PERSONALS. 
Miss Minnie E Folsom, a near relative 
of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, has become precep¬ 
tress of the Brookings Agricultural College in 
Dakota. 
J. E. Sherman, of Cape Charles, Va.. has 
raised $13,000 worth of kale from 50 acres, or 
$320 per acre. His uet profit is $12,050, or 
$250 per acre. 
After occupying his fine old homestead at 
Waltlmm, Mass., 03 years. General N. P. 
Banks has just discovered a Maw in the title, 
and has applied to the Courts to remove it. 
Prof, E. M. Shelton, of the Kansas Agri¬ 
cultural College, is reported to have refused 
$2,500 a year "to teach Kansas methods of 
agriculture at the Iowa Agricultural College.” 
W, K. Vanderbilt has 1 >oen systematically 
robbed by the superintendent of his poultry 
yards, who has mysteriously disappeared. It 
is supposed that the culprit took about *5,000 
in all. 
Sarah Bernhardt is said to have shocked 
her dear Paris by emphatically declaring, "1 
cannot play any more in Paris. You Paris¬ 
ians ure too poor. I like butter on my bread. 
So I will have to return to America.” 
Samuel D. Davis, the richest man in St. 
Louis, is worth $8,000.000—all inherited at the 
death of his father a few years ago. He is 
about fifty years old and works at his dry 
goods house from 8 to 4 o’clock daily. 
Captain John Ericssion, the inventor, has 
just celebrated his 84th birthday. He lives 
and works in an old house on Beach street. 
New York City, a once fashionable neighbor¬ 
hood, but now given over to tenement bouses. 
Ex-Congressman C. F. Reed owns the 
largest wheat field iu the world, in Stanislaus 
County. Cal., consisting of 10,000 acres in an 
unbroken sketch along the San Juan River, 
Much of it is protected by levees, as the river 
is much higher than the laud. 
Jefferson Davis and Thomas L. Cling- 
mau, of North Carolina, are the only ex- 
Senators now living of all the Southern mem¬ 
bers of that body who, iu July, 1801, were 
expelled Irotn the United States Seuate for 
having left their seats and gone over to the 
Confederacy. 
H. R. H. Prince Krom Luang Dkva- 
wo NOSE Vauaphrak vrn, of Siam, who ar¬ 
rived in this country recently, is a little, well- 
built, good-looking man. with a round, good- 
humored face. In general appearauce he re¬ 
sembles a Japanese He is well educated and 
talks good English. 
The mother of probably the largest family 
in America, is Mi's. Annie Itaush.of Letart.Va , 
who has just celebrated her iOOtb birthday. 
She was married at 15 and bore 18 children, 
eight of whom are liv ing. She has 52 great- 
great-grandchildren, and her descendants 
number over 000. 
Victor Emanuel, the Crown Prince of 
Italy, has gone to live at Naples On Novem¬ 
ber 11 next he will attain his majority, and 
will set up a splendid establishment in the 
] ml ace of Caserto, the home of the old Bour¬ 
bon Kings. He bids fair to succeed to the pop¬ 
ularity enjoyed by his father aud grandfather. 
Joseph H. Rainey, the colored ex-Congress- 
man of South Carolina, died of congestive 
fever the Sd. Mr. R.aiuey had figured promin¬ 
ently iu the politics of that State. Soon after 
the war he abandoned his trade as barber and 
entered the political field. In 1870 he was 
elected to Congress and was re-elected iu 1872, 
but in 1874 he was defeated. 
Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer, 
it is said, never tells what he is going to do, 
marching on day after day through the wil¬ 
derness, letting his men learn Ins plans as they 
shape. He is reputed to have made not a 
little money out of the ivory trade on the 
Congo, which he was able to do before others 
had reached the same traffic. 
Elisha A. Welch, the original **Yankee 
clock” man, died Monday, at Forestville, 
Coun., aged 78. At the age of 21 he started in 
business for himself, with two employes, tnuk- 
iug clocks. His goods were peddled all over 
the country 50 years ago, and from two the 
number of his employes reached 1,(100. He 
leaves an estate worth over $2,000,000. 
