, 1891-10-13
GENERAL AND Personal.

A salmon weighing 5A15 pounds was
caught in the Solway, Scotland, couple
of weeks ago.
Contrary to recent rumor, Mrs. Frances
Hodgden Burnett intends to return to
America in a few weeks.
Melbourne wants million from the gov
eminent for his rain recipe; and if Justice
isn't done he may make the heavens fall.
Skeletons of British soldiers of the war
of 1872 have been found at Lundy's Lane
at Niagara Falls, Ont, in a trench in the
sand pit opposite the cemetery.
Sara Bernhardt laments lost opportuni-
ties for painting Indians. She considers
them picturesque in every respect, and
says that they are splendid subjects.
Associate Justice Stephen J. Field, who
has been in poor health for some time, has
so far recovered that he expects to return
to the bench this month.
When w K Vanderbilt passed through
Chicago last week he wore loose suit of
grayish-blue Indian material that did not
appear to be worth more than $40.
Parnell, if one may believe the Boston
Globes correspondents loved and sought
in marriage Providence girl, twenty years
ago, but her stern father, a millionaire by
the way, said nay.
The Alpine Club of Berne, is building
hut for signal purposes on the peak Of
Monte Rosa, at an altitude of nearly
$4,000 feet. The hut has the highest Site
of any building in Europe.
1t is now claimed that a majority of the
committee Of 25 old friends of Jefferson
Davis, appointed pass upon the Jackson
statue of the confederate PRESIDENT favor
accepting it as a good likeness.
A rum smuggler bound for Lewiston,
Me-, was detected when his horse ran
away in Auburn and scattered five and
ten-gallon kegs of liquor along the road.
Three residents picked up free supplies.
Rose Coghlan's experience with mans
attire in her new play has not encouraged
her to adopt the dress reformers' Bloomer
too much to relinquish them.
New York Sun: The like Of the wealth
er the past month III this part of the
country has not been recorded since 1847.
In New England number of springs and
wells are dry that were never in such con
dition before.
A three-year-old child in Lewiston, Me-,
babbles in three languages French, SWed-
ish and English. Her father is French and
her mother is Swede. She picked up
English from customers in her fathers
fruit store.
indianapolis News: Robert Bonner
will beat the famous record of Maud S. No
sooner will this be done than the horsemen
will set diligently to work to traiu horse
which shall surpass that speed.
Teacher Keep your hand down, John
Lillings; when am ready will call upon
you. Clen minutes later).-Now, John
Billings, will hear what you have to
soy" John Billings-"I only wanted ter
tell yer that ! seed tramp in de hallway
hook yer gold-headed umbrella.
An edition of Walter Scott's novels on
an unprecedented scale of magnificence is
soon to be established in England. Andrew
Lang is to edit the work and he will have
the use Of many interesting notes pro
yided by Scott's granddaughter.
Albert Cusick, full-blooded Onondaga
Indian, has been ordained deacon of the
Episcopal church. He has been a lay
reader in the mission at the Onondaga res
ervation and he is the first Indian received
into the Episcopal church in New York
state.
Ex-senator ingalls, has doffed the rustic
a ttire in which he used TO be clad when he
drove into town from his potato patch.
While he waited in station at Kansas
City far train the other day he wore his
historic, tightly buttoned Prince Albert
coat, with pair Of highly colored trous-
ers.