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PERSONAL ITEMS 
Gen. Crook says that Indians make the best 
cavalrymen In the world. 
The total deaths In Philadelphia during 1376 
were 18,900, and In New York 29,100. 
A San Francisco woman won a wager by eating 
thirty quails In as many consecutive days. 
The kindergarten system has been Introduced 
In the Government schools for girls In Chlua. 
A sixty-tear old woman In Leesburg, Ohio, 
dressed herself in male attire and committed a 
daring burglary. 
In six months Paris eats 3,869 horses, 193 asses 
and 15 mules, and some of the Parisians are said 
to live on Americans. 
M. Jonault, a Frenchman, has just published 
a “Life of George Washington,” in Paris, which 
Is said to be one of the most accurate and able 
ever written. 
Thk Washington policemen have been provided 
with helmets, greatly to their disgust. The Star 
mentions one small guardian who was mistaken 
for a liitchlng-post. 
Brother Moody severely condemns "the Idea 
of allowing the prettiest girl to bo kissed for 
twenty-flvo cents, and of having our daughters 
sell cigars to young men.” 
They hung a man In Ohio somo time ago, sup¬ 
posing that tbo law permitted them to pay the 
expenses out of his estate. Upon Investigation tt, 
has been found that no such law exists and the 
court is considerably set back. 
A PHa.ADKi.rmA policeman, convicted of mur¬ 
der, Is to have a new trial because at the time of 
the deed. In the languago of the Judge, "his 
reason hud been torn up by the roots and Judg¬ 
ment Jostled rrom her throne.” 
Lecwenhoeck's wonderful discoveries, which 
laid tbe foundations of microscopic science, were 
mado with an Instrument consisting of a silver 
plate, having a single holo with a tiny lens In it., 
and In the focus a silver ncedlo to hold the object. 
Miss Grattan, tho adveuiurous English woman 
who ascended Mont Blanc on the 31st of January, 
1876, has married the Swiss guide who accompan¬ 
ied her on that occasion. Sho mado his acquaint¬ 
ance when flr3t she clambered up the Alps, beln;' 
then but fifteen years of ago. Sho Is now about 
thirty. 
Enos L. Shattuck, aged 22 years, of Providence, 
R. 1., recently went to his bath-room, which waa 
heated by a gas-stove. An hour and a-lialf later 
tbe door of tho room was forced open and ho was 
found Insensible on tho lloor, and soon after died 
—tho doctors say of asphyxia, caused by the 
fumes from the gas-stove. 
Remains of an ancient Indian village have 
been discovered at Paragoonah, Utah. The 
houses, uow covered with sage brush, were ar 
ranged In unirorm rows and were about eight by 
nine feet In size. They were all two-story built 
of adobe, supported by pillars of sand-stone rock. 
Rude appliances for grinding corn were also 
found. 
Diaz of Mexico Is said to possess a face of stub¬ 
born fortitude. lie Is a poor man now, though he 
inherited a million and a half, and though ho lias 
practiced total abstinence of luxuries to a degree 
that would make an anchorite stare. A couple oi 
bananas and a handful of dry, parelnnent-llkc 
pancakes, with a drink of such water aa the sea¬ 
son affords, are enough to make him a dinner, 
and no rock la so hard or highland so chilly that 
he could not sleep soundly for a few hours with¬ 
out other bedding than his old mantle, IBs own 
wants during his life have cost hlrn, perhaps, $4,- 
000 or $0,000; the wants of Ills country more than a 
million of his private property. 
Lkcky, the historian, Is ono of tho shyest of 
men, in spite or tho fact that ho Is an Irishman. 
Just after his first famous book was publtshed a 
very brUU&ut woman of English society was con¬ 
signed at a dinner party as a table companion to 
a tall, blushing young man who seemed almost 
too bashful to F.peak, and whose name she failed 
to catch. The clever woman was Inwardly abus¬ 
ing her hostess for sending her out to dinner with 
such u shy and silent being of no consequence, 
when suddenly the conversation at table began 
to Interest hint, and he broke Into such eloquent 
and delightful talk that she was not surprised to 
hear Bomebody address him as “ Lecky." lie 
married ono of the favorite maids of honor of the 
Queen of Holland, and probably no poor wretch 
ever went through worse agonies of shyness than 
did ho during the series ot entertainments which 
the Queen Insisted upon giving the pair. 
|Inv |>uMmiti0a£ 
Dom Pedro was married at 17. 
