Gossip About People

Mrs. Wendell rhillips is still living qnietly in tho house which was her luisband's last home, in the southern part : of Boston. An Andersonville, Gn., -physician boasts of haviug a watch 213 yenrs old and a dock over 1 60 years old. both running and keeping good timo. Mrs. E. D. E. X. Southworth hasjust finished her seventy-first novel - ton more than one for every yoar of lier , life. Bonnor lias an iron-clad contract with her, binding her ti write for him alono, and on d mand, it (8,000 v yoar. Tho total nnmber of hoga packed in Cincinnati th past winter was 395,435, against 365,451 for theprecedingseason, an incrcaso of ncarly 20,000. Capt. G. W. Bonrke, IT. S. A., of Gen. Crook's staff, it Wliipple barracks, says ho rocently delivered a leeture to the pcnple of Prescott, and that "hall j the audience wcro asleep in twenty minj utes. Whea I stated that I wonld not detain them longer the applause was ! j deafening." Of the seventy-six United States senators, at least thirty-two aro professors of religión, including one Jew, one Roman Catholic, nnd two Unitarians. Of these, slxteeñ, or just half, are ■ Presbyterians. A Boston girl wlio is teaching in Colorado writes home asfollows: "I have forty scholars of all ages and teach al most evervthing. r, history, physiology, tnathematios, manners, moráis, ootumon sen se, personal - liness, faucy work and general civilization." "Xo," said a Vermont deacon, "Idon't approve of horse racin', but when ; other meinberof the ehurch beoomes so : goilless as to try to pass me on the ' ', road comin' liome from meptin' I foei it my duty to let out a littlo on the ' reina, just to keep him from puttin' hia ■ trust in earthly things. " In a recent breada of promise snit the "cOürse of true love" was traced in this manner: "Dear Mr. Smith," "Mydear ; ; John," "My darling John," "My own . darling John, My darling John," i ■ i) .Tom." Dear Sir,' "Sir," and all was over. One of the prominent citizens of j Adairsville, Ga., feil asloep while in chtirch. His wife, sitting by. pushed '■ him gentlv to arouse him, when tlie I "old soldier," in a half sleppy way, ! cried out audlbly, "Oh. get up Molly, and make the flre yourself." General C. W. Lowry, Principal of the Blue Mountain Female College of Bluo Mountain, Miss., feil dcad from heart disease as he was getting on a train for New Orleaus. He was a prominent General in the Confedérate army. A few days after Dickens's death an Englishman, deeply grieved at the j event, made a pilgrimage to Gad's Hill, i and as he was baving some refreshment ! at Ihe famous John Falstaff, Inn, near at band, tho eiïusiveness of hisemotions proinpted him to ';■: the waiter into 1 his confidence. ''A great loss, this, of ! Mr. Dickeus," -sail the pilgrim. "A ' ! great loss to us, sir," replied t!;e waiter, I shaking h is head, "he had all his ale i seut in l'r jm this house." The will of Francis A. Drexel, thn decoasid Philadelphia banker, was adniittod to probate. Aftor givingr direotions rolative to tlie settlement of his Inisiness interest., Mi-. Dreitel ouders the cxeoutora to makp an inventory of the cstati', and as soon thereafter asexpedieni shall rai.se out of the net residuary estáte (after paymetit of some private bequests; 10 per cent of the valuation in cash and distribnte it to variotis charitable iustitiitions. At a recent dinner party in London a disúnssion aróse coiïcerning tho exohange of genius between Englanil and : tho United States. For every actor, ! singer, lecturer, or person of note si ut here by England the United States made a return. There was Bootli for Irving, Mary ndersor: for Ellen Terry, Patti foi Niïsson, as Patti really belonged to ns lir-i ; Joo Jefferson for , I Southern, and so óii. At lengtli, Alma Tadöma, wlfo was biie of the guests, said : "England is one ahead of tho (Jnited States. We sent Oscar Wilde over there but she lnd no fooi to send back." "Old Spear, " tho actor, who becamo aninmate of the Forrest Home in Philadelphia, once sent to Chanfrau the following: Thank God for a bod to lie down on and a roof to cover me. God ] help all those without a roof, houseless, ' homehss wretched ivanderers. God i bless iny wife, childréh, grandohilflren ; and all my sincere friend; and relations. ■ Pardon my manifold sitis and , gressions, and enable me to become a j wifltl' and better man. God bless the memöry of liilwm Forrest and his friond James Oukes. I hope they are now happy and Burrounded by their trne and tried friends. If spirits of tho depart ed are permitted to watclj over those on : earth, look down, guard, protect us from all evil. Peaco and good will to 1 all men. Amon.