PERSONALS. 
Mks. Nellie Sartoris, nte Grant, will 
come to this country in August. 
Jockey McLaughlin is said to lie worth 
$150,000, to which he is now adding at the 
rate of $20,000 per year. 
William Lee, senior member of the Boston 
publishing house of Lee & Shepard, recently 
celebrated the 50th anniversary of his en¬ 
trance to the book trade. 
Gerard B. Allen, of St. Louis, leaves a 
large part, of his $0,000,000 to Protestant, 
Catholic and Hebrew institutions, although 
he was a Unitarian. An erring son only gets 
$2,000 annually. 
’ Mrs. Martha J. Lamb advises women and 
girls to skip such reading in the daily news¬ 
papers as is not suitable and elevating, and 
“there will still be plenty of wholesome and 
well-written matter left.” 
The Prince of Wales, who keeps the wolf 
from the door by an income of only about 
$1,000,000, has been well-nigh bankrupted by 
the expenses of the Jubilee, and is a frequent 
borrower on the London “street.” 
Charles A. Tyler, of New York City, has 
the longest, record of any postman in the 
United States. He lias been a letter-carrier 
for 40 years, in the course of which time he 
lias delivered over 5,000.000 letters. 
Miss Maria Mitchell, the astronomer, 
was the daughter of a small farmer in Nan¬ 
tucket, who was obliged to eke out bis income 
by teaching school at $2 per week. Maria 
was constantly occupied with household 
duties. 
Senator Wade Hamuton never walks 
without, the aid of his cane. His hair is grow¬ 
ing thin and gray, and the crow’s-feet are 
showing themselves about his eyes. He is still 
active, and interested in all the political ques-- 
tions of the day. 
When showing the German Emperor 
through lm great iron works the late Alfred 
Krupp pointed out the very spot where, an 
ill-fed boy of ten years, he was glad to tuke 
from one of bis father's workmen a piece of 
bread to appease his hunger. 
According to a Washington correspondent, 
it cost Ex-Sec. Manning $8JH.K) or $10,000 a 
year out of his own pocket for the honor of 
being Secretary of the Treasury. The salary 
connected with this office is only $8,000 a 
year, which is very little compared to the ex¬ 
penses attached to it. 
The Hon. Thomas E. Powell, nominated 
last week by the Democrats for Governor of 
Ohio, was born in Delaware, O., in 1812. 
Graduated at t he Ohio Wesleyan University 
at Delaware in 1803, and four years later be¬ 
gan the practice of law, to which he has stuck 
pretty closely ever since. 
Dr. E. D. Standikord, of Louisville, who 
was making a vigorous canvass for Senator 
Beck’s place, died Tuesday morning, suddenly 
and unexpectedly. He was 56 years old, a 
vigorous man, and the richest person in Ken. 
tncky. Formerly lie was president of the 
Louisville and Nashville Railroad. 
Ex-JUDGE Greenwood, of Brooklyn, now 
in his *.M)tli year, became a law student in the 
office of Aarou Burr in 1814. Judge Green 
wood is very fond of talking about, bis old 
employer, who, he says, was the most indust¬ 
rious and abstemious of men, and who was 
unusually strong in his affections, and would 
go any lengths to Serve a friend. 
Cyrus W, Field’s eldest daughter is an in¬ 
valid, and lias been such for years. Her 
'father has taken her all over the world, to the 
best physicians in Europe and America, and 
has spent a fortune in trying to get, her healt h 
restored, lit* has been like an elder brother 
to her, and has lavished time and attention 
upon her to the exclusion of all else. 
Archbishop Corrigan is a man of medium 
bight and rather spare tigure. His forehead 
is broad and fairly high. His eyes are blue 
and mild in their expression. He is unusually 
uetive in his movements, and will run up four 
flights of stairs to the top of Ids palace to get 
anything he may happen to want rather than 
give a servant the trouble of going after it. 
Charles Reed, the Chicago lawyer who, 
with Scoville, defended Assassin(luitcau . was 
caught Wednesday trying to take money from 
the drawer of Rich’s Rttstauraut, in Jersey 
City, where he had been boarding of Into. He 
was not, arrested, but was told not to enter 
the place again. He has been going down hill 
rapidly <>f lato and haa just, plunged into the 
slough at, the bottom. 
I'hk youngest member of the next or 50th 
Congress, James Phelan, of Memphis, was 
born in December, 1856. After graduating 
from the Kentucky Military Institute he went 
to the University of Leipsic, Germany. 
