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Hamilton Hnrnh Davie Williinn R. fllemltile, Ohio Conio. Depot, Drtllas.Texn Chetopu, Kansas Durham, N. 0 Denver, Col ChattnnoopR, New York City La Fayette, Iiut Quincy, III am now only a sii ger," But society came to her except the court, where, as "ambassador's wife," she had formerly been a favorite. A C'horhnv Wedding.

The Indians, says The Cheyenne htmhr, talk little under any circumstances. Thus it is uaturally supposable that when a young fellow does his bust (which is generally set off with a calico blouse, having large, flaming sleeves, and his hat stuck full of feathers, with two or three yards of scarlet ribbon hanging down his hack), he would be about speechless by the time he arrives at the old man's mansion. After dismounting from his pony he takes his position on the fence, and sits there till he sees his fair one at the door, when he grins audibly, and if she doeth likewise he takes it for granted that he is welcome and goes into the house, which generally consists of one room and contains all the family, and therein he makes his speech, which at the furthest amounts to three grunts. His success depends very much upon an invitation to smoke by the father of the courted lass. If tiie old man has any respect for him ho lights his pipe, and, after taking a whiff, hands it to the young man, who in turn takes a whiff, and so they proceed, whiff about.

The length of time they smoke depends altogether upon the esteem the father has for the beau. After a certain iinmlwr nf sneh visits he finallv mustered up IIIIIIIHIIII Tbhms To Single Submtnbew, per year, in alvantse, 11 un. Ratks Ton oopinx, one year, fi oo, with an extra copy to tlte one who huihIh the nub. Putt aye paid by the Pubtishert. AuUreatt The Western World Publishing P.

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Everybody, call at the Rock Island office and get a Centennial Guide Book, showing all the routes to the East and return. Excursion tickets are now on sale, at greatly reduced rates. mm; up at the bisk. Upon the rink the lady sat, Beside her lay her dainty hat, All crumpled; She looked the picture of distress, So dusty was her pretty dress, And rumpled I cant gel up," in faltering tone, She said. I thought that, perhaps, alone She would not picked her up.

She was not hurt 'Twas but the lightness of her skirt-She could not. London Punch. We would call the attention of everybody to the Shirt Emporium of M. P. Crannton, No.

413 Delaware Htreet, between Fourth and Fifth streets. UnderHhirts, Drawers, Nightwhirm and Underwear generally, made to order and guaranteed to give satisfaction. The original of "Teniers and his Family" was recently purchased at the sale of the Schreider gallery in Paris by Prince Dimi-doff, for $24,000. WinsrEit is not in Gath Mother Stewart is in Glasgow, right at the fountain-head of toddy and divinity. As Bailie Miol Jarvie would say, "aia conscience!" The Queen of the Gypsies has arrived iu Alexandria, iu her chariot, a hot-house mounted on wheels.

She travels incog, and declines all public ovations. Loud Byron's statue is to be in Sicilian marble, and to he erected in Green Park, facing the house in Piccadilly in which Byron lived and wrote some of his earlier poems. With a population of nearly .3,500,000, which is rapidly increasing, the annual mortality in the city of London has declined nearly one in 1,000 in the last thirty years. PEOPLE AND MINOS. Florida has closed up for the summer.

The great steam engine at the Centennial We ighs 800 tons. Land has trebled its value in Florida within the last two years. Mws Clara Morris handles the ribbons about as well as she acts. New York and Philadelphia hack-driver-think that fare is foul. Mr.

Sim Reeves looks upon spelling bees as an amusement for idiots. Boston University is to have a college of commerce and navigation. Henrietta Sontag. Karl Son tag, an actor of some note at Hanover, Germany, and a younger brother of the once famous singer, Henrietta Son tag, has just published a volume of Stage Recollections, embodying a large number of interesting facts concerning his sister which have not heretofore appeared in print. Singers of to-day, whose demands on the manager make opera an almost impossible luxury, can find in this book the terms of the contract which some fifty years ago secured one of the sweetest singers this cuitury lias produced to the lyric stage.

