People And Events

The Philadelphia postoffice wlll start postal cars on two (Fourth and Eighth etreets) of the city's trolley lines. The Maine state senate has unanirnously adopted a resolution to make Lincoln's birthday a holiday in the state. Beatrice Harraden, who has not yet .eturned to England, has written" a ZJaifornia story during her stay in this country. W. E. Foster, the editor of the Buffalo Commercial, has just celebrated the :wenty-fifth aniversary of his connec.ion with the paper. The Maharajah of Kueh Behar, India, ,ias given an order to a Birming-ham 5rm to make for him silver dessert service that will cost more than $15,000. Miss Helen Brice, daughter of Sena.or Brice is reported engaged to Mr. Henry Outram Bax Ironsides, second secretary to the British Legation at Washington. Capt. James A. Crossman, the comnander of the Allianca, which had such i narrow escape from the cannon of a ; Spanish gunboat, was an aeting ensign n the United States navy from Dec. .4, 1S63 to Aug. 23, 1865.