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THE HOUSE THEY ARE BUILDING UOR
ME.
11Y HENRY C. MANKK.
Somewhere by the shores of the future,
Ou the landscape of ages to come,
With a plain architectural feature.
My workmen are building a home.
Xo tower will rise in the meadows,
Xo porter in liveried array,
But the rustic old gate in the shadows
Will open to show you the way.
Around it a valley, a hill,
Like a monarch enthroned in a charm,
Is turning the wheels of a mill.
With its sinewy-aqueous arm.
A crystaline river is flowing
In silvery song to the sea.
And barges are coming and going
By the house they are building for me.
Winding up from the banks of the river,
An olive-branch avenue leads,
And sweet odors are breathing forever
From the violet lungs of the meads.
Flowers of purple and glory
Border Its shadowy sides.
And trees, old, spectral and hoary,
Mark the ebb and the flow of the tides.
Far back in the deep of the valley,
in the sweep of the shadowy tree.
Where Time checks the register tally,
Is the house they are building for me
Its yellow walls rise in the roses,
Where the spring in the resonant vale.
Starts from its mystical sources,
To wind its phonetical trail.
Though t b e workmen in silence are keeping
The tale of the house by the tree.
The tree in its swinging and sweeping.
Tells the house they are building for me.
And lilies in playfulness bending,
As the waters pass under the tree,
Like gossiping maidens are sending
The wave-whispered message to me.
Some day in their fragrance and beauty.
These fresh lily maidens will come
With a love that is as simple as duty
To the soft yellow walls of my home.
Come as imperfect as wonisn,
Less all their frivolous sins—
sweet spirits foreshadowed in omen,
Ere a lifetime of joy begins,
As the woman in Eden's tradition,
Fresh Irom the sins of the t ree.
Has something in all her perdition.
Like the odor of apples to me;
So, there in the ages unending,
Xor silence, nor sorrow, nor gloom,
But joy and beauty ascending
Like the fragrance of orchards in bloom.
There congenial souls will assemble,
And the flowing libations made free,
Xone will ever deny or dissemble
In the house they are building for me!
And the tree in its swinging and sweeping,
Will rock In the long summer day,
Like a tirpd old nurse that ts sleeping
While her children are romping at play.
OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.
ENGRAVINGS AND BIOGRAPHIES OP
DISTINGUISHED MEN AND WOMEN.
HON. J. RANDOLPH TUCKER.
Hon. John Randolph Tucker is a prominent
member of Congress, from the Sixth Congres
sional District of Virginia. He served with dis
tinction as a member of the Forty-foarth and
Forty-fifth Congresses.
Mr. Tucker is a direct descendant from a cul
tivated, eloquent, and patriotic stock. His
grandfather, the late St. George Tncker, was
born at Port Royal, Bermuda, and came to Vir
ginia to attend the sessions of William and
Mary College at Williamsbnrg. Here he gradu
ated:. in law. when that institution was in the
zenith of its fame. Becoming enamored of Vir
ginia—her climate and her scenery—he conclud
ed to settle in the Old Dominion, and make it
bis future home.
Fired with a genuine and uncontrollable pa
triotism for the country of hi3 adoption, he par
ticipated in the War of the Revolution, and was
severelv wounded at Yorktown, \ a., while in
command of a regiment.
After the termination of the seven years’ strug
gle. which resulted so gloriously for the arms of
the United States, he was appointed Professor
of Law in William and Mary; was subsequently
a Judge for nearly a half century; serving as
such in the State Courts, in the Court of Ap
peals, and in the United Stales District Court.
So thorough whs bis proficiency and so vast his
acouirements and extended his research, that
he’was generally known as “the American Black-
stone. ” He was the author of the popular “Pet
er Pindar” and also of the celebrated poem enti
tled ‘-Liberty.”
Judge St. George Tucker married the widow
of John nandolph, of “Bizarre,” who was the
mother of the celebrated Jno. Randolph of “Ro
anoke.” “Bizarre” is situated in the county of
Prince Edward, Va.. and “Roanoke” in Char
lotte, the oounties adjoining, and hence the dis
tinction of residence because of two similar
names.
