The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-06

ever since she left US. Jennie is now assistant
teacher at $3.50 a month";
''Henry G. Roman Nose, one of the Florida
prisoners from Cheyenne Agency, who came to
Carlisle when the school first opened in 1879
and remained two years, says he lives in a
square tent covered with duck. 1t is his own.
He has never worn Indian dress since he went
back, and is now serving the Government as
timer, the trade he learned at Carlisle. He re-
ceives $40 q month
''Arnold Woolworth, Arapahoe. spent the
years between 1881 and 1887 at Carlisle and is
now Government scout at Fort Reno, receiv-
ing $25 a month. He lives in his sisters tepee.
He has four horses in the way of stock"
''Foster Strike AK, Usage four years at Car
Isle, is now eighteen years old and works on
his fathers farm. He dresses in Indian clothes
sometimes. They live in frame house"
"John Bull is interpreting for the Poncas at
$25 a month. Married a camp girl and they are
living in large frame house. He does not at
tend church. Owns four mules, two cattle, two
pigs"
"Thomas Tall Chief, Usage, is at Haskill, in
u position as guard man, where he receives 81
month. AT home has twenty-seven horses, two
mules, forty-eight head of cattle, and about one
hundred pigs"
"Charles Martin, Chippewa, is living with his
father in Minnesota. He is not we'll"
The horse, the mule, the COW, and the pig are
very prominent in the society column of the
Red Man.
The United States Senators charge the contin-
gent fund of the Senate not only with their Apoli-
naris, ginger ale, lemons and sugar, but also
with their snuff, 1t is pretty well known that
on ledge in the wall behind the presiding off
Ger of the Senate there are fixed two old plain
black snuff boxes, one on the Republican and
| one on the Democratic side. 1t is well known
/ that the grave and reverend Senators patronize
| these snuff boxes quite literally and appear to
! them WlpTp
SNUFF comes from is not generally known
/ The notion probably prevails that some good
| fairy with u particular interest in Senators fills
| the snuff boxes during the night or when the
| Senate is not in session. 1t may have occurred
to some that this snuff was a donation from
some millionaire Senator like Stanford to his
! brother Senators, or it may have been supposed
that the snuff was furnished by the venerable
and amiable Capt. Bassett as a token of his re-
gard for the august body which he has care
! fully watched over for so many years. 1t would
| hardly occur TO any one that such an item
would be charged to the contingent fund of the
Senate. But so it is. The last annual report
of the secretary of the Senate showed that on
a certain day the sum of $3.50 was paid to
Isaac Bassett for five and quarter pounds OF
| Copenhagen snuff for use in the Senate Cham
! ber"
Go on, Hine Go on, Robert Hit him
again, IIine Give it to him, Robert Com
missioner Hine and the Engineer Commissioner
are engaged in a scrap Pm glad Of it, and all
l have to say in regard to the matter is $50 on,
both of you; III back neither"
X
II was great time that the newspaper men
of Washington, Philadelphia and Baltimore
had at Cape May last week, thanks to the eour
tesy OF the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
who give the boys complimentary excursion
every year The boys were accompanied by
their wives their sisters, their cousins, and
their aunts, and in some cases their relatives
went along without the principals, The party,
which consisted Of about one hundred and fifty