The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-06-18
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 The pilgrimage of the Duke and Duch- ess of Norfolk to Our Lady of Lourdes has not. the English Ht<kly RSyisxsy regrets to learn. resulted in any radical improve ment in the health of the infant Earl of Arundel and Surrey.
 Prot. Behrend. distinguished German [ scholar and Jew. has been made rector of the university of fGreifswald. The pro sinciai synod sent memorial to the goy- ernment. protesting against this step on account of the professors religion and race. but nc was nevertheless invested with the ofilce with all the usual ceremony and display.
 Sir john Holker. the English Lord Jus- tiee oi Appeal, just deceased. was very popular Tn the House of Commons, be- cause he always talked sound common sense. and was generally inclined to sink the lawyer in the man of the world. T believe. he once said. ..tha, I do know something of chemistry. but do not pre- tend to know anything about law
 The betting on the English turf has fallen sff vastly. In 1882. when Daniel Q Rorke. ridden by Frank Butler. the Archer of those days. carried ea the Derby amid pelting storm of rain. Will liam Davies. the grea, better. called the Lesiathan. laid thirty thousand and twen- ty-hre thousand to one in two single bets with Frank Nilliers and Gen. Anson against the winner.
 Counsellor Polk was fined S,o for oon. tempt of court at Winterset. Iowa. the al formative being twenty days imprison- ment. He had no money, and his fellow members of the bar raised the amount. My gratitude IS boundless. dear friends" sad he. f haven't had twenty dollars in my pocke, before for twenty wears. shall keep il there with your kind per- mission: and he went Joyfully to lail
 MT. Moncure D. Conway is engaged on d work embodying recollcctions of Emer- son and his friends al Concord. The vol ume. which will be entitled .Concordia.- and illustrated. relates especially to the tune when Ihoreau and Hawthorne were iiv:ng Tn the village. Mir Conway will also give the result cf his studies of Elmer son $ works and observations of his influ- .n ence as religious teacher on American life and thought.
 The original rafters of Westminster Hall were of Irish oak. In early days an idea prevailed that Irish wood was sort of sacred material and proof against all oolectonabic reptiles. The Venerable Bede lays Ii down tha, timber from Ire land hath virtue against poison.'' and after the earthquake of Lisbon the king of Portugal specially imported Irish oak. presumably from some belief in its blessed qualities. for magnificent new church.
 i night. near Dublin. Ga. felt a tremen- dous blow struck behind him. and his horse tell over to die. leaving him facing an enormous open-Jawed alligator He killed the beast by thrusting a fence rail down Its throat. and then shooting it dozen times with revolver: but 1t was subsequently, found that its tail had been broken by the blow which it had given the horse. or the man might have not won the fight.
 The people of Noun, Gilead. Ohio. would not address Thomas |. Archer as Mister Archer" but spoke 10 and of him faniiiariy as .. Tom As he IS half negro. he resented the lack of deference as studied insult be .ause of his color. and quaneled with number of his ,ownsmen. At length his exasperation led hum 10 shoo, three of them. though none of them was much hurt. Then mob tried to l' .ch him, and failing in that. burned all the buildings on his farm.
 In eomT..en with other businesses auc- uenecring trms held their own for many long day Tn London. When the Duke of Bedford sold out Tn I8oo.on account of pulling down his fine old Inigo Jones manson. NIT. Christie was the auctioncer. and Christie X Manson are the auction eers ot Hamilton palace to-day. The Duke of Hamilton has a perfectly unen- tailed estate. His rent roll is S6oo .ooo but he has encumbered it so much thai he has probably no, over Sr,oooo to spend.
 London life seems to me- wrote George Iicknor m 1851. ito have become more oppressive than it eser was. The breakfasts that used to be modest reunions of halt dozen. with dish or two of cold meat, are now dinners in disguise. The lunches are much the same. with several sorts of ~ine=-an advance of luxury which can bode no good to any people," What would MT. Iicknor have thought of the change which ten years have produced in New York: Luncheons exclusively for ladies nowadays often cost from Srs to S7o plate.
 \ Kansas liquor seller. who was sen fenced for violation of the prohibition laws to fine ofsioo and costs and thirty days, imprisonment. shot himself shortly affer his release from jail. The opponents of the hquor laws say that the man was driv- en to commit suicide by persecution. and they call him -the seventh victim whom the temperance crew have upon their con- science. The prohibi,ionis,s. on the other hand, say that the mans suicide is to be attributed ito mental derangement ansing from excessive consumption of alcohol There IS controversy over the case.
 The Lane<f records the curious fact that while in IS4S duty was paid on