^WHEN YOU BUY A BUGGY 
BE SURE IT HAS THE 
WHEEL 
THE STRONGEST AND BEST WHEEL MADE 
but without “glare or glitter.” The finish is 
in satinwood, and the upholstery in blue plush. 
There are bed-rooms, an observation-room, 
toilet-rooms, dining-room,kitchen, and berths 
for porter and cook. 
Mrs. Cleveland’s visit to her alma mater , 
Well’s College, during commencement week, 
was an occasion of rare pleasure to herself 
and the girl students. She bad asked that 
official formalities be dispensed with, in re¬ 
ceiving and entertaining her, and that she be 
be permitted to enjoy herself as an ordinary 
graduate. Her wish was respected, and she 
was elected a member of the Board of Trus¬ 
tees. She will be S3 on July 21. 
PERSONALS, 
owner’s or those best able to bear it. We all 
want to abolish poverty. It is a poor com¬ 
panion to carry through life, though many a 
maa owes his success in life to the fact that a 
lack of means in youth obliged him to adopt 
habits of thrift and economy that won him a 
place in this world. The misery, wretched¬ 
ness and crime generated in poverty are ter¬ 
rible to contemplate. But can they be remedied 
by any political movement? To many intelli¬ 
gent people, to all who have worked them¬ 
selves out of poverty by their own exertions, 
this “Anti-poverty” crusade would lead only 
to the bin ding up of a large class of paupers. 
The incentive to labor aud to acquire the owner¬ 
ship of laud ami a home will be almost de¬ 
stroyed. The class of young men who believe 
the world owes them a living will be greatly 
increased. The great majority of eases of po¬ 
verty are caused by intemperance, laziness, 
ignorance, or viciousness. Until men and wo¬ 
men can be taught that liquor in any form is 
deadlier than poison; until they can under¬ 
stand that the world owes no persona living; 
until they will see that it isa crime for parents 
without adequate means of support to bring 
children into the world, we shall always have 
poverty in spite of all legislation. 
The usual plan pursued in selecting books 
for a Sunday school library is to appoint a 
committee to investigate the new books, read 
as many as possible, aud pick out the ones 
they think will do the mast good. Some Sun¬ 
day schools order books by the yard, but such 
orders do not need any committee. We never 
yet heard of a committee that gave perfect 
satisfaction in its selection. It is hard for one 
man to pick out the books that would suit an¬ 
other. Spending theslc-uder fundsof a library 
association is a thankless task. Several per¬ 
sons who have acted on such committees say 
the most satisfactor}' course to pursue is to 
select books which have the largest sale. If 
the great reading | ublic show their approval 
of a book by creating a large sale for it, it is 
fairly safe to say it will be popular in almost 
any library. Those who have had experience 
in the matter say the sale of a book is a better 
test of its merit than any that a reading 
committee cau offer. 
Lewis Morris, the poet, has been appointed 
Assistant Laureate pending the illness of Lord 
Tennyson. 
Dr. McGlynn says the Labor Party will 
have a candidate for president and he won’t 
be Henry George. 
Albert Stookky, of Pulaski, Pa., although 
72 years of age, recently planted 4 % acres of 
ground with one pair of horses in two days. 
The British royal commission appointed to 
inquire into the Pasteur system has com¬ 
pleted ils report, which in the main is favor¬ 
able. 
Ex- Governor Ross, of Delaware, whose 
death has just been recorded, was for forty 
years oue of the chief fruit-growers in that 
State. 
Mrs. Julia Kean Fish, wife of Hamilton 
Fish, Secretary of State under Grant, died in 
tins city Thursday. Born in New Jersey in 
181(i; married in 18315. 
The death of ex-Attoruey-General James 
Speed, of Kentucky, the* other day, leaves of 
Liucoln’s Cabinet officers only Simon Camer¬ 
on and Hugh McCulloch as survivors. 
General Buckner, Democratic candidate 
for Governor of Kentucky, took his wife and 
ten-iuonths-old baby to the convention that 
nominated him, and the baby seemed to enjoy 
the fun. 
Blaine is having a fine time in England, 
being invited everywhere where an invitation 
is considered an honor. Some rumors of 
coolness towards him on the part of Minister 
Phelps are indignantly contradicted. 
The health of Dr. Dollinger, the eminent 
German theologian, whose celebrity was 
mainly acquired from his excommunication 
by Pope Pius IX., is fast failing, and his 
friends are anxious regarding his condition. 
Attorney-General Garland wears a 
nondescript summer costume. His coat of al¬ 
paca bulges at the shoulders and flaps around 
his legs. A pair of baggy trousers, white 
waistcoat and a straw hat complete his attire. 
Peter Finnerty, who died lost week at 
Waukesha, Wis,, left $500,000 to his heirs. 
Fourteen yeais ago he was working a poor 
farm in losva, and afterwards he became a 
deck-hand on a boat running lietweeu Keokuk 
ami St. Louis. 
William K. Vanderbilt will start, on a 
voyage around the wprld in his yacht, leaving 
New York, with his family and guests, ou the 
morniug of the 2d of July. The route will be 
across the Atlantic, up the Mediterranean and 
thence on through the Suez Canal. 
