Knoxville Journal

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The New York Evening Mail says that Barnum's chariot girl who was to have married the unfortunate Donaldson has entered a convent somewhere in Canada.

—Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) recently gave a reading in Newport, and a lively sheet of that city is so unkind as to say: 'Mr. Clemens' manner suggested his own remark that he had seen slower people than he was—more listless, apathetic—but they were dead.'

—Gen. Meyer ('Old Probabilities') has a sensitive face, but the curves and angles of his mouth denote the mental stamina and poise indispensable to his vocation. 'A large-framed, muscular man is this god of the thunderbolts,' says a writer, 'but his voice is as soft and low as a woman's.'

—It would appear that the statement that Donaldson's children are in destitute circumstances is untrue. Mr. James Keefer, of Rochester, N. Y., who has been appointed their guardian, finds that Donaldson's property will pay them an annual income of several hundred dollars—enough, in fact, if properly managed, to rear and educate them quite well.

—After all that he has done for that ungrateful State, a California paper comes out and speaks of Mr. James Lick as an 'old, superannuated, lichen-covered individual, thin-visaged, sharp-angled in forehead and chin and nose, with a full shock of matted and tangled black hair, slightly sprinkled with gray, covering his head nearly down to his eyes, which are a cold, pale, bluish gray, and a long, straggling underbeard covering his throat.'

—It is said that A. T. Stewart has made more money this season than was ever made by one establishment at an American watering-place. He will expend $300,000 on the Grand Hotel before its reopening next year. It costs something to officer that hotel. The head cook, a giant in size, receives $2,500 for the season, or at the rate of $1,000 a month, yet it is not considered a large salary. He has thirty-two cooks and assistants under him, and is responsible only to the steward, who is autocrat over 212 waiters, fifty laundry women, thirty-two cooks and assistants, and a constabulary of storekeepers, contractors for supplies and runners.

—When Mr. Sankey, the singing associate of Mr. Moody, was in Great Britain, he used to sing, among those of his own, four little songs which are the property of Mr. W. H. Doane, of Cincinnati. Arriving at his home in Pennsylvania, the other day, Mr. Sankey sent fifty dollars to Mr. Doane, saying that he felt he owed him that much for the pieces, and adding that 'many thousands have been blessed by your songs whom you will never see until you meet them 'beyond the river,' safe in the arms of Jesus,' where the 'prodigals have found the way-house' by hearing 'the old, old story of Jesus and His love.' Mr. Doane very promptly returned the token, with the asseveration that he felt richly repaid by having his compositions become as familiar as household words to all classes of British society.

—Symphony is writing for the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser a series of articles on the 'early music of Buffalo.' As the early music of that place was principally furnished by the frogs it is well if these primitive artists are at last receiving the recognition so long withheld from them through the machinations of the brass band.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

—A Toronto (Canada) merchant advertised a few days ago for a boy to run errands. Besides a large number of boys, no less than eighteen middle-aged men were applicants for the vacant situation; on being told that a boy was required, the men offered to take the job at the same wages that would be paid to the youth.

—Always save the earliest and best seeds for your own use; by so doing for years the quality may be greatly improved and early ripening will be hastened.