Thomas Tndor Tucker, a brother of St. George
Tucker, was also a native of Bermuda, and
settled in South Carolina. He was also an act
ive participant in the Revolutionary War: was
a delegate to the Continental Congress; and sub
sequently a Representative in the National Con
gress from the Palmetto State,and was for thirty
years the Treasurer of the United States.
Of the issue of the marriage of St. George
Tucker and Mrs. Randolph of “Bizarre, “ was
Henry St. George Tucker, father of the present
John Randolph Tucker, who is the subject of
our sketch. Henry St. George Tncker was in
the war of 1812. was a representative in Congress
from Virginia from 1815 to 1S19, was Chancellor
for seven years; President ot the Court of Ap
peals for ten years; Professor of Law in the Uni
versity of Viaginiain lSlOand subsequently; and
was tiie author of the now standard law work
known as Tuckers Commentaries. He was a
half-brother of John Randolph, of Roanoke.
The Hon. John Ran lolph Tucker, the sub
ject of this sketch, was born in the town of
Winchester, Va., on the 24th of Dusember, 1823;
cradnated at the University of Virginia at an
early age and was admitted to practice at the
bar of Winchester in 1845- He was a Democrat-
Presidential elector in 1852 and 1850;. and was
elected Attorney-General of Virginia 18j7, o9,
and ‘G3 and held the position up to the period
of the evacuation of Richmond by the Confed
erate authorities in 1805.
After the war Mr. Tucker went to Baltimore,
and was appointed by the authorities of the Bal
timore and Of io railroad one of its counsel. In
1879 he was elected Professor of Law and Equity
in Washington College, at Lexington, now
known as the Washington and Lee University;
and in 1874 was nominated for Congress with
out his knowledge or consent. His triumphant
election, by a vote amounting almost to unanim.
ity, is fresh within the recollection of our read-
ers.
Upon all questions of law and constitutional
authority. Professor Tncker is regarded among
the ablest and most learned now upon the floor
of Congress. Legal lore seems to have been a
characteAstic of the House of the Tuckers for
over a century,and if possible is becoming more
deeply rooted in the present generation than it
was in the minds of those who have gone before.
As a debater. Mr. Tucker has few equals, and
as an orator is the peer of any. His speech on
the constitutionality of the Centennial appropri
ation in Congress was a masterpiece of logic as
well as legal learning, and his tribute to the vir
tues and patriotism of the early fathers of the
Republio would have reflected cedit upon eith
er of the great triumvirate,Clay,Webster, or Cal
houn. Were he never to utter another syllable,
bis fame would be secured and his memory for
ever honored.
In the family circle Mr. Tuoker is gentle as a
ohild and as amiable as a woman; and at the
festive board, as genial a gentleman as ever
broke bread. He is not without much of that
keen wit and cutting sarcasm for which his an
cestral kinsman, John Randolph, of Roanoke,
was so justly celebrated, and is wont to “set the
table in roar“ with his flashes of humor.
Leroy and Matilda.
A Runaway Match and a Marriage under Difficul
ties.
Leroy Thorp is a good name for a novel. If a
romancer could only imagine everything as live
ly and tender in that line as what happened to
Leroy and his dear Matilda, who was a maiden
fair in Stanton, Illinois, until one night lsst
week, when she become a bride in a most youDg
Lochinvar manner. The old man had long per
formed the cruel parent to the delight of all the
'We don’t keep preachers,* said the clerk,
serenely. ‘This is not a church, but a flrst-
class hotel.’
'For heaven’s sake order me one,’ cried Leroy.
‘Yes,’ chimed in Matilda, for my pa is after us
with a double-barreled big stick, and he’ll mur
der us both if he catches ns.
This last appeal did the business and moved
the stony heart of the serene clerk. He slowly
sent a waiter for a preacher, and dispatohed the
excited couple to the parlor.
The reaaon of the couple’s exoitement was that
they had missed the night train and had come
on the same one with the enraged father, whose
big stick they had seen as he approached the
depot, and they just bad time to hide in the
smoking car.
