PERSONALS. 
The graves of Wendell Phillips and his 
wife are unmarked by any monument what¬ 
ever. 
Mary Stewart, once the slave of the late 
Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, has per¬ 
fected an invention for coupling cal’s. 
Major Rath rone, of California, who goes 
to Paris as Consul-General, was for some time 
manager of Senator Stanford’s Palo Alto 
stock farm. 
Mrs. Kate Chase Spraouk is growing 
wealthy by the advance in real estate values, 
having but recently been offered $150,001) for 
her Edgewood estate near Washington. 
Ex-Marshal Bazaine is a feeble old man 
in straitened circumstances, at Madrid, la¬ 
menting the absence of his wife and daughter, 
who are trying to recover some property in 
Mexico. 
While Ex-Senator Jones was wasting his 
time courting Miss Palm, in Detroit, a young 
woman of Florida, fell heir to $'1,000,000, and 
married a local Assemblyman in Mr. Jones's 
own city. 
The ultimatum of the Virginia Legislature 
ou the debt question has been rejected by Sir 
Ed want Thornton, the representative of the 
English creditors, and negotiations are now 
at an end. 
Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, carries 
a violin aud camera with him when he goes 
electioneering, and has photographed aud 
fiddled to at least two-tbirds of his constitu¬ 
ents during the past few years. 
The corner-stone of the Stanford Univer¬ 
sity, at Palo Alto, California, was laid by 
Senator Stanford on the 14th of May, who 
afterward entertained the Board of Trustees 
with characteristic generosity. 
Ex-Secretary Manning now reads and 
writes every day, receives his frieuds and is 
no longer forbidden to see the newspapers and 
discuss business. He is bright and active aud 
believes that he will soou be quite well. 
Queen Kapwlani and the Princess Lili- 
nokaliou. of the Sandwich Islands, and Iheir 
suite, after a long round of visits from Boston 
to Washington, sailed from New York, Wed¬ 
nesday morning, for Europe on the City of 
Rome. The queen expressed herself as very 
much pleased with her stay in New York, but 
her reception in Boston cost much more— 
nearly £20,000. 
Mrs. Cleveland, has taken to the woods 
her mountain trousseau with which she made 
a sensation at Deer Park last year. Oue of 
her favorite costumes when in retirement is a 
loose daunel dress, stout slices, aud a soft, felt 
sombrero bat. In such attire she will iu all 
likelihood celebrate the first anniversary of 
her wedding day, June 2. 
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, says that 
instead of cutting off the railroad passes of 
Senators and Representatives, as has been 
done by the Inter-state Commerce Law, he 
would give them all parses and compel each 
man to travel at least 5,000 miles a year, iu 
order to have them loam something about all 
parts of the country for which they have to 
legislate. 
A course of lectures has just been given at 
Cornell University on “Pathogenic Bacteria 
and their Relation to Hygiene,” by Theobald 
Smith, M. l>., of the class of 1881, Chief As¬ 
sistant in the United Slates Bureau of Animal 
Industry, The lectures were largely attended 
by the faculty aud students, and were supple¬ 
mented by a paper before the Agricultural 
and Natural History Societies on the three 
diseases which are commonly confounded tin*, 
der the term ‘ swine plague,” but which Dr. 
Smith has shown to be caused by three distinct 
germs, 
Jean Baptiste Joseph Dm donnk Bors- 
singaolt, the great French chemist, died the 
other day. Born in Paris in 1SU2; educated 
at the great mining school at Saint-Ltieune. 
Passed several years in South America super¬ 
intending mins, lighting under Bolivar, ex¬ 
ploring and studying botany and mineralogy, 
Ou his return to Franco, in In') 7, became 
Professor of Chemistry aud Dean of the 
Faculty of Science at Lyons, and afterwards 
tilled many other important offices. The ap¬ 
preciation of manure according to the quanti¬ 
ty of nitrogen it contains, valuable observa¬ 
tions on different kinds of feeding stuffs for 
fattening cuttle, and several other important 
studies on agricultural chemistry, were his 
chief contributions to agricultural advance¬ 
ment. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
1 here is a good sketch of the life of Mi’s. 
Logan iu the American Magazine for Juue. 
