The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-06-25
BOILED DOWN.
Ner York Sun.


 spiEaiion 5y hobnobbing with Arabi Bey in Egypt.
 The number of books and magazines published in Germany during the year 1881. was fS.IeI.
 Al Lord Macaulay's funeral a person unknown deliberately walked up and spat on the coffin at the conclusion of the ser vice.
 President Edward 4. Haisht Of Nln- eennes University has deserted his wife md childrcd 10 elope with pretty music teacher.
 The Belgian government IS about io adop; pulverzed meat ioT an army ration. Ore pound of the article is said ,e be equal in nutritive power 10 six pounds of fresh beef
 The Compte de Paris has nearly com pleted the third volume of his .. History of the Civil War in America. which will probably he published before the close of the present year.
 The Tisniark 7rItanr TVS that farming $ not hkely to make progress among the Indians in viep of thc,r full recognition of the fact that their success in Y means the -u.:ing of of government rations.
 An eccentric and wealthy Frenchman. M de Nolier. has bull, a private circus. He $ an excellent horseman. and has en- listed number of fashionable young men n Paris as performers in his troupe.
 The students of Michigan university are to aet Raeine's comedy. = Les Pialdeurs. speaking French. wearing strictly correct costumes. and using scenery in conform ,y with :ha; of the French stage in the seventeenth centgTy.
 The prices given for horses in England ID the las, century were fully as high as now. In i-o5 three hunters brough, in the aggregate s5.cso: three more s6 900. and Ss.oco was refused by Whitbread. the brewer for another. E English parish registers are kept in strong tire-proof safes. and personally in- spected hs the archdeaoen periodically. \ proposal to have all registers prior to iSis transmitted to London fo- safe keep lag meets with decided leeal oppsi,lon.
 The high price of living is iel, as much in Canada as here. Mea, has risen :, per cent and potatoes are far too costly for people of small means 4 writer in To- ronto paper estimates that dollar will not buy what nifty cents bought in IS-s.
 \ eoneer; at puhlIc cos, IS gwen on Bes- ton Common every Sunday afternoon in saiane: There aas opposition bv the erhodeN ehureh people 2; first. but i, has t.ed cut. and this year II Is fashionable to 70 ta hear the music on the way to evening religious services.
 Oscar Wilde Is changing his costume frequently during his second western tour. In Cincinnati he wore a saallo~-tailed coal of black velvet lined w;;:l red silk. knee-breeches and ~aistcoa; of black sat IT, black silk stockings. and masses of lace Tn place o' shir, bosom and cuffs.
 Two young couples of Coshoc,on. Ohio. though, II would be a roman;i- idea to elop- dewn ,he rivcr 10 MauetIa by moon lish, ID rowbaat The trip was only half made. however. when the men were arrested for stealing the boat. and the s.ris ere sent home alone and unmar- ned.
 An ingenious S,rasburs dentist lately extra led d r,ol.r. and ;iad;ng i; sound with ;hc exception of the joints a: the root. he sawed rhem off filled the cavity with gold and replaced i;. I, has ree>,abl.shed l;sclf and Is now sad ;o be doing business q, the old stand n | most satisfactory manner.
 People Nho ca, sardines should buy them ot ;ifss-class dealers. aho have A good name - SC for the brands of long established a!:a, are fsrgcd and initiated. and the worst qualities af aa are exported. The pest are preserved. when fresh. in genuine olive oil. while the cheap are made of fsh tha; have been spoiled in salting on the snaeks. =-'s-ssss=
 Ice trnzen by machinery IS now used all most exclusively In southern cities. as II IS cheaper than iha, brou. h. from ,he north. except seaboard places The retail price has fallen from ; per hun fred before the -SaE-;-.- s5- 5--o--!cc-l>- manufactured in >ornc of the large bFe~crics 1T this lati- iude. 5ui none of the processes vel in- vented are cheap .sh in the north to compete with nature.
 An extraordinary tricyclc tourney has been accomplished by he vice president ot the Lyons Bicycle club. accompanied hs hls vife. on 3 iyeo-seated machine. The travellers wen, from Lyons. through Nee. Genoa and Rome. to Naples. re- turning vla Florence and Turn. the whole tourney representing distance of some :. .soq7 niies. 5eins accomplished al an .serage of about nifty or s.Nty miles day on she road.
 iGlia Heireman MAS singer n low S; Louis vanety hall. Her brother vent into the place. fred a pistol a, her. and explained that though he loved her dear iy he would klll her r4;her than let her continue n such employment. He was a southern gentleman. of good faunily. he said. and could not bear social disgrace. | turned o-; howevef. iha; julia had paid his board bill fer year. and that his in disna;ion was Ec; aroused until she re- fused ;o support him longer.
 Tony Moore of fhe Moore < Burgess miastrels is q conspicuous American figure in London theatrical llfe, driving a mule down Rcsen; street and Ficcadlliy 10 a Yankee trotting wagon. Moore and Bur