PERSONALS. 
Mme Nilsson owns two buildings that are 
assessed at, ¥138,000, in Boston. 
Mrs. Cleveland, her mother and aunt are 
at Marion, Mass., the guests of Gen. A. W. 
Greely. 
In the new Congress will he two veterans of 
the Mexican war—Mr. Rice, of Minnesota, 
and Mr. Hare, of Texas. 
The Marquis of Salisbury takes great, inter¬ 
est in electricity, and is employ ing it on his 
estate at Hatfield to work the elevators for 
building the bay and corn stacks. 
Blaine is enjoying himself highly in Scot¬ 
land with millionaire Andrew Carnagie. 
The report that he will return soon is denied; 
won’t lie back before next summer. 
ChaUNCey M. Depew, President of the N. 
Y. Central, and ex-Uovernor Alger of Michi¬ 
gan are in Europe to secure the aid of Eng¬ 
lish capital in building n new trunk line 
across the continent. 
President Cleveland is one of the few 
men who can keep healthy and abstain from 
taking exercise. It is said that he never rides 
horseback, aud seldom walks. The only out- 
of-door sport he cares for is fishing, which is 
the most sedentary. 
Mrs John A, Loo AN has arrived at her 
home in Washington. Her shoulder-blade, 
which was dislocated by a carriage accident, 
has been re-set by Surgeon-General Hamilton, 
as the first operation was a failure. She is in 
rather a serious condition. 
Nacres, Head Chief of the Piute Indians 
in Nevada, has turned his tomahawk into a 
hoe and settled down to farming. He has a 
fine crop of wheat, oats and barley “half a 
mile long and all the same wide, aud he no 
go hungry next winter.” 
Professor Elisha Gray’s new discovery 
s called auto-telegraphy, and it is claimed 
tbut it, will be possible with its use to write 
upon a sheet of paper and have an autograph¬ 
ic fae simile of the writing reproduced by tel¬ 
egraph 300 mites away, and probably at a 
much greater distance. 
Mrs. Cleveland has a room at Dak View, 
furnished in the style of her grundmother’s 
old home. There is a Tag earjict on the floor, 
which was made after the same pattern as 
her grandmother’s; big brass andirons stand 
in the fireplace, und a spinning-wheel graces 
a corner of the room, 
Charles Bait, one of the curators of the 
Smithsonian Institute, who recently died in 
Washington, hud no relatives in this couutry 
aud loaves his fortune to a nephew in Ger¬ 
many. For 50 years he lived the life of a 
miser, sleeping ami eating in one room in the 
Smithsonian building. 
Skrcikant Mason, who gained notoriety 
for having shot at Guiteuu during his trial 
for the murder of President Garfield, bus be¬ 
come a pro!s|HTOus and very quiet farmer in 
Orange County, Virginia. He aud Betty and 
several babies are reported to be perfectly 
comfortable In all respects. 
The infant King of Spurn, who is entitled 
to an allowance of $1,500,000 a year, was 
considered a very lucky child until the 16- 
year-old Emperor of China was heard from. 
The Celestial monarch is said to receive 
$50,001 >,(HXI a year, and is about to spend 
$10,000,000 in getting married. 
Another bank-president, R P, Clement, 
of the Citizens’Savings Bank, Leavenworth, 
Kan., has absconded, taking with him $00,000, 
chiefly the deposits of thrifty workingmen. 
He was President of the Youug Mens’ Chris¬ 
tian Association aud a strong advocate of re¬ 
formation in business morals. 
The Crown Prince, Frederick William, of 
Germany, who has been in Eugland siuee the 
Jubilee, has had u fourth operation performed 
ou his throat for the removal of the abnormal 
growth there; in other respects he is in very 
Rood health. At the solicitation of his mother- 
in-law, Queen Victoria, he will try the brac¬ 
ing air of Scotland for some time. 
