PERSONAL ITEMS. 
Gen. Grant Is 57 
Gen. Sherman Is 59. 
Phil. Sheridan Is 48. 
Collections for Gen. Hood’s orphan children 
amount to $l5,ooo. 
Gov. Long of Mass., is 41, the youngest Gov. the 
State has ever had. 
Labouchere calls G. A. Sala the best after din¬ 
ner speaker in England. 
General Grant’s father died at the age of eighty 
and his mother Is still living. 
Postmaster General Key loves to play cards and 
frequently has a game of solitaire. 
General hen Duller, In paying Ills campaign 
bills, ilnds a little Item of “lis.ooo for printing.” 
The historian Bancroft, who In his old age likes 
to ride horseback, Is an enthusiast on the subject 
of music. 
Queen Victoria has commissioned eight pre¬ 
miers and outlived all but Lord Beaconsfleld and 
Mr. Gladstone. 
Baring-Gould says:—“ An English woman is 
lovely, a French woman Is charming, a German 
woman Is angelic.” 
Secretary Thompson, of the navy, goes to bed at 
hair-past nine, and he Is a good Kilter, especially 
on theological subjects. 
A town in Iowa has been named Thornburgh, 
after the gallant major who fell bravely at the 
outbreak of the late l ie troubles. 
Dennis Kearney, the agitator, has been ar¬ 
rested In San Francisco on a charge of attempt¬ 
ing to extort money from a prisoner. 
Gen. Schenck, ex-minister to England, has be¬ 
come rich, it is said, by the rise In Northern Pacillc 
stock, which he once thought had ruined him. 
Jefferson Davis, who is writing his contribution 
to the history or the late war, said a year ago, pri¬ 
vately “I suppose our personal resentments all 
die as we grow old.” 
The temperance women cf Utica, N. Y., provide 
coffee at the polls on election days, as a regular 
thing, and this year they furnished 4,000 cupfuls, 
which left their treasury 79 cents behind. 
Bachelor and millionaire Peter Goelet, of this 
city, aged 30, has just died, leaving property esti¬ 
mated anywhere Horn $ 10 , 000,000 to $ao,oou,ooo to 
be divided between his nephews and nieces. 
W. T. Blackwell, the tobacco manufacturer of 
Durham, N. C., pays, It is said, more taxes to his 
government, thau any other man In the world. 
They amount altogether to about $500,ooo a year. 
The son of Col. Colt, the revolver man, has just 
come of age, and Into a net sum of upwards of 
Ss, 000,000 cash, besides the business and enough 
more property to save him from the poor house. 
Thurlovv Weed was cigtby-two years old Sat¬ 
urday week. Ills health Is remarkably good, aud 
he continues to take a lively Interest in all mut¬ 
ters relating to religion, polities and the stock 
market. 
Schuyler Colfax says he has laid up $ 10,000 from 
lecturing, since retiring from politics, lie once 
advised General Grant to lecture, but the General 
feared he would speak to empty seats alter the 
first night. 
Mrs. Cornwallis West Is rather charming than 
beautiful; she is a straw berry-and-cream, fair and 
freckled. Irregular but expressive features, and a 
mass of rippling hair, out like a boy’s, In clusters 
of short curls. 
Montreal rumors indicate that the Princess 
Louise will not return from England and that 
the Marquis will resign and go home. Another 
rumor says the Princess Is about to become a 
Roman Catholic. 
The Czar has a nice little Income—a trifle over 
$•25,000 a day. The Sultan gets $is,ooo a day, the 
Emperor of Austria $to,ooo, the Emperor of Ger. 
many $s,2O0, the King of Italy $0,400, and the King 
of the Belgians $1,040, 
Stanley, the African explorer, writing from the 
mouth of the Congo river, September 13, says he 
has equipped one expedition on the east coast, 
besides reconstructing another and making per¬ 
sonal visits to several new districts. He has 15 
Europeans and 200 natives with him. 
There is talk of making urant Captain-General 
of the U. 8. Array at a salary of *25,000. The Con¬ 
gressman who will probably Introduce the bill, Is 
ex-confederatc General Joseph E. Joliuston, who 
was Quartermaster General of the United States 
Army at a tlmo when Grant was a captain. 
Jay Gould, the other day, gave his check for 
$3,800,000 to Commodore Garrison for a controlling 
Interest in the Missouri Paclflc Railroad, with the 
remark that that was a part of the money he had 
made In a recent transaction. It Is thought to have 
been the largest check ever given hereby a pri¬ 
vate Individual. 
Both the daughters of Father Meeker, the mur¬ 
dered A gout lor the Uto Indians in Colorado, are 
now lecturing In that suite. Josephine addressed 
a full liuiise at I.eadvlUe, Saturday night week, 
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