The Portland daily press., 1888-11-03
Work FOR THE FOOL-KILLER.
rRridpton Nawe
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

King Wilhelm's war against the French
menus continues. He will eat no soup un-
less it has been translated into German.
Editor Chase of the Vermont Union has
wagered his newspaper property, which is
very valuable. against So that Harrison will
be elected.
Otter Tail and Hennepin counties, in Min
nesota are enjoying the sensation of two
lovely young ladies in the local campaign.
Miss Nygren, of Otter Tail. young lady but
% years OF age, is candidate for superin-
tendent of schools, while Miss Eva MELON
aid, Of Minneapolis, equally youthful, is
working for place on the school board.
1t is said that Miss Nygren, of Otter Tail.
was suggested as sort of joke to head off
somebody else, but as political Jokes often
erminate, 1t bids fair to become a serious
thing. The young men, the ehivalric portion
OF the community that has much stronger
and clearer judgment on the girl than school
questions, have raised their hats and de-
cided TO vote for the girl. Miss Mcdonald,
too, 1t Is said, will make heavy pull on the
gallantry of Hennepin.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, the widow of the exc
cuted Anarchist of Chicago. sailed from New
York for London the other day. She has
gone there upon the invitation of the
British Social Democratic Federation, in
which William Morris. the author of "The
Earthly Paradise" is leader, for the pur-
pose of taking part in the commemoration of
the 18th of November, the anniversary of
the Chicago executions. Two mass meetings,
at both of which she will be speaker, are
to be held there on that day-the first in
Regents Park in the forenoon, and the other
in Hyde Park in the afternoon. she said
that the Chicago executions would be COM
m OF nNalxr In
Britain, but also in France, Italy, Switzer-
land, Belgium, Spain, and other European
countries, as we'll as in hundred cities of
the United States.
The Chinese colony in New York city has
a municipal government of its own, and
twelve leading Cinnamon are the chosen Off
GERS thereof. They keep the money and the
papers of their municipality in big iron
safe, and to insure absolute safety the safe is
locked with twelve ponderous brass pad
locks all in row, instead of the intricate
and beautiful combination lock of the
American invention. Each one of the
twelve members of the Chinese Council or
Board of Aldermen has key to one of these
padlocks, and when the safe is to be opened
all the Twelve must be on hand, each man to
attend to the unlocking of his own paddock.
Gen. LII Yu boo, the distinguished Mongoli-
an who was buried with p0mp last Monday,
was member of the Board of Aldermen,
and now that he is dead the municipal af-
fairs of Little China are all in muddle.
They can't find his key to unlock his pad
lock, and even If they could, no Chinaman
would fill the place, officially, of Lii Yu Du
even for moment. No one will accept an
election to his positioa, either, for there is a
Chinese superstitutiOn that the dead man
would be jealous of his successor, and would
remove him by the same illness of which he
himself died. Hence no public business can
be transacted now in Chinatown.
w. S. Gilbert has had recourse to an old
joke in THE Yeomen of the Guard" 1t is
several years since the joke first appeared on
the surface of London life. 1t was repeated
eagerly from one dinner to another, after
the fashion Of story telling in London, and
finally, about year and half ago, it got
into print. Since that time it has probably
travelled all over the world. Gradually it
dropped out Of sight, only to reappear with
pictorial surroundings in the new Gilbert and
Sullivan opera. The witticism originated in
the Green Room Club, where Gilbert was
talking with number of men at supper
after the theatre. There was a crowd of
bohemians, many OF whom were ne'er-do-
well, around the table. The talk reverted to
q Bishop who had just been appointed to a
lat living, and his income was referred to
with bated breath by some of the more impe-
cnnious club men. ''There is a good deal of
difference between the Bishop and u.s." said
Mr.. Gilbert dryly; she receives $4,000 a
year for being good, while the rest Of us have
eye over the club, and remarked in sarcas-
tic undertone, land some of us are" AS the
joke appears in "Yeomen of the Guard this
last phrase is omitted, and the point of the
joke, as far as its satire on MIR. Gilbert's
cronies is concerned, is lost