Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—At the trade book sales in New York the papers arc all remarking the notable fact that religious books sold for the best prices of any offered. —A scrap-book, compiled bv Thomas Jefferson while he was President of the United States, has been recently added to the collection of the Virginia Historical Society. —Dr. Auguste Fisher, of Prague, recently died from a. dose of cyanide of potassium. He was the author of a book entitled “ How to Make Cyanide of Potassium Inoffensive.” —Mrs. Stillman Alden has just died in Ludlow, Mass., at the age of eightytwo years. During her married life of sixty-six years sne and her husband were not under different roofs for a single night. —A Boston lawyer has a letter written in 1814 by a Now York firm, sayingthat they had placed in the hands of Daniel Webster a bill for collection,, and asking that the financial standing of Wobster be inquired into, as they could not obtain any settlement from him. ---Dean Stanley is described as a rather insignificant-looking person with a slightly Duilt and stooping figure, neatly out gray hair and whiskers of the old English style, a face expressively full of pleasant intelligence and dignity, and a voice, not powerful, but distinct. _ ~v —Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson lives in a pretty county house near Mobile, surrounded by books, pictures and flowers?—She is described as the most charming talker in the South, and as the possessor of a broad, open brow, straight brown hair, earnest eyes and expressive mouth. —Sec’y Evarts is not a success oa a story teller, butrhe sometimesaspirea to a joke. He perpetrated one at the President’s expense the other day, when at a Cabinet meeting he presented the credentials Ql„. Chin Lan Pin, the. Chinese Ambassador. They were written in Chinese characters similar to those seen on tea-chests and packages of iire-craokers, on a yellowish strip of paper about seven feet long and one foot wide, neatly rolled on a stick of sandal-wood. The characters were s very large and heavy, being about niree-fburths of an fnch Tn TieigßlT When Evarts commenced to read a translation-,-whieh had been made by, Yung Wing, the American-educated attache, he gravely handed the original to President Hayes, saying: ‘‘Will you be so good as to look over the original, Mr. President, to see if the translation rWmu&lSllrzrCbicago Tritmne. —A Farmingdale, N. Y., woman wants a divorce from her husband “ beoauaahe. praises God. so. the. night that it keeps her awake.” Da. Bull’s Cough Strup baa bean before the publio for years, and is pronounced by thousands superior to all other medicines for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Influence and all Pulmonary Complaints.