About a fortnight ago there were two 
vague rumors that Henry M. Stanley, the 
Afncau explorer, who is on his way up the 
Congo to relieve Emiu Pasha, had been shot 
to death or drowned. News arrived yester¬ 
day that he was safe ou June 18 —over a fort¬ 
night after his reported death. At last ac¬ 
counts he was prosecuting his expedition 
vigorously and successfully. 
Colonel La hunt, the President’s Private 
Secretary, is up at eight o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing, aud at his desk by nine, and usually stays 
there until six or seven iu the evening. He 
takes a drive behind his team of bays be¬ 
fore dinner, and shortly after dinner is back 
at his desk again, where he remains until 
nearly midnight. Ho never drinks or smokes, 
and has no time for reading or for recreation. 
Joseph w. Drkxel, the banker, has written 
Connnander-iu Chief Fairchild a letter tender¬ 
ing to the surviving Union soldiers of the late 
war in perpetuity, the cottage on Mount 
McGregor iu which General Grant died. 
There is no stipulation as to how it shall be 
used, hut it is specified that the trustees shall 
consist of the Commander-in Chief of the 
Grand Army, President, of the Mount Mc¬ 
Gregor Railway aud such other persou as Mr. 
JJrexel may designate. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
James Whitcomb Biley has written many 
touching little bits of poetry, but we do not 
remember anything equal to the beautiful lit¬ 
tle poem printed in the August Century: 
NOTHIN' TO SAY. 
Nothin’ to say my {laughter! Nothin’ at all to say!— 
Girls (hat's In love, I’ve noticed, glnerly has their way, 
Yer mother did, afore you, when her folks objected 
to me.— 
Ylt here / am, and here you are! and yer mother— 
where la she? 
You look lota like yer mother; purty much same In 
size; 
And about the same complected; and favor about the 
eyes. 
Like her too In Bein’ here, because she couldn't stay 
It'll most seem like you was dead like her-but I ain’t 
got nothin' to say. 
She left you her little Bible-writ yer name accrual 
the page, 
And left her enr-bobs feryou ef ever you come of age. 
I've alius kep’ em and guarded 'em, but ef yer agoln' 
away. 
Nothin' to say, my daughter! Nothin’ at all to say! 
You don’t recollect her, I reckon? No; you wasn't a 
year old then! 
And now yer—how old are you? Why child, not 
•'twenty!" When? 
And yer next birthday's In April, and you want to git 
married tnar day? 
-I wish* yer mother was livin’—but—I ain’t got 
nothlu’ to say. 
Twenty year: ami ns good a girl as parent ever found. 
There’s a straw krtched onto yer drees there—I'M 
breeh It off.—turn round, 
(Her mother was Jest rwenty w hen us two run away!) 
Nothin' to say my daughter! Nothin' at all to say! 
Was there ever a more touching bit of farm 
life written? Long novels have been printed 
which contain less feeliug and real pathos 
than arc found in these JO lines. What a 
lonely life this man bos led all through these 
years. He lias been true to the wife of his 
youth. His daughter has grown up into the 
place of the dear, dead woman so gradually 
that he cannot realize at times that his wife 
has gone away. It must sting such a man 
for a moment to learn that another has stolen 
her best love away from him. This girl was 
such a part of bis life—so much like her 
mother. The years that are to come will 
seem so hopeless without her. If she only 
had sisters, if her mother could have lived, it 
would be so different. “Nothin’ to say ?” It 
is a brave silence. Few can realize what it 
costs. 
“Twenty years! and as good a girl as par¬ 
ent ever found!” Happy the furiner’s daugh¬ 
ter who can leave her father’s house with such 
a blessing. Pity the father who sees such a 
daughter leave him. 
There is an interesting article in the Au¬ 
gust Century on “American War Songs.” 
