PERSONALS. 
realize the fact that the human frame is a 
most delicate piece of machinery. The popu¬ 
lar fteliof seems to be that we are made of 
wood and cast-iron. Many parents and 
teachers will not allow children to study 
physiology, thinking such a study indelicate 
and out of place. This notion is wrong. In 
childhood, when the body is forming, and 
when strength and health are being built up, 
a few simple laws of health may well he 
studied. Wo can commend this little book as 
interesting and reliable. 
Senator-elect Stockbridge, of Michigan, 
is a tall, stout man, with a profusion of heavy, 
iron-gray hair and whiskers. 
Simon Cameron is 88 years of age, and the 
Pennsylvania House of Representatives con¬ 
gratulated him Tuesday on his birt hday. He 
is full of vigor, and keenly alive to the inter¬ 
ests of life. 
The late Mrs. Beck, wife of the Kentucky 
Senator, was one of the most brilliant women 
in official society, and. like Mrs. Logan, Mrs. 
Morrison and Mrs. Carlisle, knew more of 
public questions than half the men in Con¬ 
gress. 
The well informed in Germany think that 
the Emperor William is as near death as a 
living man can be. Bismarck doesn’t believe 
he will survive the spring, and is shaping the 
policy of the Empire with a view to counter¬ 
act the great influences sure to be held by the 
new empress—the eldest daughter of Queen 
Victoria. 
(’apt. James Buchanan Eads, the celebrat¬ 
ed engineer, died of pneumonia, Tuesday, at 
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dence. Bahamas, whither he had gone for his 
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’<>7-’74. Deepened the mouth of the Missis¬ 
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causes. This is wrong. While our "new 
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The Century article on Faith Curing will be 
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cure by faith. Probably few outside the 
cities understand much about the new science. 
The central idea of tin* cure, that of taking 
the mind away from disease or trouble aud 
deciding that good health and happiness are 
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sound enough. If this could be more gener¬ 
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With most of us, however, the trouble is to 
take our minds away from ourselves, so that 
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taken years to develop. Those who have kept 
files of the magazines ought to turn back and 
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seem to he kept up well. Too much space is 
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