, 1877-10-09
PERSONAL.

Tho fourth edition Of tho Rev. Joseph
Cooks Monday lectures on "I3lologY was pub
1tshcd within week aftoe Tho books Arst appear.
ance.
The Baltimore Ga.ttte has discovered that
tho Pateut Oflcs was 1rc1 BY m !necndlary. In.
like tho aspiring youth who dred the EphesIan
dome, this follow seems to desire to bnsh unseen.
Those old friends ntld nllies, ox.Secrata1y
Ilrlstow and Gen. Harlan. arc now reported %
cssanged through s,yairy Of Republican Leadership
IN kentucky, and possibly through rivalry Of am'
billion for thu yncnut plaes on tho United btates
3upscnie Court.
OF tho oighty cor1ornte members Of the
American Board Of Foreign AtssEons but ten aro
living, and Of tho ton ony ono II able 10 attend tho
meetings regularly. namely. ths venerable c1'
1'resideut Hopkins, Of Williams College, who hs
held the Office Of Peesldent for twenty years.
Tho Lotto great tiro at st. John, N. D., con-
snuaed, with ono exception, oil tho poems Of Nj.
Spencer, whom tho Daily NsHs Of That city call.
'.Canada's greatest living poet" Tho poem which
escaped Was a short ono pastoa On tho back Of hss
daughters picture, which he carried In bis pocket
The Rochester Democrat has this item OF
intelligence c1clu1!ye1y: - lilo WAS pretty good
at tho plaY bilstncsK.' said Mr. Grant, contsn.
rlativeiy regarding tho tomb OF Shakspears. but
should like " hase seen him fighting Bob Lee
0F kfYinX W O0 Eu0A iEco]uGHk "ilu NA@1t(U CH"-
nor Chairman Of tho Committee gu Fore'gn hsls'
tions.'"
Tho now Archbishop Of Baltimore, James
Gibbons, il hut IL ycaFa Of age, and the youngest
Archbishop In Ito United states. bishop Gibbons
was transferred FROM North Carolina. where he VA
Ftcur Apostolic, to aucceoa the laau Bishop Nc0ill
~ the fourth Bishop Of Richmond on The goth Of
October, 1872. liz Was thea ~ years Of age. aud
tho youngcat eccleslast In the untsd Stasea weas'
Ing the mltta,
Mr.. Newton, Of tho British Museum, md
Ms. Simpson, London artist, have como forward
toilsputa Dr. Gchlicmann's claims. Ns. slmps"n
says tic "ralaco Ut rra1n" is little batter than
mud .l,ovel, while Mr. Newton, In authority IN
puttery, says that all tie Of Greek pottery
the Muaeum ars dated up to 100 Il. c., and beyond
that no authoritative date 10 gaYe to any ffsg
ulcut Of acttlc wasr.
DR., Trancia 0alton, Of "HorcditalJ
Gonius" fan,o, lately called the attsntEon Of Tho
British Association 10 tho unexpected faet that Ia
tho majority Ut criminals tho occlput II smaller
than 1t IL among tho respectable c!asass. ttoF'
tiol,cpton read papee before tho SAME body %
s.Thc yusculxe supply OF tic Dratn," In which b.
euceu,atel on tho probable dsappeaEauce Of The
oeciptlxI ioba On account Of ias deficient relative
| supply os blood.
! Tile Republican papers In Paris have Late
| " outdono Gambetta In bold astcsanees. "Among
luz most notable Of thcAa challenges IL John Lo'
p,ulnnc'a In lhu .Jo"rna! afs Dzba!s, concerning
tho MacaIahon manifesto: 1T " tIe old tlmcs 10.
| pcated, ~ you will, SAY what Jou Ike,
aaa not going to auit." Just 10. Louis XVI. would
| not quit, nor would Napoleon l., nuF Charles u,
nor Louis Philippe, nor Sapolcon the Last They
wauld not quit, but they have gone for al! that.
| Queen 1sabe!la has hnd a session with Al
fonxo In the EscurtAl, u which Don Antou!o Cano'
vas do Castillo tue Fslu,e AnlssoF, Ass,ated. Tia
tlniucdats results ars that the old lady saays IN
| spain; the Court leaves La Qfanls without walt
tng to celebrate the fete day OF the 1nlanta Hef.
eeae*; It II believed thas ths Duke aud bucbsss Of
Aoutpensler and both their daughters will 70 bacS
" Franco for tbs w!uter; and II 10 gussoedlT I'LL
mated In the Government papef* that tue marriage
| IL "R1jouEued."
The poem Of Thanatopsis," which 8Fss
uppc&srd in tho NortA Am<rtean Nsrtsw In aspteHa.
bcs, ls17, bcgan With four stanzas which hars
| viuee besn Quilted. Thu New York Pots odeEs
tI,s following explanation Q! tbs cfcumssance!
"Thv predatory stanzas were not written ~ yfs'
fuco 70 'TGauatopals,' but constituted sspaf1tS
poem. Tho posss father earrlsa both poems to
boston. ard PLACED them IN tho hands of Mt. Dams
who put them into tie horfA Amtrfeon Rssafte'
where they wsrs coupled together by some uas-
take aud thc!s separation IN Nil lates editions ~
simply the correction Of IN tpAdsesteaee."
Tho philadelphia Tina says: " President
MeCo.h. Of Princeton, has been severely taken ~
task by soms OF his brother elergymea for so1as
| remarks he mAdc 1t the Presbyterian Confsfenes
al EduLusg, to tbs eject thAs there was not Eaaen
preaching In America, the parson* asuAlty dsTotna
themselves 10 lha composition of ntcs literary e.
aays rzthcf thau Of sermons that would stif tos
hrars Ut thclr hearers. II haS been ssd that thla
| wsy very unkisd remark TOT Dr. Aecoah 10 Make
aud very unjust 10 ha ahle sud eloquent brethren.
peshapx Il Wa yet most laymen who have Listened