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henceforth appear decollete. The
world moves.
A Japanese school boy closed his
English composition on the whale with
the remark: 1.-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
ionaire, Self-Expatriated." The citi-
zen is doing quite well.
A novel case was taken before a
Now York Police Justice the other
day. A red-headed girl sued the
daughter of a neighbor charging that
the latter shouted 'twhite horse" every
time the complainant went out of the
house.
Joseph Gill, German of 60 who
lives in Troy, N. Y. has heeh four
times married and Is the father of
twenty-six children, twenty-fouc of
whom are living. 1t is perhaps un-
necessary to add that MIR. Gill is II
poor man.
The Prince of Monaco has an income
of $500, ZOO 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 Festetcs The ultimate heir
is Prince Albert, born in 1870.
A patent dance is something new in
the line of specially protected inyen-
fions. 1t is dancing master in New
Jersey that has the patent, and his
idea is a mirror dance in which sec
ond lady dances behind an empty
frame as the reflection of the first lady
in front.
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,
Greely, 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., poor workman named Marsh ac-
cidently struck with his hammer one
of 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,
and 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 raisinga sc olar-
ship fund of $4,000, whose interest
shall be used to pay the college ex.
penses of the New York woman who
Sacl year snail pass the oeSG SSdiniud-
tion for entrance to Harvard.
The princess of Wales is again suf.
fering from an attack of deafness. She
isnow compelled to use an ear trumpet.
necessity which she very unwillingly
9 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 cannon
roar without an ear trumpet.
Mrs. Fida Lewis died at South Had
ley Falls, Mass, recently of a disease
which it puzzled the doctors TO di-
agnose, but which was treated as a
tumor. 1t was learned after her death
that twenty-six years ago, when Il girl
of twelve, she had fallen and driven a
darning-neetlle into her hip. and post
mortem examination showed that this
had been the immediate cause of her
death.
California claims to be the only state
in 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 $3G0. 900, 900 year,
though there is probably mistake in
the figures $50 900, 600 is no doubt
nearer the TRUTH
The phenomenon of thirteen trumps
in hand at whist occurred in the
United Service Club, at Calcutta, on
Jan 9. A judge and three physicians
were the players, and they and wit
nesses made due record of it. The
pack was perfectly shuff1ed and cut,
and the dealer held the hand, turning
up the knaye of clubs. Proctor has
calculated that the chance of this event
occurring is one in l58, $50, 900, 900.
Senator ingalls, is popularity be-
Eeyed to be more or less of crank
and man with 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 poor man speaks well for
his honesty. Since the burning of his
home the Senator and his daughter
have begun writing for the newspa-
pers. the proceeds going into sink
ing fund for new house
At a reunion dinner of a Brooklyn
fishing club, the triumph of t e con-
fectioner's skill was displayed in the
unique design and quaint arrange
ment of the ices served, for on each
plate a carefully nodded, skillfully
modelled fisherman, fashioned of
creams of various colors, stood with a
fishing rod of single straw in his
frozen hand, hanging from " Which on a
silken line sugar fish rested in
small tub of biscuit tortoni.
Rear Admiral Heneage, the officer
commanding the British Pacific sta
ton, is earning the epithet of ''Sir
Joseph Porter" He has forbidden
any officer or man to walk on the poop
of the flagship while he is there. aud
insists on the crew uncovering their
heads as long as he is on deck. He
also requests his officers to wear white
Kid gloves at divisions on Sundays,
and to have their frock coats and
tunics buttoned on all occasions.
Mrs. Anna Gibson Yates of Carlisle,
Pa, who is now before Congress for