Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Ci~^K ot . <? y ,n ,ort x I ~W ye** -8 a K° J JB ( agri<-iilurra| $rt jbj WWust been reprod one of Jua articles ia so valuable, what is Long John Went-worth f RacMtAtr 1 C %heJslaiUi of (BenikMe, fjlith ?ihe bidding* ujJP it, Was WvertKl toWMr. John Anderson, who presented it to the late Prof. Agaaaiz for a summer school of natural histoty. The island having ceased to be used for school purposes, Mr. Anderson intends to make it again his summer home. —The famous Sears will-case at Boston, in which a stated income was to be allowed to the testator’s son, but no provision was made for the final disposition of the immense property, is at last settled, the Supreme Court having decided that the whole property is to go to the sou, Joshua Montgomeiy Sears, now a student at Yale College. —George Sand's last illness is said to have been brought on by working against advice, when indisposed. This is quite characteristic of her, for in her latest published work there is a description of a grand sunset, wherein she says she was entreated to leave the window from fear of catching cold; “ but what matters a running at the nose compared with my rapt contemplations ?” —George Francis Train, so asserts Jennie June m the Baltimore Amsncan, “ is now- generally considered a lunatic.” She says that he sits ten hours every day on a shaded bench in Madison Park, petting children who play there. He will shake hands with no adult, for fear it might take strength out of him: and he says he is developing a will power that will in time enable him to kill anybody bv a mere exertion of his mind.