Two of the most popular preachers In the West 
are reformed convicts. 
Prof. Max Mct.deR la married to the favorite 
niece of Charles Kingsley. 
M r. Thomis Bald, for his statues of Sumner and 
Quincy, will be paid $24,000. 
Kit Carson has entered tho lecture field. His 
subject- “ The Death of Maximllllan ” 
Miss Ella Simpson, daughter of Bishop Simp¬ 
son, was recently married to a Philadelphia cler¬ 
gyman. 
Gov, Colquitt of Georgia is a zealous Baptist, 
and preaches every Sunday to the negroes whom 
he employs. 
Gks, Butler will have his daughter and son-in- 
law, ex-Senator and Mrs. Ames, to spend the 
wlnier with him. 
Tite Duke of Edinburgh lias taken to wearing 
bracelets on his arms after the fashion of women, 
and n*w all the fashionable “phules” will be 
at It. 
I.kander P. Richardson, who was killed by the 
newspapers last summer, Ison tho staff of the 
Springfield Republican, and Is writing a book 
called 41 Beyond tho Mississippi.” 
Capt. Boyton has successfully accomplished 
his greatest voyage In Ids llfc-savlng dress by 
swimming down 1 ho river Po from Castel Duovo 
to Ferrara, 230 miles, In 96 horn’s, without a 
break. 
Cot,. J. Dean Hawley of Syracuse, has pre¬ 
sented to tho University of Syracuse a watch 
about threo hundred years old. It still keeps 
very good time, and weighs half a pound Troy 
weight. 
Thk Hon, John Bigelow entertained at his 
Christmas dinner at Albany, Gov. Robinson and 
Miss Robinson and the ladles of Gov. Ttlden'a 
family. Gov. Tllden was unfortunately detained 
in New York. 
Mr. William Morris Is rather fantastleaUy 
called by The Athenoium "the Poetry-Smith of 
the Northern Olympus,” and It adds that he Is 
soaked In Odlnlsm -his body Is In Queen Square, 
but his soul Is In Ultima Thule. 
Miss Cary Is lu Paris, but will soon start for 
Russia. Her charming contralto voice has lost 
none of its sweet ness. In her toilet figures a su¬ 
perb bracelet, formed of large, single-set dia¬ 
monds, ft present last winter In St. Petersburg. 
col. Valentine Baker has returned to London 
much disgusted with tho Turkish authorities, 
wbo wanted to put him as second in command of 
a cavalry regiment under a Paacha, whereas the 
PrlucoOf Wales's quondam protege had demanded 
a run colonelcy. 
The late Canon Charles Kingsley, as a child, 
was delicate and precocious, and began to preach 
sermons and write poems between the ages of 
four and live. He was 25 when he settled down 
as a curate at Eversley, and soon won great 
power over the couutry people. 
Wm. o. Fletcher, a wealthy resident of West- 
field, Mush., waa found dead in the snow on 
Water Street, New Haven, recently. He un¬ 
doubtedly fell dead. Over $5,000 In bills, a gold 
watch, a dluinond pin, etc., were found on his 
person, which had not been disturbed. 
Curiously liberal methods of conducting fu¬ 
neral ceremonies am growing leas and less un¬ 
common. At the funeral of Horace R. Cheney, 
tho young Boston lawyer, and son of President 
Cheney of Bates College, Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney 
oi Boston read a poem and made an address. 
The Rev. William B. Brown or Newark, N. J., 
Is an artist of merit. Ills parlors are filled with 
paintings of hl3 own production, a fact known to 
but few persons, lie is also a scientific enthusiast, 
and liasgariieredthe finest collections of minerals, 
petrifactions and shells to be found outside our 
largo museums. 