The feelings of the couple may be better im
agined than described as they sat trembling and
waiting for that preaoher as never preacher was
waited for before. Presently the serene olerk
came slowly up to the parlor, and says he :
•Very sorry to tell you, but the preachers have
all gone to bed ; but you can get a judge, who
will do just as well. Only make haste, for your
father. Miss, is down stairs expressing a desire
to see you, sir, that he may break every bone in
your body-’
The words were hardly spoken when Leroy
and his Tildy skipped by the back stairs and
rushed for the judge, who presently appeared in
night attire at an upuer window.
“Marry us quick, judge.’ shouted Leroy, ‘or
the old man will kill us both.’
The knot can be tied quickly out West, espe
cially by a judge, who regards the thing legally
and not religiously. The cl«rk struck a match
to show the faces of the couple. The judge
made them one in about two minutes, said
good-night, and dispatched his young nephew
down stairs to collect the fee, which turned out
to be only four silver quarters. Se he let the
happy couple retire, and gave the coins to the
hotel keeper; that is, of the other hotel—for of
conr.o they didn't return to Tivoli—and re
HON. J. RANDOLPH TUCKER.
careful papas of Stanton, while the old lady did
But the dress is very simple, and does not re
quire the aid of a dressmaker, for every lady
can cut it on her own table, with a knife and
fork.
Cutting a dress is a mere matter of form.
And the better the form the easier it is to cut.
All dresses will be worn tigh*.
So will hnsbandR
One of our fashion editors hfs said th.t noth
ing but striped stockings will be worn this fal 1 .
This is a gross error.
No lady will risk her health by cmiing out
in such limited attire, when the weather is
growing colder every day.
One of the handsomest articles of apparel that
the maneuvering mother, inculcating on her fair
daughter the absolute necessity of finance as a
factor in love, and the idiocy of love in a cottage,
which, she said, she and her old man bad tried
thirty years, and were then prepared to hold
themselves up as an example to be shuuoed.
Matilda first began to cry at tjiese stern remon
strances, b it at last adopted tue female flanking
game, saying to herself, in the language of num
erous heroines, T will dissemble,’ and she did.
So did Leroy Thorp, and presently the old peo
ple thought how smart they were to make their
girl succumb to the paternal mandate , but just
as they were congraulatiDg themselves on their
own smartness a sudden event occurred whioh,
in the language of the West, knocked them high
and dry. It was a beautiful dewy summer morn
in Stanton, Illinois, and the tinkling cow bells
warned the early milkmaid of her duty. Thrice
the breakfast bell had rung and thrice the good
old man had fumed and fretted, but no Matilda
had appeared.
'Well, ’ says the old man, as rage got the better
of paternal love, ‘if that there gal can't come
down sooner than this of a mornin’ she'd better
find hash somewhere else.’
‘Tildy !’ sang out the old woman, in shrill fal
setto, as she craned her neck up-stairs ; -why
don’t you get out o’ that bed, gal! If I come
up there I’ll bounce you good, now mind if I
don’t!’
These two speeches having been delivered,
and still no sign of Tildy, the old lady proceed
ed on the threatened bouncing expedition, and
in exactly the time it takes the average woman
to get np one flight of stairs the old man heard a
scream and ru.->hed up stairs to find his spouse
gazing on an empty bed, and reading a note,
whioh was couched in these terms :
‘This is to inform you that I am gone. Yes, I
hev tioo with him. You know who. or can tine
out by writing to Sin Lewis, where I shall be
his wife beio’ mornin’. Aaoo
quested him to tell that gay bridegroom to sub
etitute four five dollar bills, or he should not
have the license, which th« judge would issue
the n>xt morning. No sooner was he gone than
Leroy thought, ‘Now, if ;he old man finds ns he
may be too mad to wait for explanations, so we
will just paste the marriage license on the door.
Bnt in his excitement he ha<r forgotten to get
it. He ran down stairs «nd asked for the judge’s
nephew and the license.
•You can get the license,’ says the clerk, ‘by
giving twenty dollars for it. ’
•And walk homn? cried L rov. ‘No sir, I'll
see the judg-.’ And he and Tildy at once start
ed tor the sct-ne of their recent marriage.
But wl at a scene met their ey.s. These was
the old man brandishing his big stick at tbe
bouse and calling on the jndqa to come out and
tell him where his daughter wis.
