Literary Notes

The Wide Awake for August appnan with i new cover. It is neat and arti-iir, out wlietlier or not it is humWotner than the old one, is a questioti. So far :i we are concerned we tliink the old cover preferable. Hut there are thousaudsot lastes to consult. In the August instalment of Mr. Howell's new novel, "Tlie Minish-r's Charge," now appering in The Ontury. oocun the following passage: - "tSewell" [the minister] "uiused awhilc. Then he utld with a natie, 'U's very much simpler to fit pcople for the otlier world thun lor tiiis, dom yon iiiinkr' ¦ Ter., u i.v [pii the editor]. 'It was a cold day tor ttie clergy when it was iniagined tiiat tlicy ought to do both.' " A little boy, the son ot n "Friend," about six years old, atter sittini; like the rest of the congiesatimi in lllénce, ill being afiaid to Bpeak l'ust. got up on the seat, and, folding liis anus over lus breast, Baid, distinctly: " 1 do wish the Lord would uiake us all gooder, jjooder, gooder, till there Is no bad left." - Ex. The following is said to be a complete list of the ""war Governors" now lmni: Curtin, of I'ennsylvunm; Kirkwnod, of Iowa; Ramsey, of Minnesota; Spfague, of Khode Island; Berry, ot Nm Éampsliirc; Blair, of Michigan; and Bolonaon, of Wisconsin. Li?e Puckett and Georre Cheek, of Gwinnett County, Ga., cut down a bee tree, expecting to find it full ot boney. TlR'y tiiund instead a blaokSDake -ix feet long, whioh had eaten all the honey, Ittivinji iiothing but a mass of hard, dry conib.