The Red Cloud chief., 1885-05-15

A 500 Of Char!es Dickens is q esp
tain in the Canadian Mounted Police.
Maggie Miicaell VIII write her
stage experience for \ New YORK maya
zine.
The Queen OF Portugal has the
. repnsa,in4 of being the best dressed wo-
man in Europe.
The daughter Of General BankA
! who has just gone upon the stage. has =
~percep,ible and very Pretty m~oustache.
james Carried. the oldest son Ut
the late Pres dent. is al. blonde and
athletic. Harry. his brother. is short
dark and wears brown side whiskerA
A Hartford newspaper. after re-
counting Ignat US Donnel.y's wonderful
literary achievements. past and prs
pecsive. concludes: I'VE are glad Don
| nelly didn't miss being hsrn-"
Miss Marie Van Zandt msde hsr
first appearance on the sage at Gro,on.
Mass. when she took part in \ flower
antata. Since then her pathway
| through life has been strewn with
posies.
Five octogenarians. the oldest Of
whom was nineiy-four years. died in
Marathon. n. T.. recently inside Of one
week. Three weeks previous they were
al in good health Zach one OF them
aad lived all his life in that vicinity
Syracuse Jonrna..
As between Germany and the
United States. the relative literary
sctivity of the two countries is shown
u the following figures: In las3.
American publishers Issued 3. 4ol books.
the German. 1882; in 1884. the Amer
IAN. 4.O3S. the German. l5.607.
Mrs. John Maxwell. better knows
as Miss Braddon. the novelist. lives ut
Litchfeld House.. Richmond. 1t is an
historic structure. Built for the first
Earl of A~bergavenny. it later passed
into the possession Of the Bishop of
Litchtield. and became his Episcopal
residence. Afterward Catalan. the
singer, got it and gave notable reeep-
lions there. 1t is a handsome old pal
ace in Sir Christopher Wren's best style
Philip II. Of Spain delighted in .
eat organ upon which a bear performed.
This instrument was composed "of
twenty cats. separately confined in mar
row cases, in which they could not stir;
their tails protruded from the top and
were tied to cords attached to the key
board of the organ. Accord ng ~ the
bear pressed upon the keys the cords
were raised and the tails were pulled to
make the cat, NEW in bass or treble
tones as required by the nature Of the
airs
"A printer on the Erie pa Herald.
known IS ''fsthcr Quinn. has in a long
life set. it is estimated. type enough to
weigh lS7.7OO pounds. or ninety-fOur
tons. which this old man has lifted piece
by piece in the specified time. In set
ting type the average S:s:nnce the hand
travels is a foot and II hall or there
abOuts. Consequently his hand has
travelled SIC. OOO. 60 feet. or a matter
Of 81. 727 miles. or within a few hundred
feet of being four time the circumference
Of the earth.
OF Richard Grant White it is said
that while literature was his pro-
f~ession. music was his solace and
delight. and he was far prouder OF his
knowledge Of viOlins than Of his repu-
tation as a Shakcspearean scholar.
Of this violin cOnnoisseurship wonder
full stories are told. and there seems no
doubt that he possessed q rare and
peculiar faculty Of discrimination in re-
gard to these instruments His "
Instrument was the cello. upon which
he played in q quartet that met at his
house weekly Chicago Inter Ocean.