Once more they fled; the enrlv train bore them
towards Chicago in a state ot nainfut doubt as
whether they were married or not, while a tele
gram at the third station caused the conductor
to search the train for the fugitives.
The poor lovers were wild with alarm until
the ofiioial detective retired, and then, as they
came flying into the next town, the shrill voice
ofanewsbov sang out. ‘L ist elopement! Leroy
Thorp and Matilda Brown! Sensation in Stan
ton, Illinois! The runaways were not caught,,
Ac. Leroy bought a paper and glanced over the
account, where he saw himself tor the first time
in print.
•Thank the Lord,’ he cried, embracing his
Matil a; it’s all right. The old man has bought
the license, and advertises for usjto return and
bo forgiven.’
•And the license is good?’ anxiously asked Ma
tilda, ‘and we are really married?'
•Good as old wheat.’ replied the happy bride
groom. And they returned to the now softened
parents.
giv you, as your ‘Tildy.’
To walk down in the apple orchard and cut a
big stick was the work ot a moment, and to get
on the cars, whose whistle at that moment re
sounded far up the valley, took about twenty
minutes ; and the old man was rushing at forty
rnihs an hour towards St. Louis.
The clerk at the Tivoli Hotel in St. Louis had
just snubbed two quiet-looking strangers, after
the manner of his aristocratic calling, when his
proftssional serenity was disturbed by the
dramatic entrance of a yoDng mar, at full speed,
without any hat. followed by an agitated but
beautiful young female, similarly gotten up.
‘I want a preacher,’ sang out the young man
whom the reader has doubtless recognized as
Leroy Thorp.
‘And quick, please,’ said Matilda, giving
symytoms of a female hysteric.
Senator Ben Hill is corresponding with Wil
liam G. Dix, of Peabody, Massachnseets, on the
subject of centralization. Mr. Dix, who is a
Republican, blames that party because its states
men did not at the end of the war throw aside
the Constitution of tbe United States—‘bury it
in the same grave with slavery*—and adopt a
National Constitnticn. His idea is that under
our Federal Constitution the miserable old cry
of States rights will always be heard. He
thinks that there sb uld be a National Govern
ors ot States, thongh still elected by the people
of the State, to have their commissions signed
may lieven for- I by the National Executive, the Mayors of cities
to be commissioned iu the same way, in fact,
that State Courts State militias and State Con
stitutions should be abolished.
Piofessor George Linck, who is mixed up in
the Sprague-ConkiiDg trouble, prints a long
statement in the Providence Journal. He says
that Governor Sprague gave Uim an insulting
glance when they first met some weeks ago, and
that afterwards he improved every opportunity
to repeat the insult. About the middle of July
Sprague chased him away from the house, and
on the 27th of that month entered a saloon
where he was sipping beer and tried to shoot
him with a mnsket. As he never did anything
in the world to offend Govener Sprague, or any
member of Governor Sprague's family, he is
forced to conclude that Governor Sprague is
crazy.
DRAMATIC NOTES.
E. K. Collier will be Fauny Davenport’s leading
man.
Miss Rosa Ford is going to produce Pinafore in
Shreveport.
Ada Kehan is engaged as leading lady ;by John
Augustin Daly.
Robson and Crane, with Lizzie Harold, begin a
season in Sac Francisco,September 1.
Millie Christine, the two-headed lady, with her
troupe, left on the 2nd of the present month for
California.
Charlotte Thompson and Mrs. D. P. Bowers have
formed a combination, and play together as “stars”
next season.
Floernce has a new play for next season. The “Al
mighty Dollar" is getting to be not quite so almighty
as it used to was.
Fanny Price, nee Davenport, has purchased a
handsome residence of F. S. Elliot, near Canton, Pa^
for the sum of $1,500.
A daughter of Mrs. D. P. Bowers will be in Mr
Daly's Xew York company, also a sou of Mr. and
Mrs. Frauk Chanfrau.
Miss Ada Gilman, who has been supporting Bar
rett, arrived at Xew York, last week. She is en-
engaged at Booth’s Theatre with Bouoicault for next
season.