Mr. Story s model of Jostah Quincy represents 
that gentleman as slight, old, lull of dignity, but 
wirii j,o trace of the active man or affairs. He la 
tho college president, not the magistrate. A 
long cloak bangs in heavy folds about him, cover¬ 
ing one leg and making a background shelter, as 
It were, for the other. 
M a. Bothers, In New Orleans, has been roused 
at 6 o’clock In tho morning, carried four miles In 
a freezing wind, and his feelings exercised to a 
degree Boraewhat astonishing for Dundreary, all 
to sue two men shoot blank cartridges at one 
another, the same being a mock duel arranged 
expressly to hoax the actor, and entirely succeed¬ 
ing in its purpose. 
The Emperor of Germany, while he is a clever 
ruler and soldier. Is, as a manor taste, very little 
cultivated. For instance, he is so fond of roast 
veal that he never, by any possibility, eats any 
other meat if he can get that. Once, when in the 
provinces, he spent a night In a castle, the noble 
owner of which was known for energy and suc¬ 
cess in preserving his pheasants. The nobleman 
had a number of these birds killed for the deleo 
tation of his visitor, and before dinner privately 
comrdted one of tbe Emperor's personal attend¬ 
ants tn regard to His Majesty's special tastes. 
He wan somewhat disappointed to find that, in¬ 
stead of pheasant, there was nothing so much in 
favor as roast veal. He Lad tact enough to hare 
largo slices of delicious breast of pheasant cut off 
and brought to the Emperor, who complacently 
ami Innocently devoured them, remarking that 
he had thought the veal of tho capital very good, 
but that this was so superior that hereafter he 
should always send to that particular province 
for his favorite meat. 
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Poetry by Bayard Taylor, Haxk, Winter, 
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an indispensable weekly visitor. Its Editor-in- 
Cbicf is tho celebrated Horticulturist, A. 8. 
Fuller, associated with whom are E. 8. Carman 
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they are assisted by such men as William Robin¬ 
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EDUCATIONAL NOTES 
Madame Teresa Carbno-Sacret has given up 
traveling, and has undertaken teaching In this 
city as a permanent profession. 
President Smith of Dartmouth Is slowly re¬ 
covering from his Illness. He has no organic dis¬ 
ease, but needs rest, for he Is 70 years old. 
The new Yale College catalogue contains the 
names of l,05l students in the follpwlng depart¬ 
ments:—Theological, 05; law, 60; medical, 36; 
graduate students, 67; special students, 2 ; under¬ 
graduates, 569; Sheffield scientific school, 20G; 
school of fine arts, is. 
An addition to Carlovlnglan history, by J. Bass 
Mulllngcr, will shortly be Issued In Loudon by the 
Longtnan3. It deals with the revival or learnlug 
under Charles tho Great and the movement 
which connects that revival with the university 
era, seeking to trace out the Patristic and Pagan 
elements In medieval education, and the in¬ 
fluences under which tho great teachers or the 
ninth century were induced to enlarge their con¬ 
ception of Christian culture. 
Mgobe'h Rural New-Yorker bemron a house, 
hold word and power In the laDd long before we quit 
“going to school,” and, perhaps, needs no comment 
from us; still “ Its memory Is over fresh and green," 
and Is renewed by Its appearance every week, brim¬ 
ful of good tUiwjn as ever. We uro glad to announce 
that our predictions iu the January number are 
being more than fulfilled. We havo sont It more 
than Jive hundred names, and we learn that sub¬ 
scriptions have been pouring in in HUe proportions 
from all parts of tho country, despite the liurd times. 
Long may It continue to be what It Is—a power for 
good In the land.— Agent’s Friend. 
Moore’s Rural New-Tobkeu. with Its full 
corps of editors, and a new publisher of energy and 
ability, tho management proposo to celebrate the 
quarter-centennial of the pioneer Rural in such a 
manner a* to augment Its popularity and usefulness. 
For a first-class, lively paper, containing matter of 
interest for all classes, take tho Ruual New-Youk- 
RR, and do so nt once, for tho paper never was bet¬ 
ter, and Us prospects never brighter.— teport (IO.) 
Journal. 
