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PERSONALS. 
Bonanza Mackay's wealth is estimated at 
$180,000,0001 
Professor Agassiz is said to be the wealth¬ 
iest of American scientists. 
An Ohio farmer claims to have developed a 
breed of chickens which lay two eggs a day! 
Speaker Carlisle is counsel in a law case 
in Kentucky, growing out of a dispute as to 
the ownership of a bull worth $0,000. 
Gkoroe Barnes, ouce famous as the Moun¬ 
tain Evangelist of Kentucky, is now a mis¬ 
sionary in India for the Church of England. 
An American has been appointed by the 
King of Corea to be Chief Farmer, with a 
view to introducing our vegetables into that 
country. 
Dr. Lee Sing Sung, recently of San Fran¬ 
cisco, has hung oat his sbiDgle in Boston, 
modestly announcing that he “can cure dis¬ 
eases where all others fail.’’ 
Dr. Asa Gray, of Cambridge,Massachusetts 
celebrated his 75th birthday last Wednesday. 
The celebrated botanist is a native of Oneida 
County, New York. 
It is asserted upon what appears to be good 
authority that in the last twenty years Mr. 
Tilden has paid out not less than $750,000 for 
political purposes. 
Arcadia Topez, a Mexican, who possessed 
an old mortar shell as a rusty reminder of the 
French invasion, tried the other day to open 
it. The funeral was very quiet, 
Mrs. L. M. Wilson, Superintendent of 
Public 8chools at Des Moines, Iowa, has under 
her charge eight buildings, SO teachers and 
about 40,000 pupils. Her salary is $1,800 a 
year, 
Horace B. Clafcin, the senior partner of 
the largest dry goods firm in this country, 
died at his summer residence in Fordham, N, 
Y., last Saturday. He was 74 years old and 
was born at Milford, Mass. 
Mr. William C. Prime is the literary ex¬ 
ecutor of the late General George B. McClel¬ 
lan. The General left two children—Miss 
May McClellan, who is nearly twenty one, 
and Mr. George B. McClellan, Jr. who is 
somewhat younger. 
The only survivor of the famous Glaston¬ 
bury (Conn.) Smith sisters, who refused to pay 
taxes because denied the privilege of votiDg, 
is at the point of death in her home 
in Hartford. She is 94 years old, and 
lately broke her leg. 
William and James Thomas, two farmers 
of Watts Flats, near Jamestown, N. Y. did not 
believe in banks, and kept between $2,000 and 
$3,000 in a tin trunk iu their house. Burg¬ 
lars recently broke in and took it all and also 
destroyed valuable papers. 
Ex Senator J. H. Mitchell was elected 
Senator at Portland, Oregon, on the third bal¬ 
lot, last Wednesday, the Democrats hocking 
to him. He was formerly known by the name 
of Hippie, is very wealthy and the paid attor¬ 
ney of the Oregon and Transcontinental Rail¬ 
road. 
Judging from a paragraph now going the 
rounds of the medical press, the higher educa¬ 
tion of women does not eonduce to connubial- 
ity and fecundity. Of 759 female college 
graduates only 19ti are married. Of these 86 
have no children, and 130 have had 203 chil¬ 
dren, ot which 282 are living. 
The wife ot the Marquis de Mores, the great 
Dakota stockmau, is a little brunette, who is 
one of the best rifleshots in the West, and 
who rides as well as she shoots. She is the 
daughter of Banker Van Hoffman, of New 
York City, and while her husband was in jail 
for alleged murder, remained in the cell with 
him. 
Mr. Aukam Hewitt, a rich man, a large 
employer of labor, a politician of national 
fame, said a few years since, in an address be¬ 
fore tt.e Church Congress, that ueilber the 
principles of Christianity nor of natural 
justice could bo reconciled with the over¬ 
grown wealth of the few and the hopeless 
poverty of the many. 
John McCullough, who left the asylum at 
Bloomingdale only to die in his home at Phil¬ 
adelphia, was not, as many believe, an Amer¬ 
ican. He was born at Londonderry, Ireland, 
in 1887. Mr. McCullough came to this 
country Iff years afterward, and it was chiefly 
through the frieudship of two representative 
actors, E, L. Davenport and Edwin Forrest, 
that he found his place upon the stage. 
The comparative importance of English 
statesmen, from the newsmens’ point of view, 
may be seen in the fact that, according to an¬ 
nouncement,the London Central News reports 
all speeches of Lord Salisbury, Lord R. 
Churchill, Mr. Gladstone aud Mr. Chamber- 
lain verbatim; Lord Speucer, Lord Hurting- 
ton, Lord Granville ami Sir Charles Dilke to 
tho extent of one column each; and Sir M. 
Hicks-Beach, Sir R. A. Cross, Sir W. Har- 
court, Mr. Trevelyan, and Mr. Childers half 
a column each. 
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