People We Read Of

Four hundred tb .usan:l copies of Bellamy's "Looking Backward" have been sold. General Lew. Wallace is writing another book. but he vvill not teil what it is about. George Kennan of Siberian fame has had writer's cramp so badly that he has to use a lead pencil instead of a pen. The shah has conferred upon the czar the Azdas order, the highestPersian decoration, set in brilliants and bearing a portrait of the shah in the center. Professor Robert Seeley of Cambridge university, whose death was announced recently, was the author of "Ecce Homo," a work which hag been read by rnany thousands of people. Eev. Dr. Blodget, who has been a Congrejrational missionary in China forty yeai-s, recently retnrned to America. Dr. Blodgett is a native of Maine, and was graduated f rom Yale college in 1848. Frank Stouch of Readtng, Pa., althoug'h in his eighty-seventh year, stil! teaohes dancing, and is said to be as active as a vigorous man of fifty. During his long career as a dancing master he has had 23,000 pupils. Stanley Weyman is described as short of stature, with a fine head and eager, alert eyes. He began life as a struggling lawyer, and dabbled in iournalism. His first historical romance was "The house of the Wolf." John Grace's grave in Cape May county, New Jersey, is to have a monument, after having gone unmarked for a century. Grace was a scout in the revolutionary war and served on General Washington's personal staff. Charles Villers, the father of the house of commons, recently celebrated his ninety-third birthday; he entered parliament in 1835, and has represented Wolverhampton without a break for sixty years. He was one of the leaders in the fight for the repeal of the corn laws. Martin Fisher, an employé of the Postal Telegraph Cable eoinpany in Philadelphia, is a remarkable man. While lie lost his right arm below the elbow, and has but the thumb and two fingers of his left hand, he is one of the most expert telegraphers and typewriters in the employ of the company.