Senator Allison's comment on his own 
Presidential candidacy is as follows: "Well, I 
suppose I must submit. There is every possi¬ 
bility that u Western man might prove ac¬ 
ceptable, both to the convention aud to the 
people, but that matter cannot come up for 
consideration until a year from now, and the 
whole situation may be changed before that 
time.” 
Fanny Davenport, the popular actress, 
living for the summer iu a country towu in 
Pennsylvania where servants are scarce, 
writes to a friend: “Every morning I rise at 
5.30, skim my milk, see to my duiry, and churn 
my butter three times a week. After lighting 
the fire and putting the kettle on, I go into 
the living rooms, dust, sweep, and place things 
iu order—no small job when I tell you that 
there are nine rooms on our first floor.” And 
so she gives a history of the day’s doings. 
Another operation was performed on the 
throat of the Grown Prince of Germany 
before he left London for Scotland on 
August 10, and “the last traces of the excres¬ 
cence were successfully removed.” Great na¬ 
tional and international importance is at¬ 
tached to the health of “Our Fritz," owing to 
the great age of his father, the Emperor Wil¬ 
liam, whom he should, in thecourseof nature, 
soon succeed. Iu the event of his death be¬ 
fore or soon after reaching the throne, his sou 
Prince Frederick William Victor Albert, now 
28, would step into chief power, and as he is 
known to be violently opposed to France, 
war would probably break out at once. 
Cifemij. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
Since speaking of the beliefs and purposes 
of the “ Christian Scientists” we have been 
asked what Unitariauism commonly stands 
for A circular sent out by the Secretary of 
the Western Unitarian Conference answers 
this question iu a few words. The circular 
cau be obtained by addressing the Rev. J. R. 
Eflinger, Chicago, Ills. It appears that the 
Unitarians came out from the Congregational 
churches of New England some 8<l years ago. 
They asserted, at the start, the truth of these 
four principles: The Supremacy of Character 
above Belief, in Religion The Rights of Rea¬ 
son in the use of the Bihle Revelations. The 
Dignity, as against the Depravity, of Human 
Nature. The Unity, not Trinity of God; the 
Divinity, not Deity, of the Christ; and that 
Jesus was sent as teacher to save us from our 
sins, not as substitute to save us from the pen- 
ties of sin. These views appear to have 
changed somewhat since tbeu. In all matters 
of church government Unitarians are strict 
Congregationalists. They have no “creed” in 
the usual sense; that is, no articles of doctrinal 
belief which bind their churches aud fix the 
conditions of their fellowship. Character has 
always been to them the supreme matter. 
They have doctrinal beliefs, and tor the most 
part hold such beliefs in common; but above 
all “doctrines” they emphasize the principles 
of Freedom, Fellowship and Character iu Be 
ligion. These principles make their all-suffi¬ 
cient test of fellowship. All names that 
divide “religion” are to them of little conse¬ 
quence compared with religion itself. Who¬ 
ever loves Truth and lives the Good is, in a 
broad sense, of their religious fellowship; 
whoever loves the one or lives the other better 
than themselves is their teacher, whatever 
church or age he may belong to. Unit&rian- 
ism has been called "a religion of love to God 
aud love to man, a belief in the humanity of 
God and the divinity of man." 
“Bridge Disasters in America,” by Prof. 
G L. Vose, has been published in a neat volume 
by Lee <fc Shephard, Boston. It is estimated 
that 45 bridges fall iti the United State's every 
year. The horrors of the last few accidents 
from this cause are still fresh in the public 
mind. Iu the vast majority of cases it is 
found that the accident might have been pre¬ 
vented had the authorities exercised prjjier 
care and supervision. There are to-day hun¬ 
dreds of unsafe bridges over which crowded 
trains run daily. We called attention to one 
of them last week. They are liable to fall 
any day and carry with them hundreds of 
valuable lives. There are many township 
bridges that are unsafe. The authorities will 
not spend the necessary money iu repairing 
them. Oftentimes these defective bridges will 
stand until some accident occurs, anil the 
town is called upon to pay heavy damages. 
