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PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES.

There is a church in the east end of London where parties so desiring can be married for seven penoe ha'penny- 15 cents.

Mr. Albert J. Michneils has returned to the city from El Paso, Tex., where he has been residing for the past two years. His many friends will be pleased to welcome him back to his old home.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes begins to feel worn and weary with overwork, and fears a general breaking down of his system. He makes few visits and is husbanding his strength, passing most of his time quietly among his books.

Mr. Edward Garuor, an attache of Farrell and Boylan's office, found a plain gold ring inscribed "July 16, 1880, M. E. P. - F. H. E." on Valence street yesterday. The owner can recover the same by calling on Mr. Garner at the office, No. 144 Gravier Street.

There are at present at Stratford, Ct., two interesting old ladies. One is Mrs. PErry, widow of Commodore Perry, the hero of lake Erie, and the other is Mrs. Lamb, widow of General Lamb, a prominent officer in the war of 1812. They are both well on in years, but bright and active.

Colonel H. B. Richardson, chief state engineer, arrived in the city yesterday from Talluiaj, La., where he attended a meetin gof the Fifth levee district commissioners. Lieutenant H. Bolivar Thompson, assistant engineer, is surveying the Diamond island be levee, Madison parish, La., whcih is to be rebuilt.

Rev. Alexander Tournier arrived last Saturday by the steamship Nantos from Bordeaux and is a guest at the cathedral. The reverend father is the curato of the cathedral at Bone, Africa. He visits this country for the purpose of collecting funds to build a basilica in honor of St. Augustin. This basillica is to be erected on the hill of Hippone, Africa.

Mine. Nordica, the young andp opular Maine singer, hardly knows whether she is a widow or not. Her husband, Mr. Gowd, was the joint inventor or the Gowd-Bell telephone, which brought him an immense fortune. A few years ago he was experimenting with some balloon engineers, when the balloon sailed away with him and he has not since been heard from.

General Sherman in his West Point speech to the recent graduates sadi: "There is an old saying that 'knowledge is power.' This is not true. Action is power, and when guided byk nowlede produces the largest measure of results. I have encountered men who knew more of the science of war that Grand, Meade or Hancock, whom I would not have trusted with a picket guard."

Bostron Transcript: Mr. John A. Morris of New Orleans has begun work upon a fine cottage at Hull's Cover, in the suburbs of Bar Harbor. This cottage, which will be very expensive, is designed as a wedding gift to his daughter, who is to be married in the fall. Fiver other cottages are to be erected in the same vieinity this season, one of them by Mr. Yulee, son of the late senator.

J.R. Huntington of Amosbury, Mass., has decided to erect on the public square of that town an heroic bronze statue of his maternal ancostor, Dr. Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. A portrait of Dr. Bartlett, by Trumbull, will furnish the sculptor, Karl Gerhardt, his inspiration. Dr. Bartlett was the first governor of New Hampshire after it became a state.

A writer in the New York Tribune says: "In Ecclesiastes, chapter ii, verse 8, Solomon says: 'I got me men singers, and women singers, and musical intruments of all sort; and, behold, all was vanity, and vexation of spirit.' From this it is evident that Solomon 'came to grief' trying to run a national opera company. He could manage 800 vices, 700 concubines and the queen of Sheba, but hte opera was too much for him."

When Miue Nilsson first came to this country the Messrs. Strakosch pair her $1,000 a night. When she sung in opera, under Mr. Abbey's management, she received $2000, and previous to returning to Europe she proclaimed that she would not appear again except at an advance of $500 a night. If she shall come in the fall to sing in "operatic concerts" under Mr. Abbey's guidance, she will certianly not get less than $2,500 per concert.