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WASHINGTON CITY.
Reminiscences of Distinguished
Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired at
the National Capital.
iilr. Clay, Justice Samuel T. Miller,
Chief Justice Marshall, John
Quincy Adams.
NO. 23.
1 he Capitol at Vv .ishington, seen from
aBy of the neighboring heights, presents a
majestic appearance. The old, ceutial por
tion, which is of sandstone, has been paint
ed while to rasenjnle the marble wings
while above towers the stupendous dome
nearlj 000 feet in tight, composed entirely
of cast iron, weighing nearly 9,000,000
pounds and crowned by a bronze statue of
!■ itedotn, modelled by Crawford, which is
nineteen feet six inches high, and which
weighs about 15,010 pounds. In the original
design the statue wore the Phrygian liberty,
cap, but this was rejected by' direction of
J. ffersou Davis, who, as Secretary of War,
had charge of the work, and the artist sub
stituted an Indian head-gear, composed of
an eagie’s beak with a profusion of feath-
eis. The statue was placed in position on
the 13ih of December, 1863, when a nattoual
ealute of thirty-five guas was fired by a
field battery near by, and was responded to
by the heavy artillery of the otmin of forts
wliicn then encircled the metropolis for it-;
dei ruefe.
The Capitol grounds were enlarged in
1872 by the purchase of two i-quates of
ground, the buildings on which sere de
molished. They h ive been laid out v nh
iiarge ornamental fountains are waiting a
supply of water, and Greeuough’s colossal
statue of Washington, alter having been
placed in the rotunda, and then moved
about from one location to another, now
stands txposed to the weather, and is point
ed out to it quisitne Uiuiisls as the statue uf
Sitting Bud.
Iht central portion of the Capitol has yet
to be brought out, that the dome may have
a broader foundation, and the addition of a
central portico on the western side would
and to its majestic appearance as seen from
the city, for it must not be forgotten that
the bulk of the city has been constructed at
the b»cK door of the building, for winch the
grasping landowners on the east side are
responsible. Ut questionably the most mag
nificent place lor the meeting of legislative
bodies in tne world, u is a national ntonn-
meut, which commemorates the highbst tri
umphs of human wisdom and heroism, and
to which eaeh succeeding generation will
add ntw glories, and will aaorn it with new
laurels. Every true-hearted American who
sees its noble proportions can bat echo in
his heart the prayer of Daniel Vtebsier,
when he laid the corner stone of the exten
sions, tiiat the edifice ‘may endure forever.”
.Tip. C'ltiy.
When I first came to Washington the Su
preme Court sat m the room in the base
ment of the Capitol, now occupied as a law
library, which has an arched ceiling suppor
ted by massive pi liars, that obstruct the view,
aLd was badly ventilated. But its as richm
traditions of hair powder, cues, mill-,d shirts,
kn*e breeches and buckies. At mat tune no
justice had ever sat upon the bet.cli in
trousers, nor had any lawyer ventured to
plead in boats or wearing whiskers. Their
honors, the chief ju-i.ice and justices, wetr
ingsuoh judicial roties, were ire vied with ihe
mu.-l profound redact. Wneu Mr. Clay
; slopped one d y in an argument, ai d ad
vanning to ihe bench took a pinch of sm.ff
from Judge V\a-tnngton's box saying, “I
perceive that your honor sticks to the
Scotch,” and then proceeded with his c-.se,
it excited astonishment and admiration.
* “Sir,” said Mr. Justice Story, in relallngthe
circumstance to a friend. ”1 do not i.elttve
there is a man in the U med Suites wno
could have done thill but Mr. Clay.”
Justice Siiinuel T .Miller.
Justice Samuel T. Miller is a native of
r Kentucky, and is regarded by many as the
ablest man on the bench of the Supreme
C-iurt. He has been twice married, and he
began life as a physician, bat he had anti-
sl ivery oouvictious, ana removed to lo.va in
1853. Marrying a smart and healthy woman,
he got on famously, and he ranks as a man
of large learning, original thought, bold
mind and charitable spirit.
Chid Justice Marnhall.
