The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-10-06
EvnnYrHING AND NOTHING.

EVERYTHING AND NOTHING.
Tennyson is just twenty-three days
older than DR.. Holmes. Both are so.
Mrs. Mackay is the possessor of a
string of fawless diamonds two yards n
length.
More than $4,000, 900 four per cent.
government bonds have been redeemed
during the present month.
There is poor man in Atchison who
says he has no desire to be rich. He is
also liar.-Atchison Globe.
George A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis,
has presented soldiers monument to
Concord, N. H.. his native town.
The pope's new private chamberlain,
]. G. Haywood, married a rich widow
while he was newspaper writer.
sardou, the great French playwright,
writes hand so fine that it almost re-
quires magnifying glass to read it.
Uncle Jerry Rusk has sent an ento-
mologist to Australia to look for bug
that will eat the Kansas grasshoppers.
Custom receipts show decrease of 80
per cent. during the present month as
compared with the same month of last
year.
General Black, ex-commissioner of
pensions, says ''Barkis is willin,' to ac-
cept nomination for the governorship
of Illinois.
Moorfeld Story, who was at one time
summers private secretary, has agreed
to write his biography for the 'Ameri-
can Statesmen Series.''
Francisco Cortisi, the great Italian
singing teacher, lives alone in a little
villa just out of Florence, where an old
housekeeper prepares his spaghetti and
his wine for him.
DIR. Andrew Wilson, the famous Brit
ish scientist, says women are cruelty
needless in stopping streetcars of often.
They could save the horses by getting off
in groups, he thinks.
Englishmen were surprised, when the
German emperor's tobacco box had been
left behind, to find what mild cigars he
smoked. All those of the Prince of
Wales were too strong. !,
In General Grants time Sayles J.
Bowen was mayor of Washington.
Now he is messenger in the treasury
department at $50 month. But even
this is more than Bardsley is getting.
The pope is so frail and thin that it
seems as if a breath would blow him
away. But despite his extreme age and
feebleness he retains a wonderful hold
on life. His faculties are unimpaired.
There isa newspaper in London which
is printed in scented ink. There are
many papers in this country which
might do well by adopting this method
the scented ink might serve to offset the
rankness of their editorial matter
Mrs. ingalls, is quite unlike her tall,
thin husband in figure. She is rather
short, with a tendency to stoutness.
Her complexion is fair and rosy, and her
face is animated by pair of bright and
expressive eyes.
One of the most common, mistakes,
made by the mothers of this country in
training their children, is that when
they wish to produce mental impressions
upon the youth they generally begin at
the wrong end OF him.
The old home of John Howard Payne
is still in a good state of preservation.
1t is a lowly dwelling with quantities of
roof to 1t, covered with gray shingles.
There is garden attached in which holly
hooks grow, and there is picturesque
we'll near by.
James B. Hammond, of typewriter
fame lis frequently in Atlanta. He is
small man and frightfully tortured
with neuralgia. 1t is impossible for him
to sit still for five minutes at a time.
For twenty years he has not been out of
pain.
Somebody should invent mirror that
will enable man to see himself as
others see him, and every professional
politician should be presented with one
of them at public expense An cpl
demlc of suicides might then be conf
IDENTIFY expected.
How the Rothschields are housed at
Ferrleres, near Paris, may be judged by
their five establishments, worth $4,000
600, needing the services of $50 people.
The stables contain 100 horses. When
Louis Napoleon visited Ferrleres the
RothschieIds gave grand breakfast in
his honor, the cost of which was $500, 900.
The bright Chicago Herald, which, by
the way, is the best printed newspaper
in the United States, directs attention
to the fact that Mrs Hooker strongly
recalls her brother, Henry Ward Beecher,
when she ie speaking on her feet. We
are left at a loss to imagine what she
can possibly recall when she speaks on
her hands.-AstoriGn.
There died last Sunday week, in New
York City at the age of A., business
man whose last hours displayed a forth
tude and tenderness that issdeserving 0
the Immortality conferred by type.