The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-03-02
PERSONAL AND IMPERs0NAL.

The king or greece IS q TelalVe OF Tie ELL
peror William, which is a fair indication of
the stability of ~oleagenous possibilities.
A fisherman from Kingston, Canada, is
said to have found a twenty-dollar gold piece
in q pike which be caught in the Bay Of
Quinte.
Carl Schurz is said to be smitten with the
charms of Kate Chase Sprague, but he is a
Platonic lover, not ardent and passionate like
Conkling.
Secretary Sherman is mentioned as being
kind to poor and struggling people, having
once been poor himself; and though he is q
childless man, he is very fond Of, and very
good to little children.
81 have fought a good fight; I have fin
ished my course; have kept the faith, was
the text of the Rev. William Bedell, of Troy,
last Sunday morning. On entering the church
on Sunday night he was stricken with paraly-
sis.
Mr.. Burr Hays, of New York, who died
the other day, was remarkable for two things.
He was the Oldest bank cashier in the world
and the only man in America named after
Aaron Burr. His name was a thorn in his
side, and he never signed it other than "A.
B. Hays"
Prince Bismarck has taken his son., Count
Herbert Bismarck, to be his private secretary.
The young man looks exceedingly like his
father. and is said to be uncommonly gifted,
giving lust hopes Of future greatness. Pos
sibly he will continue the Princes iron rule.
King Kalakaua, the Hawaiian, has the
civilized good taste to dress simply, to wear
no iewelry and no decorations. He is a re-
markably handsome man, more than six feet
in height. His carriage is erect, his beard,
moustache and eyes are black, and his ex-
preston is amiable.
Count Won Moltke is a man Of nerve still,
in spite of his venerable years. When the
building Of the General Staff, in Berlin,
wherein he lives, was burning the other even
ing. he calmly Quilted his rubber OF whist,
attended to the removal of official papers and
then went placidly to look at the cohflagra-
ton.
Since George Eliot died the demand for her
works has increased a I hundred fold at all the
book stores in the land. Over 1000 readers
applied for "Adam Babe" in one week at q
circulating library. Here is q hint for unap-
preciated writers who cannot get any editor
TO print their stories. Let them all write .
book-and die.
The school boy is told by bis loved teacher
chat common coal and diamonds are OF ex-
actly the same material. Generally the log-
ing small boy doesn't believe this statement
of his loved teacher, but when he grows up
and has to pay for the coal during q hard
winter, he realizes that coal is not only SINH
lar to diamonds in composition, but in price
as we'll.
From some correspondence Of the late J.
w. Croker, just published, it appears that
the Duke of Wellington did not say Cup
Guards. and at hem! y at the battle Of Wa
terloon. In answer to an inquiry as to the
matter the Duke himself wrote "What ]
must have said, and possibly did say, was
Stand up Guards, and then gave the COM
handing officer the order to attack"
Olive Logan says that ssour marble-top ta-
bIes with rickety legs are q national curse, as
slavery was" Let us hope it will not cost
our government as much in treasure and blood
to abolish the marble top table as it did tc
wipe out slavery. 1t is presumed that the
political party that inserts in its next plat
form q plank declaring that the marble tor
table must 60, will not only secure Olive
services on the stump, but her vote also.
The movement to establish 9 colony O
Jews in Palestine is succeeding well. Sixty
couples have already established themselve
between Joppa and Jerusalem on o0,OV
acres of land secured from the Turkish gov
eminent. It is proposed to enable the per
secuted Jews Of Western Europe to setdl
there. and a subscription has been success
fully started in this country to secure the nee
essary tools and machinery for them to be
come tillers Of the soil and provide for the
own wants.
The Chicago Times is becoming satirica
over the approaching retirement OF the ma
who will be known in history as 1.-THE frau
dulent President of the United States Th
Times says: sMr. Hayes is about to leaV
the Presidency, and retires to the shades 9
Fremont. He was . great and gallant 50
der during the war, and saved the Unior
He has been Governor Of OHIO, which IS u
greatest Of human honoIs. He has impovel