PERSONALS. 
Whitelaw Reid, of the N. Y. Tribune, is 
recovering from typhoid fever. 
J. D. Perrins, who iuvented Worcester¬ 
shire sauce, is worth S3,000,0 0. 
Mrs. Cleveland has never had her cars 
pierced. It naturally follows that she wears 
no earrings. 
Mrs. Bergh, wife of Henry Bergh, of New 
York, of the S. F. T. P. O. C. T. A., died iu 
Utica, N. Y., Wednesday, after a long illness. 
according to the Vienna Tagblatt. the 
Czar’s highest aim is to be crowned ‘‘Emperor 
of Asia” on the site of the Holy Sepulchre at 
Jerusalem. 
Judge Fullett, a prominent and highly- 
honored judge in Michigan, has resigned. He 
has been speculating in wheat and lost §20,000 
of other people’s money, 
Mr. “Joaquin” Miller has sold his log 
cabin iu Washington for §5,100, and its new 
owner has rented it to Mr. Adee, Assistant 
Secretary of State. 
Toe death of William A. Wheeler leaves 
Hauuibal Hamlin the only living ex-Vice- 
President of the United States. He will be 78 
years old in August. 
Miss Elizabeth Garrett, sister of the 
president of the Baltimore ami Ohio Railroad, 
is worth about §S,0OOJKJO, and is a very bright 
and business-like woman. 
H. Rider Haggard, author of “Solomon’s 
Mines,” “She,” and other novels, is a slender 
man with a fine head and a strong, well- 
balanced face. He is not much over 30. 
Major Ben: Perley Poore never made 
any money oft of his fine Indian Hdl Farm, 
Massachusetts, although under shrewd man¬ 
agement it would have returned him a good 
income. 
The Hon. Morton E. Post, of Cheyenne, 
says it is a fact that the alien Land Bill, which 
prohibits foreigners from acquiring realty in 
the Territories, caused the failure of the Swans 
iu Wyoming. It spoiled a sale of §500,000 for 
Alex Swan. 
Mrs. Mary Outwater White, daughter 
of the late Peter Outwater, of Syracuse, N.Y., 
and wife of Ex-President Andrew D. White, 
of Cornell University, fell dead after leaving 
the breakfast room Wednesday, of paralysis 
of the heart, aged 57 years 
In Fayette County, Ga., five brothers named 
Hamby inairied five sisters named Starnes, 
the last three against the protest of their 
father, and then “old man” Hamby, in his 
wrath,almost by force, got “old mother” Starn¬ 
es, only a fortnight a widow, to marry him. 
The wife of Henry George is a plump and 
pretty little woman, accustomed to taking 
her husband's vagaries as a matter of course. 
She is described as a matter-of-fact little 
body, loving her four children devotedly and 
being anxious to have them well off, iT possL 
ble. 
Mrs. Langtry has invested §20.000 more in 
mortgages on New York real estate, thus 
swelling her investments to nearly §200,000, 
Edwin Booth loaned §5,000 to John Shrady 
on the same kind of security, this being his 
second venture in the last week. No wonder 
there is a scramble to become a “star.” 
Prohahly no civil official in the world has 
such an immense number of men uuder his 
control as Post-master-General Vilas. He is at 
the head of a force which numbers between 
05,000 and 00,000 men. The World thinks that 
the Postoflice Department in a pitched battle 
could probably “clean out” the War Depart¬ 
ment. 
William J. Finlay, who presented the 
statue of Gen. Steed man to the City of Tole¬ 
do, came from lrelaui to this country when a 
mere boy and settled at Toledo. Gen. Steed- 
man found him a place on the canal, worth 
§500, Finlay eventually built up a big for¬ 
tune as a brewer and has now shown his grati¬ 
tude to his early friend. 
The death at the age of 88 years is an¬ 
nounced of the Veil. Frederick Twistletou- 
Wykehiun-Fieunes, Lord Saye and Sele. He 
was tho 15th baron of that name, ami the 20th 
iu descent from Geoffrey, T/Ord Saye, who 
was oue of the 25 barons appointed to enforce 
the provisions of Magna Charta. The first 
baron of the Fiennes family was beheaded by 
Jack Cade iu 1451. 
filled with apt quotations from the poets- 
Thcse tickle their ears of his readers and height¬ 
en the hatred for the rich. That is about the 
only result they can have. In “Social Pro 
blems” the following from Lowell appears: 
“With gates of silver and bars of gold ; , 
Ye have fenced my sheep from their Father's fold 
I have heard Hie dropping of their tears 
In heaven these eighteen hundred years. 
