Personal Mention

- The Empresa of Austria ia an invetérate smoker. - Talmago's sermous average thirtyfivo minutes in longth. - Colonel Bob Ingersoll has sold his $25,000 reaidenoe at Peoría, 111. - Colonel Thomas A.Scott will return to Amerioa about the lirst of September. - Dr. Zach. Chandler will apend part of the aumujer with son-in-law Hale, in Maine. - Senator Hoar sayR the safuat property in this country is the knowledge of a profession. - Senator Gordon has a 40,000-acro plantation in Georgia, tilled largely by convict labor. - Mantón Marble's marriage, so the Washington Post saya, is entirely without political significanoe. - The estáte left by the late Baron Rothsohild is variously reported at from $l:?,000,000 to $05,000,000. - Mark Twain has reoeived $156,000 royalties on the " Gilded Age," and yet he thinks he is down in hia luck. - The will of the unreconstructed femalo Dorsey in favor of Jeff. Davis, is to be contested by her brothers and sisters. - Hannibal Harulin never wears either gloves or overooat in the coldest weather. He is an enthusiastic disoiple of Walton. - Vanderbilt controls 6,102 miles of railway track on 3,020 miles of railroad, on which 27,706 employees earn $14,136,800 a year. - Senator ,T. W. Ferry has gono to Utah to visit his brothers, Col. "W. M. Ferry and E. P. Ferry, who are operating a silver ruine about 50 miles from Salt Lalce. ■ - Gov. Allen once told a friend that the hardest duty he had to perform, as govornor of Ohio, was to say " no " to womon and cUildren who appealed to hiin to exercise the pardoning power. - Senator Sharon of Nevada did not attend the extra session and ia likely to lose his pay in consequence, a law haviug been found applying to his case. Hia absenteeism has been the most conspicuoua aud disgraceful in the history of the American senate, - Vice-President Wheeler generally spends a considerable portion of his summer fishing ia the Adirondacks. He is in feeble health, however, this year, and may visit Colorado in hopes that in that latitude he may be relieved from that most dreaded of all maladies - sleepless ness.