The Forrest City times., 1888-08-18

 FOREST CITY, ARK.
 Miss NELLIE ARTHUR. daughter of the late President Arthur, is with the Trelnghuysens at Lenox.
 COUNT AEco-VALLEY, the German NJ mister to this country, is going to Lenox for the remainder of the sum. mcr.
 BEIvA LOCKWOOD thinks she will win the Presidency. Belva is the fa- nous Mark Tapley of American poli- { cs.
 CHARLES TIEBIG. of Eureka Cal, has discovered bird of new species. Eureka is an appropriate place for such a man.
 DAMN. inc famous Yale catcher. will 20 into business in Buffalo. Yale will have great difficulty in filling his place on the nine.
 ALTHOUGH he has become a social lion in England Bret Harte longs to get home again. AL least cores. pondent says so.
 TIE late Edmund Gurney. of Eng land, was one of several men from whom George Eliot was said to have drawn Daniel Deronda
 THr report now cireulates that Jay Gould is simply money-sick. The sight of a ten-dollar bill sets him shiv- ering. It is bad case of satiety.
 SIR LIONEL SAcKvILLE-WEsT, now on the way to this country with his two daughters. will go to Beverly Farms. Mass, soon after landing here.
 TIE death of ex-Empress Charlotta of Mexico may occur at any moment in Belgium. She is rapidly sinking and has become entirely helpless
 ROBERT BROWNING poems are be- ing translated into Russian. Nihilists may yet find punishment worse than banishment to Siberia hanging over them.
 CEN. GREELY says that if the Signal Service is made civil organization he will leave it. He doubtless argues that "lhe war of elements" should be watched by military men
 Miss ROSE CLEVELAND Is certainly not | lazy woman. She keeps moving The recent announcement that she in tends to go to Europe next year to pursue her literary studies is confirm cd.
 THAT Gen. Sheridan has grown much stronger is proved by the fact that he objects to a barber who does not talk. It takes good deal of vital ity to really enjoy the loquacity of a barber
 REPRESENTATIVE DALzELL, of Penn sylvania. is admitted to be the best dressed man in the House. and as he walks the streets chin up and with q bold str de the presumption is that he pays tho tailor.
 It turns out that the Shakespeare statue in Paris is the outcome of a sug- gestion, followed up by cold cash. of au Englshman, Mir. Knighton. Paris will hardly appreciate Knighton. It's \ knight off which has the call in that naughty ityc-
 THE President takes great delight in the antics of the two red foxes recent ly seut To him as q present from NJ B. souri. How times change! If any body had sent Pres don't Van Buren a fox as present there would have been blood on the moon in short order.
 Ir is tho consensus of opinion among lerary people that Wm. D. Howells is greater as novelist than as critic. while Henry James is greater as CT tic than as novelist They might have made remarkably successful bus ness men, is the verdict of the public on both of them.
 GRASS VALLEY, Cal. rejoices in a natlveborn Chinese American belle. She is about fourteen years old, and dresses and conducts herself in tho most approved American manner, She is the daughter of Tin Loy. q wealthy Chinaman. who is very proud oI his daughters many accomplish. ments.
 GILBERT HEAL. of Weston. Me, s a very old man for one who has had but twenty-six birthdays. for he was born in Georgetown. Me, in l7S8 But the fact that he was born on the 29th of February easily accounts fer his poverty in birthdays. He is in fairly good health. and seems likely to see another birthday.
 THERE is curious well in Williams burgh county. :. C. IL is about twenty feet deep. and the water on one side of it is all the time bubblin 2 up as if boiling. On the other side the water is continually sizzing and pop ping as though confined in a hot ves- sel The noise can be heard some dis tance from the well. The water is cold and line.
 A WRITER thinks that the determine ton of Pauline Lueea to sing only in concerts if she should visit this country is owing 10 her keen recollection of the comparative indifference with which the public at large rece yed her when she appenred-an indifference due much less to any lack of brilliant talent on her part thaa to the Nilsson craze' that prevailed aboat the sams time.