Show PERSONAL MENTION Senator Mark Ilanna receives thrco bushels of letters dally Ho reads none of tho letters hlmsolf however unless they aro of a personal nature S 04 A H Copeland the first train dir patcher In the world Is at present living in Chenoa a village In Illinois V 4 O Lord Roscbcry says tho average reader spends too much tlmo In munching crab apples unconscious of tho choicest fruits of tho tree of knowledge S u S Prof Harry Thurston Peck of Colum bIn university Is giving a novel course In Latin versification Tho course Is uijlque being tho only ono of Its kind In tho United States o a 5 Alfred Edward Morgans the now West em Australia Premier spent many years mining In Mexico where ho was a per sonal friend of President Dlaz o SO It was tho afterdinner oratory of Judge Charles H Darling just appointed As sistant Secretary of tho Navy that first attracted President Roosevelts attention to him Ho Is a Vermonter and tho only wit in tho department S an At the banquet to bo given to Andrew Carnegie next February when ho dedi cates tho laboratory of engineering of tho Stevens Institute of Technology built l with money givon by him tho oysters will bo cooked in a miniature blast fur race constructed by the students and tho ice cream would bo molded In the form of railroad spikes a M 0 Mrs Robert Robertson an art critic and lecturer on art of Port Vayno Ind during iv rhcent visit to Kokoino found In a econdhand store where Mho was searching for antiquities a plcturo of Martha Washington which flutists havo pronounced a striking and beautiful work otrirt eo a S Tho Czar Is reported to havo advised tho withdrawal of the excommunication pronounced by tho holy synod against Count Tolstoi Tho reason assigned Is that in the event of Tolstois death a refusal to bury him In consecrated grounds might cause a popular uprising |