Notable Personages

Forty thousand copies of "Ben Hur" liave been sold in Germany. A memorial is to be prepared to that charining actress, Rosina Vokes, in the form of a volume of reminiscences by her husband, Cecil Clay. John Bartlett, famous as the compiler of "Familiar Quotations," is a resident of Cambridge, and is 74 years of age. His business is that of a publisher. Rev. R. A. Thompson, a Scotchman of New Britain, Conn., who has been in Japan eleven years, has given j 815,000 for a mission steamer tobe used in that country. The late Mr. Teall, who spent the later years of his life as onê of the editors of the "Century Dictionary," was the printer who set up the original copy of Poe's "Raven.'' The composer of the air of "Annie Laurie" and of the words as now sung is still alive. She is Lady John Scott The original song was in praise of a i daughter of the first baronet of i wellton. During his life, Henry D. Thoreau was able to publish only two volumes of his works, but since his death tan volumes have already found pnblishers, to say nothing about his biographies. Willíam Cullen Bryant began to I write verses when he was 10 years oíd. At that tender age he received a nine penny coin from his g-randfather for a rhymed versión of the first chapter of the book of Job. To Dr. Eoux has been awarded the prize of 12,000 francs by the French academv of moral and political sciences for his discovery of a remedy for j diphtheria. Dr. Eoux has been the í assistant of 1 teur for fifteen years. Caroline I lps Stokes of New York has clos i the library that she built in memory of Anson G. Phelps in Anson ia, Conn., be cause the local authorities have made no arrangernents to accept the gift. She has supported the library for two years. General Booth, asked by a I paper interviewer, "Do you think the I millennium will come if the whole world is converted to the Salvation army?" replied: "It would be very near at hand. If the newspaper men were converted it would be a very long step in that direction. "