Sontag's marriage with Count Rossi, the Sardinian minister in Berlin, withdrew the singer from the public life of the stage and concert-room. Her return some years later (in 18-18) to the statre led the gossips to circulate the rumor that Count Rossi had squandered her large fortune by gambling, and other disreputable acts. This story Karl Son tag pronounces absolutely false. An expensive establishment maintained during the cunt's diplomatic residence in St. Petersburg, he admits, depleted her resources to some extent, but anxiety for the future of her children, and a desire to place them beyond the reach of pecuniary troubles, was the controlling cause of her return to the footlights.

Her husband always entertained the greatest affection for her, as was proved by his conduct when an engagement in London was offered her. As the wife of an nmbnssiidor. she could not accent unless the ourage enough to say, "Che-te-ha-li-de-la-li-um me?" which means in English, "Will you have me." If she says "Ky-yo," which means "No," he takes himself off. If she rives a runt the preparations are made. On tlfe day appointed for the wedding the groom arrived on a pony, and leading another that has a sidesaddle for the bride.

On arriving at the house, without dismounting, he fastened her pony to the fence, and then rides off a short distance in the direction they are to go. Shortly the bride step out dressed in the height of fashion a new calico dress, a white pocket handkerchief around her neck, and a large red one tied over her head and ears, and a pair of new sh-o across her arms, which she puts on jn In reaching the parson's. As an she mounted her pony the man starts and she tollows from fifty' to a hundred yards behind On arriving at the parsonage he gets off, ties his horse, and goes into the house and makes his business known. By this time the lady arrives, dismounts, secures her horse, and goes to the house, leans herself on the side of it near the door, and patiently waits till some one discovers her and bids her enter. All things being in readiness, the minister, who is usually a white missionary, motions the eouple to stand up, and performs the ceremony in English, which is about as intelligible to them as Greek; hut w.ien the minister stops talking they depart, leaving the poor clergyman without fee or thanks.

They u-ually go to the husband's parent and stay about a year before attempting the arduous duties of "housekeeping." After getting married a Choctaw does as they do in Indianathat is if he doesn't like the squaw he gets a divorce, which is granted on the most frivolous pretext. aiu. James O'Nkil, late of aicVicker's, has concluded a two years' engagement with Messrs. Shook Palmer, of the Union Square Theater, New York, at a salary of $120 a week. The question has been mhp1 "'other Lord Lytton will not become Vice Emperor of India.

He now receives 37, OO'1 year. As Deputy Emperor he would probably get twice as much. aiu. Conway reports that there are facts among the materials left by air. Forster of the utmost importance concerning Swift and his times never before made known, which will require further attention.

aifts. Hamilton Fish, a Knickerbocker, and the leading lady of the Cabinet, Avhen the shoddy nobodies turned their hacks upon the fortunate Treasury girl who married Senator Christiancy, called immediately. A "Miss. advertises in the New York papers a new cosmetic, which she herself has tried with "lovely" effects. She declares that she has no interest in the sorcerers to whom she desires the dollar to be sent.

Tinoi.k, iinsrle, litile silver, The wife of John Young, Brigham's third son, is a Philadelphia lady. The Cherokee Nation pays men teachers $225 a month and women 8206. The Mayor of Oil City, gets $1 a year, salary grabs not specified. The London Spectator A. T.

Stewart "the Emperor of shopkeepers. Lunacy is increasing in France out of all proportion to its population. Charleston, S. expects to ship 30,000 to 40,000 quarts of strawberries a day. Inhabitants of large cities pay on an average about $2 per year each for postage.

The monument to Leopold I. of Belgium, so long in contemplation, is to be erected. king of Sardinia gave his consent. Victor Emmanuel, however, advised a temporary separation, the wife taking her place on the ahum, and the husband retaining his diplo An Angell, of Providence, II. has been arrested for forgery to the amount of 000.

I OLD WORLD NOTES. Colonel Forney's "Letters from Europe" will be published in a few days by the Lip- How we wonder what you arc! It's lie. so since we hove cell you We scarce can tell you from a stnr. The body of the late Barney- Williams was laid out in the library of his residence in East Thirty-eighth street. A brass candelabrum, with five branches, stood at the head, two of the candles being kept con- stantly burning.

The body was covered with flowers. pineotts. Mile. Thalberg has failed to please in "Marta," at Covent Garden, in London. Mableson places much reliance for his 1 1...

