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The Sultan of Turkey has command
ed that the ladies of the harem shall
henceforth appear decollete. The
world moves.
A japanese school boy closed his
English composition on the whale with
the remark: The tell of the whale is
more-but | do not know fully to
tell"
Citizen Train. who is lectUring up
in New Brunswick, now adds to his
autograph, .'Omaha's Twenty Mill
ionaire, Self-Expatriated." The citi-
zen is doing quite well.
A novel case was taken before a
New York Police Justice the other
day. A red-headed girl sued the
daughter of neighbor charging that
the latter shouted white horse" every
time the complainant went out of the
house.
Joseph Gill, a German of 60 who
lives in Troy, n. Y, has been four
times married and is the father of
twenty-six children, twenty-four of
whom are living. 1t is perhaps I'M
necessary to add that Mr.. Gill is
poor man.
The Prince of Monaco has an income
of 100000 year, and is very penu-
rious. He is widower and has one
son, who is married to the Duke of
Hamilton's sister, now the Countess
Tassilo Festetics. The ultimate heir
is Prince Albert, born in 1870.
a patent dance is something new in
the line of specially protected inven-
tons. 1t is dancing master in New
Jersey that has the patent, and his
idea is mirror dance in which Sec
ond lady dances behind an empty
frame as the reflection of the first lady
in front.
Petroleum V. Nasty, who is said to
have made $1,500,000 by his humor,
was earning but few dollars a week
when he began his famous letters.
Josh Billings sold his Essay on the
Mule" for $50. and Artemus Ward,
before he tried fun, was newspaper
reporter at $12 week.
Gen. Dan Sickles never seems to
grow any older, and in spite of his
lameness he is a handsome and i'm
posing figure in any company. His
elegant military bearing and his
strong, handsome face invariably COM
mand the universal admiration of the
ladies, while all men admire him for
the courage they know to be in him.
Capt. Emerson Hadley of Marion,
Mass, owner of the Hadley mansion,
where Mrs. Cleveland visited last Au-
gust as the guest of the wife of Gen,
Greedy, has received a request from
the latter for the use of his house the
coming summer. 1t is intimated
strongly that Mrs. Cleveland will be
the guest of the Greedy family the COM
ing summer.
Bonanza Mackay, the California
millionaire, is entitled to public SYM
pathy. 1t is said that his DAYS are
made melancholy and his nights mis-
cradle by the ever-present spectre of
the pOorhOuse. Meantime Mrs. Mackay
makes merry in London and Paris,
and does not appear to entertain any
horrid dreams of possible poverty in
the near future.
The other day, near Charlotte, N.
c., Il poor workman named Marsh ac~
cidently struck with his hammer one
OF a heap of stones that had long lain
unmOlested in vacant lot, and was
surprised to find the rock rich in gold.
The discovery has caused excitement,
aud it is asserted that the rocks and
the bed of the streams about Charlotte
are full of gold.
Mrs. Merritt Trimble, Mrs. George
F. Garfield, Miss Ellen Collins, Miss
Helen Isclin, Mrs. Henry Z. Pellew,
Mrs. Everett p. Wheeler, and other
New York ladies are raising a scholar
ship fund of $4,000, whose interest
shall be used to pay the college ex-
penseS of the New York woman who
each year shall pass the best examina-
ton for entrance to Harvard.
The princess of Wales is again suf-
fering from an attack of deafness. She
is now compelled to use an ear trumpet,
necessity which she very unwillingly
submits to. The king of Greece, the
princess of Wales brother, is troubled
with a like deafness. although the
kings case is worse. 1t has been said
of him that he could not hear a cannon
roar without an ear trumpet.
Mrs. Fida Lewis died at South Had
L
which it puzzled the doctors to d.
agnose, but which was treated as
tumor. 1t was learned after her death
that twenty-six years ago, when girl
of twelve, she had fallen and driven n
darning-needle into her hip, and a post
norton examination showed that this
had been the immediate cause of her
death.
California claims to be the only state
III the Union where the olive can be
cultivated with profit, and it is argued
by local paper that there is no reason
why, in course of time, the state should
not realize as large sum from its
olive groves as Spain does from hers,
which is said to be $500 600, 900 a year,
though there is probably a mistake in
the figures $50, 900 is no doubt
nearer the truth.
The phenomenon of thirteen trumps
in a hand at whist occurred in the
United Service Club, at Calcutta, on
Jan 9. \ judge and three physicians
were the players, and they and wit
nesses made due record of it. The
pack was perfectly shuified and cut,
and the dealer held the hand. turning
mp the knave of clubs. Proctor has
| calculated that the chance of this event
! occurring is one in 15S, 750, 600, 900.
Senator Ingalls, is popularity be-
lieved to be more or less of crank
and a man with n good deal of vinegar
in his composition; but the fact that
after thirty years of public life and
/ fifteen years in the Senate he is COM
| paratively a poor man speaks we'll for
| his honesty. Since the burning of his
home the Senator and his daughter
Eave begun writing for the newspa-
pers, the proceeds going into sink
| ing fund for new house.
At a reunion dinner of Brooklyn
/ fishing club. the triumph of the con-
/ fectioner's skin was displayed IN the
unique design and quaint arrange
ment of the ices served, for on each
/ plate carefully nodded, skillfuily
modelled fisherman. fashioned Of