Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-05-13
MISSING LINKS.

Dom Pedro, o! Brazil. writes well
| and lcarncdly. chiefly on scientific Sub
jocts.
A novelty in silver is the discovery
| of a process of eieetro-plating with sill
yer upon wood.
Queen Elizabeth, OF Roumania, is a
| frequent visitor to the publisher, both
as novelist and poet
Pompeiiap paper. notified as If with
the dampness of eighteen centuries.
is the newest thing in Paris stationery.
General w. ii. H. (Runv) Lee, a son
Of the late Robert E. Lee, Is now a
prosperous farmer in Fairfax County,
Virginia
Judge Swan. of Sulsun. Cal. resem-
bles General Grant so strikingly that
the impression upon a stranger is most
startling.
Lady Randolph Churchill disap-
proves of roman suffrage. She thinks
a woman should be felt in politics, but
with and for her husband.
The Seven Stars of the Mysterious
Zen and the Daughters of the Sepul-
chre" is the dazzling title of an assess
Aucut AAO AhooiauSo ossoSIatiou Va
Texas.
1t is said that the historian Bancroft
Is one of the two Americans now living
who cver met Goethe. The other is
George II. Calvert, the scholar and
poet, who is 50 years old.
A rich mans son at Harvard has
spent &15. 600 in fitting up his college
rooms. Some day, lingering the but
tons of a well-worn coat, he may say,
in the language of the children: Erich
man, poor man. beggar men, theft"
Age has not made many inroads up
on General Joseph E. Johnston, now
United States Railroad Commissioner.
He has gotten owe the nervous trouble
from which he suffered many years.
He is married, but has no children.
An authority in culinary matters
says poison in cheese may be detected in
the following way: Press a small piece
of blue litmus paper against a freshly
cut surface of the cheese. II the paper
Is Redeemed instantly and intensely,
the cheese may be regarded with sus-
picion.
Colonel Charles C. Jones, Jr., of
Augusta. Ca. having investigated the
subject. is convinced that neither Ma
ior General Nathaniel Greene @ Ma
jor General Count Pulaski ''sleeps be-
meath the respective monuments which
q grateful and patriotic people have
reared in their honor.
In Schoharie County, N. Y, there
are two women twins, ninety-four
years of age. Both are described as
II Ill -~asnrund oofixyo ond "a, fall 800,
! session of their mental faculties. Each
was the mother of seven children, the
eldest of each family being alive, one
at the age of sixty-tive. the other sixty
eight years
william "An Tassel. ~arrx Town, y.
/, v shot in the arm last tail and.
, modification setting in, the doctors
gave him up s..he was too weak to
T submit to amput TN. His arm came
So, nowevefIldsIttfout saw or knife, and
tn stump ~he.af.~and he is as well al
ever. Tkis IL Considered o-e of the
u~srhemarksble cases oil record.
I'AtGeiv~s -year>Cld Dakot& girl, taken
, up into the ali by a cyclo.a, carried
out of sight, and brought easily down
in a field a quarter of q mil way. de.
scribes her sensation while in transit al
that of being rapidly and constantly
! pricked by thousands of needles. Since
t her experience she has been affected
similar to q person with st. Vitus'
dance
l A new feature Of the Boston cooking
t school this year is a school lunch
q room, opened at the request of the
mothers. At little round tables boys
8 are served with substantial soup (the
q thin soups being considered moi desir.
able), with cocoa and chocolate, rolls,
sandwiches, gingerbread and plan
cakes.
9 The only stakeholder that ever got
dividend out of the old Farmingtol
(Conn) Canal has just died. Tn
president told him there was no divi
dend, and jestingly advised him to g,
homo and NOW the towpath for 4 divi
dend. MIR. Munson did so, taking
20 per cent dividend in hay from tn
q eight miles of towpath, and went o.
doing this with perfect complacenc
thereafter.
There was never a time in the pub
a fishing business, says an expert, whel
proffers of manuscript from womeI
wero so numerous. Society belle
seem to have all at N caught the fe
yer of authorship. As some mouse
will publish almost anything in whic
the profit is assured, but nothing from
untried pens without a guarantee, the,
can usually give a definite answer L
an applicant without first reading tn
" copy.
Ill 1t is just a hundred years since tn
famous General Oglethorpe, fouude
y If Georgia, died at Grammar Hall, nea
. Upminster. Essex, and was buried i
tho church there, within a stone
throw of his house. The old mano
house no longer exists. but a hand
some farm house stands on the site
General O~glethorpe lived to be eighty
Is eight. He had fought under Primo
Eugene, and yet might have dandie
Sir Moses Montefiore Oh his knee. Hi
name is very familiar to all who kno'
le their Boswell.
10 The 'code" has received a terribl
ct setback in Georgia Two young me
- named Thomas and Roberts had Ion
le been paying attentions to the daughte
of q wealthy farmer. The girl SO d
vided her favors that neither could te
which was the favored sutton. FINAL
~ the rivals got to the fighting point an
agreed upon q private duel with shoI
g. guns. They retired to a secluded spo
in marked off the ground and were abou
a to fire, when Roberts lowered his gu
4 and said: '.If you'll give me a suit
~ clothes you a have the girl and
haLged." The proposition was a.
J. cepted, and now Thomas is in full po
he session.
b. A writer in Tart, Field. and Far,
says that the last cigar Gen. Graz
ever smoked was at Mr.. Backman
breeding farm, Stony Ford, Orans
County, one year ago. He was the
with Gen. Beale and j. b. Houston
W and he spent a very enjoyable day
seeing the horses work on the trac'
After dinner Mr.. Backman handed hi
or q cigar, and before it had turned
ashes many pleasant re~collections
lr- his experiences with horses were I
DO called. 1t was the Generals fin
m smoke. A few weeks later the e
h. President sent his favorite road mar
~ Silver. to Stony Ford to be bred
" Kentucky Prince, q stallion to who
re he took . great fancy. He looked TO
ur ward with some eagerness to the r
suit, but before the bay mare cou
koo1 ST.