Personal And Impersonal

- The Bangor Commercial says that a letter addrcssed to "Skaarr Eggine" has puzzled the route agenta as to its proper delivery, but an agent resolves it by forwarding it to Skowhegan. - Heraldry seems to have had its origin from the necessity of some distinguishing mark on the armor-covered participant in the tournaments and combats. From the use of these devices on garments is derived the phrase "coat of arms." - A writer upon racial characteristics says the Irish type is distinguished by light eyes, combined with dark hair, a long, low and narrow skull, prominent cheek bones and the flat, level eyebrow. The average stature of Irishmen is about five feet seven inches. - Joseph Hoffman, the infantile pianist, rules the whole family, as prodigies are very apt to do. Happening to take a meal on an ocean steamer before he started, he refused to cross on that vessel because the cooking did not suit him, and his father had to hare the baggage carried back to the pier. - Ex-Secretary Manning lives a very quiet life. He is eonstantly under a physician's care. The latter will not permit him to walk any great distance or climb a single flight of stairs. Mr. Manning has, therefore, had an elevator placed in his new home on Fifth avenue. He always rides in his carriage to and from his office. - Women who can play the fiddle are all the rage in Boston. The Hub folks now frown on the banjo, and the squeak of the catgut is heard in the land. Among the really good players are Miss Belle Botsford, who has had five years of training in Paris, and Miss Nettie Carpenter, whose bowingisparticularly good. - -.V. Y. Sun. - There are about 150 Washoe Indians at Truckee, Cal., who prove that some Indians will work. The bucks chop wood and do work of that sort, and the squaws wash and iron. Ono objection to them as servante is said to be their extreme sensitiveness. Teil an Indian to cut your wood and he'll turn disdainfully away. Impart to him, in a casual way, that you have wood to cut, and wonder who'll do it at such a price, and the noble red man will, with the air of conferring a favor, intímate that he will, and he does. - Mr. Gladstone is very fond of acting the part of lay reader at the Hawarden church. An American correspondent who was present at one of these readings says that when the anthem was ended Mr. Gladstone walked swiftly but noiselcssly up to the lectern - a splendid eagle with outstretched wings, done in carved oak - and read the story of Naaman and the little Syrian moid. His style was the perfection of simplicity - so simple that one was alinost tempted to believe it the perlection of