, 1877-12-16
PERSONAL.

DR.. Slade, the American Spiritualist. is
now In Berlin.
Richard Grant White says the slang word
''swe'l," meaning grand, fine, pretcntiou,, is =
very convenient and expressive word, and eaa
hardly fail to appear in ''thc dictionary" Of the
next generation.
Mr.. Alexander Fl. Stephens has been pre-
pairing speech on the Colorado election contest
lie has also been wrtin. for thu Gn-et6 Of Daltl-
more article full Of anecdotes OF the most emil
nent men Of the last half century.
One of Lvdia Thompson's burleequs
actresses, Camille Dubois, who journcycd al over
Amcrica, dancing clog -ianccs and singing nursery
rhymes, has had the good fortune to win the afec-
lion of the hon. Wyhdham stanhopc, who h,s
welded her.
31r. Tilton left his two daughters abroad
at school. He has rented his o1d home in Brook.
I'm and has hired room in New York. Mrs Til.
ton continues to live with her mother, having her
two sons with her. They are unusually bright
lads, and are making gratifying progress ut school,
Queen Victoria's wedding-gift to the
Duchess OF Norfolk was, as nsual, m Indian
shawl Some people have wondered how It is tho
Queen has go many OF these ehswls, and it is e1-
the Naharajah Of Cashmere has to pay yearly Il
the Empress OF India
Tue new magazine, Sunday afternoon,
published at Springfield. promises to take high
rank. Washington GLADDEN.. the editor, formerly
held position in connection with the lndt-
pendent. It designs making a great feature Of
stories; two se.lal= will always be in progress.
aud each number will have two or three complete
sketches. The table OF contents Of the first mum.
Der, as advertised everywhere, is very attractive.
The Rev. DR.. Dale, of England, who re-
Gently lectu1ed at Yale College, in public ad-
dress after reaching home :pose Of tue generous
and magnificent hospitality with which the Aues-
cans were accustomed to receive their English
guests, and SAID that 1t had been extended to him
IN 4 most remarkable :nanucr. lie Was more thau
ever convinced that the Americans we're q 4'noble,
kindly people,"
4 paper published at Guntemla notices
singular coincidence with respect to the leading
events IN tie life Of the chief director OF TIC late
revolution. Kapcsky. lie was horn on the 7th ot
the month, landed in Mexico on the 1th. betrayed
Ma1imillian on the 7th, Was shot in tho LEG, from
the effects OF which ho never fully recovered, on
the 7th, betrayed his party at Onoa On the 7h.
aud finally was one OF the seventeen who were e1-
ecuteu the 7th, in the 18th year Of his age. This
led to his being called ''The 3lan of the Seven"
An old gentleman, who WAS once intimate
with Washington Irving, gays that one da7
twenty years ago, nc found soae men at WORK On
q tract Of land adjoining Sleepy Hollow, and, hear
ing one Of them addressed as Van Taaset, and
thinking of his friend Irving's legend o: Sleepy
Hollow. be- inquired Of this man il he knew
Katrina Van Tnssel. ''Why,' said the man, II
ought to know her; she is my Aunt Kate Some
hniu do hV I'M Irrin~
story OF her conrtship, the man said. Indignantly.
HAS that Wash Irving been writing lies shout
my Aunt kate!'
The New York World-an authority in
Canadian atfairs-says: Lord DufTc-in's sue
ccssor will. it is reported, be the Duke Of 3sn"
chester. The Duke made IN extended American
tour year ago, and has always taken warm in
tercst In the Affairs of the british dependencies.
being President of the Colonial Institute Cana
dians will remember him az the anthor OF letter
In regard to the Canada Pacific scandal, In WHICH
he supported Sir John 4. Macdonald. Canada
has not had Duca Governor for many day.
not, If the 11Ior'd remembers rightly, ence the
Duke of Richmond, who died OF h5dtophobia-"
Maj. Ben: Perley Poore hns completed
after Twelve years WORK. the - Book Of Con:tltu-
tone, land an edition sufficient to furnish copy
to each member OF Congress has been printed. This
work consists OF two parts, uniform with Inc
Statutes AT Iaroc and CONTAINING more than
Thousand nooe, each II .comor;sc+ mt on|y tho
Constitution nf rho I;ritod stats. rna thu present
CONSTITUTIONS of tho states bnt n conv Of the o.
ranc law Of each state Mt erory nerfod of It's his
tory, from the discovery OF America to the present
time. The ear1est of the docuucnts is the bull Of
the ponc rantino aoncrica IN sn,in and the latest
the amendments to the State (:onsttutions adop.-
ed within the past year.
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