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previous novels “She” and “King Solomon’s 
Mines” seem to be iD most demand. When 
uch stories are published, popular taste very 
quickly shows itself. The fact Ls that people 
want something “ odd ” or something full of 
excitement. The critics who feel so sad be¬ 
cause people buy “Allan Qtiarf.ermain,’ f could 
not by any possibility write a story that 
would equal it in popularity. “ Allan 
Quarter main” is both “ pdd ” and exciting. 
When 20 men attack and kill 250 os easily as 
most of us would attack our suppers, we are 
prepared for almost anything, and surely we 
get it when the oauoe containing our heroes 
dives down under a mountain and swims 
through volcanoes and other obstacles, until 
it floats at last into the kingdom of the most 
beautiful queens imaginable. But, of course, 
nobody expects that, the story is true. It is a 
book to be read for amusement, simply. It is 
a fascinating book. There is hardly a word 
in it that could render it unlit for reading 
aloud in the family circle. It contains 
touches of a quaint philosophy that have 
rarely been excelled. 
ory all wrong and ought nob, rather, the pa¬ 
rent to expect, from the nature of the circum¬ 
stances, to disburse $4,300 for his boy with¬ 
out grumbling or expectation of being remu¬ 
nerated for his outlay—so it seems to me. 
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Mention this paper. 
Admiral Stephen B. Luce, who is attract¬ 
ing so much attention just at present, is a 
brother-in-law of the late Admiral Harwood. 
He is about. 00 years old, and was born in 
Albany, New York. Admiral l.uce is a short, 
heavily-bearded man, who has little or none 
of the appearance of the naval officer about 
him. 
Mr T. V. Powderi.y, the Geueral Master 
Workmau of the Knights of Labor, has de¬ 
termined to resign. He has issued a notice 
that after September 10 he will he inaccessi¬ 
ble to all visitors until he has prepared his 
message to the Minneapolis Convention. 
After his resignation he will go to Ireland to 
join in t he national campaign. 
Door-keeper McKenna, of Troy, who has 
charge of the White House ushers, is quite a 
remarkable man in a quite way. Ho was at 
one time Superintendent of Police in Troy. 
He started out in life as a blacksmith and 
brought up a large family in the practice of 
his trade, educating his eldestson at Williams 
College. The young man now has a good pro¬ 
fessional footing in his father’s city. 
Senator Evarts has surprised his friends 
and Washingtonians iu general by the pur¬ 
chase of a tract of .300 acres of laud 12 miles 
south of the National Capitol. This estate is 
on an estuary of the Potomac, and overlooks 
the manor houses of the lordly domains of the 
old Maryland families of 51) to 150 years ago. 
Directly opposite and above lie the former 
homes of Washington, at Mount Vernon, and 
of the Fairfaxes. 
Tnn Empress of Austria, who is said to be 
the finest lady rider iu Europe, is a very tall 
woman with a remarkably small waist. At a 
little distance, owing to her ease of carriage 
and springy gait, she might be taken for a 
young woman. A closer inspection shows the 
lines in her face. Her dark-brown hair is 
usually done up in tight braids at the back. 
Her complexion, from constant exposure, is as 
browu as that of a sailor. 
Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime Rock, is 
now 42 years old, and begins to show signs of 
the wear and tear of her hard life She lives 
alone in the light-house, her parents being 
dead and her brother gone to follow the sea. 
Miss Lewis, as she is still called, though her 
married name is Wilson, saved 13 lives be¬ 
tween 1-809 and 1831. She does all her own 
housework, k'eps the light trimmed and burn¬ 
ing, and finds time to raise a few flowers in 
the crevices of the rocks. 
The notorious Duke of Marlborough, one of 
the blackest sheep among the English nobility, 
whose notorious immorality has caused 
scandal iu several English courts of justice, 
and who is shut out from all deccut society 
among bis peers at home, is being lionized in 
the most fulsome manner by fashionnlde New¬ 
port. American female aristocracy there 
fawn on him, invite him to their homes and 
toady to him: and not one of their fathers, 
husbands or brothers has spiritenough to kick 
the blackguard into the street. 
The Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, 
has conferred upou M. Pasteur the decoration 
of the Order of the Iron Crown with the title 
of Baron. A few weeks ago a deputation of 
Austrian physiciaus, after visiting Pasteur’s 
hospital at Paris, expressed an opinion hostile 
to his theory and practice for the prevention 
of hydrophobia in persons bitteu by mad dogs. 
The Emperor considers it proved that Past¬ 
eur's system is a blessing to humauity. hence 
he has conferred this honor to signalize his 
dissent from the opinion of the doctors. 
Cornelius Vanderbilt works harder than 
most very poor men. He is what might be 
called the head of finance of the Vanderbilt 
system, chairman of the Board of Directors of 
the Central and Harlem, and deep iu respons¬ 
ibility on the other lines. He is 40 years old 
and worth about $75,000,000. When he was a 
boy his father got him a clerkship in the Shoe 
and Leather Bank. He refused a tour of 
Europe then because it would take him from 
his desk, aud he is just as assiduous uow—so 
much so that his frieuds fear he is hurting 
himself. 
Chicago recalls the interesting fact that 
one of the first signs stuck up above the ruins 
of the great fire boro the legend; “Win. M. 
Singerly, Rice, Rosin and Peamlts.” In those 
days Mr. Singerly was a good-natured Board 
of Trade man, who did a sort of general mer¬ 
chandise business down towu and ran a litile 
ham-piekling establishment out on the Black 
Road. That was before he inherited a great 
fortune, and when he probably did not dream 
of being a millionaire newspaper aud street 
railroad proprietor, besides being one of the 
best patrons of pure-bred cattle iu the 
country. 
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ORIENT ALFRUITS 
The editor of “ Literary Notes ” objects 
to complaints from boys because of a claim to 
to their services, until 21 years of age, by 
their parents. Some painstaking friend has 
it figured out that a boy arriving at the age of 
21 costs his father $4,300, “ Spending money” 
is included iu the estimate. How great a sum 
the “ spending money” may be is not stated. 
"We are left to infer, however, that it is an 
amount usual to the average American youth 
in these latter days—be the same more or less. 
By inference,also, we are led to conclude that 
as a boy has no intrinsic working value uutil 
after 15 years, aud is merely a bill of expense 
prior to that time, no matter how willing he 
mav be to help paterfamilias iu the arduous 
task of lilling his (the boy's) mouth aud cov¬ 
ering his back, he should realize the magni¬ 
tude of the undertaking by his paternal an¬ 
cestor in raisiug him to years of usefulness, 
and feel a degree of thankfulness commensur¬ 
ate with the importance of the occasion. I 
object to a theory which comprehends any 
accumulation of indebtedness against a help¬ 
less infant until 15 years shall have rolled by 
with un enforced discharge of the obligation 
during the ensuing six years. It is n it iu the 
nature of fair dealiug that oue of the parties 
should have no voice in the matter of his first 
entrance into the family partnership and then 
lie treated as though a costly interloper. If 
the boy had importuned his father for the priv¬ 
ilege of a trial at the hard knocks of the world 
and had been reluctantly allowed to try it, 
with a warning that he must tie prepared to 
stand the expense of his experiment, that 
would be one thiug; but as the bewildered 
youth has suddenly .found himself treading 
life’s path without a single premeditated de¬ 
sire on his own part to attempt the rough-and- 
tumble task which is inevitable, it is hard to 
see where the sjiecial obligation follows. 
“ Honor thy father aud thy mother ” is right 
and leads to lightening the hardships of life 
and also tends to beautify the amenities of 
the family circle. It is one of the secrets that 
account for the delightful harmony and dis¬ 
cipline which a well-regulated household will 
scarcely expect to get along without, but 
nevertheless it is fairly apparent that if the 
boy is to be held to a moral obligation of 
$4,300 to his father mainly accrued by the 
time he is 15, he is bound to leave home six 
years later with the bulk of the debt still un¬ 
discharged. Six years is too short a time to 
pay so much. If the figures ami the theory 
are right it is a discouraging ordeal for an 
ambitious youth to lace. But is not the the¬ 
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LITERARY NOTES. 
Everybody appears to be reading “ Allau 
Quartermain,” just uow Of Mr. Haggard’s 
