PERSONALS. 
Mrs. Mary Howitt, the poet and novelist 
died in Rome last w eek, aged eighty-four. 
W. VV. Corcoran, the Washington mill¬ 
ionaire, is confined to his bed from general 
debility and is not expected to leave it again. 
W. R. Sessions has been unanimously elec¬ 
ted Secretary of the Massachusetts State 
Board of Agriculture—an excellent selection. 
The Hon. B. G. Northrop, the pioneer in 
the “Village Improvement” movement, is 
going from Connecticut to California to lect¬ 
ure on his favorite topic. 
Dr. Edward Webb, a son-in-law of the 
late W. H. Vanderbilt, has just bought 
1,800 acres of land in Vermont, where he 
intends to start one of the finest stock farms 
in the country. He will make blooded stock 
a specialty. Two hundred and fifty men are 
now making improvements on the place. 
There are already on the farm 150 horses, 100 
Jersey cattle, and a flock of South Down 
sheep. 
After all, Lord Lansdowne, Governor-Gen¬ 
eral of Canada, will succeed Lord Dufferin as 
Governor-General of India at the end of the 
present year, Lord Dufferin desiring, for 
private reasons, to return home. Lord Stan¬ 
ley, of Preston, will be Lord Lansdowne’s suc¬ 
cessor Lord Lansdowne is expected to leave 
Canada in June. The salary of the Governor- 
General of India is $125,000 a year, with al¬ 
lowances amounting to about $05,000 more; 
that of Governor-General of Canada $50,000. 
David W. Judd, one of the three Quaran¬ 
tine Commissioners of this city and President 
of the Orange Judd Company, publishers, etc., 
died here rather suddenly of pneumonia, last 
Monday. Born Sept. 1, 1838. Educated at 
Oberlm College, Ohio; graduated at Williams 
College, Mass., in I860. Enlisted at the out¬ 
break of the war, and rose to be a captain. 
Member of the New York legislature in 1871. 
At one time he was on the editorial staff of 
the Commercial Advertiser, and subsequently 
conducted the defunct Hearth and Home. 
He was the author of several books, and was 
never married. 
A petition signed by 88 members of Con¬ 
gress has been sent to Commissioner Colman, 
asking for the removal of Mr. J. R. Dodge, 
the able and honest Statistician of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. The opposition to him 
arises from the anger of many members of the 
tobacco trade concerning his tobacco report 
last summer. There is a rumor that the Com¬ 
missioner has his resignation now in his desk. 
Many friends of the Statistician are, on the 
other hand, appealing for bis retention, among 
them 75 members of the New York Cotton Ex¬ 
change. It ought not to be difficult to get a 
long list of Congressman to do so likewise. 
In spite of all favorable reports, the Crown 
Prince was in such imminent danger of suffo¬ 
cation at San Remo on Thursday, from a 
new growth in his throat, that the operation 
of tracheotomy (making an opening in the 
wind-pipe) was performed without waiting 
for the arrival of Professor Bergmanu, who 
had been specially summoned from Berlin 
to perform it. Five of the best surgeons in 
Europe were present, however. No chloro¬ 
form was administered: not a teaspoonful of 
blood was lost. The sufferer bore it bravely 
and didn’t faint. No signs of laryngitis; 
bronchitis alone is feared. The patient is con¬ 
fined to bed and not allowed to talk, but he is 
doing well, though not out of danger. Excel¬ 
lent results are ultimately expected; but, like 
the patient of old, the poor Prince seems to be 
steadily dying “of good signs.” 
THF POST OFFICE CLUB. 
The weather for the past month or so, has 
troubled some of our folks a great deal. Old 
Jerry Grind well is our “oldest inhabitant.’ 
He can’t remember anything that beats this 
weather. There are plenty of growlers at the 
store every night. “ Course this here snow 
had ter come,” said Sam Bowers, the other 
night. “ Hed ter come jest b’ceuse I gut 
things fixed fer a mild winter. Didn’t git 
me no sleigh ’cause I figgered fer bare ground 
an’ lots o’ wheelin’ Don’t it beat all how con¬ 
trary things is ? ” “Things set in so sorter 
soft,” said Joe Blackman, “that I buried my 
cabbage in the ground. Now everything’s 
friz solid an’ I can’t git nothin out. Cabbage 
goin’ up too.” So they went on,-each one 
finding some new cause for complaint, and 
some fresh name to throw at the weather. 
Uncle Jacob listened patiently to all they had 
to say. When they tired of complaining he 
cleared his throat for action. 
“ All dis talk makes me think of a biece of 
boetry dot I reads mit my baper. It vas so 
goot dot I safed it mit my bocket uud I haf 
got it mit me here.” He pulled a piece of 
newspaper out of his pocket, put on his spec¬ 
tacles and read the following poem—I think 
it is by Bret Harte : 
Ofer the yimney dot night-vind sang, 
Yanting a melody dot no von knew. 
Und der voman she eighed as her babe she tossed, 
Und thought off der von she had long since lost, 
Und sayd, as her tear-dops back she forced, 
‘‘ I hates dot vlnd mit der yimney.” 
Ofer der yimney dot night-vind sang 
Yanting a melody dot no von knew, 
Und the yildren say’d, as dey closer drew, 
“Dot s a vltch dot vos flying de black night through. 
Dot vos her drumpet dot shust then blew, 
Und we fears dor vlnd mit der yimney. 
Ofer der yimney der night-vind sang, 
Yanting a melody dot no von knew, 
Und der man as he sat mit his chair below, 
Say’d to himself—“ It vos sure to snow, 
Und fuel was dear und vages low, 
Und I’ll stop dot leak mit der yimney.” 
Ofer der yimney der night-vind sang, 
Yanting a melody dot no von knew, 
But dot boet listened, und smiled, for he, 
Vas man und voman und yild, all three, 
Und he sayd—“ Dot vos God’s own harmony 
Dot vlnd dot sings mit der yimney.” 
“I haf often thought like dot ven I sits mit 
my house on a stormy night und der vind 
goes vistling by, I says to my vife, ‘dot vind 
vas haf a different sound mit different 
beeble. It vas sad to der voman dot thinks 
dot her leedle yild vos out mit der grafeyard, 
it vas bleasant to der rich man who vos so 
gomfortable und happy mit his fire. Dot is 
strange how dot vas ; ’und my wive she looks 
up mit her vork und says: ‘Der vind vas 
noting but God’s breath. It vas all der same. 
It vas only der vay dot beeble feels dot makes 
der difference.’ Und it vas shust so mit der 
weather. 
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