“O Lord anti Master, not ours the guilt; 
We build but as our fathers built; 
Behold thine images, how they stand. 
Sovereign and sole throughout our land.” 
Then Christ sought out an artisan, 
A low browed, stunted, haggard man, 
And a mot her less girl, whose Ungers thin 
Rushed from her faintly want and sin. 
These set he in the midst of them. 
And as they drew back their garment-hem, 
For fear of defllerneut, “Lo. here," said he, 
“The images you have trade of me! ” 
“Mr. Pecksniff” is one of the best char¬ 
acters Dickens ever created. He seems nearer 
to us, because we meet him, more or less high¬ 
ly developed, in everyday life. There are 
“Pecksniffs" all about us. Mean, low, hypo¬ 
critical creatures. We always feel a strong 
desire to kick them, though we well know that 
such an operation would give them a chance 
to obtain fresh sympathy by posing as mar¬ 
tyrs. We often wonder how such fellows are 
able to obtain any following. We have fre¬ 
quently seen quiet, gentlemanly men, utterly 
neglected, while one of these fat-brained, loud 
mouthed scamps will be greeted with marked 
atteution. Luckily, however, such fellows al¬ 
ways trap themselves. It is as impossible for 
them to maiutain a first-class reputation as it 
is for a drinking man to save money out of 
his wages. 
The series of articles now appearing iu the 
Youths’ Companion are very interesting. The 
sketch by Mr. Howells.of life in Ohio 40 years 
ago, is the best. 1 he article by the Marquis of 
Lome is given too much promiueuce. It has 
no special literary merit. Hail it been written 
by any person unknown to fame we doubt if 
it would huve been accepted. The pictures by 
the Princess Louise are Hamingly advertised, 
but there are better ones in every number of 
the Companion by artists who have to earn 
their living by the work. 
There is no disappointment equal to that 
which a young would-be author experiences 
when his pet manuscript is returned by some 
bu ;y editor. There is generally nothing bub a 
printed slip seut back with the manuscript. 
Sometimes the editor, out of pure pity,writes on 
the back: “Thank you for letting us read the ar¬ 
ticle,” but he has seldom time for this kindly 
note. The editor is usually such a busy man 
that he forgets about the cruel stab that 
goes along with his printed circular. 
There is a load of romance iu these 
dull manuscripts. How carefully they were 
studied out, how hopefully they were penned! 
The purest and best of the ambitions which we 
love to honor spurred on the authors. Young 
men and women, battling with poverty, work¬ 
ing hopelessly ou with hands and feetseemiug- 
ly tied with poverty, have worked in the 
horn's they should have spent in slecping.over 
these stories and sketches. The practiced and 
critical editor, whose daily, weekly, or month¬ 
ly task is to try and crowd a quart into a pint, 
can only see a lot of dull, commonplace mouo- 
tinous articles. No wonder there grows up in 
his mind a sort of horror at the sight of such 
“copy.” He has no time to stop aud think 
about the disappointments and discourage¬ 
ments his circulars oecasiou. Well, we cannot 
all he authors, that is certain. If all the 
manuscripts that are written could be printed 
and read, the world would have little time for 
anything else. A fair amount of time -spent 
at writing and thinking is never thrown away, 
even though every liue of such writing is 
rejected. The harm comes iu wheu we neglect 
our legitimate work for tho “author fever.” 
“Physical Culture” is to receive more at¬ 
tention in the magazines. Some of the best 
teachers of gymnastics are to write of the 
manner iu which athletes prepare themselves 
for their contests. There is little doubt about 
the fact that wo are, to a great extent, respou- 
sible for our own health and : trength. Pro¬ 
per diet and exercise would do much for the 
mauy weak and poorly developed meu aud 
women we see about us. We might, mauy of 
us, take a useful lesson from the training of a 
prize-fighter. 
PfareUnneou.sf ^ dvtrttoinfl. 
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strongly to the hearts of the poor. They do 
their best to put all the horror aud bitterness 
of poverty into view. At a recent meeting 
Dr. McGlynn read “The Song of the Shirt,” 
with great effect, Heury George’s books are 
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Mrs. Hardy's Encounter with a 
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