The Dickinson press., 1883-10-06

tho lady and girl passed out on the for.
ward deck to enjoy the air. The other
passengers smiled, but tho young man
sat it out until the boat reached the
other side of the river, though his
cheeks were about as ed as the cheeks
of the doll.
People We Talk About.
A daughter of General Winfield Scott
is the wife of a Virginian of the same
name.
Washington once specialized in No.
hawk Valley land, as is shown by an old
deed in the library of Horace Sc ymour.
From his familiarity with all subjects,
Professor Tyndall is winning a reputa-
ton in England as a professor at the
breakfast-table."
Evangelist Barnes, after bribing a
policeman to admit him to the House Of
writes home how cleverly he
managed it, signing himself "Ever in
Jesus"
The plate on the coffin of ths Count
de Chambord is inscribed with the
words, "Henry the Fifth, by the Grace
Of God King Of France and Navarro"
and he wat that neither by the grace Of
God nor Ivy the people.
The Able Franz List, who has been
staying for some time in Weimar, is Civ
ing the finishing touches to his great
oratorio, "Stanls'aus," which he has
been hard at work upon for some years
past.
MI. Gilbert fatty denies the report
that he would prevent Miss Mary An
derson from %a2pearingas "Galatea."
"The smallest hair" says Goethe,
throws its shadow" It does, it does.
And if it happens to throw the penum-
bra across the butter, it casts its little
gloom ove the entire community.
Con. Putnam tof wolf killing fame) il
buried in the pretty village cemetery,
half a mile southwest of Pomfret, Conn.,,
an Enclosure of several acres, with quiet
air, green turf, sombre frs, and dry,
sandy soil. In a secluded corner of the
yard, among many broken messy tomb
stones, a heavy table of marble lies on a
wall of brick that lifts it but five or six
inches from the ground. The stone il
about six feet long by two and a halt
wide, and marks the grave of Putnam.
Fully. q third Of it has been Clipped of
by relic hunters.
The Comte de Faris, although he has
assumed no new appellation since the
death of the Comte de Chambord, sign
ing himself simply philippe, Comte de
Paris" has modified his arms, taking
what are known as les arMes frahches."
Tho loho1 u,hSoh ~ho ook0~,Do tb1 ou~no
OF a younger branch disappears from his
escutcheon, which now bears simply the
three golden heurs de lis upon an azure
field.
The Hon. George B. Loring. in his ad-
dress before the New England Agricul-
tural Society showed that the farmers of
New England are growing richer. He
said: 1.-THE decline OF certain branches
Of farming, especially of those staples
that can be more cheaply produced else.
where, is attended by an increase of all
those products that enter into immedi-
ate home consumption; and hence 1T is
that the number offarms has increased,
the production of butter has been en-
larged, the sale of milk has become an
important branch of the dairy, and the
aggregate value of the annual products
o. the soil is greatly enhanced"
A story is told about W. W. Aston, our
Minister to Rome. When he introduced
his wife to King Humbert that royal
parsonage complimented him upon the
beauty of the lady, to which Astor re-
piled, with the utmost modesty: Isl,
Majesti, 81" Mr.. Aston is now spoken
of everywhere as Isl Majesti, ST."
Mr.. Joseph Jacobs, in his "studies on
Jewish Statistics" disposes of the dis
position that John Bright is of Jewish
descent. He believes the statement
that Mr.. Bright's MISREPRESENTATION
er, Martha Jacobs, was a Jewess, is al
together erroneous. That q farmer in a
Wiltshire hamlet a century and q half
ago should have courted and won q Jew.
ish bride is a wild improbability. Jacobs
is q common name in South Wales, and
Wiltshire is not very far from.the Welsh
border. There can be little doubt that
John Bright's alleged Jewish blood is
really Welsh.
Alexander III is the despair ofopera
managers in St. Petersburg. Once the
Gar was u boon to them; for the an
nouncement that he would s'honor the
performance" was sure to crowd the
house. But now the mere suspicion
that he may attend scares the public
away; for they see visions Of bombs, dyn.
amite and sudden death. Yet the En-.
peror cannot be asked to stay away.
Devout Mosleus confidently predict
the end of the world on November 8,
the close of the Mohammt dan thirteenth
century. Tradition declares that in the
present month, during the Ramadan
fast, the sun shall rlso : tie west, the
lay Of mercy and forgiveness shall cease
and that of judgment and retrihntion
begin: Thus, a proclamation has been
issued from Mecca warning all true be-
levers to prepare for the coming day,
which has been widely circulated, and
has created a gs>eat impression.
Population of the Austrian EN-
pire.
The census of the population of the
Austrian empire, taken for the night of
Dec. 81, 1880, gives the following general
results: The total population of the
whole empire was 37.7S6. 900 souls. OF
these, 15,642,OO2 fell to the Hungarian
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