There he devoted hituself especially to the 
study of Latin, and received the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy. He returned to Mem¬ 
phis and began the practice of law in 1881. 
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has already given 
$1,285,000 to public institutions, the largest 
amount to any one institution being $500,000 
for a library iu Pittsburgh. Mr. Carnegie is 
below the average size of man. He has bright 
steel-colored eyes, and wears his beard and 
mustache cut close to bis face. He usually 
wears a suit of gray Scotch tweed, and though 
he looks a thorough business man, he is 
said to have a “queer romantic tinge, which 
crops out now and then iu an unexpected 
way.” 
The late Rev. Dr. McGlynn, as a full- 
iledged Protestant, is now vigorously preach¬ 
ing “The New Kiiovv-Nothingism.” The old 
Know-Nothingism. he says, was childish and 
baseless compared with the movement now 
absolutely necessary to keep this country 
American, and save it from the Republic- 
subverting influences and encroachments of 
the Roman Catholic Church, which is deliber¬ 
ately Germanizing Catholics in the West and 
Northwest and opposed to Republican doc¬ 
trines and institutions everywhere. An old, 
old story forcibly retold. 
At the Imperial Institute corner-stone lay¬ 
ing, it is said, Queen Victoria used glasses for 
the first time in public. Mr. Matthews bad 
forgotten to bring the reply to the address, 
which, as Home Secretary, it was his duty to 
draw up and hand to Her Majesty so that she 
might read it, at thu proper time. So when 
the proper time catne the document was not 
forthcoming, and Mr. Matthews hastily 
scrawled from memory a reproduction of the 
document over which he had scratched his 
head and chewed his pen the night before. 
The scrawl was too much for the Queen, and 
she produced from her pocket the small hand 
leuses which she uses for reading by lamp¬ 
light. 
AN AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY. 
A very useful agricultural library, costing 
$25 as a beginning, could be made up ns fol¬ 
lows: The first, book I would choose for its 
comprehensiveness, simplicity, completeness 
ami accuracy, is J. W. F. Johnston’s Lectures 
upon the Application of Chemistry and Geol¬ 
ogy to Agriculture. A very usetul little book 
on practical manure making is Bommer’s Meth¬ 
od of Making Manures. Another is Harris’s 
Talks on Manures. Flint’s Manual of Agricul¬ 
ture is also a useful book, being plain and 
simple. Henderson’s Gardening for Profit 
should bo included, and there is a very large 
amount of most useful practical experience in 
all farm subjects given iu Henderson & Cro- 
zier’s How the Farm Pays. Stewart’s Dairy¬ 
man’s Manual, the most practical aud com¬ 
plete work on the dairy, should be included. 
Stonehenge on the Horse, the full English edi¬ 
tion, is indispensable fen* horsemen. Quincy 
on Soiling Cattle; Stewart's Shepherd's Man¬ 
ual; Stewart's Feeding Animals; Stoddard's 
Egg Farm, all together would cost $l'J,!lf>, but 
for a library the publishers would doubtless 
allow sufficient discount, to include Packard’s 
Half hours with Insects; Rabbit’s For Pleas¬ 
ure and Market, and Root’s A. B. C. of Bee 
Culture. All these would comprise a most 
useful small library for begiuners in the study 
of agricultural literature for a school or a 
rural literary society. 
For a larger collection for farmers’clubs ami 
village libraries, might be added Barry’s Fruit 
Garden; Downing’s Rural Essays; S. W. 
Johnson’s How Crops Grow and How Crops 
Feed; Stephens & Sellers Physiology of the 
Farm; Seventy-five Flowers, by E. S. Rand; 
either Gcay’s Manual of Bulimy or Wood’s 
Botany, with a simpler first, hook on the sub¬ 
ject, such as Miss Yeoman’s Lessons on Bot¬ 
any; a translation of Virgil's Georgies and 
Bucolics will lit* exceedingly interesting to 
those who are curious to know how farming 
was done 2,000 years ago. Another most in¬ 
teresting book is Miss Cooper’s Rural Hours 
which is uu accouut of u year’s observation 
upon the natural history of the locality around 
Oneida Lake, N. Y. Silos and Ensilage, by Dr. 
Geo. Tlmrber, would be usefu , aud also Mrs. 
