Folk Notes

Gen. Hancock has become very stout and heavy. Alexander Mitchell has in his house inMilwaukee probably the tínestlibrary in the West. Besides his duchy oí Cornwall, the Prince oí Wales ovvns real estáte valued at $90,000 a year. Herbert Spencer says every American geeras to have been born an hour late, and to be trying to mako up lost time. Joaquín Miller will read a poem before the New York Press Association as its tvventy-seventh annual meeting in June It is stated that Arohbishop Croke ha been sumraoned to Rome to consult with the Pope upon the state of Ireland. Gov. Sprague's fornier wife has, by perniissiou of the courts, dropped that part of her name, and is plain Kate Chase again. Arabi Pasha's lawyers have not been paid, and a subse.ription paper for that purpose is being circulated among the Bntish nobility. Count de Lesseps is 80 years old but says he is going to live long enough to cruise on the Afrioan inlaud sca which he expects to créate. The man whose word was almost law in the politics of New M;txico, the late José Leander Pearea, had amassed a fortune of $5.000.000 before he died. Frank Hess, of St. Louis, had tolled the church bell for the ciead for a quarter of a century. He died while ringing it, tolling, as it was, his own knell. The step-father of Henry M. Stanley, the great Afrioan explorer, is a thatcher and tiler in a little Welsh village, and his mother is the landlady of the inn in the same place. The wiilow of Frank Leslie is said to be the only daughter of Lola Montez, though there is another claimant for the "honor" in a woman knovvn as Edith .Diss Debar. The father is the King of Bavaria. George Alfred Townsend has bought a house in New York with the proeeeds of his pen, No. 361 West Thirtv-fourth st., which, like a good husband, he has promptly given to his wife, and in which he expects to end his literary days. Mrs. Craycroft, the sister of Sir John Franklin, died last week at her house at Dorking at the age of 70. She spent the greater part of her fortune on the expeditions whieh were sent to the Arctic regions in search of the famous explorer. Frederick N. Crouch, the composer of "Kathleen Mavourneen," has obtained an injunction to restram a Baltimore fiim from selling photographs of himself. He thinks that if any money is to be made in that way he ought to makt it. Boston Corbett, who killed Wilkes Booth, has becoroo a religious enthusiast, and in a letter to a friend in Camden, N. J., says that he ha3 been directed by God to inflict daily corporal punishtneut upon himself as a uenanoe for having taken human life. The fact is now brought to light that the lady who wrote tne famous "Widow Bedott Papers," had other gifts besidea those of mere humor. She wrote a number of exceedingly beautiful hymns. Her name was Mrs. Whitoher, and sho was the wife of an Episcopal clergyman. She died about thirty years ago. George Banoroft has passed far bejond the goal of many of the great historians with whom his name will be associated. Gibbon died at 57, Macaulay at 59, Prescott at 62, Motley at 63, Hume at oo. air. joauuruii. üm vuustripped the most fortúnate of them by oearly twenty years, and the tale is not told yet. Miss Ramnabel, a native of India, is said to be the most learned woman in the world. Age, 20; she can read, speak, and wnte in twelve languages, besides being up in astronotny, mathematica, history, ete. She is now study ing to beeome a physician. A lady in Washington owns the weddino- vest buttons aud knee-buckles of "Light-Horse Harry" Lee. They are madeof opals, surmountedbydiamonds. She also has a piece of his watch-chftin, which he brokeone evening while waltziag with her grandmother. Up to the last day of his life at Mentotie, Mr. Green, the historian, was busy giving the most minute directions about his second volume of the "Making of England," and his wife, who aeied as hissecretary and anianaensis, is left in a posilion tö edit and see it through the press. The Ottowa (Canada) Free Press says that the Governor General and Princess Louise, after opening the exhibition of art in Toronto this summer, will probably go Quebee and thenee to the fishing grounds, and that they will likely not return to Ottawa before leaving for England. A gentleman was recently asked by one of his newly-imported farm hands to write a letter for him. The substance of it was advico to his friend Tini O'Brien, to come outto America. "Tell him, your honor," said Patriek, "that we have mea twice a week here, "You knovv verv well that you get it every day," I interrupted. "Troth, an [ do, but he would think I was foolin bim. Sure, he'(' not believe me." The letter was ordered to end as follows: 'I send you twenty pounds wjth this, fo bring you over here. If yor'e alive. Tim, your'e welcome to it; but if yoi X dead, you'll just send it back at onc e.