The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-02-18
ODDS AND ENDS.

The Duchess Of Portland
keeps herself warm and cosy
under a thousand guinea seal
skin coat.
Ex-Governor Foraker is MAX
ing more money as a lawyer
than he worn respect as a Chief
Magistrate.
a Wisconsin man has com
mitted suicide by holding his
head in q barrel Of water until
lite was extinct.
Same brutal Republican has
started the atrocious campaign
slander that Thomas Jefferson
played the fiddle. Is the law
entirely imperative!
The late King Kalakaua could
read Hebrew, had q fair knowl-
edge Of Latin and Greek, and
when necessary could take a
hand in speaking four of the
modern languages.
Senator Hoar talks Of retiring
into private life. It is remarka-
BILE what a happy faculty the
dear ol a lady is developing of
anticipating a general public
desire.
Count Rothenburg, 10 years
old, is the youngest lieutenant
in the Prussian army. He is
assigned to the First Regiment
of Dragons. Some branch of
the infantry would seem more
suitable to his age.
4 The cities Of the Union are in
creasing in population at the ex-
pensc Of the country. This is
most noticeable IN the case Of
Chicago, wnere a fair share of
the States area has been includ-
ed in the limits of the munich
.pality.
Senator-elect PETER of Kansas
pays that his entrance into the
solitical field has caused q vibra-
tion throughout the country.
He is right. Almost everybody
has laughed until his sides
shook.
1t is quite true that Miss Mary
Garrett, Of Baltimore, has a
bath in her house lined with
shimmering ONYX and that it
cost $4,000. But this does not
enable her to get along without
common water and slippery
soap.
Mrs. Hammer MacLaren Shep-
pard, Of Washington, a daugh-
ter of Bishop MacLaren, of
Illinois, claims that she has
tasted far sixty days. And yet
she appears to be a round, rosy
and comfortable woman, who
wouldn't miss a meal or forget
an invitation to tea.
A Pittsburg woman, Rose Ann
Henderson, aged 60, is seeking
to recover from 7O-year-old
Alexander johnson, the trifiing
sum of $4,000 for breach of
promise of marriage. What
giddy creatures those PittsburgI
girls are!
"a. j. Chadwick, of Salt Lake
City, says that Mormonism is
rapidly dying out in Utah, and
that polygamy is being retired
so thoroughlythat a man doesn't
need to call a convention of his
wives when he wants TO pass an
order for his being permitted to
have a latch-key.
Senator German is as method
ical as aDutch housewife, lives
placidly and calmly, has none
Of the small vices, and, when
speaking, reminds one Of a col
lege professor lecturing his class
and reminding them of the nice
fitting clothes he wears as an
illustration of the free wool
theory.
President Harrison says he
has had no intention to be dis
courteous to visiting delega-
tions. Possibly not. The play
/ full mule has no definite purpose
| to find a subject for the Coroner
when he fans a man with his
heels, but the Coroner gets the
/ job all the same.
Chicago men connot under
stand il. AT home their wives
/ find fault with them for smok-
/ ing. Outside their homes the
same wives chip in TO fill up
THE Sioux braves with cigar
cites. And then the dear Great
ures talk about the incoasis-
tency Of men.
Rhode Island produces the
| best CLANS and oysters ia the
world, and as for clam bakes-
why. she Is miles ahead Of all
creation. The only trouble IL
that when a man sits down TO q
bake he is apt TO throw his
shells into Connecticut an have
TO reach into Massachusetts, fol
the corkscrew.