PERSONALS. 
Mr. Blaine bas started from London for 
bis drive through Scotland on the top of Mr. 
Carnegie’s four-in-hand coach. There are 
some things more enjoyable than running for 
the Presidency, and this is one of them. 
A gang of horrible ruffians who followed 
her from Buenos Ayres lately, tried to kidnap 
Madame Patti, the singer, in Wales. Two of 
the rascals have been arrested. Serves them 
right for having told the police of Buenos 
Ayres before they started, what they intend¬ 
ed to do! 
The habit of using a red bandanna was 
begotten years ago by Allen G. Thurman 
from association with Emile Grdgoire, a 
French emigrant who taught the Ohio states¬ 
man how to speak “the polite language” and 
use a highly colored handkerchief. Thus in a 
remote way France was responsible for the 
most picturesque feature of the St. Louis 
Convention. 
M. Alexandre Dumas lives by measure 
and weight. He rises at half-past six in the 
summer and at seven in the winter. His first 
breakfast invariably consists of a glass of 
milk. The second, which he takes at noon, is 
a very plain meal. Dinner occurs at exactly 
seveu, and at ten he is in bed. He walks three 
miles every day, and never works after four 
in the afternoon. 
Senator Voorhees recently visited the 
Pension Office, Washington, and wasastomsh- 
'ed to recognize in a man hauling a truck filled 
with documents an ex-Judge once prominent 
in Indiana. Stopping him the Senator ex¬ 
claimed: “Thunder and lightning! A Judge 
in Indiana—a horse in Washington!” The 
next day the “horse” was promoted to a place 
more befiting his former dignity. 
executor has refused to pay the bill and the 
matter will go to the courts. The horse and 
carriage bel onged to the country doctor. 
Senator Stanford, just before sailing for 
Europe, said of the Leland Stanford Junior 
University, of California, that in this school 
one sex was to have equal advantages with 
the other. Senator Stanford also added that 
this University will be open to the poor as well 
as the rich, and that the cost of tuition will 
be put at so low a price as to be within the 
reach of even those people to whom a dollar 
represents every one of its hundred pennies. 
Free scholarships are to be provided for those 
meritorious young people who are unable to 
pay for their education. In addition to the 
regular college courses, there will be a machine 
shop and a department to encourage inven¬ 
tions. 
In this country we’re everlastingly apt to 
forget the important things of the near past, 
and the men who led up to them. 
All we care about in that line is the 
men who worked out the problem that 
others proposed, and made popular. We 
forget that a million or more of the very best 
men in the country on both sides were lost in 
the recent “onpleasantness,” to free 4,000.000 
slaves, and that a quarter of that number 
were peaceably freed the other day in Brazil 
by an act of Parliament. When the act was 
passed Whittier cabled this message from his 
home in Amesbury to the Emperor: “With 
thanks to God, who has blest your generous 
efforts, I congratulate you on the peaceful 
abolition of slavery in Brazil.” The Emj eror 
was then in a critical condition, and one of 
his ministers cabled his thanks. When the old 
and only American Emperor met the poet 
some years ago, he astonished him by kissing 
him on both cheeks. 
Max O’Rell, on his arrival in England, 
was interviewed in true American fashion, 
and he is reported to have spoken in most 
complimentary terms about the United States. 
He says that we talk well, dress well, entertain 
well, and that our young girls know as much 
about Herbert Spencer as t ey do about Paris 
fashions. Of course, a man who talks that 
way about Americans is coming back, but the 
date of his return is not yet fixed. 
Mrs Dahlgren, the widow of the Admiral, 
has two shells on the driveway leading to her 
house, which her husband sent her as lPtle to¬ 
kens of bis affection before they were married. 
These emblems of love and of war were sent 
over by the English to the Confederates dur- 
j ug the civil war, and were intended for the 
Whitworth guns: they weighed 600 pounds 
apiece, and were captured at Charleston, 
South Carolina. 
Calvin Brice, the railroad millionaire, is 
the sou of a Presbyterian clergyman who 
saved enough money out of his $300 a year 
salary to give the young man a good educa¬ 
tion. Mr. Brice calls Ohio his home, but he 
spends the most of his time in New York 
where he has a $500,000 house on Fifth Avenue. 