The cable is killing the special correspond- ti tliat linn neb operatic season ui jjunuua vh uia ent. lie cannoi ut longer. Stagno. "La Dame Blanche" has been recently performed for the time at the Opera Comiquc, i'aris. Carl Krebs, the father of the pianist, has celebrated, at lmisuen, me -vui aiiuiiuauj matic position.

The co inl's reply to thisi proposition was a ten ler of his resignation, accompanied with the words: "I cannot part from my wife, with whom I have lived so happily for twenty years." The king accepted "the resignation, but appointed llos i's sou as secretary of legation. After a lapse of twenty years Son tag now made reappearance in London, with her voice unimparod and her popularity seemingly greater than in her youth. The opera on the first night was Linda di Chamoun-ix," and when the curtain fell at the end of the first- act, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, and many other men of title and fame came upon the stage to greet the singer. It was the fashion in London not to enter the opera house until the performance had begun but on this occasion the Grand Duchess of Strelitz had given the word that "the mother wheat 40 years of age returns to the stage for the sake of her children, must receive a hearty welcome on her first appearance," and consequently the seats were all occupied before the beginning of the overture. The following day Sontag received invitations from the leaders of society, while Queen Victoria received her as if she were still the wife of an embassador.

A like recej tion awaited her in all the cities and in all the courts with the exception of Saxony on the continent. At a concert in Munich she was about to retire af er she had sung her last piece, but was entreated to remain and hear the concluding chorus." It proved a surprise to her, being nothing less than a chorus written in her praise by the crown prince Max of Bavaria, and set to music by Leitner. In Dresden her mother, who lived there, asked her if she intended to go into society. "Oh, no," she replied, "I The second annual exhibition of dogs took place at the City Hall, Springfield, on Wednesday. Salvini is playing in Dublin.

The are certain that he's one of the of County Mayo. A Liverpool firm recently divided among their employes who had been with them five years and more. It is said that Paul Morphy has declined to play a chess match at the Centennial. A pawn his honhah. A statue of the late Sir James Simpsom, the introducer of chloroform, is to be erected in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The secret service division of the Treasury has captured a $50 plate for United States Treasury notes, act of Match 10, 18MJ. Professor Tyndall is to be made a barronet. He will get a "sir feit" of his barren title before he becomes a molceule. The London Times gives Mr. Gladstone credit for being the only living statesman who can fell a tree with the skill of a trained woodman.

The Countess Dowager of Derby, was a aiiss Wilbraham and a daughter of the first Lord Skelmersdale. She married the late Earl in 1825. lllUOANDAE JN SICILY. From the London Timrs' Naples Coi ropnn.lcnco. Not merely on the continent, but Sicily as well, a strong hand will be needed.

Recently the eorriere which runs between Beggio.and Cosenza was stopped and robbed of all the mail-bugs fortunately, there was no passengers, otherwise murder would, in all probability, have been added to robbery. Later still we hear that a party of brigands entered the commune of Guiliana, in the province of Palermo, and attacked the house of a person called Barranca, mortally wounding him and his wife. Atrocities have for some time been committed in the province of Cantania, without the aggressors being discovered but now wo are told that fifteen important arrests have been made at Catalfirone of persons implicated in most of the grave offences com mitted in that neighbourhood. Yet the chances of esca pe from all adequate and deterrent punishment are so great, thro' the false compassion of the multitude, the weakness of the juries and the hair-splitting scruples of courts of appeal, that the arrest of hundreds would afford no guaranty of public security. The Italians may find out their error later, but at present the tendency is to restrain delinquents iu white gloves and with dolce maniere.

of his entry into professional lite. Mile. Albani made her fir. bow this season at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent (far-den, on April 20, as Elvira in "I Puratina." A congratulatory concert in honor of the return of the Prince of Wales to England will be given at Royal Albert hall, London, on May 17. i Mr.

Byron's drama of "ruiklos; a tale of the times," has only met with partial success at the Prince of Wales' theatre, in London. A young Scotchman, named hignor nil-berti, sangthe role of Sarastro in the "Magic Flute," at the Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden, on April 17. At the 21st and last Gewandhaus concei of Leipzig, on March 30, Beethoven's choral samphouy was given. The performance is enthusiastically praised. Mr.

Jefferson's engagement at the London Princess' theatre ended on April 29. He baa given there 155 consecutive representations of "Rip Van Winkle." The Hindoo merchants of Calcutta are described as the most wary wily and unprincipled people in the world..