Folk Notes

General Grant, being invited by Mr. G. W. Childs to a dinner given to the Farmers' Club of Philadelphia, said in a letter decliuing the invitatiou that he would have hked to be present, as the speeches would certainly be short if the speakers confined ihemsalves to their farming experieuces. Last week all the personal effects ot Presideüt Garfield, stored in the east room of the White House, were trans ported to Mrs. Garfield at Cleveland, Ohio. They iucluded the books, picture3, household decorations, etc, brought to the White House by Gen. Garfield and purchased by him while there, Mrs. Garfiuld's tlresses, etc. Thore were about 30 boxes. The Alderney cow presenttd to President Garfield was also placed on the train. Special cara were placed at Mrs. Garfield's dispoeal by tbe Pennsylvania railruad cornpany. The goods will be taken to Mentor, but the cow will be taken to Cleveland, where Mrs. Garfield has her residence for the winter. The horses purchased by General Garfield have been left in care of General Swaim, and the carriage and harneïS stored with the McDermotts. The Marquis of Ljrne, on the eve of his depaiture from Caxada, said that his wie was now told by her medical advisers tbat she could not return to Canada undl next spriDg. He will rtturn about a fortuighr, after New Yeara. Dr. Erasmus Wilson, the eminent, English surgeon, is quoted as sayiug tbat the Pnncess was seriously iujured by her accident last winter. A. son of Prof. Marsh of Granville, Ohio, was receatly married to a daughterof Prol. Sheppard, Principal of the Female Seminary at that place. Mr. and Mrs. Julián Hawthorno intend to spend the winter at the "'Old Manse" in Coacord. Mr. Hawthorne is at present in Italy, taking notes for a magazine paper on the places de scribed in his father's novel of "The Marble Faun." The Princesa Dolgorouki, the late Czar's widow, spent Ootober in Paris. MR8. GAEFIELD TO CYRUS W FIELD. Mentor, Ohio, Not. 7, 1881. Dear Fkibnd. - Your letter of Ooi ober 26 ia received, giving me a final staieraeut regardmg the iuud fur Gen. Garfitld's family, so kinuly supervised by you. As I have heretofore ixiade only verbal acknowledgment, 1 now wish formally to municate to you, acü tnrougn you 10 all who have cuntributed to it, my thanks for this generous testimonial as an expression of the high esteem in which my husband was held, and as a tribute to his memory. My children joiu me iu this gratitude and in the desire that, as we accept this trust in their father's name, we may _be able to use it íe a way worthy of him and -atisfactory to those by whom it bas been bestowed. With sentiments of high regird and with siucere regard to you, my dear friend, I remain, Very Truly Youre, Lucretia 1{. Gakteeld. An Ohio educator has recentlv called attention to the iact that there is in the homes of the people a lamentable neglect of the duty oí directing the reading of the young with a view to the formation of a correct taste. There can be no question that the boys and girls who are getting their first taste oí the pleasure iound in books may be so guided that the early passion for exciting stories shall bc supnlantedby a desire for a more stantial and beneficial kind of reading. It is the thoughtlessness and indolence of parents which permit the child from seven to fifteen to feed its mind with fiction - an evil but slightly mitigated by perhaps some little care taken to see that the fiction is uf the Sunday school library order ; and it is not strange that it becomes so difficult as it is usually found to be, to draw the young man or oung woman from the novel to something better. A taste for historical.biographical, scientific reading can be fostered at an early age, and the whole mental man and the whole afterlife be the sounder and the better for it. -p. The HiGH-pressure evil,the bane of our public school system, has broken out in Canada. The Toronto Globe opens fire on il. There ought to be enough of the good old English conservatism in the to check it. As for us on this side the line, "Slow and sure" is an almost forgotten motto. Our children are doomed. Galvalized iron is iron covered with zinc in a zinc bath. Forruerly it was covered by the aid of electricity, created by a galvanic battery, but lately it is covered with zinc in the same manner that tinned iron is made, still keeping its old name. Zinc will corrode underneath paint, and form zinc oxide, a white powder, which loosens the zinc and drops it off.