Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-01-23

whipped By an actress, for which privilege
she paid s. and considered ii cheap.
1t is now said that the Gar is going TO
have himself proclaime Emperor OF ASIA
We'll, then there will be an Emperor and
an Empress, as Victoria is Empress Of
India
Mr. Henry Watterson, OF Louisville, in a
speech in New York the other night, said
Mr.. Cleveland is "a puzz e to politicians and
contradiction to experience"-whica aoou.
sizes Mr.. President.
Prince Oscar of Sweden who is Rb ut to
marry maid Of honor. was to have welded
one of the Prince of Wales's daughters, but
the Swedish Parliament refused to vote the
necessary money, and the match was brok-
en- off.
Another old man in Pennsylvania has
been swirded out OF $4,000 by "bunco"
men. Well, any man who is such fool as
to be taken 10 by such characters deserves
to lose-not quite SO much however.
Tie tone Of the dispatches that come from
Europe are more and more pacific, and "all
the clouds that lowered upon our house are
now in the deep bosom ofthe ocean buried p
where the spectators and mischief makers
can't get at 'em.
Kensal Green, 3 suburb of London, is
haunted with q spring heeled ghost, who
has been frightening old woman and child
rem into f;s A vigilance committee, arm
ed with constables' clubs, are searching for
that ghost, and il found it will down.
TIE cold spell, it is said By those who
p.ophesy, will continue for some days. and
the pcce of fuel is going Up as the mercury
falls. Oh! pity the poor ye strikers and
pray that the chalice may not be pressed to
your own lips.
Tie grain trade of Baltimore has not been
Cd depressed for gears. Baltimore has lost
much Of its trade in other things beside
grain, and it is feared she has seen her
zenith as great mart The big hsh are
swallowing up The little ones es transporta'
ton facilities increase.
A wealthy retired merchant of Baltimore
died the other day from paralysis of the
threat caused by the slipping of an onion
down his esophagus n month o. SO ago.
Never undertake to eat onions whole, for,
while good when fried, though unsavory,
few throats can accommodate a full grown
silver skin.
Mr.. Kenna wants bureau or wardrobe,
or whatever you choose 10 call it, Of Militia.
We'll, the numb of captains, majors and
colonies, to say nothing Of generals, is rapid
ly diminishing and needs replenishlDg, while
the demand for cornstalks would be in
creased greatly, which would bs good
thing for the farmers.
Why most Of the papers in this country
should have such an aversion TO nj. De L@s'
seps and his Panama canal scheme is some
what remarkable, unless tnere is e cst 10
the meal tub" viz "a joh-Its sort OF
"dog in the rnanger" ieeling-you can't do
it Yourself and we don't want anybody else to
do it. But the old gentleman may get there
yet.
Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, of Washington, is
still sick, suffering with bronchial affec.
ton. Mr. Corcoran has long since passed
his three score and ten years. and the psalm
ist has said Though men be so strong that
they come to four score years, yet is their
strength then but labor and sorrow"-and Mr..
c. with his wealth and philanthropy is but
mortal.
President Cleveland's present to the Pope
the Constitution of the United States,
with amendments thereto attached, has
been received by his Holiness, who has
doubtless read the instrument before, but
not done up 10 such hand some style. Some
thing not so frequently violated would have
probably been more appropriate present,
bnt-non est disputandum.
The remains OF Archbishop Profundus
who sad mass about FIVE hundred years ago
and who, with Henry Wits anxiety to have
a chang Of wives, made England Protestant,
have been unearthed at Canterbury CaLhe-
draI. Only the skull was perfect and few
bones remain, but the veluables are not to
be found. It would seem That there were
ghouls in those days as in these.
Out in Minnesota and Wisconsin frogs are
vet silent and the blue birds have not be-
gun TO MARBLE, the mercury ranging from
45o TO Csc below zero, and yesterday morning
the quicksilver in every thermometer 10
Minneapolis was frozan. La some places the
breath freezes before it escapes from the
mouth which in many instances is consider
ed rather Fortunate than otherwise.
Some man has been taken for R. B. Hayes,
who once upon Time acted as President OF
this country in the place of Mr.. S. J. Tiden
defrsuded OF his rights. whereupon the New
York Sun says that "nextto being Ruther.
ford B. Hayes in fact what more frightful
lot could be imagined for an American ci!i-