Chief Justice Marshall, wno had then pre
sided in the Supreme Court for more than
a quarter of a century, was one of the last
survivors of those officers of the Revolu
tionary army who had entered into civil ser
vice. He was a tall, gaum tnaa, with a
small head and bright, black eyes. He used
to wear an unbrushed, long-skirted black
coat, a badly fitting waistcoat and knee-
breeches, a voluminous White cambric cra
vat, generally soiled, and black worsted
stocking", wi h low shoes and stiver buckles.
He was a rapid welter, and he never Wore
an ou er garment, eveu in tne most inclem
ent weather. A great judge, pioinmeut
among the mighty intellects of his epoch,
Advance*? «T
Sonth Carolina wr.nl'i be made chief justice.
“Then,” predicted Dan el Webster, ‘ m half
an hour Air. Justice Vla-dithgtou and Mr.
Story will resign. A muj rii.y w,ll be left
Y . ^ I ‘- Jo' . son, and every constitution'll
dectS'cn heretofore mr.de will be rever-ed.”
This prediction was not realized, as C def
Justice Marshall remained on the bench nn-
ill his dear h, which occurred nearthe middle
of Genera. Jaci sou's presidential term.
lli*ury Cluj.
Henry Clay, as Secretary of State under j
John Adams, was the leading member of
his Cabinet. He had obtained his position,
it was asserted, by a bargain, and this was
thing in his face with great pertinacity by I
his political opponents. The foreign policy
of the administration, which encouraged
the appointment ot a minister to represent
toe U.ii'ed S o cs in the 0 ingress of Ameri
can Republics at Pi riant a, although in ac
oordiii'.ce with ihe ‘•.Monroe doctrine,” was
denounced as federalism. Ylr. Clay, who
i ttd never been n Federalist, did not wish
to be regarded as a restorer of the old Foil-
era! party, and he accordingly began to e o-
Hie ihe Whig party, of which he naturally
became the le.-der. Mr. C.-iy m *de a good
Secretary of Slate; but his pines was in
Gougre-s, for tie s'as formed by nature for
a popular ord..r. He was tall and thin,
with a rather samli h€*ad and gray fcyfc 4 *,
which peered fortn le-s voluminously than
would have b en expected in one possessing
such eminent control of language. His
nose was straight, his upper itp long and his
upper up. long aud his under jaw light. His
mouth, of generous width, straight when ho
was 6iient, and carving up at ihe corners as
he spoke or united, Was singularly graceful,
indicating more than any other feature the
elastic play of his mind. Wr.en he en
chained large audiences his features were
lighted up by a winning smile, the gestures
of his long arms were graceful, and the
gentle accents of his mellow voice were
persuasive and winning. Yet there 1MUT
never been a more imperious despot iu po
litical affairs than Mr. Clay. He regarded
himself as the head-centre of his party—
L eta' e'est md—and he wanted everything j
ntihzed for tits advanc. incut. The other
members of the Cabinet soon espoused his
cause, or became tne partisans of General
Jackson, and :V^t. Art ms found • mself de
Sufi tO ckpect,
Joint Quincy Ailsims.
John Quincy Adams’ diary shows that
while tie never Complained to his Cabinet
that they had d : ted him, hi felt bitterly
disappointed that fie was wot the choice of
the politicians and of the people for re-
eleoiton. ide would not, however, even
write a few plei.sant words of thanks (when
asked to do so) to an editor who supported
him; neither would he appoint to or remove
from office auy one because of an individual
preference for or against himself. Distin
guished politicians from different sections
of the country, who would r ail on him wfiile
sojourning at Washington, would be treat
ed with glacial frigidity, and perhaps be
unceremoniously dismissed, that he might
take a solitary walk or ride on horseback
Gen. Jacksou was meanwhile being brougnt
before the public under the direction of
Aaron Burr, Martiu Van Buren aud Edward
Liviugs’on, as a ‘‘m.i : of the people.” They
had persuaded hiro to resign his seat in the
Setmie of the Uuiteh States, where he might
have made political mistakes, and retire to
his farm m Tenor ssee, while they 11 toded
the country with accounts of his military
exploits and his social qualities. Daniel
Webster told Samuel Breck, as the later
records iu his uiaiy show, that he knew
mote than fifty members of Congress who
had expended and pledg' d all they were
worth in set 1 tug up pre--es and employing
other me-ns to forward Jackson’s election.
