PERSONAL ITEMS 
^fmplcmcntjs and |Uachincvy 
PisrcU ancons 
Senator l)Avro D\yi3 has gained ten pounds In 
the last ten months. 
Gov. Williams of Indiana, had a corn-fleld of 
300 acres this season. 
General Toolkuev, the great Russian en¬ 
gineer, is sixty years old. 
General Baboogk's reil estate In Washington 
la valued at,a half million dollars. 
Ex-Goveknor Hendricks Intends to re-enter 
at once the law flr.n he left to become Governor. 
General Sitehid in thinks the capture of Jo¬ 
seph will have a great influence on the Oregon 
Indians. 
Secretary Thompson, when at home, expounds 
the Scriptures to liii farmer neighbors every 
Sunday. 9 
Ex-Minister Wasmburnk lias been Immortal¬ 
ized In Paris by havlag a street named Rue 
Washburne, 
Senator Morton was removed from Richmond 
to his residence In Indianapolis without unfavor¬ 
able results. 
Senator Armstkono, who succeeds Bogy of 
Missouri, wears his hair brushed back as Old 
Hickory used to. 
Gen. Miles, the Indian tighter, married a nelce 
of Gen. Sherman with whom the hero of the late 
battle Is a great favorite. 
It is explained that Thos. Nast has no quarrel 
with the harpers, but Is not in accord with the 
political course of the Weekly. 
Victor Hugo, say the Parisians, has ready a 
poem, 2,000 lines long, entitled “ Le Pape,” which 
poem will not appear until after the death of Plus 
IX. 
General Miles, who captured Chief Joseph, 
began life as a clerk In a crockery-ware store, and 
was only twenty-one years of ago when the war 
broke out. 
The Comte de Paris, It seems, Is still hard at 
work upon his “History of the American Rebel¬ 
lion,” which his translators will hear with 
anguish is to extend to eight volumes. 
Henry Waitkuson, able editor of tho Louis¬ 
ville Courier-Journal, will lecture this winter on 
“The Whimsicalities, Comicalities and Realities 
of Southern Life.” Wo wish him success. 
William Cullen Bryant, Longfellow and Bay¬ 
ard Taylor have recently been chosen honorary 
members of tho Literary Academy of Athens, of 
which the Queen of Greece Is special patroness. 
Prop. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, says that six 
cornels Imvo been discovered this year, and that 
two mint ones are now visible with the telescope, 
one In the evening, the other In tho morning 
sky. 
Truth says the report that the Marquis of 
Lome is expected lu canud t tills winter to hunt 
the “moose,” has evidently arisen from Uls lord- 
ship’s repeated hunts alter the “ Muse ” at 
home. 
Minister Pikrrkpont has sent in Ids resigna¬ 
tion, to take effect the 1st of December. George 
William Curtis will now have an opportunity of 
testing the friendship of the Man-lu-thc-White- 
House, 
Suleiman Pasha Is a man of determination. He 
told the surgeons of tUe English ambulance corps 
that had they not been able to take fare of his 
wounded, he would Have been compelled to shoot 
all who were too severely Injured to take care of 
themselves. 
Some of the friends of the Rev. Joseph Cook 
have observed that In one of uls recent discourses 
he laid peculiar stress upon the sentence, 
“There Is a distinction between family wages 
and bachelor wages.” He was married about 
two months ago. 
G. Monod sums up his estimate of Thiers in this 
expressive sentence“ A wonderful ensemble of 
mediocre qualities In perfect equilibrium, and 
brought Into play by an indefatigable energy, 
gave him ft superiority which might in certain 
moments pass for genius.” 
SntJonN Bennett, who has been three times 
elected Alderman tor the ward of Cheap, London, 
and was twice rejected by the board of Aider- 
men as a person uant for tho Ciflloe, has again 
been rejected by them. This time the board will 
themselves select an Alderman. 
o. s. Winans, tho member of the New York 
Legislature of 1309-70. who achieved notoriety by 
voting In Tweed and Gould's interest against tbe 
repeal of tho Brie clusslUeaUon bill, has turned 
up at Galveston, where lie is in tho service of the 
Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railway, and 
has been Interviewed on the subject of Tweed. 
The new Archbishop of Baltimore, Gibbon, la a 
native of that city, forty-three years of ago. lie 
was appointed coadjutor Bishop to assLst the late 
Dr. Bay ley, nearly a year ago, having previously 
served as Bishop of Richmond,-and before that aa 
secretary to Archbishop Spaulding. He 13 well- 
known and generally liked In the dlocsse, and Is 
considered very liberal in matters of public con¬ 
cern. 
It is understood that Queen victoria is becom¬ 
ing so nervous that she cannot be surrounded by 
a crowd for more than a few moments at a time. 
She refused to go to Manchester to open the new 
town hall simply because she could not bear the 
excitement of the ceremonies. She did not want 
to open Parliament in person, nor to open the 
London season, but Lord Beaconsfleld urged her 
so strongly that at last she consented. 
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Tlin“HRinnrilK American” of June n, 
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The ti'Cinnai' l IlmlrrcAii breisily detached fr'dl the boat, and is llu ii 
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