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well.
], Dom Pedro, OF Brazil, writes we'll
and lcarnedly, chiefly IN scientific sub
jects.
A novelty in silver is tho discovery
of a process OF e!ectro-plating with sill
yer upon wood.
Queen Elizabeth, of Roumania, IS a
frequent visitor to the publisher. both
as novelist and poet.
Pompeiian paper, notified as if with
the dampness of eighteen centuries,
is the newest thing in Paris stationery.
General W. II. H. (Runy) Lee. q son
| of the late Robert E. Lee. is now a
prosperous farmer in Fairfax County,
Virginia
JUDGE Swan, of Sulsun, Cal, resem-
bles General Grant so strikingly that
the impression upon i stranger Is most
startling.
Lady Randolph Churchill disap-
proves of woman suffrage. She thinks
a woman should be felt in politics. but
with and for her husband.
The Seven Stars of the Mysterious
fen and the Daughters of the Sepul-
chre'' is the dazzling title of an assess
ment life insurance association OF
Texas.
1t is said that the historian Bancroft
is one of the two Americans now living
who ever met Goethe. The other is
George II. Calvert, tho scholar and
poet, who is IS years old.
4 rich mans son at Harvard has
spent $4,000 in fitting up his college
rooms. Some day, lingering the but
tons of a well-worn coat, he may say,
in the language of the children: Rich
man, poor man. beggar man, thief!'
Age has not made many inroads up
on General Joseph Z. Johnston, now
United States Railroad Commissioner.
He has gotten over the nervous trouble
from which he suffered many years.
He is married, but has no children.
An authority in culinary matters
a Y poison in cheese may be detected in
the following way: Press a small piece
of blue litmus paper against a freshly
cut surface OF the cheese. If the paper
is Redeemed instantly and intensely.
the cheese may be regarded with sus-
picion.
Colonel Charles c. Jones, Jr., of
Augusta. Ga, having investigated the
subject, is convinced that neither Ma
ior General Nathaniel Greene nor Ma
| ior General Count Pulaski sleeps be-
meath the respective monuments which
a grateful and patriotic people have
= reared in their honor"
In Schoharie County, n. Y, there
are two women twins, ninety-four
wears of age. Both are described as
, well preserved, active and in full pos
session of their mental faculties. Each
was the mother of seven children, the
: eldest of each family being alive, one
e at the age OF sixty-tive, the other sixty
. eight years.
= William Van Tassel, T%arrytown, n.
Y, was shot in the arm last fall and,
= modification setting in, the doctors
;, gave him up, as he was too weak to
!, submit to amputation. His arm came
: off, however, without saw orknife, and
. the stump healed and he is as well as
ever. This is considered one of the
most remarkable cases on record.
: A tweIve-year-old Dakota girl, taken
up into the air by a cyclone. carried
out of sight, and brought easily down
!. in a field q quarter of a mile away, de-
scribes her sensation while in transit as
that of being rapidly and constantly
q pricked by thousands of needles. Since
:, her experience she has been affected
it similar to q person with ST. Vitus
II dance.
4 new feature of the Boston cooking
: school this year is 4 school lunch
room, opened at the request of the
d mothers. At little round tables boys
are served with substantial soup (the
If thin soups being considered not desir.
IL able). with cocoa and chocolate, rolls,
o sandwiches, gingerbread and plair
n cakes.
The only stakeholder that ever got {
# dividend out of the old Pennington
Comm Canal has just died. Tht
# president told him there was no divi
= dend, and jcstingly advised him to &C
home and NOW the towpath for a diyi
= dend. Mr.. Munson did so, taking {
- go per cent. dividend in hay from the
- eight miles of towpath, and went OF
% doing this with perfect complacency
- thereafter.
l: There was never a time in the pub
n fishing business, says an expert, wheI
proffers of manuscript from womer
a were so numerous. Society belle:
seem to have all at once caught the fe
Is yer of authorship. As some house.
will publish almost anything in which
Re the profit is assured, but nothing from
untried pens without a guarantee, they
can usually give 4 definite answer t
an applicant without first reading tn
copy.
y 1t is just a hundred years since tn
: famous General Oglethorpe, founde
, rz.. Ill "a. To. Il 49,.
:. Upminster, Essex, and was buried il
;. the church there, within a stone
- throw of his house. The old mano
~ house no longer exists, but a hand
:. some farm house stands on the site
General Oglethorpe lived to be eighty
h eight. He had fought under Prime,
~ Eugene, and yet might have dandie,
- Sir Moses Montefiore on his knee. Hi
l. name is very familiar to all who know
i their Boswell.
t. The ''code" has received a terrible
setback in Georgia. Two young me
named Thomas and Roberts had Ion!
,e been paying attentions TO the daughte
is of a wealthy farmer. The girl so iii
20 vided her favors that neither could tel
at which was the favored sutton. FINAL,
ne the rivals got to the fighting point ant
l. agreed upon u private uuel with Snot
Id guns. They retired to a secluded spot
er marked off the ground and were abou
+ to fire, when Roberts lowered his gul
ID and said: If you'll give me a suit c
er clothes you can have the girl and %
" hanged" The proposition was &C
Is cepted, and now Thomas is in full pos
N session.
TX A writer in Turt. Field, and Farm
re says that the last cigar Gen. Gran
he ever smoked was at Mr.. Backman'
\ breeding farm, Stony Ford, Orang
or County, n year ago. He "a Their
$. with Gen. Beale and j. B. Houston
he and he spent a very enjoyable Jay i
s., seeing the horses work on the track
e. After dinner Mr.. Backman handed hir
q cigar, and before it had turned t
IS. ashes many pleasant recollections c
re his experiences with horses were re
he called. 1t was the Generals fin.
IT. smoke. A few weeks later the e1
,a. President sent his favorite road mare
nit Silver, TO Stony Ford to be bred t
re Kentucky Prince, q stallion t O whom
or he took a great fancy. He looked fol-
o. ward with some eagerness to the re
OK suit, but before the bay mare coul