William E. Sheridan is still iu Xew York,and will
appear as a star with Adele Belgarde at Haverly’s
next week, playing Jacques, Master Walter and In-
fjomar.
Haverly's Children's Pinafore Company is play
ing through Xew England under the management
of Robert Filkins, with E. Rosenbaum as business
manager.
Actresses are continually losing valuable dia
monds while editors’, wives go straight along and
never bother the world bo announcing that they
have been robbed.
Jarrett «& Palmer's “Uucle Toni's Cabin” Compa
ny nas met with remarkable success in Europe.
Mr. Palmer’s share of the profits up to the time of
his deatli was §1.30,000.
Adah Richmond begins her third annual tour at
Albaugh’s Theatre, Baltimore, Sept. 15. Her reper
toire includes“Fatiuitza,” “Cormen,” “Pinafore”
and last years operas. Andy McKay, Manager.
Mrs. John T. Raymond (Marie Gordon; will prob
ably support her husband travelling iu tbe new
play of “Wolfert's Roost, ' if it should prove a suc
cess at Wallack’s. Mrs. Raymond is a ebarmiug
actress.
Philadelphia's favorites, Mr. Frank Mordant and
Mr, George C. Boniface, appear this season in the
tiie great Loudon success, “Queen's Evidence,”
which lias made a great hit at the Walnut Street
Theatre.
Lawrence Barrett is a wonderful illustration of
what energy will accomplish. It is stated that
when lie first went upon lhe;stage, he could not
write his own name: now, he has a good classical
education and speaks four languages.
Fechter. the well-known actor, died at Quaker,
town, Penn., from dropsy and jaundice, after an
illness of several weeks. Charles Albert Fechter
was born in London. October 23 rd, 1S24, and. was
rapidly approaching the 55th year of his age. His
fattier was a native of Germany and liis mother of
France.
There are several actors In Atlantic City. Bangs
bathes as Marc Antony every morning; Carncross
‘cracks itt'sSjoiies Ttmoiig ilie !■: vaker.-. Ilugut-y
Dougherty strolls along the bear i now and then,
ami practices Demosihenian stump speeches; F.
B. Wilson, of the Chesuut, Philadelphia, spe ids his
days at cricket.
The London Graphic says that the artistes of the
Comedie Francais have certainly spared uo expense
to appear to their best advantage before (a London
audience. Mile. Sarah Bernhardt spent £2S0 on liar
dress for “ Ruy Bias,” while Mile. Croizette’scos
tume in the “Misanthrope” eost LWO, besides she
lias six other new dresses almost as equally as ex
pensive and elaborate.
The new comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan,
which is to be brought out next fall, is described by
the London newspapers as a burlesque of Italian
opera, a great deal like opera bouffe. and not much
in the style of “Pinafore.” The introduction of six
burglars into a house, where they fall in love with
six maidens, constitutes the second act, instead of
furnishing tiie entire action of tiie piece, as at first
proposed. Xo name has yet beeu proposed.
“Drink” continues to attract larger and larger au
diences to the Princess Theatre, Loudou; sixtythou-
sand dollars was tiie sum realized in one week late
ly. Miss Amy Roselle, who plays Gervaise, and
Miss Ada Murray, wiio sustains the rolejof Virginie
are at daggers’ drawn. They are] enemiesjon and
off tiie stage; and between them they makejit rath
er warm for Mr. Charles Ueade. As witli tiie Misses
Granger and Rigl, at the Olympic, they fell out over
over the water scene.
Clara Morris lias agreed to appear at she Xew
Brooklyn Theatre in October upon the occasion of
its opening. She will then leave for San Franci sco,
where she proposes to act ten weeks at Baldwin's
Theatre, for which she is to receive $500 per night*
and expenses for travel. At last it is stated that
Clara is in good health, and is living in quiet and
comfort at her rural home known as Riverdale.—
Miss Clara will assume a new role next season, pre
pared expressly for her by < >1. Donn Piatt. It is a
new version of Jane Shore.
