Personal And General

The late Charles Bradlaugh played a 6trong famo of chess, and rankod among the best players of England. He was also skilful in checkers and othcr similar games. Joel Chandler Harris, the clever writer of southern dialect sketches, flrst developed his peculiar talent while a printer on a country newspaper in Georgia. Mr. Harria is forty-three yeas oíd. Probably the largest fee ever received by a lawyer in this country was that paid to John E. Parsons, of New York, who is said to have receivod $400, 000 for service rendered in organizing the Sugar Trust. United States Senator Gorman, of Maryland, was whon a boy a page in the senate, and, as he grew up, became lts postvnaster. Later ho earned a wide reputation as a clever base-ball player, and the fine physical health which his active life gave him is still presei-vud. ProesROr Theodoro W. Dwight, who has recently retired from tho head of the Columbia law school, has been with the college since 1858, and s perIiaps the most noted teacher of. law in this country. He is sixty-nine years oíd, and a gi ndson of Timothy Dwight, a former president of Yule. James Redpath, who died in New York from injuries reeeived by bcing knocked down by a horse-car. was ono OÍ Üie best-known newspaper men and writers in this country. He was a warm friend of .John Brown, and, as a newspaper correspondent, wis with him during the Kanaua troubles, and afterward at Harpor'a Ferry. Mr. Redpath was at one time the hoad of a eucecssful lecturo bureau, and during his life had been associalod with a Bumber of magazines and newspapers. Althoug-h born on the border between England and Scotland, he w;is an ardent home-ruler; and he wis also vice-president of tho Anü-1'overty society in New York. The president of Bra.il has a long name and persons who sond dispatehes by cable from Ibat country havo a habit of splittingr it up and using ono end or tlie othet" in their messages. When he was eleeted again the other day, says a New York pnper, dispatehes the faet were reeived by a good many down-town houses whioh ato lnterested in tho South American Irado. Late in the day ono eablegram arrived whieh caused a stir, for it read: "Doodoro eleeted." If he had got in, the receiver reasoned, the othor fellow, who had been reported gucowsful, must have been defeated. So prelty soüji a ory ■was flying about that Fonseca had lost the electior.. Half an hoitr later the rumor was ealled in. It has been discovered that both Deodoro and Foneeca appeared on the card of llio Jiia.ilian president.