Personal And Impersonal

- They do say that a girl neverlook so pretty to a young man as when she hds just rcfuscd to behis wifc. - Somera ville Journal. - Pierre Lorillard has spent one milUon three hundred thousand dollars on Truxedo Park, on the Ramapo, in New Jersey. - tï. Y. Times. - G. B. Thayer, son of ex-Senator Thayer, of Connecticut, traveled 4,224 miles this year on a bic vele. He left his home in Vernon, Conn., last ApriL -Hartford Post. - Frederick the Great in his youth was noted for his stubboraness and bashfulness and, we are told, showed this at his sister's marriage. Instead of appearing at the ceremony in court attire he came with the servants, dressed as ono of their number. - It is not generally known that President Lincoln was an inventor, but the first instalment of the "Lincoln Life"' in the t'entury contains reduced fac-similes of the drawings in the Patent üflicc, on which was obtained a patent for "A. Lincoln's improved manner of buoying vessels." - Blind Bill, a colored inmate of a Georgia poor-house, has amostremarkable sense of touch. He can teil any one whoni he has met by fceling of his hand. A man whom he had not met for ten years shook hands with him the other day and Bill at once called him by name, though not a word had befora been spoken. - N. Y. Sun. - Jay Gould hgures that if he shonld give fifty men nve thousaud dollars each to go into business for themselves one-half would fail and lose all within five years, and the other twenty-five would be niad because he was able to make it ten thousand dollars and didn't do it. He argües that men appreciate their own earnings far more than a gift. - Mrs. Grant still takes special interest in one of her oil-paintings, a large canvas representing herseif, the General and their children as they appeared just after the close of the war. "It may not be a work of art," she says, "and, indeed, some of my friends ask me why I let it hang in my parlor, but to me it is better than a work of art." - Chicago Journal. - A St. Paul p'l'"r wvñ Tlmma Abiiou a mg cornpliment. Me was sitnng by the singer's husband while she was singing in "La Traviata," in which the heroine is dying of consumption. Kiniiia was doing her best, cough and all, and the editor, turning to Mr. Wctherell, said most sympathetically, "Your wife seems to have quite a bad cold." As soon as Mr. Wetherell recovered he explainrd that the cough was part of tbc performance. - Mrs. A. T. Stewart's immediate faniily was not very large. Sbe had three unmarried half-sisters, Misses Anna, Julia and ('mina Clinch, and a nephew and a niece, the children of Charles P. Clinch, her half-brother, who, for fifty years before his death, was a deputy collector of New York. The nephew was Mrs. Stewart's favorite. He Is Charles J. Clinch, a resident of Paris, where he is President of the American Club. - N. Y. Herald. - Two well-known characters among the ünondaga Indians have recently died. One was Aunt Cynthia Farrar, famous for her wealth. She kept a bank account at Syracuse, loaned thousands of dollars, "and bought the land of her debtors when they could not repay her. The other celebrity was Aunt Dinah, an Onondaga of pure blood, and believed to be one hundred and ciht years old when she died. She was feeble and totaily blind, but had e-ood use of her mental faculties.