Treat’s Insectsol’ the Farm and Garden; Pack¬ 
ard’s Guide to the Study of Insects; Yille’s 
High Farming without. Manure, which is the 
basis of our present system of artificial ferti¬ 
lizing; the Report of Luwes A Gilbert’s ltoth- 
amsted ExjieHments; Horace Greeley’s What 
1 Know of Farming; Armsby’s Cattle Feed- 
iug and Coburn’s Swiue Husbandry. A set of 
the Rural New-Yorker from Volume I. 
would be invaluable if it could be obtained. 
The question as to the preference for prac¬ 
tical books or scientific text books for this pur¬ 
pose is one of importance. Few persons com¬ 
paratively have the ability to formulate their 
own practice from scientific principles. One 
may read everything about, the chemistry of 
agriculture, and yet not, bo aide to decide 
about the value of a fertilizer for any special 
crop and still less how to apply it. In proof 
of this might, be instanced the frequency of 
questions relating to the comparisons of plaster 
with superphosphate or wood ashes with barn 
manure; showing that the fundamental prin¬ 
ciples of the use of fertilizers and of feed ng 
plants are not understood. The same applies 
to the cultivation of the soil, to the use of 
barn manure; to matters pertaining to the 
dairy and every work of the farm. Even 
persons of intelligence, ignoring the fact that 
circumstances alter cases and that the infinite 
variety of conditions call for special adapta¬ 
tions of principles to everyone, and that no 
one rule will work for every person nr every 
farm insist upon the superiority of this or that 
practice under all circumstances. A large 
amount of meni al training as well as thorough 
practical knowledge are required for the per¬ 
fect comprehension of the text books of any 
science; and agricultural science is wider and 
deeper and more varied than any other. Be¬ 
sides there arc no complete text books in ex¬ 
istence; every one is u sort of cut dr-sac of 
knowledge, going so far and then presenting 
a blank wall of doubt, and uncertainty at the 
end, with many passages as it were blocked 
up with “uu thoroughfare” posted up showing 
the explorers on that lino had to buck out and 
take another course, or that some other one 
had shown that this course was wrong, that 
the greatest uncertainty arises and only a 
very cautious and well informed student can 
use these text books with benefit and profit. 
Agricultural text books differ entirely from 
those of Chemistry,Geology, Astronoim’jGeom- 
etry and other sciences, for these are all exact 
sciences, based upon unerring principles and 
accurately kuowu facts, the deductions from 
which become axioms; while there is no such 
thing as au axiom, a self evident truth, in 
agriculture and everything relating to it is 
subject to variation mid doubt and uncertainty. 
Consequently the cheap, popular, practical 
works on agriculture, written by men who re¬ 
late their own aud others experience, mainly, 
giving iu lull the circumstances and resultsare 
most useful and read with most interest. The 
current agricultural literature of the period, 
of which the Rural New Yorker is one of 
the best, if not easily the best and first, iu 
which is given the daily personal experience 
of a large number of the most intelligent 
working farmers, fruit growers and stock- 
men; the actual results reached iu a well- 
conducted and practically arranged series of 
experiments with field and garden crops, and 
the current opinion of the first men among 
the corps of agricultural scientific iuvestiga- 
tois, is to my miud of more value to the great 
mass of farmers than all the text books that 
Imvc been or ever will be written. The men 
who eau profit by the text book are the studi¬ 
ous aud most, intelligent farmers who are able 
to digest the matter in them, apply it to their 
own practice, and then expound it through 
the agricultural journals, or in practical hand 
books on various subjects to the great body of 
readers, who get, as it were, the real milk and 
erenm of the food digested by these hard¬ 
working persons. Hence, while I value the 
scientific text, books most highly, L can readily 
see why they are not read by the mass of 
farmers and why they have so limited a sale, 
and also why they would Hud a hetter and 
more extended sphere of usefulness in a 
library than in a farmer’s house. h. s. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
When Seth’s Brother’s Wife is published in 
book form, we believe the public will recog¬ 
nize it as one of the ablest, of American novels. 
As published iu Scribner's it is a trifle tire¬ 
some. It should be given in larger install¬ 
ments. Mauy of the ehara tors are over¬ 
drawn. The men are all weak. The dialect 
is excellent. There is a gl im and cutting sar- 
casm running through the story that crops 
out unpleasantly at times. 
The August Forum is a notable number 
This magazine contains about the best thought 
of the couutry. All Republicans will be glad 
to rend Gov, Foraker’s article. Many believe 
the author to bo the coming man of his party. 
Other articles are, “Has Ireland a Grievance/” 
in which the author tries to show that Ireland 
has no cause for complaint: “The Forgotten 
Cause of Poverty,” “Books that, have helped 
me,” “Choosing an Occupation,’* etc. 
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