Then there is a sudden rush to repair all sus¬ 
picious bridges. It is safe to say that any 
town can make money by keeping all bridges 
in perfect repair. 
One of the best of Will Carletou's poems is 
“The First Settler’s Story.” It is a sad story, 
and yet a true one. It is respectfully com¬ 
mended to the study of the hundreds of farm- 
el's who selfishly think their wives never need 
any society or recreation beyond that they 
cun find iu their own family. It will pay all 
such men to study this poem until they can re¬ 
peat it, word for word. It is indeed u touch¬ 
ing story. This sweet, delicate little woman 
did her best to be brave amid her rough and 
lonely urroundings. She could have battled 
against homesickness and we«*iuess if her 
husband had only made l> f a little different. 
He might have beer Kind and gentle with 
her. Love and tenderness would have been 
‘ bread of life” to such a womau. But he 
could only find fault with her because she 
could not do more. He would not leave his 
work to take her out where she might see a 
woman’s face. Wbat could he have thought 
when he came back at night to find her dead 
on the floor? His last words in the morning 
had been mean aud cruel. 
THE AMERICAN 
MAGAZINE. 
There are hundreds of such stories that 
never get into print. Hundreds of wives go 
through life slowly starving for the little 
attentions and words which their husbands 
could so easily give. Some men seem to con¬ 
sider it unmanly to study the wants and com¬ 
fort of their wives one-half as carefully as 
they would watch their stock. Many a man 
has looked over his dead wife’s coffin, into the 
dim waste that lies beyond it, aud thought 
how different his life would be if the sleeper 
could only come back to him. For years and 
years learned meu have disputed as to which 
is the most important, branch of agriculture. 
They have all passed wife culture. 
In the Cosmopolitan for August, Gail Ham¬ 
ilton has au excellent article on “The Domes¬ 
tic Money Question.” Her idea appears to be 
that there should be such a perfect undei stand¬ 
ing between a man and his wife that there could 
be no possible trouble over money matters. 
A good man will hardly take the position that 
his money is his because be has earned it. He 
will rather consider it bis wife’s, because it 
was for love of her that he earned it; and be¬ 
cause he expects her to change it into home, 
happiness, aud all that makes life worth liv¬ 
ing. With such a man there would be very 
little trouble ; but unfortunately there are 
meu who cannot be made to understand how 
their home financial systems reduce their 
wives to the position of beggars. Many a 
womau would rather go without things she 
absolutely needs than to ask for money. 
Some husbands have such a mean and cruel 
way of supplying funds. They seem to feel a 
grim delight in compelling their wives to 
come and ask for money, when by a little 
thought and attention they could have offered 
it when they saw it was really needed. 
This “ Domestic Money Question ” is, after 
all, one of the worst obstacles to Happiness 
that married people have to contend with. 
Men really like to feel that they are "the head 
of the family.” According to custom, a man 
must carry the purse and pay his wife’s bills. 
Many would be horrified at the thought of 
having two purses in the family. We be¬ 
lieve there are women who are obliged to 
beg for money w hich they actually need. We 
believe there are cases where women have 
been obliged to take money from their hus¬ 
bands’ pockets, in order to keep their children 
decently dressed. A good man will not cause 
his wife to feel like a beggar or a thief. What 
system can be adopted that will make 
matters right? We know of several men 
who give their wives one-half of their money. 
The wife pays the household expenses out of 
her share. She is thus made iuto a business 
woman. Others allow one-third of their in¬ 
come to go to the wife, * due-third is devoted 
to family expense, and the husband handles 
the other third. Others make a regular al¬ 
lowance per week or month for the wife’s own 
handling. Either of these systems will work 
well if a man has perfect confidence in his 
wife. If he has no such confidence he “had no 
business ever to have married her.” 
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