The Red Cloud chief., 1880-04-15
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Personal aaa Latsrazy.
john Brougham win. on the 9th Of
May, be seventy years old and he win
have completed his fitch year upon the
Stage.
-Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan have
returned b London. They promise to
be hack In New York in the fall with Q
new opera.
-Byron's Bible, some locks Of his
hair, his writing-desk, and divers gar.
ments and other personal belongings,
have just been sold ut auction in Lon
don.
John b. Cough, the temperance
lecturer, Is . bookbinder by trade. He
Is o man Of moods, very sensitive and
modest; either very happy, full Of fun,
or respondent and sad.
Theodore Thomas has resigned his
position rs Musical Director of the Gin
cinnati College Of Music, on the ground,
as stated by him, that the Directors re
fused to agree to certain reforms that he
deemed essential TO the welfare of the
institution.
Mr.. Longfellow is said 10 wife
easily but very slowly, weighing every
word before jotting it do~r in lead PEN
Gil. There is hardly An erasure in his
manuscript, but wien his work returns
to him in proof hardly any thing Of its
original forrl is left. 1t is asserted that
"Ths Divine Tragedy was rewritten
after the most Of it was in type.
Mr.. BARLEY Campbell said TO a re-
porter of the Boston Traveller the other
day: "My profits last week were o., 500
from five different companies. My
progress for the past nine years has
been through q purgatorial existence,
and II ] have reached the heaven of suc-
cess l think 1 have fairly earned it, and
any n who wants to get it at the same
price has my sympathy"
Count de Lesseps is a mar of mid.
die stature, with white hair and gray
moustacbe, piercing hazel eyes, which
have an extremely kind expression,
black eyebrows and a rudy, healthy
face. In conversation M. de Lesseps Il
frank and eloquent and kind to q re.
markable degree. His manner it ener.
getic, and his "a yes.rs and gray hair
are obliterated ir. his vigorous diction
and demonstrative gestures.
Science and Industry.
in England portable gas is now sold
and delivered everywhere. Country
residents receive it from the city In cop.
per cylinders.
ALI the iron mines In the State O,
New Jersey are being worked Thorough.
ly, and ten of her fifteen blast furnaces
are running, with three to be lighted up
soon.
The exports Of butter from this
country are only four per cent. of the pro-
duction; those of cheese forty.iive PEI
cent. English people eat far more
cheese than butter. 1t is a staple food
among laboring men in England.
The export of French beetroot sugar
to the end of the year amounted to only
5000 tons, as compared with $1,000 in
1873; but in Austria, where an increased
acreage moro than compensated for the
deficient crop, the export was ITO, 547
: tons, against 97,40O.
The M9strirte Zeitung gives the fol.
lowing statistics concerning the tele.
graphic wires of the world. Those OF
Europe measured at the close of 1873,
76S. 1856 English miles; those of A,neri.
ca, 114,157; Asia, 24,521; Australia,
1852; and Africa, S,l4S. The tele.
graphic net that embraces the world
comprises, therefore, 98O,l76 English
miles, OF 1,513,6S3 kilometres.
The Municipal Council of Paris
have made arrangements whereby the
correct time is indicated by electricity,
day and night, along the boulevards
and the principal streets, on q large
number of dials, thus carrying out in
b most liberal manner the system o.
time distribution begun by Leverrier.
A small fee only is necessary to secure
accurate time in private establishments,
AS the color of indigo il really q
greenish blue when it is used as q pig.
ment or in solution, and as the color o.
the dry cake is not only very black, but
variable, according to the mode In
which it is handled, Prof. o. N. Rood
thinks it desirable to let "indigo" fall
into disuse in designating q color of the
spectrum, and to substitute "ultrama.
rine" for it, the color of the artificial
variety being intended.
Foreign Notes.
Sir James Ferguson, who has filled
many offices of profit and honor in Eng
land and her colonies, has been ap.
pointed Governor of Bombay.
-"Band plays at 4 O'Clock and Mrs
Langtry will be present" is the legend
of a notice recently ~placarded at the
Brighton (England) Skating Blink.
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