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PERSONALS. 
Sena Ton Ingalls is said to be the best 
dressed man in the Senate. His clothes are 
not only handsome, but they fit him, and he 
is fond of gay neckties. 
Septimia Randolph Meikleham, the 
granddaughter of President Jefferson, who 
died in Washington last week, was the last 
survivor of the household of the author of the 
Declaration of Independence. 
Old Francis Denali, who died the other day 
in St. Louis, once had an opportunity to buy 
a |dot of land in St. Louis for $10 that is now 
worth $25,000,000 at the lowest valuation. He 
was nearly 98 years of age when he died. 
Ttie Grown Prince of Cfennany has greatly 
improved in personal appearance, but his 
throat needs constant attention. He subsists 
entirely upon milk, beef tea and vegetable 
soil]is. He will spend the winter in Italy. 
Claus Sprickels, speaking of the costly 
machinery he has ordered from Germany for 
making beet-root sugar in California, says; 
“When it is once in operation I have no doubt 
our American mechanics will soon be aide to 
duplicate it.” 
Senator Joseph R. Hawley will soon 
marry Miss Edith Horner, now of Philadel¬ 
phia, but recently of England, who is now an 
assistant in the management of nurses at 
Block ley Almshouse. She had practical ex¬ 
perience in both the Zulu and Egyptian wars. 
Superintendent Hornor, of the Kansas 
State Silk Station, thinks that the climate of 
the West is peculiarly adapted to silk produc¬ 
tion, and that silk can be made iu Kansas and 
Missouri, which will be superior to the im¬ 
ported article. He wants a protective tariff 
on raw silk, 
Mrs. Ada. C. Bittknbender, of Nebraska, 
is the first woman ever nominated for a seat 
ou the bench, and is the only woman lawyer 
in (hat State. She was admitted to the bar in 
1 S H2, having graduated from the ollice of her 
husband, whose business partner she is. She 
received her nomination from the Prohibition 
party. 
1’ope Leo, the fiftieth anniversary of whose 
ordination as priest has begun to be celebrat¬ 
ed by the Catholics of Italy and the rest of 
the world, takes for breakfast coffee and two 
eggs; for dinner, soup, dessert and a glass of 
w ine, and for supper a salad aud eggs. His 
Holiness is in fine health and promises to wear 
the tiara for many years to come. 
William E. Cramer, who has been for 40 
years editor of the Eveuiug Wisconsin, of 
Milwaukee, is both deaf aud blind. He dic¬ 
tates all his work, which lie still carries on 
with interest. Mr. Cramer began his journal¬ 
istic career in New York, aud was one of that 
interesting group of journalists among whom 
were Thurlow Weed, Horace Greeley aud 
Henry J. Raymond. 
LITERARY NOTES. 
Last week the streets were supplied with 
men and boys giving out tickets for the “21st 
meeting of the Anti poverty Society.” On out¬ 
side of the cards was printed an announce¬ 
ment of the meeting and on the other the fol¬ 
lowing remarks credited to “Rev. Hugh O. 
Pentecost”: 
“Free the land by putting taxes on the value 
of it ; ami if. iu two generations after that is 
done, poor people remain in t he condition they 
are now, I will join in* saying that tie- Being 
w ho sits tin the throne of this universe Is the 
most, unspeakable fiend ever conjured in the 
crazv brain of man. I will join in breaking 
up the Anti-poverty Society, utilling with the 
Shakers and go in for rigorous celibacy, with 
the intention of wiping the population of this 
earth olT its accursed face as soon as possible; 
then, 1 say, let ns reel in one brief carousal to 
dentil and the devil—a carousal compared 
w ith which the maddest riot of history would 
be but child’s piny.” 
Is this the murderous raving of an insane 
man or is it. the fiendish statement of one who 
would willingly see our couutry buried in a 
sea of blood rather than miss the chance of 
testing his mad scheme! A thrill of horror 
runs through the veins at those blasphemous 
words. And yet these men mean w hat they 
say. They believe that the land belongs 
equally to all. They have studied the squalid 
poverty of the city and seen manhood aud 
womanhood crushed down to the dividing line 
between the human uud the brute. They are 
terribly in earnest. They will stop at nothing 
to secure the right to tost, their theory. It is 
time that the men who represent the strength 
ot this country, wake to a sense of their duty. 
Their first duty, as we understand it, is to 
stamp out such blasphemous ideas as those of 
this “reverend" geutlemau. Their next duty 
is to study into these questions of taxation 
and temperance that are daily growing more 
intricate. The temperance question is of vital 
importance. Drive all intoxicating liquors 
out of the country and you kill 70 pel* cent, of 
the poverty and wretchedness which prompt 
these wild busts of passion. 
“Samantha at Saratoga” is one of the 
brightest, of the stories by “ Josiah Allen’s 
Wife.” This noted woman is one of the best 
characters in American fiction. She is an ex¬ 
act type of a class of women met in many of 
our back-country towns. Their very honesty 
is ridiculous, their seriousness comical and 
their attempts at. humor sad. The idea of 
such a woman with her dutiful husband min¬ 
gling with the gay people who frequent the 
hotels at Saratoga is the most ridiculous thing 
imaginable. The gay life at a fasbiouable 
summer resort and the plain life in a country 
village are so different that any attempt to 
bring them together is sure to produce either 
a tragedy or a farce. We get the latter in 
this book. It is a very amusing volume, the 
only objection being that at times the humor 
is drawn out a little, too near the breaking 
point. There are many wise aud sensible say¬ 
ings scattered through it, too. "Josiah Al¬ 
len’s Wife” is a good woman, with all her 
oddities. The book is published by Hubbard 
Bros., and is well worth reading. 
