PERSONALS. 
Don Pedro lias sailed from Rio Janeiro for 
Europe and the Holy Land. 
QUEEN Victoria’s expenses for entertain¬ 
ing her royal guests during the Jubilee will 
amount to $500,000. 
Cari. SCHUBZ has not yet recovered from 
his fall on the ice lust winter, and takes his 
exorcise in a wheeled chair. 
Don Cameron celebrated the Fourth of July 
by entertaining 1 500 poor children at his 
place near Washington, D. C. 
Madame Christine Nilsson is expected to 
sing in this country next season in concert. 
Her price is supposed to be $2,500 a concert.. 
Toe forthcoming marriage of the*Emperor 
of China is officially announced. His wife 
has been selected. The festivities will cost 
$5,000 000. 
Peter Barlow, who took part in the 
Amorfcnu Revolution under Geu. Washing¬ 
ton, died recently in Dciuerara, in the West 
Indies, aged 130 years. 
Thomas Farrell, aged 60, a farmer at 
Housatouic, Mass., while sprinkling Paris- 
green upon potato plants inhaled the poison, 
and died after 30 hours’ suffering. 
Judge George C. Barrett, of this city, 
who presided ut the trials of the "boodle” 
aldermen, has received from Racine College, 
Wisconsin, the honorary degree of L, L. II. 
Harper, the wrecker of the Fidelity Bank 
at Cincinnati, lias two sisters in insane asy¬ 
lums. His father died of softening of the 
brain, and there is talk of a pica of insanity 
in his own case. 
Mr. A. S. Barnes has given to Cornell 
University $40 000 for the erection of a build- 
ing tor the Students’ Christian Association. 
He desires the building to be ready for use by 
hex t Cotninciiccmci i f. 
Mr, Parnell is at Cnrlsbad, Owrruany, for 
his health. Ilia friends say he has been in 
feeble health of late, but is steadily recovering 
aud will soon be well. Others say he has can¬ 
cer of the bowels, Bright’s disease, diabetes, 
etc., etc., and will soon be a corpse. 
Dr. Joseph F. Geislkr, official chemist to 
the New York Mercantile Exchange, has 
been experimenting with enamelled hat bands. 
Some ot them contain a compound of lead 
which makes the head ache, because the poi¬ 
son from them has been absorbed into the 
system of the wearer. 
Grave doubts are still entertained as to the 
outcome of the throat troubles of the Crown 
Prince of Germany. Another O(>cration was 
satisfactorily performed Thursday. All the 
best authorities, who have beeu consulted, say 
it is not a cancer: many minor "authorities,'’ 
wlio have never seen the man, insist that it is. 
Mu Edison is bringing to completion a 
system of marine telephone by which vessels 
can communicate with each other wbeu from 
five to seven miles apart. A sounding appar¬ 
atus under the water receives impressions 
from a steam whistle, aud these impressions 
are transmitted to the water and arc recorded 
by vessels properly equipped. 
Mr. Robert Bonner’s interest in horses 
arose primarily from the benefits he received 
from horseback riding, in accordance with a 
prescription from a physician, who thus cured 
him from the effects of overwork. After 
three mouths of the exercise Mr. Bonner was 
able to do as much work in three hours as 
previously in 10 or 12 hours, 
E. L. Harper, the Cincinnati "Napoleon 
of Fiuauee," was horn in MontoursviJle, Ly¬ 
coming County, Pa., and is about 43 years 
old. He wont to Cincinnati during the war 
wit hout any superfluous money, but soon be¬ 
came a favorite of the trou manufacturer 
Smith, who gave him a start in business. ITp 
to the time of his attempt to corner the wheat 
product of tiie world he was thought to be one 
of the shrewdest business men iu the Ohio 
metropolis. 
E. B. Whitman, of Baltimore, has filed a 
deed of trust tor the benefit of creditors to 
F. C. Slingluff, who gives bonds for $40,000, 
Fred, W. Whitman has tiled a similar deed to 
the same trustee, who filed another bond for 
$40,000, The Baltimore Plow Company has 
also executed a deed of trust to Slingluff, who 
gives $S0,000 bonds, E. R, Whitman is presi¬ 
dent, of the Plow Company and agent for some 
of the large Northern manufacturers of agri¬ 
cultural implements and proprietor of the 
Maryland Farmer, 
President Cleveland lunches at two 
o’clock every afternoon. From the lunch 
table ho goes hack to his office aud remains 
until live o’clock, working literally with his 
sleeves rolled up, and disposing of the business 
which lias accumulated during the morning. 