The fair Oates is now a t Philadelphian, and re
sides with her husband, Mr. Watkins, Jr., in the
handsome house of Mr. Watkins, Sr. on North
Seventeenth street. Her husband's lines are not cast
in pleasant places exactly. Alice is getting frowsy
and fat. She is loud in dross, too, and in street car,
restaurant and theatre lobby is loud of voice. That
she should attract attention is natural enough for
the reason that she is well known. That her hus
band shou II lii jenious, nr if not jealous at least
perturbed •(' input, is natural. He has had three
tights—reai fisticuffs—during the past week.
Boucicau't's leading lady at Booth’s theatre is
Marie Prescott, a uutiveof Paris, Kty.. and is near
ly twenty-s' x years of age. She is Mrs. Birk, and
the mother <>f two interesting boys, tiie eldest
uot quite eignt years old. Her married life was an
unhappy one, ami she was forced to take the posi
tion of music teacher in her native city in order to
aiu a livelihood, for her molheraud children. She
separate I from Mr. Birk about five years ago, and
became governess in tiie family of a prominent
Southern gentleman. After one year of teaching
she adopted t iie stage as her profession and made
her first appearance iu Cincinnati. She met with
somesuceess, and from Cincinnati she went to
Brooklyn Theatre, where she played for one sea
son, d' iiig some hard work which eminently fitted
her lor t oe position she next accepted, t hat of lead
ing lady with John McCullough, at the Grand
Opera House, Xew York the following season.
PERSONAL.
Mr. J. VV. Edwards, a large planter in the cane-
brake region at Alabama, says in a letter to the
Selma Timex, th at the com non notion that it takes
aboil of cotton six weeks to mature after the I doom
drops from the stalk is an error. He says mat from
the latter pact of June to the 15th or 20th of July it
takes a boll of cotton thirty days to become fully
grown after the bloom drops from the stalk, and
from then on to the 12th of September it only takes
from twenty to twenty-five days for a boll of cot
ton to get grown from the time the bloom drops.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING AND SAYING
AEE OVER THE WORLD.
Addison Cammack, formerly of Xew Orleans is
now reckoned among New York's millionaires.
King Alfonso, of Spain, is to be married to the
Austrian Archduchess Christine during the coming
autumn.
The Zulus, after recent defeats,’.are surrendering.
King Cetewayo is a fugitive and his army is totally
demoralized.
The aged Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce is lying at the
point of death at his home in Georgia. He is in
his 95th year.
Gov. Talbot, of Massachusetts, has forbid the run
ning of excursion trains over the State railroads of
that Common wealtli on the Sabbath.
On the 4th of July, Gen, Barrios, of Guatemala,
sent liis private band of eighty-eight pieces, to tiie
United States Minister, to aid in the celebration of
the day.
Henri Watterson is now having a vengeful whack
atConkling. Conkling ought never to have de
clined a newspaperman’s dinner. Retribution is
sure to come.
Greensboro Home Journal is puzzled to know how
so many summer excursions can be indulged iu,
and yet everybody declares he has no money
wherewith to pay debts.
The laws of Illinois are very strict. In Chicago,
says the Inter-Ocean, we punish a man who kills
liis wife witli almost as many years at hard labor
as if he had stolen a horse.
Another priest, Rev. Father James Fahey, died of
yellow fever in Memphis, outlie Hth inst. This is
the second Catholic priest who lias fallen a victim
to the scourge this year.
A fisherman near Lewistown, Me.,? caught a baby
seal a few days ago; he took it to Northport and
showed to a number of persons who had never seen
one, and then took it back to tiie sea afterwards.
The mysterious nickname of Prince Xapoleon
“Plon-Pion, " was derived from his first baby effort
to speak the word Napoleon, when a child at Stutt
gart, where the king of Wurteinberg used to tease
him to say it.
Carl} le lias been very ill, but his condition is now
so lunch improved as to relieve the anxiety of his
friends. At tiie same time the uoetor still visits
him daily, and by medical advice Mr. Carlyle drives
out as frequently as possible.
A dispath from South Africa, dated Port Durnford,
July 22, says: Kiug Cetywayo made another effort
to-day to ascertain whether his liberty would be
granted him if he submitted. He said that he had
been completely deserted by liis warriors.
