The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-26
PERSONAL AND LITERapv

Miss Edna Dean Proctor ro..
 wants to be known as the anps., pUSVeSs
 maize as the national Aowor e or considers Indian corn as boin she
 most distinctively American pro5H.! the
 -The oldest mathematical hoo, the world is called the "po~ SA h
 Rhind." It is in manuscript, of cdGI psrS
 and was written by one Abmo"Se Egyptian, who lived in the vear ,9' odp an
 B. c. The book is now in the R Eritis t9po
 museum. 'SA
 Samuel Minturn Peck, the o,.. laureate" of Alabama, lives in o,,. poet
 home on the outskirts of Tusc,Ia-' Tl'i'
 He is handsome, genial and briIIioSa a medical graduate, though he Jon
 not practice, a good pianist, S sSS singer, and an entertaining corro-ln le tionalist SS'
 Judge A. B. Norton, the old por,,,
 man with unshorn hair and heanS
 carrying a cane given him by UenrS Clay, who has been seen at all renr5 lican national conventions, died ~, Dallas, Tex, recently. He made yon. in 1s44, not to have his lhair cu, ,;,ii Clay was elected president, and paidna toll to barbers for inc last odd 6+D years.
 Here is another evidence of tba r. gard in which the lady who figures mn. der another name in "Dodo" has baor held by her countrymen. The dedic,. tion of the late John Addington Sv. mond's Essays, Speculative and Sro. gestive," runs as follows: "To Miss Margot Tennant, in memory of long dark winter nights at Davos, mada luminous by witty conversation.
 The late Chief-Justice Stone of Al. abama was held in high esteem as man, as we'll as in great repute as A jurist. He served on the bench for more than fifty years, in that time de. ciding more than two thousand four hundred cases. Gov. Jones, in an. nouncing his death, said: No greater or purer man ever lived or died in Ala. bama, and none whose death was A greater calamity"
 May Brooklyn's squandered savinoS were contributary cause to three sui. cides, those of the young woman her. self, of F. A. Lovecraft and of voung Hebrew who was their partner in luckless business enterprise. The younp Hebrew had the business knowledge needed for the undertaking, and h was reputed honest and industrious but when he saw the venture must be a failure he threw himself beneath the wheels of train.
 Mrs. Lydia Hoyt Farmer. author of "A Knight of Faith, |" "A Short His. tory of the French Revolution" "The Life of La Fayette," etc., and editor of What America Owes to Women" has been the recipient of a note of thanks from Queen Victoria, to whom Mrs. Farmer recently presented a copy of the beautiful white and gold exposi. tion edition of the well-known work: "The National Exposition Souvenir: What America Owes to Women"
 -Pietro Sbarbaro, once member of parliament and one of the most remark. able men in Italy, died a few days ago in the top story of Roman tenement house. The king paid his funeral ex- penses. Before he was twenty years old he was famous as an authority on political and economic subjects. In 1866 he fought for the freedom of Lom. bardy. In 1870 he became professor of political science and the philosophy of law at Modena. His star began to descend soon afterward on account of the grave and uncalled-for attacks which he made on public men. He got the idea that it was his duty to tell the world everything unworthy which he could learn of men in public life. He spent many years in prison on this &C., count, lost the places which he had filled with honor, and died "the best. hated man in Italy"