Many of them are now forgotten. We still 
shout “John Brown’s Body” or “Marching 
Through Georgia” iu every political cam¬ 
paign, but “Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!” “Just 
Before The Battle, Mother,” “They've Draft¬ 
ed Him Into The Army” and numberless 
others that helped to keep up the spirit of the 
nation during the days of war, have never 
entered into the life of the new generation 
Mrs. Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” 
was the grandest of all war poems. Sted 
man’s "John Brown of Ossawattamie” can 
never be forgotten by those who have read it. 
The estimate of Johu Brown und the story 
of his attack upon Harper’s Ferry as given In 
John Hay's T.ife of Lincoln will, we think, 
he generally accepted as just. Brown is de¬ 
scribed as a badly balanced man. He ap¬ 
pears to have been unsuccessful iu his business 
enterprises, wild and vitiouary in his plans 
and obstinate iu carrying them out. it ap- 
pours that his friends knew that he meditated 
some form of attack upon slave holders. 
After listening to his plans they tried to show 
him that he could not succeed, but he insisted 
with such blind obstinacy, that they were 
forced to allow him to proceed. It Is difficult 
to see how auy man could have expected the 
attack upon Harper’s Ferry to prove a suc¬ 
cess, Doubtless the very foolishness of the 
effort made .many Southern people believe 
for the time that Brown was backed up by 
thousands of Northern soldiers. 
In an excellent article in the August Forum 
ou Choosing An Occupation, Rev. E. E. Hale 
has this to say about school teachers: 
“It is the great misfortune of people who 
have schools in charge, that so many persons 
offer t.hemselvps as teachers who have no oth¬ 
er qualification than that they cannot do any¬ 
thing else. They are really somewhat in the 
position of the men and boys who are in the 
middle of t,he line in t he old water-carry ing 
lines of the primeval village conflagrations. 
Certain strong and ready men were at the 
well, who could he trusted to haul up the wa¬ 
ter rapidly and skillfully in large buckets; 
certain shifty and courageous men were at the 
ladder where the fire was burning; and be¬ 
tween were the incompetents of the village, 
who could at least pass a bucket full of water 
from hand to hand, or it was supposed they 
could. In just this way a great many people 
offer themselves as teachers, who can merely 
hand over such science as they have acquired, 
and which they cannot use, iu the hope, al¬ 
most always in vain, that other people can 
use it better than they can. Alas, they spill 
a great deal.” 
A great many of our country schools are at 
the mercy of the class of people described by 
Dr. Hale. College boys, clerks from the 
towns, farm bands or old men who taught 
school 40 years ago preside iu far too many of 
our country school-houses. Most of these 
care next to nothing for tint real progress of 
their pupils. The great incentive for teach¬ 
ing is to earn the teacher’s salary. Many of 
such teachers will never see their pupils again 
and have hardly a thought for their future 
welfare. Une great trouble with country schools 
lies in the fact that the school officers are too 
often childless men who care little about 
the schools. All matters connected with it 
are to be rushed over as cheaply and 
quickly as possible. We have known a 
teacher to bo hired because he was “good 
company.” When “ boarding ’round,” he 
more than made up in entertainment what he 
lacked in school-room wisdom. Another was 
hired because he could “help out the singing- 
school.” We need faithful und conscientious 
teachers in the country, if we need them any¬ 
where. A good teacher will not knowingly 
go into a district where he cannot expect to be 
promptly and firmly backed up in bis efforts 
by the school officials. The best way to make 
a good sehool is to put enterprising, intelligent 
men who have children to educate, on the 
School board. The common practice of elect¬ 
ing the last man to move into the district, has 
ruined many a school. 
Farmers’ Veterinary Adviser— Pub¬ 
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University, Ttbacu, N. Y. A new edition of 
this valuable work has just left the printers’ 
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comprehensive veterinary treatise before the 
public. This is a volume that every farmer 
ought to have. The author is a careful student 
and iuvestigator, and thus speaks authorita- 
lvely. He is an instructor, and thus has the 
power of putting his thoughts into words 
whieti are easily understood. 
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