The Red Cloud chief., 1880-04-22
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

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SENATOR PENDLEroN is decribed as
living in a stately and magnificent man
ner in Washington.
Mr.. ALvAN CLARK, the famous tele-
scope maker Of Cambridge, Mass, is
seventy-six years old.
SENATOR BRUCE, of Mississippi, ex-
poets to take the lecture field after his
term in Congress expires.
A SON and two nephews of Tom
Hughes, the English statesman and III
thor, have for several years been engaged
in cattle raising in Texas.
GENERAL BABcoCK, as well as Gen.
eral Grant, has a legacy from the late
ex~-Secretary Borie. II amounts TO
5000, to be paid in yearly installments
of 81, $50.
AMELIA BLOOMER, the inventor OF the
Bloomer costume, is the wife Of ID. {.
Bloomer. .ex-State Senator of Iowa and
ex-Mayor of Council Bluffs, in which
city they live.
HON. JOHN A. CUTHBERT, now a prac-
ticing lawyer in Mobile. was an officer
in the war of 1912, and in 1920 repre-
sented his district in Congress. He is
ninety-one years old.
Mr.. JOHN X. CHAPMAN. of Oneida
Lake, n. Y, is the father of nine sons
whose total weight is one thousand
seven hundred and forty pounds, and
their total height fifty-three feet three
inches.
DEAN SrANLEY's voice was weak and
faltering while he read the service at
the Bishop of Manchester's late mar
riage. The bride. too, responded low.
But the Bishops tones were vigorous
and clear as a working die at a mint.
PROFESSOR DoREMUs' bill for serv-
ices in the Cobb Bishop poisoning case
at Norwich, Conn.,, was $1,000, and the
State Attorney, with q view to economy,
employed Professor johnson, Of Yale
College, in the Riddle case, estimating
the cost at less than 81, 900. Professor
Johnson's bill is. however, %, $50, and
it is understood that the State will dis
pute it.
Miss NELLIE, da lighter Of ex-Gov-
ernor Hubbard, of Connecticut, who
eloped with her fathers coachman sew
eral months ago, has learned the dress
making business. and is living happily
with her husband. The old man doesn't
relent enough to speak of, but has told
Nellie that any time she will separate
from the ex-coachman she will be re-
ceived into the family again.
A LITERARY curiosity has just been
published in Amsterdam. 1t consists
Of three short stories, possessing the
popularity that in each of taem only
one vowel is employed-in the first a,
in the second e. and in the third o, ac-
cording to which the stories are
entitled "A-Saga," "E-Legende,"
..O-Sprook." 1t is said this could be
accomplished in no other language.
THE Boston correspondent of the
Springfield Repu blican confirms the re
port that the Rev. w. H. II. Murray
has gone to Europe, and says: 1T is
now learned that he spent the fall and
winter not in the distant West, on .
= ranch,' as some of his friends thought,
but in his old haunts in the Adiron-
dacks; and he has not been hling there,
gloomily meditating on his present dis
comtiture and the ease with which the
world gets on without him, but has
busted himself with his pen N . literary
work which will before long be pub
lished.
GENERAL ROBERT TOoMBs has lately
been visited at his Georgia village home
by q correspondent of the Boston Herald
who describes him rs "a man worn out
with years and = passionate existence,
but giorying in the fact that he is not .
citizen Of the United States; that his po-
litical disabilities have not been re
moved, aud that he is the one only and
unrepentant rebel" He was the guild
ing mind of the Georgia Constitutional
Convention of 1877. hut that is the only
public Office he has held since the war.
His closest friend is Alexander H.
Stephens, with whom he discusses poll
tics by the day.
ALIrrLE diplomatic tilt at Washing
ton is thus described by the Washington
correspondent Of the St. Paul Pioneer
Press: "Sir Edward Thornton Is the
senior in the service of the diplomatic
corps, and is therefore entitled to pre-
cedence on all occasions of ceremony,
and the remainder of the corps follow
in the order in which their credentials
were received by this Government. Mr..
Evarts gave . dinner to the diplomats
the other day, and Sir Edward Thorn.
ton appeared to be absent when the pro-
cessiOn was forming to march into the
dining-room. Madam Outrey, the wife
Of the French Minister. (who Is an
American), insisted that in his absence
the system Of estimating rank BY SEMI
ority ought to be dropped. Madam Oar
don Whose husband represented the
little republic of GlAtemala. South
America,and who stands next to Sir Ed
ward Thornton IN seniority) objected
and there was . funny scene. Madam
Dardon Directing to entering the din
ing-Eoom unless she couidg % 6rsk After
some high words between the women.
Secretary Evarts. seeing the danger Of
serious in.ernational coupliuto1a. In
terfered. and decided tkAt IL regular
order Of precedence shoald plevHie and
the little South American eame o1t
ahead- he French hgatioa 3 IN .