John Q ilucy Ao.-.ms’ private Secretary
was his sou, John Adams, who had inherit
ed many of his father’s peculiarities, and
who soon mane himself very obnoxious to
the mends of Gen. J icason. One morning
Mr. R issell J nos, -vho then edited tne
Washington 7elnjraph, a newspaper which
advocated J tek-ou’s election, attended a
“arawtng room” at tne White Hume, es
corted by his wife and a party of visiting
friends from Boston. Mr. Jarvis introduced
those who were with Inin to Mis Aaauis,
w o received them courteously, aud then
they passed ou into the east room. Soon
afterwards they found themselves standing
opposite Mr. J.iriu Adams, who was convers
ing with the Rev. Mr. Stetson. “Woo is
that lady ?” asaed Mr. S.etson. “Timt,”
replied Mr. John Adams, tu a tone so loud
that the party hearu if, "is the wife of one
Russell Jarvis; and il she knew how oou-
temp’.ihly he 18 viewed in this house they
wou d not be here.’’ The Bostoei .ns at
ouce paid their parting re-peots to Mr.
Adauis aud witlmrew, Mr. Jarvis haviug
first ascertained from Mr. Stetson that it
was Mr. John Adams who had insnlied
them. A tew days afterwards Mr. Jarvis
seut a note to Mr. Adams by a friend of ms,
Mr. McLean, demanding an explanation.
Mr. Adams told Mr. McLean that he had no
apol -gy to make to Mr. Jarvis, and that be
wished no correspondence with him. Con
sidtrmg his personal relations with the
President, he bad no right to be at the
drawing-room.
A week later, Mr. John Adams went to the
Capitol to deliver massages trorn the Presi
dent to each member of Congress. Hiving
delivered that addressed to the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, he was going
through the rotunda toward the Senate
chamber, when he was overtaken by Mr.
Jarvis, who pulled his nose and slapped nis
laoe. A sci.Ill 5 ensued, bat tney were q liet-
ly parted by Mr. Dnsey, a represenun ivc
*e 1
gie t *>itj 17.3
NO. 400
PERSONAL IffifM
I ihe People Are Doing and
paying.
AMmrAii
CHAT ABOUT
AND yj
MEN
AW ? f ' yha8 so,d <he Hark Thea-
1 m B s on, to Lofta, the actress.
Hiram Sibley’s additional gift o? §85 000
to Cornell University has been accepted.’
Mr. lilrten kept the rno of the proceed-
• u.s fit the Democratic Convention k.
means of a private wire.
by
SHALL WE EURN OUR DEAD?
Cremation Companies in New York
and Philadelphia—-They are
Preparing to Build
Costly Retorts.
The New York Cremation Company now
numbers 150 members, and will boon com
mence. the erection of u largo retort .or the
disposal of dead bodies in East Williams
burg, on a height overlooking New York
Harbor. There is no doubt but what cre
mation is growing in pi’pniar tav r. It is
realized that the destruction of the body iu
ordinary burial is really a process akin to
burning. It is a slow wasting away under
the most repulsive conditions. It is horri
ble to think of the putrefaction and worms
which destroy eveu the most beautiful ot
human forms. Mr. Capwell, of the New
York Cremation Society, thus describes in
cineration. It in an attractive picture: “As
the door to the retort is opeaed, the mrusn-
ing air cools il. from whitu to red beat, and
the whole interior is tilled with a beautiful
rosy light that is tu-oinating to the eye.
