Show ViA 2 Exchanges and J f The French A Academy ademy have been working on a historical dictionary for forty years It is a history of words As yet they have not reached the end of the letter A and have given up the the- effort as a bad business The New York Sun thinks Gail I Hamilton is a clever woman but that the work of writing Mr Blaines Blaine's biography could be be better done by some one else We doubt that very much There is not nota a clearer brained brined wom woman n. n No man or woman understands better than she that thata a biography to be worth anything must be tr truthful and if she bends her en energies to the work of writing a biography of the late Mr Blaine Elaine it will be about the most enchanting book of the year at the same time it will be such a a. a to Mr Bla Blaine ne that he will need none nope of or alabaster or bronze because that one one of Gails Gail's will outlast either Salt Salt Lake Daily Tribune Have you read the March Scribners Scribners- No Then Chen get it at once and read the articles to which we call special attention Story of His lis 2 Youth l is told so modestly and yet so candidly that one one- feels when he finishes reading it that Audubon was superior in one respect to to to- Dr Franklin at any rate he had modesty while that seemed to be a minus quantity Inthe inthe in inthe the character character- of Dr F. F The illustrations illustrations- found in the article are really very fi fine e.- e. Think of Jerusalem being a railway station The Jaffa f a and Jerusalem Railway the J. J J. J R. R 7 R. R is an article which tells all about this road from the time it was first projected until the- the first train ai arrived lived in Jerusalem on Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day August 27 1892 at 10 io a. a m. m The Sah Sahara r Caravan is is' isa a most interesting interesting interesting inter inter- esting account of desert traveling and trading trading- The description of the dreaded khamsin on page is good and will repay the time spent in reading it Indeed the whole article should be carefully y read lead We do not like the illustrations very well To matter of fact people like editors a picture to be good must be clear Historic Moments The Death of John Adams is an article of great value It is written by Robert C. C Winthrop who was speaker speak r of ol the House of Representatives Representatives Rep Rep- when Adams died He He Heis is isone isone one of the few living men who saw f Adams fall frill at his post of c duty uty and helped help help- ed to make his last hours houis on earth eaith easy Some one has estimated that f five ve thousand thousand and d guides will be required at the W Worlds World's molds mold's Fair Other persons equally well in informed informed informed in- in formed contend that one thousand will be enough Whether official guides are appointed or not or-not pot not it is certain that hundreds hundreds hun hun- dr ds of bri bright blight ht Chicagoans of good address will go into the business of showing show show- ing in- ng foreign visitors around the city on their own account Col ol Edmund Rice of the United States regular army has been detached for the duty of ff commanding the guards f for r the h Columbian Exposition and the force he is organizing excites the admiration admiration admiration admira admira- tion o of all visitors At the opening of the year he had less than men but the entire force is to be 2500 and every everyman everyman man is selected select d with unusual care and discrimination Every man must be 5 feet et 8 inches high and be possessed of courage and intelligence I Experiments carried the on by experts of several United States agricultural experiment experiment experiment ex- ex stations prove that a common Yankee punkin will lift two and a half J t J f 1 t k tons providing the weight is placed so as asto as' as asto I Ito to with the grow growth h and development develop develop- ment of f the vegetable Scandinavia sends to our shores the fewest illiterate persons less than one per per cent of the entire emigration from Norway Sweden and Denmark Italy sends the greatest number upwards of seventy-five seventy per cent of the immigrants from that country not knowing how to read lead or write |