The Mineral argus., 1884-01-03
General Notes.

Mrs. Marion Harland writes to the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat in regard to her
last story, Judith" In so doing she
breaks a rule adhered to for thirty years
that she would not reply to critics.
She expresses regret that her favorite
character in the story, a sprightly girl,
should have married a rascal, TO die
wretchedly, but adds that the episode
was true history.
The paucity of marriages in Jamaica,
says Sir Anthony Musgrave in his recent
official report on the con lition of that
island, is much to be deplored. In
intimate connection" with the observa-
| ton the Governor notes the tact that
the annual proportion of illigitimate
births is more than IS out of every 100
born.
viii Carleton's first poem, Betsy and
I Are Out" got into tho waste-basket OF
the Toledo Blade, to hich paper it was
originally sent, but it was afterwards
fished out and published one day when
there happened to be a scarcity of
copy" All good things have to go in
TO the waste-basket in order TO achieve
fanse. All of Tennyson's poems are
placed in the waste-basket and seasoned
before publication.
Philadelphia has a Sunday Breakfast
Association which gathers in the outcasts
every Sunday morning, warns them up
with a hearty breakfast, and then talks
the gospel TO them.
A Paris paper states with utmost Sc
renity that a noble redskin who had been
converted to Christianity was sent to be
educated at Elton. Having been soundly
birched he lay in wait for the master
who had inflicted this distasteful pun
ishment and scalped him, an inciden
which 'created a great sensation abou
forty years ago." The story reaches 1T
climax in the announcement that this
young Indian, who had for a long tim,
been lost sight of, has been identified q
Sitting Bull.
Life, in its latest installm ent ofits mis-
sionary articles on American AristoC
racy," describes an American gentle
man who has very properly refused I
loan his pictures to the horde OF lower
class sympath zers, who wish to disgrac
our chosen city with a statue of Liberty
which some misguided French persons
thinking we took some pride in on
form of government, have offered III
| What do we want with that bronze ell
, gy? or with what it representa- or wit
the compliment and sympathy it ex
presses? Pah! If England, now, u dea
| old mother country, whom we arlstC
/ Gratis are dreadfully sorry our grandfatt
s ers Ihrashed-if England will only CIV
us a colossal image of George Ill.-ai
y here is something we could and woul
worship, gild and sing psalms to.
: can allegorical representation of tn
: north wind" exclaimed the gruf oil
man of practical ideas, as he looked 1
the artists work in clay. "Oh, no." b
n continued, "a young woman with such
: pretty and sensible face would never 2
out of doors in tho winter with her nee
so unprotected, herlhead uncovered an
her back hair all loose and allow tn
Q north wind to blow her tresses all owe
her face. Now ifyou want an idea fC
an honest representation OF the mort
y wind take the head of an old chap lii
myself, with a big bald spoton his crow
- and his hair short and bristling. HAY
his coat collar turned up we'll nde n
e ears, and bury his chin in it. Lee h
d hat hy in the wind while his hair turf
10 snflly to the front his eyes meanwhl
filed with an anxious glare as he watcll'
re- tine fugacious headgear. Why, N
,e friend, with such material as this yC
might work out "a representation OF IL
~ north wind so effectively that SOL
1T people would wonder if the bald spot
self were not IN effect ofthe north wind
Of vig0r!'
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