The body, clad as for burial, is laid m a
crib, wh c;t is covered wuh a clean white
sheet soaked in aiuui. The crib is then put
into the retort. The shec; returns 11s origi
nal position and conceals the form until
nothing but the bones are left, and tiie-e
gently crumble into dust, .-,8 miner the mys
tic touch of an mvi-mie agent. I be prune s
might be called the ethertal zing of the
body. There is nothing impulsive or pain
ful about it There is nothing winch need
shook the most refined taste or oft'o athe
most delicate sensibilities. This procoss, l
think, ir better than burial iu a gr -ve vvi h
its concomitant horrors.” In the crematory
about to i»e erected in East Williamsburg,
there is to he a cliapei for religious seivioe-,
and a memorial hall to contain the Vast s
with the ashes of the dead. There are to be
no willow or other in .urnfnl trees or shiubs;
all is to be bright and joyous.
A company has been formed to intr idnoe
the pr.-.caoe of cremation into Pmlauet-
ptiia, aud to erect a large crematory. There
1- a very slow but somewhat steady growth
of a preference for this inode ot disposing
of the bodies of the dead. The outef ob
stacle is the feeling that the praette is 111
consistent with the Christian belief in the
resnrtectiou—a feeling to whicn Mr. Beech
er gave expression tn a recent sermon. The
doctrine of the resurrection of me body, as
taught by the more philosophical theolo
gians of both Europe and America, does
not involve the resumption ot the material
particles, which are deposited in the grave
or consumed in the crematory. The boo..,
they say, is independent of tnese, allhungti
it has held there in suspense for a time, as
a liquid might hold some substance in
chemical solution. But even if we take the
cruder form of the doctrine, aud assu lie
tnat every particle |that jeonstitotes the
body at the moment of death is to bs re-
assemblrd in the body of the resurrection,
is not it absurd to suppose mat cremation
or any oiber mode of dissolving those par-
froin Mary land. President Adams notified I tides, couid furnish a serious obs acle to
Congress iu a special message of the occur- i o mu, l otence, which woula be required
rence, and the Hon.-e rppoinled a select ! t” r l, '° reorganization ot the body out ot
committee of investigation. Witnesses were *bemr
| txauiiutd aud elaborate reports were drawn j Ihe real objection to eremati.ui, as it
and"uniting lLllcXible honesty wi h rare, ge- ! up, but neither the mr.j irtty nor tne minor- ' seems to us, is t ie danger of (he oitturtouof
mu- he was greatly endeared to tho-e wno | tty recommended that any punishment be i epidemics through the imperfect, oouibue-
knew hiui in pnvite life, and his homed- I intiicied upon Mr. Jarvis. tiou ot the germs of d.sea-e. In crerna ton
ness and slovenliness wete aitr to tve, as! Mr. John Adams was married, while his ! t, ' e lB divined into two portions. One
epioures vaiue the cobwebs ou a bottle of ! faiher occupied the While House, to his ol lhfc8e ls . 1,10 small resiouum which re
chi wine. Pitching qu ats whs his favorite j mother’s niece, Miss Mary Htliou, of Wash-
amusement, anu wnt-u ins iron circle “rung j ingtou. The ceremony was performed by
the meg,” or so fell that it encircled the peg the Rev. Dr Hawley, of St. John’s Cnurcti,
at which he h"d thrown it, he exhiruted | aud Gen. Rimsey, who was one of the
childish joy. Mr. Chief Justice Marshall groomsmen, is autuority for the statement
was originally a Federalist, and many of that the President,, u- ually so grave and uu-
mains in the retort after the process. The
other passes thruugri the lotiy Chimney into
the upper s rata of ihe atmospheieptud then
descends by cooling and is distributed ovrr
an area perhaps of miles in exteut. It lias
already been ascertained that the combus-
Mr" Adaius’ lriends tnougnt that if General | social, Oubeut tor the nonce, aud danced at tiou ot bedding and clothing is a most ef
* *■ _ l/i l>u (iUitiAfl PrPiiuiHIlt hfi thn WMiiiiimr hull in n Vi».>itnu run I 011th ItCllVc
should be elected President be the wedding ball, in a Virginia reel, with |
and Mr. Justice Johnson, of great spirit.
means of spreading small pox, the
without losirg their infections viiulence.