Mrs. Logan is one of the most remarkable wo¬ 
men of the century. Her husband owed much 
of his success to her, and he had the good 
sense to acknowledge it. Many a woman has 
worked for years in the shadow, building up 
her husband’s throne, only in find that her 
work has lifted her husband above her, into a 
place she cannot reach. It is thi3 fact that 
has made “Haunah Jaue,” that old poem' by 
Locke, so popular among a certain class of 
Western people. Critics have sneered at the 
poem, but not one of them could write prose 
or poetry’ that could touch the hearts of the 
people as that poem did. People who never 
have heard of ‘‘Enoch Arden” or “Evange¬ 
line” have wept over “Hannah Jane.” It is 
the simple story of a woman who took upon 
herself all the drudgery, all the core and wor¬ 
ry, leaving her husbaud free to develop him¬ 
self. He reached a proml position in his pro¬ 
fession, to find, all too late, that while be had 
been able to broaden and cultivate his miud, 
his wife had beeu forced to stand still. She 
had made him great, and at the same time 
placed him where he could not enjoy her 
society. 
Lee & Shepard are to publish a new edi¬ 
tion of a remarkable work by James Freeman 
Clarke. It is entitled “ Life and Times of 
Jesus, as related by Thomas Didymous.” The 
book gives a remarkably clear picture of the 
world as it was at the time of the birth aud 
earthly Jifeof our Saviour. What “Ben Hur” 
is to romance, this book is to Christian history 
and biography. 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton lias written a 
History of the Woman's Suffrage Movement. 
In the early history of the anti-slavery move¬ 
ment it was hoped that Abolition and Woman’s 
Suffrage could be carried through together. 
It was a mistake. The trouble with the suf¬ 
frage movement is that the great majority of 
men cannot be brought to look upon it serious¬ 
ly. Most men seem to feel that tin ir wives, 
sisters and mothers would not step iuto any 
new dignity, but would step out of a place iu 
society that would be a blank without them. 
The Kentucky Pioneers hud a place in the 
Juue Harpers. Who has not reud of Daniel 
Boone, Simon Kentou, and the other brave 
fellows who led civilization into Kentucky? 
It. was a wild, rugged life these men led. Ken¬ 
tucky at that time was a tieautiful wilderness. 
Boone was a wonderful man. Had he lived iu 
this dofr he would have been famous in busi 
ness or politics. Most readers will lie sur¬ 
prised to know that he generally carried a 
book iii his hunting pack. This was read and 
studied at night by the light of the camp fire. 
The popular idea of Boone has been that of a 
wild, uneducated tighter and woodsman. 
This is wroug. He was a kindly, temperate 
man, above most of his associates iu educat ion. 
There is a good article in Harpers “Ou 
Keepiug Birds.” It describes a number of 
cage birds which are seldom seen in this coun¬ 
try. Most peopleare satisfied with the canary, 
but there appqpr to be other birds that sing as 
sweetly and present a more striking appear- 
auce. 
We are at last treated to a murder in Seth’s 
Brother’s Wife. It is evident that the author 
had to kill Albert in some way, but he might 
have done it less violently. A story without 
a murder is tasteless to the great mass of read¬ 
ers. 
An editorial in the Popular Science Monthly 
on “Higher Education of Women” is well 
worth studying. In the majority of cases, 
inau educates himself as a matter of business. 
He aims to make his education earn his bread 
and butter. As a rule, the more closely ho 
condenses his efforts to a few important things 
the greater his success will be. The education 
of woman is conducted with a different end iu 
view. Most of them do uot go to college or 
hoarding school w ith an idea of learning some¬ 
thing that shall enable them to earn their own 
living. Their “culture” has been obtained for 
the sake of culture, not for the sake of work. 
Their “higher education” has been mostly a 
purposeless, aimless search for something they 
could not understand. The story of the grad¬ 
uate at u female university who did uot pro¬ 
pose to be married because she thought the as¬ 
sociation with children would tend to draw 
her mind away from her “higher education” 
has much of good sense it. 
Those curious people, the Shakers, are well 
described in the American Magazine. It ap¬ 
pears that this strange sect decreases rather 
than increases in numbers. There seems to be 
little about them that would attract outsiders. 
There is an entertaining account, in the 
same magazine, of our National House of 
Representatives. The author thinks the As¬ 
sembly has more diguity than most papers are 
disposed to give it. The standard of the mem¬ 
bers has been raised. We no longer hear of 
such scenes as were common before or imme 
diatoly after the war. On the whole, in spite 
of all that can be said by the party press, it 
appears that Congress does good work aud 
that those who complain loudest could not do 
half so much. 
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