The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-16
PERSONAL AND IMPERsONAh'

l. u4CA AS1 49, "
~ M;nneanolis. that he purchased for $1l. S
Mra Elizabeth K. Churchill, widely known L
os onoake and writer in behalf O. the rights .
of women, is dead. :
General skobeloff has sent a deputatlon OF !
Turcoman chiefs to ST. petersburg 10 az :
nonnce their submission to the Gar. |
An amiable youth who when asked oy us
anxious parents what profession ne "ouiu
nrofar renlied that he would like 20 oe .
revolutionary pens1oner.
The Executive Of the United States OF Vol
ombia executed a contract tor caole "oEA
south from the Isthmus OF Panama 70 con-
meet with the United States and Europe via
Central America and Mexico.
VIII s. Hays, who is now an edltor1ai WEI
ter on the Louisville Courier JournoS' has
written and composed about sou songs anu
there are ten of them that had a sale OF wv
600 each but they all went OFT for q mere
song.
The introduction Of American street cars
into Rio de Janeiro has produced 9 gfea'
change in the social and bushes LIE q Ing
neonle There are two kinds Of cars-one
for barefooted people, 5 cents ana one ~
those who wear shoes, ~ cents.
General Grant has subscribed $1,000 to the
stock &C the Worlds Fair Association, or
which he is president. It is meant, OF course,
as a Observation-Disclosures suggestion. "
course the association will rebate the money
and charge to advertising.
There are noEless than ITO different rev
gious scots in England and Wales, with 40
900 places of worship, having between y,
600, 900 and is, 900, 900 sittings. Inc cleflcal
force includes $4,000 ministers, or Wnon
13, 1000 are Nonconformists.
longing to the Government. It has been
stated that the mule died, but Uncle Sam
wants to have that matter decided.
Ex-Governor Washburne, Of Wisconsin,
first prostration from paralysis. He is cheer
full and stronger. and with careful nursing
and dieting will be able to be about in a
month or six weeks. No danger of 3 further
attack is unprecedented.
Mr.. John Bright seems to be discouraged
with the state of agriculture in England and
the impenetrability OF the farmers. II have
preached TO farmers for nearly forty years"
be says, Shut with little result. American
competition may speak to them and to their
landlord class with more effect"
News has been received in London from
the west coast Of Africa Of the death Of
Chaca, the Governor Of Whydah. The funer-
al was to be celebrated by q massacre of ma
tives, after which the King was to hold the
annual celebration in memory Of his father.
The celebration will last four months, during
which 200 captured chiefs will be beheaded.
A memorial has been adopted by the San
Francisco chamber Of commerce, asking
Congress to return to the Japanese govern
ment 81, 1853, 224 Of the so,called indemnity
which the United States once joined il 8 dis
reputable conspiracy to extort from that
country, AS there is no conceivable reason,
il honesty or justice, for not doing this, Con
gress is not likely to do it.
Recently Prof. Huxley said that ninety
nine men out Of every hundred became sim
ply obstructive after sixty years old, and
were not flexible enough to yield to the adj
vance of new ideas. The world, be thought,
would be benefited by any man who had
taken part in science being strangled after
sixty. This may be meant for Brother Rus
kin, who lately wrote to Glasgow students
that he loathed liberalism.
People who imagine Webster's Dictionary
To be d big book should walk around what
has already appeared Of Grimm's German
Lexicon. Webster's whole work takes 1, 764
pages; the German has got to the letter u,
and has already used up 1854 pages. Web
ster spreads the first letter Of the alphabet
over SO pages; Grimm uses LOAF pages for
the same letter. Littre's great French lexi-
con takes 173 pages, and Viera's Portuguese
Dictionary has COG pages for the same letter.
Col. W. N. Armstrong is one Of King Kal-
akaua's courtiers, and is chiefly renowned as
the possessor of a suit Of clothing that cost
5000, The suit was made by 9 San Fran
cisco tailor, and is described at length BY 8
newspaper of that city. The front and Dor
ders DC the coat are ornamented with 9 mass
Of gold embroidery, six OF eight inches vide,