Personal And Impersonal

- Ex-President Arthur was a niember of the Thirteen Club of New York, and was the lirst to dio. - N. Y. Tribune. - General Francia A. Walker says at least seventy-five per cent. of the wealthy peoplo of tbis country begaB mature life poor. - Laura Bridgman, the wonderful blind woman, baa ndnirned tp the Institute for tlie Blind at South Boston. She is lifty-seven years of age. - ioslun Journal. - A ten-year-old maulen at Rose. Bank, Md., carried oft' a prize recently by repeating eight hundred verses from the Bilile whioh .slie hud lommitted to niemory. - Ferdinand Waxd works a small priating-presa at Slag Sing Prison. H shuns observaron and looks obody in tho eye. 11; ia Chin and haggard: bis breast is suuken1; bis gait tliat oi an old man. - Ar. F. Mail. - Preacher Callahan, of Madison, Ga., lost ten bales of ootton by firo. His friends are making up a purse for him, and a local newspaper taya tliat he deserves it because he is "honest, a tenant and has nine unmarried daughters." - Chicago Times. - When a Mexican girl marrics she simply becomes part of her husband's estáte. For instance, if her name iraa Anita Nunez, and she marries a Mr. José, she is then known as Anita Nuneï de José, in other words, Jose's Annie, as Jose's house or other piece of property. - Mr. Brandenburg, of Philadelphia, will go down lo posterity as the owner of the largist dog in America. Koloss is a Dani.sh hound of noble aneeMrv, is nine feet long and live feet high. He has an immense head and a Init; body of a tawny color, streaked with dark gray. - Philadelphia Record. - Dr. Crawfqrd, a young lady homeopathiBt of Chambersburji, l'a., veciíntfj' administered a ]iullic liorsewhipping to a young man who had "talked about her." The patiënt in this case was not pleased with her return to the old-sehool treatnient of bleeding and blistering. - Pniladèlphia - -Erastus Brooks, who dicd the otliiT day in New York with somethingmore than a million, wisely guarded aeainst the lawyers becoming his residuarv legatees by dividing his estáte among his children long before bis death, reservlng lor biuisull a mere competency to secure the comforts due to age and declining years. - N. Y. Tim, s. - William I. Bowditch, of Boston, the administrator of Wendell Phillips' estáte, has a little book with lcathrr baok and corners, in which "Ann and Wendell Phillips" recorded the money they gave away. The grand total, in-lusive of large and small sums, from 1845 to 187ñ, was $64,710. And yet neither of them was wealthy, in the modern acceptation of the word. - Bos ton Ilerald. - A tablet in memory of General McClellan has been erected in St. (Jloud Presbyterian Cliurch, West Orange, N. J. It is inaoribed: "George Brlnton McClellan, Major (ieneral, U. S. A., Governor of New Jersey, Eider of this Church. 'I have fought the good üght; 1 have fini.shed niy course; I have kept thefaith.' " It is of heavy rolle! brass set against a back-ground of black marble.