Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-06-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Jenny Lind lives in London and is worth q
million dollars.
Lolita, the actress, will spend the the Sum
mer months at st. Paul. MINI.
Only one telegraph line is in operation in
China, from Shanghai to Woosung, twelve
miles.
The New York fashion papers say that Sun.
day has come to be the great visiting day of
that city.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the birthplace
of Margaret Fuller. Lowell, Allston and
Holmes.
President Garfield has his life insured for
| $4,000, and j. H. Hsverly, the Snowman has
his insured for $4,000.
Chow many deaths Z" asked the hospital
physician. "Nine." "Why, I ordered medi-
cine for ten. Yes, but one wouldn't takeit.' 8
Archer, the rider of Iroquois, reduces his
weight by Turkish baths instead of by walking
and the old laborious means. He can ride at
III pounds.
Sarah Bernhard registered herself at the
American Exchange in London last week as Of
New York, in token of her appreciation Of her
reception in America.
The admission receipts on the Longchamps
Course, on the occasion Of the Grand Prix de
Paris race, amounted to nearly $50 900, the
greatest amount ever taken at the course.
The New York Mail of a recent date says
Alonzo Hatch, the tenor, has returned to that
| tlty lTOlA IA VCots WntIt NC tEuNtlcu Wltu tue
Melville troupe. He has been engaged for the
Audran troupe, and will appear in the Fall al
the Bijou Thester.
The married ladies this season in London
carry away the palm Of beauty. Lady Lonsdale.
| Lady Vaudeville, Lady Castlereagh. Lady Dial.
housie, Lady Claude Hamilton, Mrs. Masters,
and Mrs. Arkwright are the acknowledged
sovereigns Of loneliness.
1t is said that signor Nicolini asked 1000.
0o0f. for the services Of Nine. Patti and him.
self in America, and that though negotiations
with the American capitalists have fallen
through, the singers will come to the United
States on their ewn account.
Boston Post Boston girls are very proper,
When a young man was assisting a South End
lass to tie on her bonnet, which, by the way,
had to be tied at the back OF the neck, she in.
sisted that he should stand in front Of her SO
that she could keep her eye on him.
The most elegant women of New York, o.
well as in London and Paris, while they may
dress in bright materials at home or at enter.
tainments, dress very quietly in the streets
Really refined women do not wear all the colors
of the rainbow on the streets or in public.
From the latest budget of that lover Of truth
and writer of fashion,, CLARA Belle, we Gull the
following " Barefooted bellies are seriously
promised for next Summer at the seaside re.
sorts. The Princess Beatrice slipper, Of beaded
satin, dainty and delicate, and shaped like a
sandal. is intended to be worn without stock
ings. But the idea will fail in practice, and
I'll tell you why. Not one woman in ten has
feet that will bear barring. They may be small
and shapely. and look hne In stockings. but
without covering they would reveal blemishes
that would spoil them as attractions for the
opposite sex. No, the promise Of barefooted
bellies will not be fulfilled"
Queen Victoria is said to have been greatly
affected by the Victoria steamboat disaster, and
regards 1t as an omen of evil. The Princess
Alice in England, September, 1850, on the
Thames at London, met with the fate of the
Victoria. and hundreds of lives were lost. Be.
fore the year was out the Princess Alice, the
Queens second daughter, and her youngest
child were laid away In the grave. The Cana
dian steamer was named after Victoria herself,
or her first born, the Crown Princess of Ger.
many. The Queen may not be superstitious
but it is impossible for one like her, long de.
pressed with sorrow, not to regard the coinci.
dence Of names and accidents with something
of apprehension.