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Evening Star, Issue 6916, 1 June 1885, Page 4

The following paragraph appeared in the ‘ New York Tribune ’ of April 5 “Mr Rockwell, brother-in-law of Mrs Garfield, mentioned in a recent letter to her the newspaper stories about her reported intention to marry again, and received in reply a letter (written on the 4th of April), from which we take the liberty of making an extract i —‘ This cruel rumor, which seeins to have been afloat for two or three months, did not reach me till three days ago. Nothing that has ever been said about me has so hurt and offended me as this, and the deepest humiliation of it is that so many are ready to believe it. To me it seems just as much of an insult to be asked whether it is true as it would be were the dear general still here. That anyone can think me capable of being false to his memory seems like being regarded a criminal. A dignified denial by my friends, I suppose, can do no hann; still it hurts me to think that any denial is needed.”’

The turkey was brought to England in the early part of the sixteenth century hy William Strickland, lieutenant to Sebastian Cabot. Since that time it has been acclimatised in most parts of the world; but the domestic bird, contrary to the usual rule, has degenerated in size, flavor, and beauty. The flesh of the wild turkey, it may not be known, is more pheasant-like than that of the domestic varieties of the bird. A traveller visiting a Mexican cathedral was shown by the sacristan, among other marvels, a dirty opaque glass phial. After eying it for some time, the traveller said, “Do you call this a relic? Why, it is empty !” “ Empty !” retorted the sacristan indignantly. “ Sir, it contains some of the darkness which Moses spread over the land of Egypt.” When is a railway-traveller like a man in a ditch? —When he wants a Pulman, Don’t use stimulants, but "nature’s brain and nerve food—Hop Bitters. See.