The Red Cloud chief., 1886-03-19
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. Inc estimated population Of China
405. 213, l52, or 263 souls per square mil
throughout China proper.
The total number Of troops furnIshes
by all the states for the Union arm,
during the late war was 1851 49,.
General StraoIcy, the greatest author
ity ON Indian railroads. estimates tina
the benefits accruing from Ter railway
~ India amounts to over s30,O00,OU
per annum.
At Oakland, Cal, lives Mrs. G. A
Bryant, o aged, once a belle. whom
George Nv. once kissed. and 70 whom
Napoleon iii. is said 10 have offered hi:
heart. hand and empire.
In speaking Of the Bible, John Milton
said: There arc no songs to be com
pared with the songs Of Zion; no ORA
iiOrs equal to those Of the prophets, and
no politics like those the Scripture:
teach"
John c. Calhoun, grandson of the
great nullifier. is an Arkansas planter.
He is a larg. and heavy man, but wei
proportional. He has nm oval face,
somewhat massive in its outlines, with
mild blue eyes and a small brown mus
tache.
At Chico. Cal, a colt belonging to a
citizen was hanged by getting a halter
about its throat, whereupon the mans
hunting dog went to- his door and
scratched and hOwled till he reused his
master. and then conducted him to the
stable.
The London Spectator says: 1--WE
suspect that wealthy Americans get the
people crammed down their Threats till
they grow Al weary as the late Horace
Greeley, a most liberal giver, who once
answered a request for money to save a
few souls with the snarl: Get out!
There amt half the souls damned that
ought be-"
The huge Cyclopean walls of Tiryus.
which form the principal defenses, are
composed of irregular limestone blocks.
many Of them from six to nine feet long,
three wide and three feet high, and DR..
Schlicman declares that they were laid
without mortar. their weight keeping
them in position, and the interstices be-
ing filled with small stones.
An English %nobleman. Lord Russell,
the inferior of an illustrious name, who
has been travelling in this country, is a
young man Of a retiring disposition and
no particular talents that have yet been
discovered. He seems OvershadOwed by
the weight of his name, just as his
grandfather, who made it. appeared
ovcrshadOwed by the %stupendous hat he
was in tho habit of wearing.
ut is noticeable" remarks Life O1on-
dom. THAT the queen, after returning
TO Windsor from Scotland or elsewhere,
always pays nm early visit to the En-
press Eugene. The difference in their
fortunes, II it has any influence with
the queen. only makes her more sympa-
thetic and affectionate. But while the
empress is the survivor of a fallen
dynasty and the queen is an empress
whose throne is the firmest i'm the world,
they are women who have peculiar griefs
in common, in presence of which the
difference in their external fortune is US
nothing"
LabOuchcrc thinks the following pass
age from Ruskin's ''Prrtcritir" is about
rs good Il specimen Of cgrcgious vanity
rs an eminent man has ever favored the
world with. Little johnny had found
his first piece of copper pyri,cs, and thus
on the event: IF ONLY then
my father and mother had seen the real
and weakness of their little
John. if they had given me but a shac-
~ Welsh pony. and lett me in charge of
\ good Welsh guide. . they would
have made y man Of me there and then,
and afterward the comfort of their own
and probably the first scologist of
my time in Europe"
South America is more than double |
the size of the United States. The En-
pirc of Brazil seems on the map quite rs |
as Australia. 1t is twcnty-fou |
lines the size Of England. The ArSen- |
inc Republic is nearly rs large as I
taking Russia out. Bolivia and |
are each twice the size of
England. New Grenada and Peru each
rs large rs England and Scotland. Ecua-
something less, Paraguay equal TO
treat Britain. Urugay and Chill about
he same. and the little known regions
# Patagonia and Terra del Fucco at
double the dimensions of Great
British. French. and Dutch
;uiana are nearly rs large as Great
A leading publishing house states that
When u manuscript is received il is
lrncd over Ia a reader" who. after
xamining it carefully, returns il with
us opinion a Ia its merit or lack of
merit. If a reader returns n manu.
cript with a strong Endorsement the
lcrits of the work are considered from
commercial point of vicw-whether il
likely to sell. how much it will cost
,r publication. etc. Frequently the
Manuscript is turned Over "a Il second
,ader. sometimes to a third. If all
ny: This is a strong work: think il
ill pay Won to publish it." or words to
lat effect, of course their rccommenda-
goes a long way in the question of
utilization.
A traveller in New Mexico gives a
description of the country
lrough which a new road passes. and
Ills OF the Seven Cities of the Chico
alley what almost reads like the 70
ANTE explorations Of the members of
le Smithsonian Institute. He SAYS that
'ere arc today in that valley ruins of
rye buildings five stories high. and
mt III them in such an excellent state
preservation that the and
astering are looking As new and fresh /,
though done but a few wears instead 4,
centuries ago. These buildings are
supposed to be Of Aztec /.
lgtn. but strange TO say. there is NJ
csent no historical account Of them or F,
cir builders. ,
Secretary Bayard is growing quite :
saf. Those who have dealings with 5
IN in his office soon discover that a I
carried on in an ordinary !
ne is entirely lost upon the Secretary. /