, 1885-06-17
LITTLE


~rLDhhNtk, the actor, 10 nhhlnK Tor sal
mon up in Canada. In the United States
he fishes for sinners.
A METAL has been discovered which is
liable to supplant nickel Silver wonld do
very well for that purpose.
THE hog cholera has broken out again
in this country, and yet the grinding
monopolists will take no warning.
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THOMAS Jolly DEATH is the name of
a London lawyer. The naming Of this
man was probably an English joke.
A. GREAT many writers have of late
been pitching into "our navy. Why
don't they tackle something Of their size?
VIcToR HUGO translated The Firth
of Forth into La Premiere de la Qua
trieme. and he may have been right for
aught We know.
The Denver Tribune Republican has
an article headed How to Make
Mining Pay" One good plan is to
strike a rich lead and gut it.
AN ENGLISH firm has laid claim to the
money found on Maxwell, the murderer of
Preller, at st. Louis, who has been cap
tured in New Zealand. This is where
financial acGmen comes in.
THE Wyoming Cattle Growers Asso-
citation is still ~wrangling over that cattle
trail from New Mexico to Wyoming.
While it is being settled the cattle might
be driven around by way of Salt Lake,
MARX TwAIN's wealth is estimated at
1926, 600. and it was only a little while age
that he was a %iourneyman printer too lazy
to talk ordinarily fast aud without grip
enough to hold his cases. But Mark. a
good fellow-$425, 900 worth.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, has organized a
John Brown ScaRold company, which
is to manufacture canes, snuff boxes and
II thing or another as mementocs from
the scaffold on which John Brown was
hung at that place. This is a sad fare
well to all the lumber in that region and
much in adjacent states.
A FRENcHMAS yesterday asked a
Cheyenne man how to accept in English
an invitation to drink. The reply was.
Don't care if do Yen vat you say
ven you refusc?" querricd the Gaul.
Now, you let me out, old man. was the
reply. There ain no English for that in
these parts.
IT is said that many of the old shells of
the war exploded lately by forest fires on
the Wilderness battlefield. What a salts
faction it would have been to Blaine,
Conkling, and the other bloody-shirtcrs.
who have been doing all their fighting
since the war, to see those shells explode,
giving evidence that the war still continues,
and that the rebels are still in the field
with their artillery aud things.
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WTH n chronic habit Of interfering
with the interests of other sections the
extreme east desires a suspension Of Sill
yer coinage. Some Of the monopolists of
that section may have coin enough, but
there are millions Of people III this
country who have not, and the west has
the silver to make it Of, and silver is Just
As good as gold to people who have to
spend it to purchase the necessaries of
life. Pull your gold dogs of or they'll
get hurt
GOVERNOR Ross, Of New Mexico, took
the oath of office at sunrise last Monday
morning. He did this out of compliment
to his earliest predecessor, Montezuma,
whose followers look for his coming with
sunrise every morning. Perhaps he also
did it because Montezuma was the last
Democratic governor that New Mexico
had But If Governor Ross followers
look for him to come out every morning
at sunrise they will be disappointed every
morning Just as much as they have been
about Montezuma.
Summer suits can b. had a bargain at
Polack's.