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By Cablo from the British Isles.
"Mishter Cody," said one of Buffalo Bill's Indians the other day, "can I have the aggregation temporayily?"
"Why, Bounding Panther?" aksed Buffalo Bill.
"Sure, an' Id like to visit me old home at Ball Kallmucky. When Im so [naro?] it. Pittsburg Chronicle.
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STARBEAMS. ------------------- Chandler is in the Senate. Now, why not let Dorsey come in? He and Chandler would make a great team.
It looks as if Governor Lee of Virginia had the presidential bee, and he probably hears it buzzing louder than anybody else.
Secretary Fairchild is devoted to business. He regards fishing as a bore. He is not alone in his view of "contemplative man's recreation."
General Rosecrans is an ardent Knight of Labor. He is a little eccentric, but he was a gallant soldier and his heart is right for every good cause.
Nina Van Zant, who believes she is the lawful wife of August Spien, is pining away. Her health is rapidly failing, grieved to death at her separation from August.
Ho, for Alaska! Excursion tickets are now sold to Sitka, that country, from all Missouri river points. People who want the society of seals for the summber will please take notice.
Mrs. Laugtry will take rooms at Oakland, Cal., during the summer. She will also go down to the Yosemite during the heated term. The Lily knows when to appear in conspicuous places.
General F. E. Spinner says he founds his hopes of salvation on the fact that he first appointed women to positions in the Treasury department. The girls are all solid for the man of curious chirography.
Speaking adiposely President Cleveland is still expanding. He a new suit of clothes had to be made two inches wider than any former ones. This is no indication that he is a healthier man than formerly.
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell has at last consented not to contest the will of her late husband. Under the will she was to have $200,000 in cash and $50,000 annual income. She will try to worry along on that amount.
A Wisconsin Norwegian, tiring of his wife, sold her for a fat hog weighing 130 pounds. He afterwards repented of his folly and bought her back at a cost of one calf and two shoats. Such was the course of true love.
The great Catholic University, Cardinal Gibbons thinks, will be located in New York and not in Washington as at first proposed. New York should not become the universal solvent, but should give other places a chance.
Brass-casting is now a great industry in the United States and yet it is one of the "infant industries." Enoch Platt, who died in Connecticut the other day was the first American to learn the trade of brass cutting.
President Garfield was a warm admirer of the late Dr. Mark Hopkins. He used to say: "I would rather spend the day with Mark Hopkins in a hovel than to pass the time with any other man in the grandest palace on earth."
"When I was a Boy in China" is the title of a book written by Yen Phon Lee, a celestial in the senior class at Yale. Young Mr. Lee is now a thorough American and wishes when I was a boy I had lived in the United States.
There is "a new Richmond in the field." Buffalo Bill is being introduced to the lords and ladies of England "as probably the most famous man in America to-day and a candidate for the next presidency." Nothing succeeds like succeess.
Though Rutherford B. Hayes is engaged in the practical business of poultry raising, his relatives are not without an appreciation of poetry. It is said that the cousin of Mr. Hayes, now serving on the Sharpe jury in New York, spent last Sunday in reading Shelley's poetry.
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Buffalo Bill on the Cowboy.
I should greatly like to say a few words respecting a topic which I much regret to find is understood in the inverse proportion to which it is disucssed. I refer to that unique specimen of humanity, the cowboy of today. In order to be brief, I will, like a cowboy, take the bull by the horns, and lay down the axiom, once for all, and most empahtically, that a cowboy is not a blackguard; nay, more, he is in hine cases out of ten better than his fellows, more especially as in nine cases out of ten his fellows are the offspring of an ellete civilization. He has certain attributes that commend him to creation. He is manly, generous, and brave. He is not merely a creautre of impulse, but uses the figts given him by his Maker with a discretion which might well be copied by more of us. In putting in these few words for a class of men who have only to be understppd tp be admired, I speak after years of study resulting in a conviction which nothing can snake. - London Glove Interview.
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ALL SORTS OF ITEMS. -------------------------------- Telephone girls are not saints, yet there is always a "hallo" around their heads.
General Grant spoke of Ben Butler as the bottled General. He would have been twice as valuable if he had never burst his cork. N. Y. Graphic.
The Coercion bill and Buffalo Bill divide the attention of the British people. On the whole the B. B. is more popular than the C. B. --Lowell Courier.
There will be very few marriages in New York this spring. The strike of the silversmiths has advanced the price of wedding presents. --Baltimore American.
"What was the text this morning?" asked a stay-at-home husband of a church-going wife. "Many are called, but few are chosen." "What jury did he have reference to?" --Life.
"Fellow slaves," began an orator at a labor meeting in Buffalo, and then he stopped. "Go ahead," cried a voice in the audience: "most of us are married." --Burlington Free Press.
Three hundred thousand copies of "She" have been sold in this country, says an exchange. Probably more than 9,000,000 of "shes" are ready to acknowledge that they not sold when they married the man they did. --Danville Breeze.
A Tennessee newspaper contains the following: "We are rejoiced to know that J. C. Rackbelt, that prince of gentlemen and czar of culture, has secured the contract for building the plank sidewalk in front of the Gibbons block. He is a gentleman of the old school, and knows a good piece of plank when he sees it."
WHACHT THE UPSHACHT WILL BE. The Thistle's a very fast yacht, I would be folly to think that it's; Yet, to windward or leeward, We all feel asseeward Of the Yankee's outsailing the Seacht. --II. O. Hanlon.
