The river press., 1881-02-02
PERSONAL AND IMPERsONAL.

bis acute and powerful intellect never out
grew, was the apti-Jewish one
It takes about So, 500, 900 to pay the annual
expenses of the 10000 hounds which are
said to be owned in Great Britain.
The Allegheny river at Oil City has been
ice bound for Sc days, having frozen Novenl-
ber 81. In 1868 the ice remained 100 days.
Competent architects estimate the value of
buildings erected and started in Omaha dur
ing the year just closed at from $9O0,0 900 to
$1,000, 900.
Mr.. Blaine says the ''Table talk" of the
American government circles, the chats and
bon mots of Washington society are the most
brilliant in the world.
Capitalists have come forward full handed
to help the building of Mexican railroads.
Twelve millions offered for only seven mil
lions wanted, is the report.
The New York Heroyds Washington spec
ial says: The committee on the admission
of Dakota is opposed to the project because
the population is only 10000.
There are 43, 900 postoffices in this country
and they require so, 479 persons to run them.
The poste flee business is not a paying one
as last year the expenditures exceeded the re-
ceipts by $3,00o,000.
4 man has been arrested in New York on
the charge Of making counterfeit five cent
pieces. The number of these coin in circu-
lation should frighten the government into
searching out the source.
Now that Mr. Eads has got a concession
from Mexico Of 100000 acres Of land and
promise of 81, SOC, 900 to build the Tehuan-
tepec Ship Railroad, he says he will charge
$15 each for passengers across the isthmus.
The German Emperor has made doctor
Count for bringing him to his eightieth year,
and offers to make the Count Prince il he
shall bring him to his ninetieth. The old
fellow does not 60 about humming:
I would not live alWay.
In the House of Commons, on the 9Th, Mr..
Henry Labouchere, Advanced Liberal, gave
notice of motion declaring that hereditary
chamber cannot be permanent institution in
England. Mr.. Labouchere might of been a
peer himself, but for tri1ing accident.
The Algerian Missionary Society are to
start one expedition from Zanzibar, and
another from the mouth Of the Congo for the
exploration Of Central Africa. Important
results are expected. This organization has
already stations at Tanganyika and Victoria
Nyanza.
The New York Board Of Trade has adopt
co resolution declaring it to be the duty of
every citizen TO steadily labor to secure the
enactment Of State and National laws hold
ing railroads to proper responsibility TO the
public, and to create an executive power to
have them enforced
A substitute for caoutchouc has been in
vented by Russian named Sanders. It is
manufactured from the heavy oil Of coal tar.
The substance is said not to alter by heavy
pressure at an elevated temperature, serves
admirably to insulate electric wires and ca
bles, and, in short, equals caoutchouc for
most uses.
One hundred commission merchants, in
Chicago, have signed pledge not to sell
oleOmaTSaTlue, DutLeIlue, OF any Otner VII
lainous compound Of that class, and to do all
in their power to discountenance and prevent
their sale by others. The war against the
deleterious and unsavory compound seems
likely to spread and become extremely Wig
OrOus.
The Queen Of England, that is to say, Mr..
Gladstone, requires about half a column in
which to state the needs of great empire,
extending all over the globe, and involving
an annual budget Of four or five hundred mil
lions. The Governor Of Michigan, however,
cannot do with less than six or seven col
umns It is great thing to be Governor Of
Michigan.
Gen. Grant perpetrated another alleged joke
at Mr. Barbour's residence, in Paterson, N.
r., recently He had just seen the elegant
stables Mr.. Barbour keeps for his fine blood
ed COWS, and said to him: Il now see how
it is that you treated your guests with cham
pagne instead Of milk" s'HoWs that?'
asked Mr.. Barbour. why" replied the
General, glancing at the cattle, ''your milk
costs too much
For country which discourages titles IL
theory, the practise Of the United States is
simply abomnable. It is bad enough to
make the appellation Of colonel or judge, or
captain go common that man feels honored
when addressed as plain Mr. but when /