The midland journal., 1894-03-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The French chemists are expert
| menting with cold, and in recent
test it was shown that a dog would
die at ninety-eight degrees below zero,
while snail could live to one hun
dred and ten degrees below.
The simplest way to tell iron from
steel is to pour on the metal drop of
nitric acid, and allow it to act for one
minute. On rinsing with water a
graylish-white stain will be seen if
the metal is iron; black one if it is
steel.
Henrik Ibsen, uthe Norwegian au-
thor, carries small mirror and comb,
and from time to time he glances at his
hair, and if any part of it appears to be
in place he forthwith combs it into the
| disorder that imparts to pictures of him
that scared expression.
-Archduke Eugene of Austria, who
was year ago a candidate for the
archbishopric of Olmutz-which went
to cardinal who has taken his par
ents, Jewish peasants, to live with him
in his paiace-has accepted the COM
mand of an infantry brigade stationed
at Olmutz.
Bret Harte, although past fifty and
in poor health, is very handsome
| man. His face retains an appearance
of youth, while his hair is silvery
white. He has slender figure and an
erect and graceful carriage. He is a
clubman and much sought after in So
ciety, but goes out infrequently.
William Watson, the English poet,
has entirely recovered from his recent
attack of insanity, and is writing once
more with all his accustomed grace
and charm. His new poems, among
which are some very powerful sonnets,
will soon be published in the London
papers, and have already been copy
righted in America.
The first President Harrison, the
''Tippecanoe" of historic fame, left
many descendants, two of whom live
in Washington. They are named Rey-
nolds, and they have in their posses.
sion a big hair-cloth armchair that
was given to ''Tippecanoe" by the la.
dies of Indiana. 1t is very uncomfort-
able, as there are great raised flowers,
done in worsteds, and an American
eagle in beaded work.
Recently blished pictures of Pad
erewski show that his remarkable hir-
suite development was not congenial.
At least, in the portraits of him at the
ages of three and ten there are no in
dications of an extraordinary growth
of hair; in fact, at those ages his hair
was straight and short, but by the time
he reached eighteen his head had be-
gun to assume the appearance that is
now familiar to the music-loving pub.
lie.
w. Martin Conway, who is lectur-
ing at the Royal institution, in London,
on his recent explorations in the Him
alayas, has traversed more ground in
those perilous regions than any other
explorer Although his journeyings
there have covered over three thousand
miles, he says that the portion of coun.
try which he explored, compared with
the mountainous region that has not
yet been touched, is as the size of a
postage stamp to large quarto page.
-Galusha A. Grow, just elected con-
gressman-at-large from Pennsylvania,
is one ,of the most interesting living
links connecting the present with the
past. When he entered politics Lin
coin and Sherman were country law
yers, Grant an obscure captain on the
Pacific coast, and Garfield a mule
driver on the Ohio canal. He saw Clay
and Webster in their old age and Sum
ner and Everett in their prime. Mr.
Grow will be seventy -one next Aupust
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