The managers of the Century Magazine an¬ 
nounce a scries of articles on Siberia and the 
Russian Exile System. This will lie one of the 
most interesting series of articles ever pub¬ 
lished in the Magazine. It will be of special 
interest to Americans at this time, when ef¬ 
forts are being made in some quarters to es¬ 
tablish a penal colony of our own in Alaska. 
There are many arguments in l'avor of such a 
colony. We want to know more about the 
real state of affairs at other penal colonies lie- 
fore expressing a decided opinion. 
Mr Bounuerbv in “Hard Times," is one 
of the most natural characters Dickens ever 
drew. What a coarse, vulgar old fellow he 
was. How he delighted in praising himself 
as a self-made man aud painting the troubles 
of his boyhood. It made no difference what 
others wanted to discuss, his topic was Boun- 
derby, every time. There are thousands of 
"Bounderbys” all around us. Every so called 
self-made man feels an iutense desire to tell 
the story of his early struggles. It requires 
the hardest effort of the will to keep this 
subject in the background. The self-made 
character has mail} - admirable points but it is 
always pretty rough in places, After all the 
hest and most useful life is not the one that 
looks back upon a constant battle. No life is 
really complete without a happy and content¬ 
ed childhood. A man ought to grow into a 
man’s cares and responsibilities gradually. 
Where be is obliged to pluuge into the task of 
self-support early in life, there will always be 
something lackiug in him. 
As far as it goes, the little poem by Sted- 
mau, in the October Harper’s, entitled 
“ Aaron Burr’s Wooing,” is as good as Scott’s 
“ Young Loehiuvnr.” In 4o lines the poet has 
told the whole story. He has told it com¬ 
plete!}* and well, but we wish be had gone on 
for several pages in the same style. Yet, if 
he had spun the story out to that length we 
would doubtless have found it tiresome. Not 
the least important of the things that go to 
make the poet is the art of knowing when the 
public have enough, and the power to stop 
just before that point is reached. 
We are glad that Houghton, Mitfliu & Co. 
have republished in book form, “Jack the 
Fisherman,” by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 
It is the most powerfully pathetic temperance 
story iu the Euglish language. It is a story 
that haunts the mind for months. After rend¬ 
ing it one eau hardly say what be most de¬ 
sires to do—pity poor Jack for being the vic¬ 
tim of three generations of drunkenness, or 
curse the horrible poison that eats up souls. 
The book costs but .50 ceuts and sbould have a 
wide sale. We would like to have every 
American citizen read it. 
“ The Sacred Flame, of Torin .Ti.,” iu Scrib¬ 
ner’s Magazine is a very pretty story of 
Japanese life. We know but little of the life 
of the Japanese women, but it appeal’s to be a 
very dismal one. A Japanese wife is like a 
slave, apparently. It was hard for this little 
Japanese maiden in the story to fully realize 
what the wife of an Aiuerieau might become. 
THE POST OFFICE CLUB. 
The Rural lias often objected to the con¬ 
gregations that gather aiound the stove in 
the country stores during the long whiter 
evenings. It may bo that these meetings 
never develop much that is new and that those 
who congregate might be better off at home, 
hiit there is considerable good brought out at 
some of them after all. When l go after my 
mail I like to listen for awhile to the talk. 
Many of the ideas advanced are pretty old, 
but they are none the worse for that. The 
president of the club at our store appears to 
be an old German. Everybody calls him 
“ Uncle Jacob.” He is a great philosopher, 
the right man to preside in a hot place. He 
js always ready to look on the bright side, or 
to manufacture a bright side if there is none 
to be readily seen. Here is tlie first speech I 
ever heard him make: 
“ Veil, veil, I says to my wive, dere is blenty 
things dot looks pooty bad and shust like dey 
would lie a dead loss, but when we comes und 
oxammines into deni things we will yenerally 
find dere is blenty goot after all. It was shust 
like dis. On der last Fo’rt of July, I says 
to my wive we was American citizens und it 
vas right dot we goes und celebrates at dot 
pic-nig. Uud so I takes my wive uud we goes 
to dot pic-nig and walks up und down around 
until my wive, like all dem ymmg girls in dem 
shokes, stops in front off an ice-gream stand 
uud looks at me in a vay dot shust make my 
money shumps out mit my pocket. Yell, we 
walks inside und takes two blates of ice-gream. 
Shust as I pegins mit mine I sees an olt frient 
on the outside und I goes out und talks mit 
him. I talks so long dot ven I comes back 
dot iee-greain vas all melted out. I says noth¬ 
ing but I eats dot ice-gream shust like I eats a 
blate of soup. When we goes out, my wive 
says “dot vas too bad dot you lose all dot ice- 
gream.” I says to my wive dot oxberienee has 
giffen me a boiut of great value. I can now 
combine two dishes mit one blate. I oan eat 
melted ice-gream und imagine all der vile dot 
it is soup, Ven we have frients come to see 
us we will egonomize und gif dem soft ice- 
gream so dot dey will have soup and dessert 
mit one eating. In dead of losing my money 
on dot ice-gream I have made a valuable 
boint.” SMALL PICA. 
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