Mr. Brice although he counts his dollars by 
the million, is a hard worker, and is a man of 
boundless energy. He bas recently gone in¬ 
to politics, and was one of the Ohio delegates 
at large to the St. Louis Convention. 
Prince Roland Napoleon Bonaparte is 
in New York attending the Anthropological 
Congress. He is a grandson of Lucien Bona¬ 
parte, and consequently a grandnephew of the 
first Napioleon. Like his grandfather, he is 
scientific in his tastes, and unlike him, he 
cares not a fig for contemporary French pol¬ 
itics. When the congress is over, heislikely 
to travel quite extensively in this country. 
He’s a fine fellow; and the pretty daughter of 
the old many-time millionaire and gambler of 
Monaco, hasn’t at all done badly by becoming 
a Princess as his wife. 
Dr. Lyman Abbott, who has just accepted 
the call to Plymouth pulpit, is a man with a 
remarkable capacity for work. He never takes 
vacation, but he insists upon it that he never 
works too hard. Up to the present time he 
has made his home in the country, where he 
says he finds so much comfort and quiet that 
a vacation is unnecessary. In personal ap¬ 
peal auce Dr. Abbott is just the opposite of 
his famous predecessor. He is tall and thin, 
with delicately cut features and a flowing 
beard. One thing in common with Mr. 
Beecher is the big slouch hat or wide awake 
that adorns his head. 
Dr. Theodore Gay, who attended ex-Vice 
President Wheeler during his last illness, has 
presented a bill “as is a bill” to the estate. It 
amounts to about $14,800. The items are in 
part as follows: For attendance from April 1, 
1885. to Dec. 81, 1885, at $15 per day; for at¬ 
tendance from Jan. 1,1886, to Dec. 31, 1886, 
at $20 per day; fo*' attendance from Jan. 1, 
1887, to June 4,1887, at $25 per day, for keep¬ 
ing a horse two years, $3 20 per week; for use 
of carriage two years, $200. Mr. Wheeler’s 
THE POST-OFFICE CLUB. 
A YOUNG farmer stated a curious question 
at the club the other night. He had just 
started in the dairy business having bought 
out a milk route and a small herd of cows. 
He is quite an enterprising fellow and likes to 
study into tbefoundatiou of his business Like 
many of our folks, he finds it bard to get good 
and reliable help. It is particularly hard to 
get good milkers. If a man is going to keep 
a small dairy for profit he has got to do a 
good deal of the feeding and milking himself. 
This started our young dairyman to ask his 
question which he put about as follows: “At 
which end of a cow will my own work pay 
best?” He meant to ask if feeding was of more 
importance than milking. If he found that 
he must leave one of these operations to the 
hired man, which one should it be? This ques¬ 
tion is of more practical importance to us 
just now than Civil Service Reform. There 
were many and various views expressed. 1 
wish I had space for them all. I should say 
that the majority thought that feeding was 
the more important operation and should 
therefore have first consideration. The main 
argument was that feed represented cash to 
the farmer while to the hired man it simply 
represented feed. If it is economy for a man 
to handle his own cash, surely it is 
economy for him to handle his own feed. 
Uncle Jacob seemed to be in the minority, 
yet his views are generally accepted with con¬ 
sideration, so we give them for what they are 
worth. 
“My obinion alvays vas dot der brofits off 
life vas come mit what we safe und not what 
we vas earn , all der vile. It vas some- 
ding like dot mit der cow. As a yeuneral 
ting she vas able to take care off all der 
food dot she vas eat. It vas someding shust 
like bouriug vater in mit a barrel. Vile dere 
vas no leaks mit dot barrel dot vater vas safe 
dere. Der brober ting vas to look cut mit all 
der leaks. Der cow vas shust like a machine 
dot vas take some raw material, und turn it 
into der finished broduct. Dem same mater¬ 
ials dot vas mit der feed vas wor’t sbust so much 
more ven dey vas mit der milk und butter. 
Conseguently der closer dot ve gets mit der 
finished broduct, der mors vas our work wor’. 
Dot being der case dot man dot vas der best 
milker vas sure to get der most off der feed 
dot vas giffen to der cow. Der facts vas dot 
der man dot i uns his dairy to make money out 
off it vill do his own milking effery time vile 
dot man dot run his dairy for der fun off it, 
vill keep avay from der milking stool.” It 
may be that other dairymen will agree with 
Uncle Jacob on this point. small pica. 
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