What security is these that he disposal of a
victim of smail-p ix by cremation would not
resnlt in disseminating the infection over a
large urea around ihe crematory ? There is
ahsolnte security against infection when the
body is buried. The earth has receiv'd the
victims of a g'Cat series of plagues and pes
tilences, which are now extinct, and 110 dis
turbance of their resting-place h:aa ever sent
these diseases back for the destruction of
mankind.
WOMEN IN GERMANY.
Their Want of Strong Character—The
Increasing Number of Old Maids.
Ari acc : npltshed lady oorrespodent, Miss
Boltke, of the Woman’s Journal, writing
from her native country of Germany says
that German women are lamentably defi
cient in independance aud individuality:
“At the bottom of all the evil is their
want of moral courage. If a man says the
sky is greet, rhey dare not contradict him.
A man, in their eyes, ig a superior being; a
sort of deity. Gt1=, being educated by
tnc.ost-}v»s, iiever associate wiih the other
rex, except wi.en they marry, and when
they married, each leads a separate life.
He ha- los entertainments as wed as she.
Theyotieg Iad.e- have their meetings atid
the married ladies have their meetings,
where they tale 0 -ffee, eat onke and ice and
sweeis, and goig'p. These parties are “aw
ful.” A rerun, or two, or three rooms, all
tided with dress d up ladies, who chatter,
ii is --Glide; f t . 1 how it ttlls ou women,
when they iore.o contact with men, for
man s wo; k builds up the civilization of the
world, and the itnpoB-ihili y t>,r woman to
participate tn it connU) bnlauces all school-
training. They remain, as it were, children,
wuh no interest in the world iu general.
We count at pre-eut that every fifth man
in Germany lasts a wife; and in conse
quence we are blessed with a number of
spinsters that pss-.es understanding. Here
in tins city, wn.oh numbers forty thousand
mtihbi ants, we have a surplus of seven
thousand women. Aud how have these wo
men to pass their time ? It is really sad to
have Homing bet’er to do tban to sip coffee
in company. As they are not trusted with
earnest work, they stand up for trifles. A
great number begin to write; but the mar-
set offers no purchasers of manuscripts, and
they get embittered by their want of suc
cess. Their theme invariably is thwarted
1 -ve, while the world all around them'evi
dently shows us that there is something of
greater interest in human life than the
dream of courtship.
The meeting of the ‘ Frauentag, for the
promotion of women’s right to labor, took
place thi6 year at Dos.-eldorf. But these
meetings result iu little or nothing, for
work is not the thmg women have to de
mand ; bat poei'ion-position as a wife aod
mother, as guardian of the children when a
widow, as manager of her fortune, is enti
tled to the same justice before the law that
man claims. These are the rights she has
to struggle for, aud fertilise rights German
women as yet have not the courage to stand
up. x „ ..
’Possum Farming.
Thomas Crmncy, of Hawmusville, has
goce inco the ’1 ossi nt business on an ex
tensive scale, and proposes to raise those
Uiuoti-songht varmints tor the rnaiket. His
ranch is ao- ut a m le trorn *J? w ii, and is in
closed with woe tciictog. low was done
in order to keep C*dviu Brown trorn trailing
mem off into the swamps with his pack of
hounds. He has commenced with ten, hnl
w 11 greatly increase me number during the
year As the average piney woods’possum
finds ready sale at forty cents each, a line,
tai, stall-fed ’possum would, of course,
bring double that amount; and five huudred
THE ELECTRICAL GIRL.
Mrs. Langtry's Two Seconds with Lula.
germs of the disease passing into the air at eighty cents apiece amounts to $400.
r>Auko CO n C ° rt ! n , L ? nd " n yesterday Sarah
g, ..he. ,lf recited in English “Tne Last
nines °* * an lDer ' E,ie v,ii8 recalled four
,r" G’-al® Boyd,” who held a commission in
t.ie (• »&federate army under Stonewall J ick-
is row the wife of Col John S. Ham-
mono, who lives iu Dallas, Texas.
