The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1891-12-12
Personal AND PERTINENT.

Cotton's decapitation enrages the
would-be- state-stealers so that they
put cotton in their ears whenever Hills
name is mentioned.
TOughs and thugs and law-deliers
and pull-boasters should profit every
where by the end of Thug McManus's
pull in Philadelphia. 1t was ropes
end.
Amelie Rives-C Chandler is building
studio on her country estate in Abe
marie county, Va. If she would only
put the sole black mammy'' on canvas
us well as she has INTO prose-
Paulus, the cafe chantant singer who
gave fame to Boulanger, is described
as man who looks like typical South
Fifth avenue waiter. He is short and
rather slender, with Il big head and an
unlimited amount of vivacity.
An old scout of the plains said to
Pittsburg reporter the other day: 81
lost Il brand-new pair of boots with my
legs in them at Wounded Knee Bret
Harte should come home and hunt mp
this rare old humorist. He is worth
putting in book.
Gov. John =. Buchanan, of Tennes-
see, who has had little more than he =
could do for some time past in dealing
with the convict miners in, his state,
is Il tall, blond man, ruddy of face,
with blue eyes and light hair. lie
wears long mustache and goatee. He
Is a self-made man, once q farm boy,
and is fine type of the educated
granger.
The neXt speaker of the national
house of representatives will be the
thirty-second man to hold that enviable
position in public life. There have
been fifty-one congresses but only
thirty-one speakers. Henry Clay was
elected speaker six times, and Blaine,
ColfaX, Randall, Carlisle and Nathan
iel Macon, of North Carolina, filled the
Office three times each.
An old chest that once belonged to
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain and
was recently purchased abroad by y
Chicago man was not allowed to get
by the customs officials until heavy
duty had been paid on it. 1t would be
interesting to know what that duty is
supposed to protect. Is il to encourage
the infant American industry of manu-
featuring choice antiques to order?
Caspar w. Whitney, sporting editor
of Harper's Weekly-for that staid
journal has for Il very considerable
period devoted much attention to out
door sport-has received the honor of
IL burning in etligy by some of the
Cornell undergraduates. No doubt,
these misguided young gentlemen will
be surprised when they learn that
the weekly editorially pronoupces.'t this
to be ''fame.n
Old Red Cloud, who was deposed
from his position rs chief of the Sioux
to make way for American Horse. II
younger man, is now pitiful specta-
Gle, it is said. lie frequently visits the
Chadron agency and weeps and walls
about his fall from power. He is now
rapidly gong blind, and seems TO be
dying from Il broken heart. His aged
squaw remains faithful to him and he
is popular with the Sioux nation.
The poets and poetesses of the effete
East will no doubt be glad to learn
these interesting facts about 1.-THE poet
laureate of the Worlds Fair Mis-.
Harriet Monroe, the handsome daugh.
ter of Chicago lawyer. She has
written an extensive and dramatic
tragedy of medieval Italian life, in five
acts and II prologue, beside mucl
'.magazIne verse which is said to have
"gone off to her own and the critics
satisfaction
Governor elect Brown, of Maryland
is II short, stout man, of light brow
hair and closely clipped mustache
lie inherits large wealth from hi
! father, one of the foremost planters il
Carroll county, and is himself as goo,
u Judge of horse as there is in Mary
land. Comptroller L. Victor Baugl
. man, by the bye, still insists with tn
: suave earnestness of an Eastern Shor
: expert that the bluegrass lands of HI
3 state will yet produce us famous
+ stock of thoroughbreds us that whic
has made Kentucky glorious.
5 Among the exhibits to he made at th
d Worlds Fair by Il Paris jewelry estah
}, liShment will be the extraordinary
$ s.blue diamond" which is almos
. unique in the world of precious stones
=. and two of the Mazarin diamonds
y There were originally seven of tn
IS Mazarin diamonds, and they wer
e bequeathed by the Cardinal of tha
i, name to Louis XIV, who made {
|, them the nucleus of the afterwar,l
u famous crown jewels. At the sale {
;. the royal collection two or three year
ago the other five passed into tn
hands of private purchasers.
s. French TanSy Waters.
N These waters are for the relief and cuI
IN of painful Irregularities and will reno,