PERSONALS. 
Gov. Forakkr has just purchased a four- 
aker homestead iu Madisonville, O. 
Hknry Irving, Ellen Terry and company 
leave London for New York on October 20. 
During his college life Longfellow used to 
receive from £1 to $'2 for a poena, according to 
its length. 
Col. J. C. Nicola y has been spending some 
days at Hartford, Conn., looking up details for 
the Life of Lincoln. 
Thompson, the big pie-man of New York, is 
said to have cleared $1,000,000—will soon 
belong to the “ upper crust.” 
Millionaire Flood’s San Francisco palace 
and grounds are now inclosed by a bronze 
fence which cost exactly $.‘10,000. 
Ex-Gov. Bollock of Georgia, says the 
exhibition at Atlanta in the fall will putin the 
shade every other held in the South. 
C. C. Stevenson, the Republican Governor 
of Nevada, and E. A. Stevenson, the Demo¬ 
cratic Governor of Idaho, are brothers 
Hannibal Hamlin, of Lincoln’s Adminis¬ 
tration, the only Ex-Vice-President living, is 
hale and hearty, although nearly 78 years 
old. 
Mr. George W. Cable has returned from 
the South to bis Northampton home, but will 
soon go “on the road” again, lecturing and 
reading. 
Charles Crocker, Second Vice-President 
of the Southern Pacific Railway, modestly 
• pleads guilty to the possession of about 
$80,000,000. 
Mr. .Tames H. Macdonald, Lieutenant- 
Governor of Michigan, is reported to be in re¬ 
ceipt of $40,(XXJ annually from a mining in¬ 
vestment. of only $350. 
King Humbert of Italy works harder than 
any other monarch in Europe. He never goes 
to bed until 1 o’clock in the morning and is 
up and working at six. 
Mrs. Grant has repurchased one of the 
houses in Washington which she transferred 
to William H, Vanderbilt at the time of the 
Grant & Ward failure. 
Sara Bernhardt doesn’t think much of 
Chicago. It guve her only $14,000 in a week, 
while St. Paul paid $18,000 and Minneajiolis 
$20,000 in the same length of time. 
Canon Wilberforck visited Portland, 
Me., last week, and under the guidance of 
Geu. Neal Dow inspected the system of des¬ 
troying confiscated liquors. 
Senator Gorman, of Maryland, in 1807 
covered second base for the old Nationals. 
Williams, who was pitcher for the nine, is 
now Cashier of the Treasury. 
Mrs. K. D. E. N. Southworth is 68 years 
old, has written sixty-eight novels, and is ap¬ 
parently good for many more before death 
calls her to lay down her prolific pen. 
Jeff. Davis, Simon Cameron, Hannibal 
Hamlin, and A. P. Kennedy are sakl to be the 
only meu living who were members of the 
United States Senate when the War began. 
Mr. E. P. Roe’s success as a story-teller is 
witnessed by the fact that over 1,000,000 copies 
of his novels have already been sold, and the 
public demand for them is still undiminished. 
Alas ! Even in the little islaud of Jersey 
there are election scandals. The mayor of St. 
Helior recently said that at the last election 
shoes were bought from voters at $175 a pair, 
and eggs at $25 each. 
Ex-Secretary of War Lincoln is making 
$60,000 a year from his law business and has 
no political ambition. He insists that among 
his rights us a private citizen is the “right to 
be let alone by the press.” 
The late William A. Wheeler had a modest 
estimate of the importance of the Vice-Presi¬ 
dential office ami thought, with Benjamin 
Franklin, that its occupuut should be called 
“His Superfluous Highness.” 
John Augustus, Marquis di Medici, and 
the last of that illustrious family, is running a 
cheap wine-shop opposite the palace of his 
ancestors at Florence. Rioh young Ameri¬ 
cans patronize the place extensively. 
Gen. Boulanger has writteu to friends iu 
Baltimore, Md., that he is in good health and 
a contented frame of mind. He seems to be 
about the only prominent man now in Europe 
who is in a thoroughly robust physical condi¬ 
tion. 