James Samppon[ a farmer^"of~Fahrvtew
• ? 4‘h iTf P° nn , ty ’ Pl > w “ s arrested
i a held for t?ml under an ancient and un-
repeaied statute, for making hay on Sun-
Capi. Andrews, ninety- three years old
r 6 t ° d6 M re ^ lJent ° f “ SntPter . S. C., reached
Bo ? tou Motulfty on foot from his home,
nine wee f ks f ! C0, ' n ' P d in a U - tle less thfln
It is stated thet Adelina Patti is about to
advantage of the ne« Divorce law of
g u fct ” d J he Marquis d e Oaux.
wit- vhorn she has had no communication
for seven je&rs.
The venerable father of William D. How-
ells, the novelist, resides in Virginia. Until
vil-htn a few months he was Consol at Otta-
En -"” ^^Girmeriy lived at Jefferson,
. 6 A'.t.ijy tv “-.tT on.., J rj;
obliged him trf leave in au orphan asylum
eight years agi .
Professor Htnderson, the entomologist,
has imported an entirely Dew species of
b°d bng from Australia, and a committee of
Mission street boarders are collecting funds
to pruseoate him.
Mrs. “Storiewall” Jackson says, in „
Southern newspaper, that the young girl
who is now lionized in London as the daugh-
, „ I ter of the late distinguished Confederate
Miss Lilia Hurst, the yonng Georgia Her- | General, is an imposter,
cules, is creating ihe s.ensatiuu of the day I . .
in New York. Her performances d'aw I D r * Uriah terrill, of Virginia, was the
crowded houses, and scientists are bafiL d oldest delegate in the last Democratic Con
by the wonderful feats of strength winch
she exhibits. She had an amusing little en
counter with the Jersey Lily after a Madi
son Square performance. Mrs. Langtry
smiled graciously on the Georgia maiden.
“Will you give me a mild test of your
powers ?” she said, sweetly.
“Yes,” sHid Lula’s manager, “the gentlest
we know of.”
Mis. Lmgtry held a chair with its back
against her chest. “I urn very strong, y ou
will find,” she said. The Wonder put her
bauds over Mrs. Lsngtry’s, touching the
chair with the tips of her fingers. The wo
men looked into each other’s eyes for ar.
instant, and then there was a rush. Mrs.
Lmgtry was forced backward, and before
she had time to cry out .-he fell against, the
balustrade in the kitchen scene in “May
B ossein.” The balustrade broke aud Mrs.
Lmgtry fi ll to the floor. She was quickly
ou nor fe.-t again, and said siie was quite
satisfied. Meeting a friend at the theater
tx 1 , .-he ex ibiied her torn dress, ripped
ac oss the b ,ck on the s’eev". “i’ve been
wttn that girl ju.-t two stoonds,” she said, the Second National B ,nk of New York,
laughing. j was granted on Saturday, and Euo was set
Clara’* Ill-Natured Comments.
Clara Belle indulges in very disparaging
remarks ahum Lula Hurst’* personal ap
pearances and ca -ts a slur np iu the gett-
uiuene-s of her wonderful powers. She
says ;
Wnat fools these male mortals be ! Proof
is given of that fact in Wnllaok’s Theater
every evening. On the stage is a hulking,
convex backed, concave-breasted, putty-
faced girl, with long arms as big at the
wrists as they are at ihe shoulders. This is
Lula Hurst, the ‘ Georgia Wonder,” who
professes a streDgtn that is mysteriously
more than physical, and illustrates it by
jerkiug canes, cues and chairs to which men
are cltuging. ‘Is she magnetic ? Oh, yes ;
and that’s what makes me mad. I regard
it as reasonable, and usually proper, that
when a pretty, gentle, refined girl stauds
close in front of a man, looks him melting-
ly in the eyes, lays her soft palms on his
hands and radiantly smiles, he should do
her sweet will on the spot, no matter how
violent the required exercise may be. Now,
the relative positions which I have de
scribed’are exactly those of Lala and
every man who undertakes to resist her
power, physical, metaphysical, or whatever
else it may be. Just because she is a girl
they idiotically submit. A gaze from her
bulgy eyes aud a touch of her coarse paw
overcomes them, and, while they think
they're resisting with all their might, they
really do not oppose her effectually. That
is ail there is in her feats, except that she is
more muscular than any wearer of petti
coats ought to be. Ouce in a while some
ley el headed man refuses to be impressed,
aud then she fails in her feat. If she was
merely rural and anfasnionuble, 1 wouldn’t
grumole. I am as quick as anybody tu dis
cover prettiue-s, no matter how freckled,
tanned, or backwoodsy its possessor; but if
Lula was to be d-essed in a Parts gown, and
taught the ways of a Fifth avenue drawing
room, sue would remain unconth. Where
is the reward of really fascinating merit in
onr sex if men are going 10 let such an un
cultured hutden capture them? I would
just like to back a fashionable New York
girl against her. My champion should be
one of our highest developments of femi
nine brawn, induced by tne riding, tennis
playing, pedestriamsm aud other exercises
mat are now so much in vogue, i would
wager that my girl could make a man stand
on his head where Lula couid only dance
him around the stage a little.