At five o’clock the President and his wife take 
a drive, usually going out to Oak View. 
Dinner is served at the White House at seven 
o’clock. Generally the President spends his 
evenings at his desk and never retires before 
midnight. 
Dr Norvin Green, president, of the West¬ 
ern Union Telegraph Company, Is paid $50,000. 
a year. So are Chanueey M. Depew, president 
of the Now York Central Railroad; Richard 
M. McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life In¬ 
surance Company; John Hoey, president of 
the Adams Express Company, and President 
Henry B. Hyde, of the Equitable Life Insur¬ 
ance Company. George G. Williams, presi¬ 
dent of the Chemical National Bank, the 
richest banking institution in America, with 
nearly $5,000,000 of surplus and $20,00o.000 
average deposits, is paid a salary of $25,000 
yearly. 
sx&. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
A Pastor’s Thoughts on Living Themes, 
is a book of essays, poems and sketches by 
Lyman E. Davis. It is published by the Tih- 
bals Book Co. The friends of the author, and 
they are numerous, will be greatly pleased 
with this hook. There Is much in the volume 
that will commend itself to all thoughtful 
readers. 
The magazines and papers are having much 
to say about “Christian Scientists” aud the 
new "Faith Cures.” Probably little notice 
would ever have been takeu of the method of 
curing disease by faith, hut tor the fact that 
many men of repute have studied into the 
matter and found that there is really "some¬ 
thing in it.” A friend who has been among 
the "Christian Scientists” and studied their 
methods and wishes writes us as follows con¬ 
cerning them. An idea of what they think 
and practice may be gained from her words. 
"So far as 1 understand thu subject. Chris¬ 
tian scientists believe that God’s mind is all 
the mind there is; that it is immortal truth, 
real aud eternal, iu which there is neither sin, 
sickness nor decay; that God is spirit, not 
matter, which is but the creation of mortal 
mind. According to the Scripture, whatever 
God created was good, and when Jesus oarao 
into the world he said: ‘Every plant which 
my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall 
be rooted up.’ The only things thut He des¬ 
troyed were sin, sickness anil death, showing 
that God did not create them. The Christian 
scientists teach that, when man is thinking in 
harmony with God’s mind, his mortal mind 
will be lifted up until harmonious relations 
are restored in the body, and health is the re¬ 
sult. When a person is sick, the tnind is 
treated instead of the body, by thinking of 
the body as it ought to be, not ns it seems to 
be, and by drawing the thoughts from dwell¬ 
ing even in memories of life as it comes. Do 
not allow the thoughts to dwell on pain or 
evil, and do not think nor talk about them. 
Deny way down deep iu your mind and heart 
that your physical sufferings exist anywhere 
but in your own rniud. Then lead your mind 
to God’s mind, which is the life, love, truth 
and good of the world. Smile inside as well 
as out. Think of yourself and others ns well 
and happy, and do not answer the mental 
door-beli of every little pain, but put out the 
sigu no beggars, nor peddlers nor whiners ad¬ 
mitted here. At, the same time live to do all 
the good and give all the happiness you can.” 
One of the most powerful ar’icles of mod¬ 
ern times is that on "Tenement-House Morali¬ 
ty'' in the July Forum. The homes of our 
city poor are such horribly vile places, that 
the pen shrinks from the work of describing 
them. In dark, filthy buildings that are little 
letter than dens, men, women and children of 
all nationalities arc crowded together. In 
summer these houses are like ovens. Cleanli¬ 
ness is impossible. Members of the family’ 
must work, cat, sleep, sicken aud die all in 
one miserable room. Children struggle up to 
manhood and womanhood surrounded at. 
every turn of life by the vilest immoralities. 
The picture is a sad one. In these ghastly’ 
"homes” wo are breeding the most dangerous 
class of criminals that can lie imagined. 
