The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-12
PERS ONS AND THINGS.

XIII. say that there Is quite n striking
personal likeness between him and
Mr.. William NJ. Evarts.
The twelfth annual session of the
grand lodge of Kansas. knights Of Py-
thias, IL to be held In Emporia, com.
mencing Tuesday. May 18th.
Aprill5is the25Oth anniversary of the
landing Of the Jesuit fathers In Amer
lea, and the occasion IL Ia be appro.
priately celebrated by that society.
General G.. T. Beauregard invented
the endless cable system and used 1t
in New Orleans i'm 1870, afterward
selling the patent to . Chicago firm.
The Emperor Francis Joseph Of
| Austria is sick. This has been an un-
healthy year for monarchs all around,
even kings nj the poker-table being
weak.
Miss Susan b. Anthony IL In Italy,
where she will go around Sightseeing
during this month. When last heard
from she was In Milan enjoying
things hugely"
Gath says that sixteen years ago Sam
Randall, one of the candidates for
speaker OF the house Of Representatives.
W rs ~ SloNC w uIl.h. MI. JduuGu
saw the evil of his ways and aban-
doned them.
A story going the rounds Ia that
Mr.. w. II. Vanderbilt said To his son
at the late ball: ~ wish l could af-
ford to give such q BALI" to which was
replied: "Ah, but you have not a rich
father rs ] have"
The game law OF England does not
protect the English sparrow. He can
be killed at any time and place. In
other words, he il declared a nuisance
and pest. That IL what he Is fast he
coming in this country
A southern journal says there are
three seasons In Florida-the orange,
vegetable and invalid, the last paying
the best. In the summer the Florid-
ians live on vans and sugar-cane, and
i'm the winter on Yankees.
An editor who is bull on melons
wants the boys of Illinois To know
that last year a farmer peppered six
boys with shot In his melon patch,
and that the boys have all been fined
s. apiece. The mellon crop must not
be interfered with.
The Marquis de Biron, President of
the French Jockey Club, who died n
fortnight ago In Paris, aged 80 years.
was once page Of Louis XVIII. and
afterward an officer of the Royal
Guard. He had been President Of The
Jockey Club thirty-two years.
The death of Mrs. Harriet Lane |
Johnson's only surviving child recalls |
the memory Of her gracious presence |
in the white house when her uncle,
James Buchanan, was president, aud |
how Lord Lyons, then British NM
lister, was engaged to be married to
her.
Headlines In the Atlanta C0nstitu.
tiOH:-Tilden's Revival-The Candi-
date Of 1876 Turns Up Ready for Con-
tingencies-His Health ia Good, His
State Is DemOcratic,i 1T Needs a Leader,
Tilden's Grip il Firm, and He Will
Sit Up with the Delegates to the Dem
ocrntic Convention of 1888" Hank
from the tombs!
Tom Marshall's last words, as he
turned his face toward q window,
were: This Is the end l am dying
on borrowed bed, under borrowed
blanket, in q house built by public
Bury me under that oak tree
where there IL plenty Of room. l have
been crowded all my life."
1t Is said that the Mormon mission.
aries at the South, with all their sue.
cess In recrUiting deluded victims.
have never secured a negro convert.
Probably because the negro men have
lever been able to boss" even one
smart wife, and the women are not
disposed to take up with the fifth ON
tenth share in the ''ole man."
Governor Butler. during his last
visit to Washington. Is said TO have
expressed perfect confidence of his
ability to carry Massachusetts, next
fall. and Of having a solid New Eng
land delegation To hack him In the ,
next Democratic National Conven-
ion. Thai was before the Rhode
Island election.
At recent sale Of the personal eff
fects Of the late Gen. Fitzpatrick at
n. j.. the amount real.
zed was sufficient to pay of the mort
gage on the real estate and leave 8 !
mug sum for the widow and children.
The Generals old army morse, spot"
8 to remain upon the place as long as +;
he lives, and will be well cared for by
he executors.
The oldest manuscript In the Ash.
collections is Latin Psalter
to the fourth century. A lit
lie volume, with illustrations in India ,
NIX Of the Passion, drawn by Rubens
when he was % Is among them; and
me OF the most beautiful in the col
ectiOn Is the famous Albani missaI.
Executed by q brother.in-law of 10.
emo de'Medici
Charles Dudley Warner expressed A Z
,retty yet noble sentiment at the :
irving memorial celebration In Tarry. !
own. He was speaking Of the beuefi. h
ent and culturfng influence of the I
FORKS Of Irving upon the people.
part from the gift of romance. and =
sed this illustration az do NOT know, I
'ow many Greeks could read Homer.
ut there were probably few who did q
Ot think more Of themselves because a
"a was . Greek" n
OF the present member of the :
Inited States Supreme Court, Judge E
HARLAN IL the youngest Judge. He IN :
ut 30. The chief Justice IL 81 Jude =
'ield. 81 Jvdgs Bradley, 20; Judge 3
Woods. 50; Judge Stanley Matthews, 5
,; Judge Gray. IS; and judge .
eS. Judge Miller vas AZ
dated in leo2, Judge Field in le63. c
adoe Dr1Alsy In 1870. the chief D
,sttes in 1874, Judge Harlan il 1871. 4
ndge Woode n l91e, Judge Mathew n
Lssl ~ nnE IN 1881. and q