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Show PERSONAL. J Kate Field says "it takes icons to insert I common sense into poorly convoluted brains." Miss Hannah Fairchild of Westport, Conn., has been a church member for thirty years, and has not missed 6ingle service during that period. The census returns show that in the entire state of Vireinia the surplus of women ia only thirty-nine. Many a maiden will sigh for a residence in the old commonwealth. W. S. Hobart died the other day in San Francisco, worth $-i,'000,000. In 1570 he was a carman in the Choliar mine. He received $4 a day for pushing an ore-cart in the lower levels. Fredrick Schwatka, the traveler, once experienced ex-perienced a temperature of 70" below zero in the Artie regions, near Burk's Great Fish river. It is said to be the coldest ever endured en-dured by man. The home of Mr Buffalo Bill is Scouts' Rest, a long, low buildinjr, four miles from North Piatt, Neb., surrounded by magnificent stables and pasturage. Mrs. Cody is described de-scribed as an amiable, housekeeping woman, greatly liked by her western neighbors. John Marshall Wood, who died in Sprins-field, Sprins-field, Mass., a few days ago, was one of the oldest printers and proof-readers in the country, having been apprenticed to the printer's trade in 1830. Since 1X58 he bad been a proof-reader for the Merriams, the dictionary publishers- It is said that "Honest John" Palmer of Illinois has for his only private secretaries and confidantes his wife and their married daughter. Mrs. Palmer has a clear head of her own, and knows the name and record of every prominent person in the state, as well as does her husband. She declares herself more proud of his nickname than any other that could be bestowed upon him. |