Personal Notes

A correspondent of an Eastetn papei says that General Robert C. Schenek, "now racked with pain, spendsmost oi lus time upon a siek bed." Gen. Grant's brother Orville wlio died recently in an asylum, lost liis reaaon after the Chicago tire in which he lost a large property. A bust of Gerrit Smith, by Cushing, of New York, has been presented to the Oneida Historica] Society of Utica, on the part of a daughter of the philanthropist. The united weight of two Vienna dwarfs reeently married in Vienna is thirty-eight pounds. ïle is thirty-one years okl, and twenty-eight inches high; she twenty-nine inches high. .Tolin Miller, of Cleveland, Ohio, wlio bas lieroically saved from drowning al di lierent times nearly 100 persons, has been presented with a gold medal worth $150 by the Cleveland" Board of ïrade. The inventor of the modern bicycle and tricycle, Mr. James Starley, who was a gardener in eurly life, has jusí died in England. He gave the worlc the "spider wlieel," which is said to have made a complete revolution in the wheel world. The Empresa Eugenie wasatDarmstadt on jfily 4th in the strictest privacy as the Marchioness Brennes. She visitad the mausoleum ef Princesa Alice on which she laid a wreatlï. She is dow at Baden, living Ui complete re tirenient. A paper in Chicago having saui tluv tliat city uses 70.000,000 gallons of water daily, the Baltünore American remarks that "half of tliat ainount ss made into beer, and the other half i uspd to scald the bristloa oft' of liogs.' The American editor has evidetltly nev er beenthere, for heseems )o have los none of his bTistlea.-Progideiice Press President Chadbourne, of Williams College, is rather a lively gentleman Besides attendiitg to his preside.Mlia duties, he lias during the ;ist year ed ited Miree volumes Eor the New Eng land Eüstoric-Genealogical Society, su perbitended the construction ot' ai eight-mile canal in connection witl Xorth Carolina gold mines, and run ; cotton mili. Three years ago Lieutenant-Governor Tabor, oL Colorado, was only the pro piietor of a sm til supply store in ; inming camp, and provided two minéis with foodand outüt tora prospecting tour around Leadville, stipulating foi a certain interest in any claim tlie; might I'md. Tlu-y BOOB discovercd the Little PittsburghMine, froiu which Mr Tabor devive.d a large fortune, since Whicb he lias been so successf ui in min ing operations c!:at he is estimated to be worth several millions. Francis Scottlvey's grave at Frederick, Md., is shabby and neglected. Ja cob Englebrecht, once Mayor of Fred erkk, and ;i mucli lionored citizen kept up untilhis death, live years ago, í curious ceremony in memory of the po et. Every Decoration Day he, wouk go to Key's grave and, standing beside it, sing "The Stxr Spangled Ilanner.' The tones always attracted a large number of people, who, catching the tnspiratioo of the, old singer, wouli: snatch up the refrain and send it ringing among the vaults and tombs of the cemetery. The capacity of several noted European churches is as follows: St. Peter's 54,000 people ;St. Paui's, 35,000; Kotre Dame, 20,000; St. Stephen's, Vienna, 12,000; St. Mark's, Venice, and Milan Cathedral, 7,000. ffm, Gale, the English pedestrian, linished his great i'eat of covering 6,000 quarter miles ir. 6,000 consecutive ten minutes at New York and continued on the track until he had added fourteen additional quarters to his wonderf ui reectd. All through, from the beginning his cpndition was normal, except once wlien he took cramps. Thefastest quarters was made in 2:07; the slowest in 9:12. At tli linish Gale wanted to bet $500 to $1,000 that he could "begin right olT" and cover 500 miles in saven days.