Hon. John S. Wise, of Virginia, who will 
deliver the Fourth of July oration in Philadel¬ 
phia, is a grandson of Hon. John Sergeant, of 
Philadelphia, a noted Whig leader He is al¬ 
so a nephew by marriage of General Meade, 
whose wife was a daughter of John Sergeant. 
Senator Stanford bus bought for $1,400,- 
000 the San Jouquiu ranch, near Los Angeles, 
which contains 108.000 acres, and runs along 
the coast for 20 miles. He is now negotiating 
for another tract near Pomona, containing 45,- 
000 acres, which will cost him about $2,000,000. 
Professor Kino, who is to go up in a bal¬ 
loon on the Fourth of July ni Fairmouut 
Park, Philadelphia, has made 280 ascensions 
in the past thirty-six years. The greatest alti¬ 
tude attained was three aud three-quarter 
miles. Professor Wise has made about 200 
ascensions. 
Mrs. Langtry, the English actress, last 
Tuesday renounced her allcgiauce to Great 
Britaiu, in San Francisco,and took out her first 
papers, declaring her intention to become a 
citizen of the United States. After the neons 
sary lapse of six mouths she will begin a suit 
for divorce. 
Mb. I’owdkri-.y, of the Knights of Labor, 
told an assembly of workmen at Lyun, Mass., 
the other day, that iu one Pennsylvania coun¬ 
ty in a single year $17,000,000 were spout for 
liquor and that it was estimated that $11,000,- 
000 of the amouut came from the pockets of 
the workingmen. 
President Cleveland to his “great and 
good" friend, Queen Victoria: “May liberty 
flourish throughout your empire, under just 
and equal laws, and your government tie 
strong in the affections of all who live under 
it. Aud I pray God to have your Majesty in 
his holy keeping.” 
Matthias Sflitlou has been swindled out 
of $1 in,mill in a real-estate transaction at Wy- 
audotte, Kansas. Mr. Spiffing is a Wyandotte 
Indian and worth $1,000,000. He cau neither 
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LITERARY NOTES. 
The article on Student Life at West Point 
in the July Harper’s is an admirable one. It 
will In* read with deep interest by hundreds of 
boys in all parts of (he country who desire to 
enter this institution. There are many men 
of unlimited means who would rather have a 
son at West Point than to have him graduate 
at any university in the country. It requires 
a smart boy to enter West Point, aud a still 
smarter boy to graduate, lu uo other school 
in this country does hard and careful work 
bring results more surely. The son of a Presi¬ 
dent will fall behind the sou of a hod-carrier 
if he does not work. The examinations for 
entrance into West Point are very searching, 
A boy must be very carefully trained in ail 
the ordinary branches lx*fore he can boj>e for 
success. It is claimed by many that favorit¬ 
ism and personal feeling have much to do in the 
selection of candidates. We believe there is 
much less of I his than has been supposed. We 
have witnessed several of the examinations/ 
In every* instance the successful candidate won 
on his merits. The papers were open for in¬ 
spection. 
All readers of books or magazines should 
read the article on Bookmaking in Harpers’. 
Few readers seem to realize that every letter 
of the thousands in the volume or paper they 
glance through so hastily must be handled by 
itself and arranged and re-arranged dozens of 
times. It would be well if all writers could 
take an apprenticeship at the printers ease. 
They would learn t he art of avoiding all super¬ 
fluous words, ami tbeir struggles with the 
cureless writing of others would teach them 
neatness in penmanship. The making of "a 
book is a very complicated piece of business. 
A study of this article will give one a respect 
for books, that could hardly be gained with¬ 
out it. - 
The picturesque article on the South in this 
numlier of Harper’s is well written aud beau¬ 
tifully illustrated. The picture of the old-time 
Southern mansion fallen into ruin is fine. 
The much advertised “New South” has no use 
for these dim old paluces. They could only 
exist where labor was all out of proportion— 
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try political boss. No doubt there are hun¬ 
dreds of counties in country districts where 
polities are controlled in this way. No man 
can be nominated or elected who does not 
make friends with the boss aud agree to divide 
the patrouage with him. The boss cau afford 
to make a business of politics. He can easily 
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dices ami suspicions. In townships where the 
farms are large aud the houses far apart, a 
political boss has an easy time. He can easily 
arrange things so that distrust and jealousy 
will take the place of neighborly aud friendly 
feeling. A well-ootulu^tod Farmers’ Club or 
a Grange is death to the political boss, because 
it gives farmers a chance to become acquaint¬ 
ed with each other. Slowly but surely they 
learn the art of self-government and self- 
thinking, and the business of the boss is gone 
forever. - 
The second article ou “Napoleon and his 
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torical writing. It does not seem to be gene¬ 
rally known that Napoleon, iu the last few 
years of his life, became very fat and dumpy. 
The picture giv en in Ibis article of the great 
Emperor while at St. Helena is that of a fat 
little man with little personal dignity. 
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“Anti-poverty” movement. As is pretty well 
known by this time, the managers of this uew 
movement propose to do away with poverty 
by abolishing all taxes except those raised on 
laud. The income from land will pay all pub¬ 
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the burden of support will fall upon laud- 