"Think of coming back after a hard day’s 
work in a shop to flud the only sitting-room 
half tilled with wash-tubs, the baby crying, 
children squabbling on the floor, or perhaps 
tumbling about on the. bed, the walls hung 
with the soiled clothes aud dresses of the 
family; the whole place reeking with the smell 
of fat and garlic from the hot stove; the table 
"set” with comse, broken china, strewn on a 
dirty board; a kerosene lamp, without a 
shade, smoking in the middle; a loaf of bread, 
in the brown paper in which it was wrapped 
at the bakery; and a coffee-pot of black, bitter 
coffee. That is a scene which welcomes 
many a girl or boy, just beginning to realize 
how differently other people live. Is it 
strange that they gulp down their sugar less 
coffee, aud at the first chance slip out iuto the 
street beneath, glad, perhaps, if they escape 
without a harsh word or a blow,'” What 
chance has the ordinary boy or girl to grow 
up through such surroundings with respec¬ 
table manhood or womanhood? That many 
of them do try, with every atom ot their will, 
to break away from their dreadful surround¬ 
ings is evident. The bravest and strongest 
sometimes succeed, but far too many are 
dragged back into desperation and crime. 
Some of the bravest fights for honor and 
truth have been fought in these tenement 
houses by men and women who longed to lead 
honorable lives. We cannot blnino them for 
their failures, we can only pity them. 
The Rural’S idea of encouraging the pur¬ 
chase of books on agriculture and horticul¬ 
ture for country libraries is meeting with con¬ 
siderable encouragement from thoughtful 
men and women. The idea is a new one to 
most of those who have charge of the selection 
of books for such libraries. It seems evident 
that with a proper discussion wv may hit up¬ 
on a set of books that will give satisfaction. 
There are few elementary books on agricul¬ 
tural topics that are both interesting and re¬ 
liable. It is evident that, a book must be both 
in order to lie sultahlA for library work. The 
most encouraging hook for this purpose that 
we have recently examined is a little volume 
just published by Professor F. A. Gulley, of 
the Mississippi Agricultural College It is 
the only book ibat can be used as a text-book 
of agriculture that we have read. The fol¬ 
lowing letter from Mr. B. F. Johnson, the 
well-known western writer, may open the dis¬ 
cussion : 
"1 applaud your resolution to encourage 
the purchase of more books on agricultural 
and horticultural topics, by country Sunday- 
schools and literary societies, and here I take 
occasion to regret, uot for the first, time, the 
encyclopedia! articles on agricultural and 
horticultural subjects, some time since printed 
in the Rural, were not put iuto book form, 
so they could tie recommended. You ask : 
L—With $25 to invest in such literature, what 
books would you propose? 2.—With $50, or 
$100, what books would you propose i 8.— 
Would you secure popular and cheap agricul¬ 
tural books, or scientific text books ? Why 
the one or the other ? 
Answer: 1—Storer’s Agriculture, iu two 
volumes, $.5 00; Johnson’s How Crops Grow 
aud How Crops Feed, $5.00; Johustou’s Chem¬ 
istry of Common Life; Caldwell’s, or some 
•Agricultural Chemistry; Thomas’s or Down¬ 
ing’s Fruits aud Fruit Growing; and if, after 
these were obtained and enough was left, Mor¬ 
ton’s English Encyclopaedia of Agriculture. 
-•—The above, and a volume each on leading 
agricultural aud horticultural subjects, not 
forgetting to include such of Mr. Roe’s novels 
and stories as have an agricultural side to 
them. 
3. Not exactly the one nor the other, but I 
should prefer the scientific to the popular, for 
the reason the latter are not certain to he 
founded on correct principals, and because 
agricultural and horticultural books, written 
4U or 50 years ago before the great discov¬ 
eries of agricultural chemistry, are full of 
errors aud far from being safe guides. 
W hat now seems to be needed is a series of 
cheap, popular handbooks on leading agricul¬ 
tural and horticultural subjects, written iu a 
graphic and animated style ami recognizing, 
not only the advances agriculture and horti¬ 
culture have made on the scientific side, but 
also that the methods and practices of fifty 
ami a hundred years ago, are in many eases 
not adapted to our changed conditions the 
result of settlement, improvement aud other 
forms of advanced civilization.” 
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Illustrated, lir. U . K Hutchinson. 
Olivia Dei. * plaints. Illustrated. 
Adyar kawOttl, 
A FEW Knumsu Wayside Birds. Il¬ 
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The Ghost of Aaron’s Phono. Tohe 
Hodge. 
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A I Irka rkabi.k Fair of Pantaloons. 
Cals” Lot sullif. 
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