The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-09-26
1it'rorp and Scientific A,otes.

Tennyson's latest poem deals with
Home -Rule in Ireland. The author is
dramatizing the work for Henry Irving.
The health of the poet laureate is break
ing, and this is probably the last literary
| work he will undertake.
For articles requiring great tensile
strength and resistance, aluminium bronze
may be considered the foremost, reach
ing 1000 pounds per square inch; is
susceptible of being tempered, and of re-
ceiving high degree of finish.
Walt Whitman says of the elder Booth.
Edwin Booths father: "Without aues.
ton Booth was royal heir and legitimate
representative of the Garrick- Kemblc-
Siddons dramatic traditions, but he Vi
talized and gave an unnamable grace to
those traditions with his own electric
personal idiosyncrasy"
Lord Houghton's death was painfully
sudden. lie had dined with his sister.
the Dowager Niscountess Galway, who
had accompanied him to Vichy. He
then went to the theatre, and, returning
home about 10 o'clock, found that her
ladyship had retired. Upon reaching
his own bedroom he felt somewhat in
disposed. He resorted to Lady Galway's
apartments, and in a few minutes ex-
PRED.
Professor II. A. Ward, proprietor of
Wards National Science establishment,
Rochester, and William J. Critchley and
G. E. Akeley, taxidermists, removed
Jumbos hide in three pieces. The hide
will be cured and then shipped to Roch-
ester, mounted and sent to Tuft College,
Boston. The skeleton will be sent to
the Smithsonian Institution, Washing
ton. A funeral pyre was built with four
cords of wood and the flesh taken from
Jumbo's bones slowly burned up.
In making his change of residence to
Northampton, sMass., Mr.. Cable, the
novelist, writes to friend at his old
home in New Orleans: I'm these days of
swift transit it is very little matter where
man eats and sleeps; our congressional
delegations, for instance, living most of
the time in Washington, are not the less
Lousanians. read my New Orleans
paper every day, and do not feel practi-
cally much further off from my own city
than when | lived on Eighth street.
intend to be much III the South and to
have my family see as much of it as pos
sible. love my native town, and l owe
much to the community in which l was
reared
1t is curious fact, but pot the less
true, that severe storm may sometimes
occur without causing the slightest in
convenience, while, on another occasion.
the conditions being apparently identi-
cal, very slight Que. even single clap
of thunder, will cause an immense
amount of trouble. In all cases it is
wise, when possible, to defer preparing
emulsions, particularly on large scale,
when violent electrical dstul Dances of
the atmosphere are anticipated
Mr.. j. T. Trowbridge, the author of
that very popular poem "The Vaga-
bonds" and of many readable books, is
now fifty eight years old. He was an
active writer thirty years ago, and is
even more active today. He is certainly
a prosperous man of letters, and his home
at Arlington, near Boston, is one of the
attractive features of that place. He
settled at Boston in 1850, after having
worked hard aud not always proGtab!y
with his pen, and he was soon brought
into prominence by the publication of
Ne1ghJGr dGk~00d, which was strong
picture of life in New England.