venttou. His ege is 92 years, and he attend
ed a national convention as long ago as
1844, when he voted for Henry Clay.
Sitting Bull at a dinner at Fort Snelling
was delighind with the silver forks and the
canned reaches, and expressed his admira
tion for the wife of Col. Andrews. He
would make rather a dangerous society
man.
The Marquise de Mires in St. Paul is very
richly and fashionably dressed, but on the
plains with her husband, where she rides
and shoots faultlessly, she wears an eagle
plume m her hat and is the picture of wild
beauty.
Millais, who painted the picture of the
drowned Ophelia, is said to have jumbled
together wild flowers aud the choicest con
servatory exotics in an extraordinary man
ner, in his much-praised representation of
the maiden floating in the Danish brook.
The application for (he release of John C.
Euo in Q 'ebec, the ab-oondiag President of
at liberty. His properrj in New York has
been attached for $3 185,000, wrongfully
taken from the bank by turn.
William Martin, at work on a Colorado
mountain mine, saw a snow slide start
above him, and got on his shovel and slid
down the mountain side as the only ohance
of escape. He got away; but the friction
heated his shovel so as to barn a big hole iii
the basement of his overalls.
The Rev. John G. Lansing, Professor-
elect of the newly established S ige Profes
sorship of Hebrew in the Tneologicai Semi
nary at New Brunswiok, N J., is the son of
an American missionary now in Egypt, is
30 years old, and gives np the pastorate of
the Reformed Church at West Troy.
The New York correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Record says that “Mr. William H.
Vanderbilt’s predilection for art has led him
into trouble, tor Mrs. Vanderbilt is said to
be mortally jealous of the friendliness
which exists between her liege lord and
Christine Nilsson, the Swedish nightin
gale.”
According to the Clinical Record, D.
Brinton has always looked with a certain
amount of disbelief on oarbolio acid, bnt
finds corrosive sublimate to be the coming
autiseptio. Professor Kooh has shown thnt
solutions of one part of sublimate to 1,000
parts of water will destroy all bacteria,
germs and spores.
Miss Kate Field, the extensive traveler
and authoress, will invest §10,000 soon in
Cattle on one of our Colorado ranges. She
would have bought the maver,cks at the
rooud-uu the other day had they not al
ready been sold. Said she to the Record:
“If 1 had got those mavericks, I could huve
named my outfit the Orphan's Herd.”
The Empress Anna of Russia was pas
sionately fond of hunting; she kept 319
hounds, and was a cap’tal shot. Ou one
occasion (Angnst 26, 1740) she killed oue
wolf, four wild boars, nine stags, sixteen
turkeys, 374 rabbits, sixty-eight ducks aud
several large herous—a maguificeut bag
even for an empress. The numerous ele
phants in her menagerie were expensive
pets, for they were fed on sugar, butter,
wheaten flour, wine an 1 salt. Oue of them
rtqnired a large daily portion of brandy,
and the keepers were sent to Siberia if a
single gill was abstracted from the ele
phant’s portion.