Gen. Grant was received with great honors at
Tokio. Japan, and was given an audience by the
Emperor on July 4th. The representative of Great
Britain, however, were conspicuous by their ab
sence. The General will start for home in August
Henry Thornton, a Georgia darkey, died tiie other
day, after which, he was found to have been uot
only an avowed, buta practical Mormon, having for
along time lived with two wives, on the best ot
terms, and by liis wilt, left them equal parts of liis
accumulated worldly gains.
Joaquin Miller says: “If you were to take a news
paper in your hand and crumple it up, and then
spread it ?out again, tiie creases in it might fuirly
~ 'repieseut the streets, and lanes, and alleys of Lon-
i don, so angular, so awkward, and irregular is this,
the greatest of all cities of the earth.”
A gentleman from the provinces went into the
shop of a Parisian tailor to order some clothes.
While his measure was being taken, he said to the
sartorial Aristarchus: “You must find that lam
very badly dressed-” “Oil 110,” replied the artist,
“you are not dressed at all; you are simply cov
ered.”
Queen Victoria has sent to the ex-Empress Euge
nie a frame made of violets iu'amethysts for the
last Photograph of the late Prince Imperial. The
garland is surmounted by an eagle, which holds in
its talons a three-colored streamer on which is
written iu golden letters the motto, “Not lost, but
gone before.”
C. A. Briggs ot Stafford county, Va., was struck in
the left thigh by a minnie-ball, in October, 1S64, be
ing then in tiie Confederate service at Petersburg
Strange to relate the ball passed across the lower
portion of tiie stomach and worked its way into the
groin ou tiie right side, from which place it was ex
tracted ou Wednesday.
Twenty-seven relatives of Wells and; Anderson,
the talented gentlemen of the Louisiana Returning
Board, are now on the rolls of tiie New Custom
House. This leads the Baltimore Gazette to observe
that the liberal way in which Mr. Hayes paid for
tiie theft of tiie Presidency will doutless encourage
some big work next year.
London, August Rev. Newman Hall, the noted
Congregational pulpit orator, has obtained a decree
of divorce from his wife on account of her intimacy
with one Richardson,a stable-keeper. The case has
been on trial for a week past and created a great
sensation. The wife brought counter cliargesof the
same character against her husband.
Commissioner Raum reports to Secretary Sher
man that during the past fisc il year, $113,000,000
have beeu collected and paid into the Treasury
without any loss or deficiency, and the entire
amount which is in default upon tiie collections of
three years amounting to $343,000,000, is just $2,786.
This sum will be recovered by suits.
Major William W. Leland, who died at Saratoga
on last Saturday, was tiie last of those wiio com
posed the staff of Grant when lie commanded the
army of the West. When the war broke out Major
Leland was in Texas, engaged in enterprises which
involved a large amount of capital. He went North
and joined the Federal army, and his property was
confiscated.
The other dav, in Paris, two men bet $4,000 that
their two horses, one a Russian and the other a
Frenchman, could trot from tiie Arc deTriomplie to
Moutee and return, a distance of sixty miles, inside
of a specified time. Tiie French horse fell dead at
St. Germain on his return, and tbe Russian arrived
alive, iu the Bois de Boulogne, having made tiie dis
tance in nine hours, hut when he reached his stable
he also lei 1 dead.
A party of newly-arrived Icelanders are now in
New York, and although it is the hottest par! of our
hot summer, they have refused hitherto to lay oil'
their national dress. Heavy jackets, flannels and
furs that must produce the most sweltering discom
fort, seem to them more attractive than the lightest
and most seasonable costume. When generations
run into a thousand years tiie force of habit be
comes prodigiously strong, and this is a quaint il
lustration of it.
Capt. Boyton gave one of his exhibitions at Man
hattan Beach, last Friday. Among tiie many pur
poses for which ills life-saving apparatus can be
used, one is for placing torpedoes under the enemy’s
vessels. He had a miniature ship, upon which lie
showed the experiment. Just at the moment the
explosion took place, Levy was iu the midst of one
ot his difficult S0I03. He was so frightened by the
hock that he could but show it 10 the crowd, who
hurra'd and laughed heartily at his nervousness,
disgusting the peculiar “blower” very much.
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