Mrs. Hetty Green, perhaps the richest 
woman in the United States and a great spec¬ 
ulator in railroad stock, is said to be consider¬ 
ing the advisability of buying a seat iu the 
New York Stock Exchange, at a cost of 
$30,000, 
Cardinal Mazzella, the great Jesuit 
theologian, is un American citizen, having 
taken out his papers during his stay here as a 
professor in the college at Woodstock, Md. 
Father Anderledy, the general of the Jesuits, 
lived at St. Louis, Mo., and was a missionary 
at Green Bay, Wis., for many years. 
Mr. Alma-Tadema, the famous English 
painter, has designed a piano of ebony and 
oak for a citizen of New York, with decora¬ 
tive details of cedar, boxwood and ivy, ami 
with a long, low picture by Mr. Poynter. R. 
A., over the key-board. The cost is said to be 
$35,000. 
Wilson Waddingham, of New Haven, 
Conn., recently purchased the Antonia Ortiz 
grant of 103,000 acres of land situated in Ban 
Miguel County, New Mexico. Mr. Wadding¬ 
ham is said to bo the largest landed proprietor 
in the world. He owns in fee 1,800,000 acres, 
about 500,000 acres more than are claimed by 
the Duke of Westminster. 
F. J. Stinson, after writing “The Resid¬ 
uary Legatee,” one of the most sensei ess stories 
of the year, now publishes in Scribner’s a very 
thoughtful article on “The Ethics of Democ¬ 
racy.” It is a sound and timely statement of 
the progress of American civilization. The 
author has beeu called upoD to read carefully 
all the State laws that have been enacted since 
the formation of the Government. His propo¬ 
sition is that these laws represent the senti¬ 
ments and desires of a majority of the soundest 
people m the States. Laws are made iu this 
country, most of them, at least, because the 
people demand them. So Mr. Stinson claims 
that these laws indicate iu the surest, way the 
direction in which American civilization is 
tending. He concludes that “private proper¬ 
ty, marriage and personal liberty from State 
control are so inseparably bound together 
that neither one may fall without the other 
two.” 
The time has come when a really true and 
thoughtful story, picturing the real difference 
between the North and the South would do 
much good. Must of such hooks heretofore 
have been written for campaign purposes, or 
to gratify a revengeful spirit. Mauy of them 
told the truth, or very near it, but it was told 
in a very blunt and bitter way. Both sides 
can now look at the war calmly and coolly. 
The right kind of a book will do much good. 
In the bewildering mass of new stories 
thrown before the public every year, we arc 
apt to forget old favorites. One of the good 
stories that should never go out of mind is 
“Elsie Venner,” by O. W. Holmes. In many 
respects this is one of the best stories of New 
Englaud life that has ever beeu w ritten. It is 
well worth muling though the hero belongs 
to a class of men that we never could fully 
appreciate. “The Guardian Angel” is an¬ 
other old story by Holmes that is worth a 
dozen of the poor collections of words with 
which too many book shelves are filled. 
We are glad to see that Lee and Shephard 
have published Horace Mann’s “ Thoughts For 
A Young Man” iu a cheap and handy form. 
There are very few things in the English lan¬ 
guage that present souuder food for the mind 
of a thoughtful young man than this essay. 
It is sound and earnest common sense. It 
should be read by every young man in this 
country who believes, as he should, that he 
carries his future in his hands. Thoughts are 
thrown away upon the young man who can¬ 
not believe that he must make his future. 
“ However graciously God may deal with the 
heart, all our experience proves that Ho never 
pardons stomach, muscles, lungs or brains,”— 1 
is Horace Mann’s comment upon those who 
violate the laws of health. After all, who 
does not know in the-** days, that success can 
only be built upon sound health 1 He who 
“ takes good care of himself ” lays up a bauk 
account of enjoyment from which he candraw 
at will. 
In Englaud all the poets are striving to out¬ 
do themselves in poetic homage to the Queen. 
American poets not to be outdone are hasten¬ 
ing to sing the charms of Mrs. Cleveland. 
Edna Dean Proctor iu the American Magazine 
sings thus of the “ best part of the administra¬ 
tion ": 
“ No hernia cries before her path; 
No frowning guards attend her; 
Her gracious wnyr ore harbingers, 
Her smile Is her defender; 
J,et Kingdoms pledge their regal dames,— 
God bless I he People’s daughter! 
Her winaoraeoeije, her womanhood, 
Nature and Freedom taught her.” 
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