished will rent for the season for about
81 200 each.
DR.. Tanner is about to fast forty DAYS in
London. \ challenge is to be issued to
brewers, distillers and doctors, they to
select SIX men as near his age and physical
condition as possible. They can take wine,
beer or any spurious liquor during the fast,
and Tanner will take water only.
Bishop Mulin, of Erie, Pa, has publicly
deprecated the custom, as too extravagant,
OF placing floral decorations on the collins
OF deceased members of his church. In
future only black pail is to be thrown
over the casket, so that all gaudy trimming
or decorations Of every kind will be hidden
from view.
Garibaldi, as he lies on little couch in
his daughter house in Genoa, is able to
receive but very few among the people who
thrcng to visit him. Those who enter 90
out treading on each others heels, having
no eyes for anything but the gray head and
wasted face lying on the pillow. The gen.
eral looks terribly i'll, but keeps cheerful
mein.
; Ko Hun Hua, the Chinese professor at
Harvard, is described as an acute reasoner
and close observer. He has learned to
speak English fairly, and he spends most
: of his time reading. for his college duties
, amount to nothing, as he has had but one
} pupil, and at present has none. His con.
: tract is for three years, whether there are
? any students i'll his class or not.
How does the Empress Eugene dress p
=, inquired an nquisitive female of bachelor
friend just returned from Paris. Like q
woman" was the brusque reply. GO
course" continued the inquired "but
wish to know whether she wears costly
: dresses" 81 understand you madam,
=, was the ungallant response; "she dresse
: like mountaineering the most cost.
! garments she can procure"
t Mrs. Mackey, the wife of the very ricI
miner of Nevada, has beautiful house il
Y Paris fronting the Arch de Triomph, which
is her own property. She has a good rep
e utaton in Paris for kindness of heart a
s well as personal beauty. She is besiegeC
Y with begging letters from all kinds of ras
Y Gals, French and Americans, and bein.
d without her husband is sometimes put t
y great fear by that kind of persecution
c which only monarchs and very rich people
S receive.