Personal And Impersonal

- George W. V ïlhams, the Cincmnatl colored lawyer, has been admitted to ', the bar ia Boston. - Boston Herald. - Old Crow, a prominent Indian chief, evidently inclined to become civilAcd, hao oubüuriDeü for a Bozomau (M. T.) paper. - Chicago Times. - Thirty-five boys and four girls are ¦ the results of the married Mfe of D. J. Burke, of Jackson County,. Fla., who i has asstimed the matrimonial yoke five i times. - N. Y. JJerald, -The students of St. Andrew's University have lost a first-class lecturer , through the retirement of Minister ! Loweïl from the Rectorship of that institution. Next toGladstone and Ruskin, Lowell is said to be the most pleasing speaker in England. - Chicago ínter ucean. - Mrs. Annie Gordon, living near Bluffton, S. C, is one hundred and eleven years of age. Sha is a member of St. Matthew s Baptist Church, of that place, and walks four miles to church to partake of communion on the tirst Sunday of every rnonth. - N. O. Picayune. - The denial by Miss Jennie Flood, the daughter of the California millionaire, that she is engaged to niarry an English peer recalls the fact that she once refused a New Yorker because, as ene contemptuously told him, he had not energy enough to spatter the mud on his trousers iu rainy weather. - YTimes. -Old Captain "Jake" Vanderbilt is the name of a member of that noted family which is seldom heard. He is a brother of the dead Commodore, and, though now over fourscoro years, still bas full possession of all his faculties. He lives very comfortably on his Staten I Island farm, and seldom troubles I "Billy," as ho calis his nephew, or any of the other members of the family. - N. Y. Tribuna. - Mr. ParneU's movements have been always wrapped in much mystery. He is seldom in Ireland, and there are not more than half a dozen to whom his London residence is known. His sudden disappearance from the scène in the mulst of more than one great crisis occasioned some reflection, and for some while preceding his recent triumphant appearance in Dublin his Cork constituents could not hear from him or ascertain his whereabouts.- Phüadelphia Racord. - There is a story that Congressman Willis, of Kentucky, got his flrst nomination in his district in a peculiar way. j There were tvvo prominent candidatos I for the Democratie nomination, which was equivalent to an eloction. Their strength in the nominating convention was exactlyequal. Mr. Willis proposed to his competitorthat there should be no qnarrel about the matter, and that the readiest, fairest and most amicable way to settle it would be to toss pennios. The eompetitor agreed, and Mr. Willis won the toss, the nomination and the seat in Congress. Somebody asked Mr. Willis the other day if the story was true. "Certainly," said he, "but I hare not had to toss penniès for the nomination sinco then." - H. Y. Herald. ¦ - Tt has ahvnys been a subject of tnriosity and inquiry as to how and ¦where prairie dogs, living on the prairie tar away from any river or stream, ob tain their water Mr. F. Leech, a frontiersman of experience, asserts that the dors dig their own wells, cach villiago having one with a conccaled opening. He knows of one such well two hundred fect deep, and having a circular stairciise leading down to the water. Every time a dog wants a drink he descends the staircase, which, considj ering the distance, is no mean task. In i digging for water the animal displays as ¦ much pluck as they do in resisting the efforts of settlers to expel them from the land of their progenitors. - Denver Tribune. The Brjcgs cstiite was sulil by Adminietrator V. H. Davenport on Wednppday to Alt'rpd Mil Ier, for the mm of $1,865. Mr. Mlllei' soon atterw.irds tran.-ferred the property to CIkir. Burkbiirt. Win. Klein lias uold lik finn of 260 acie?, at $i0 per acre - u gnat baigain.