The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1882-04-27
New = oIk Sunbea1lls.
Prof. Gneist, the distinguished German


! Chicago wedding had been purchased by
| her father in Damascus in 1840. Ii was
| fine India silk, and had come fully into
| fashion again.
The great Yorkshire show-place, Castle
Howard, the property Of Lord Carlisle, is
about to be restored . The first contract,
which has just been signed, amounts to
$125, 900. =
A cougar seized i G-year-old boy, in Or
egon, and had dragged him nearly out Of
the dooryard whenaiscovered by the moth
er, who dubbed tie beast off, but not be-
fore the lad had been fatally bitten.
Dir. Tennyson has just recovered from q
sharp attack Of gotlt in the right arm. It
is the first time that he has ever suffered
from this painful complaint. The poet
has completed another play, Of which Mr..
Irving will have herefusal.
Itcosts something to enter the British
House Of Commons even when the candi-
date is nnopposed, as il shown by the fact
that the cost of lord Algernon percy,s un-
opposed return for Westminster in the
first week Of the present session was So
$50.
The execution Of two Indian murderers
by shooting instead Of hanging, III The In
dian Territory, . few days ago, was done
on the urgent plea Of the doomed men.
They had an awful dread Of the moose, but
professed fearlessness as to death by the
rifle.
Boys in the gallery at a Montreal con-
cert, falling to derive any qualification from
the classical music of which the program
was nadeup, obtained diversion by drop
ping cushions into the body Of the hall
Several bonnets were fiattened by the
sport.
The Russian bath is said to have origin
ated with Petersthe Great. It Is recorded
that when he was advised by foreigners to
introduce hospitals and dispensaries into
Russia he was Wontto reply that while
Russians had baths they needed nothing
X -
elise 1s II health-giving remedy against
mortal ills
The left side OF the Cathedral Of Amians,
in France, which for some time past has
been ia n very eIiIapidated condition. Is
about to be restored. 10 sueh. a pitch Of
Iuia had It n4!les HAT many Of the sE6nes
had parted company with the walls to
which they belonged, while number Of
statues had acknowledgements.
/ The Saint Gotl1alfl Railway, where it
rounds the base of the Axenberg, above
the Lake Of Lueerne, is threatened with a
landslip. A vast overhanging mass of
rock is ia SO precarious condition that its
fall is regarded as inevitable To avert the
peril it has been determined to detach the
rocks with dynamite and hurl them into
the lake.
Even the violet has its special enemy,
and in Europe atleast Is menaced with de-
structiou. All almost imperceptfble spot
appears upon the blue Of its petals as II
blooms, and rapidly extends. Tile flower
soon becomes colorIess and dies; and then
is discovered the microscopic Insect which
has been feeding upon it. The provinces
Of the Rhone are already Dereft Of their
choicest flowers.
The last time Lady Lytton in any way
came before the world was some two or
three years ago, when there appeared an
announcement under her name that she
was III noWise a party TO the republication
Of noVel--one Of the many she had writ
ten-attacking her husband. Lord Iyt-
toms marriage was the bane of his career.
1t was an infatuated act, and must have
been the result Of Il sudden impulse. His
father ii Norfolk Squire, with a dreadfully
embarrassed estate, had married an heir
ess with an estate nearly as embarrassed
and a magnificent old n1ansion-house hast
ening to decay for the crumbling ruins Of
forty years ago are scarcely recognizable III
the splendid KnebWorth of to-day. It was
TO make money, which he urgently needed,
that Edward BulWer--he took his mothers
name Of LYtton on eventually succeeding
to her fortune-toiled as hard at novel
writing as a merchants clerk at Il desk.
Yet this man, handsome. gifted, q spoiled
darling of society, immensely ambitious,
and throughout bis whole career as thor
oughly aware Of the value Of money as.
any Hebrew On the Stock Exchange, mar
ried an obscure Irish girl who is under
stood to have first appeared. il London l1n-
der the auspices OF Lady Abercorn,s form
er ds1eoiselIe de ea1apag1ate, Sydney Lady
Morgan 3 However true ii may be that
marriages are made in heaven, they nn--
questionably sometimes create hell on
earth, and the BulWer matrimony was Of
this complexion. Probably no two people
more cordially detested each other before
many wears were over than the novelist
and bis wife, and she found her revenge
III writing thin some Of the most wretch
ed, spiteful trash in the way Of fiction ever
printed. Notwithstanding their hatred,
there was no judicial divorce or separa-=
ton. His inlideiities were matter Of com
mon rninor, butno charge 5f immoral con
duct was ever made against her. It is re-
nalkable their only child has been d 81 ignal
success, the one consolation Of the ill-as-
sorted pair.