PERSONALS. 
Senator Beck's son George is getting rich 
on his Wyoming ranch. 
Admiral D. D. Porter is seriously ill at 
his residence in Washington. 
Mr. Jay Gould is now on his Southern 
trip. It is not likely that he will go beyond 
Panama, although he had planned at first to 
visit Rio Janeiro. 
The will of J. B. Lippincott, the Philadel¬ 
phia publisher, leaves to his children properly 
amounting to over $2,000,000. The publishing 
business is to be continued by his sons. 
William H. Guton, Jr., who became the 
head of the Guiou line of steamers in this 
country on the retirement of his uncle about 
two years ago, died at New York last week, 
aged 38 years. 
John Livingstone, who claims to be a 
brother of the African explorer, died ui the 
Albany penitentiary a short time ago at the 
age of 80, a victim of typhus. He was well 
educated and hail no vicious habits, but was a 
professional tramp. 
President Grevy celebrated his re-election 
by giving the boys in the national schools a 
holiday, and the Conservative papers charge 
him with trying to “make himself solid” with 
the rising generation of voters, with a view to 
getting a third term! 
Mr, Parnell is a bachelor and lives the 
simplest sort of life—in lodgings, as a rule, 
taking his ineals at a hotel. His habits are so 
quiet that he and his sister Anna were guests 
at the same hotel foi weeks wi thout knowing 
that they were under one roof. 
The man who holds Lamar’s seat as United 
States Senator from Mississippi, isGen. Walt¬ 
hall, “a tall, thin, ruddy-faced man with long, 
iron-gray hair, which curls into a half-roll as 
it kisses his old-fashioned, Henry Clay collar.” 
He is a great friend of Jefferson Davis. 
M. Pasteur thinks that some of his disci¬ 
ples are going a little too fast. He advises 
them to wait awhile before they take definite 
steps to apply his method of treatment on a 
large scale to cases of hydrophobia. He will 
not be able To furnish sjiecitic data himself 
until March. 
This is the way in which a Western paper 
gives the news: “In the Solferino Mine, Neva- 
daville, Col., a loose rock knocked A. Warren 
out of the bucket. A piece of jaw bone was 
found at the 1,200-foot level and a piece of 
skull and a coat at the 1,300-foot level. These 
comprised his recoverable effects.” 
At this moment it takes 22 policemen in re¬ 
lays to watch Lord Kemnare’s mansion at 
Killamey against the hostility of his tenants. 
Each policeman, by the time all is told, costs 
nearly £100 a year, so that the Government 
(that is, the taxpayers of Great Britain and 
Ireland) are at this moment paying £2,000 a 
year for the protection of Lord Kenmare’s 
mansion. 
We are glad to learn that C'. C. Gcorgeson, 
our old young friend on the Rural editorial 
staff, and later Professor of Agriculture in 
the Texas State Agricultural College, Ipis 
been appointed Professor of Agriculture and 
Horticulture at the Imperial Agricultural 
College, Tokio, Japan—salary $255 j>er month. 
His engagement is for three years. May suc¬ 
cess go with him wherever he may go! 
C-VERYBODY WHO PLANTS 
E A FARM OR GARDEN 
XPECTS GENEROUS CROPS 
Don’t buy your seeds until 
S YOU CONSULT US 
END YOUR ADDRESS 
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agents’' 
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FRANCIS BRILL. Seed-Grower, 
Riverhead, Long Island, N. Y 
SHERWOOD UAD||CCC 
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.—^ ^ j^Bmlmn and Geld Mrd- 
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i • i w Sc B i»r_BOrle:m8,overlS leading 
‘wi\ErIVPip3 w i" 11 Mills Thu EU. 
s s-S? 1 It I K \. after a trial 
——^^-Ja lasting < n\i)s ww pro. 
nouticisl the beat over 
nil and to-dny stands 
at the head of all eompetilom klaos.lO 
to is ft. diameter of Wheel,either for 
Puinph'g or Power Mills. Prefect (n alt 
tmrfs r;Nif tcarranfrd Katlmates On ap 
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— KST.tBI.lSlIEn 
1828 
Our Seeds are grown on our own 
farms from selected Seed stocks 
Utul GUARANTEED TO GIVE SAT¬ 
ISFACTION, or money returned. 
Special Cash Prices offered for 1880. 
See Rulst's Garden Guide with prices, 
mailed ou application. Address, 
ROBERT BUB3T, Jr., 
Seed Grower. PHILADELPHIA, 
ldndiTJI 
LV j] Jr Viinuoi 
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lu ,1.-1 MArTTf.w 96 CT8. 
How to grow them. Sent Free! 
E. L. Putney, Brentwood, N. Y. 
-jWec Agent* -gFi C' 
WOOVnABD, KsUohop, Mich. 
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