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they fell upon the aborigi-nsse.' The ex-Secre-
tary also sent to Bancroft this letter:

they fell upon the aborigi-nsse." The ex-Secre-
tary also sent to Bancroft this letter.
Dear Bancroft very glad to send you two
products OF my pen today barrel of picked pig
pork and my eulogy on Chief-ustice Chase. Yours,
EvARTs.
JOSEPH THOMSON, the plucky African ex-
plorer. s only twenty seven years old. He il
of medium height, but is robust and wiry. He
comes from Dumfries He accompanied the
late Mr. Keith Johnston in an expedition to the
kilmandjaro mountains as the geologst.
One Of the citizens of Salem, Mass, IL Frank
E. Vistorato who, when he was lad, was one
OF the twelve hundred Greeks that, under Marco
Bozzaris, made the famous charge at Carpenisi
in August. 1923. The Greek boy 10 now veteran,
with fine store of anecdotes OF those stirring
times.
ALEXANDRA DUMAS is one of the few wealthy
authors in the world. He has q magnificent
house in Paris filled with art treasures. Near
Dieppe he owns a beautiful chalet covered with
ivy and decorated on the inside with handsome
furniture and rare paintings. Dumas is sixty
four years of age. but strong and vigorous.
IT is said of Samuel ]. Randall that there is
hardly another man in public life who is so poor
The plain brick house in Washington 10 owned
by Mrs Randall The Randall estate does own
a large tract of Southern iron and coal lands
which he hopes some day will be worth some
thing to his children. The lands are not devel-
oped When they are they may be worth mill
ions.
SAYS the London World: Senator Flood and
his daughter upon whom he has settled fl ,000,
000), are still staying at Hombure. His health
has not benefited by the change as much as his
friends hoped. Lady Hesketh tnee Sharonl is
another of the well-known Americans now at
Homburg who is rarely omitted from the royal
parties, and has this ysarlprovsd herself to be q
skillful hostess"
lT 10 related Of Prince Bismarck that while
inspecting the harvest work on his fields not
long since, two of the reapipg women, following
az old custom, se lied him and bound him with
bands made OF straw. The Chancellor sub
mitted with good grace, and extricated himself
by paying q liberal ransom He rode away in
his carriage with the straw bands still fastened
around his arms.
PRINCESS LAETITIA BoSAPARTE really looks
wonderfully like her great the first En-
peror. Hers is rather heavy face, but 1t is
not unattractive. Her wedding dress is of
white MORE, made in the style OF the First EN-
pire, and ornamented with silver embroidery
and festoons of orange blossoms. The long
bridal veil ia embroidered !, 6h bees and eagles,
the emolems Of the house OF Bonaparte.
Miss LOIS NJ. RoYoE, onel of the sufferers by
last winters bi z blizzard in Nebraska. says in
letter to q friend in Bethel, Me-, that she has
received the pair Of artificial feet 70 provide
which teachers and others in Boston contributed
the means, and that they have already proved
wonderfully efficient. She writes: They it so
far admirably, and walk very we'll with them.
walked to the carriage this afternoon just by
taking hold of my fathers arm
Miss JULIA A. MORGAN, OF Poughkeepsie,
complaint ed to Judge Barnard that the POUCH
kespsie Bridge Railroad Company had run it's
track between the two ponds forming Morgan
lake, the lee from which brought in a profit OF
81, 900 year, and that the cipders from the To-
comotives would cause her great damage and
loss. The judge appointed commissioners TO
investigate and spprsise, and they have awarded
Miss Morgan SIS, 500 compensation money.
THE new Governor general OF Canada and
Lady Stanley have seven children, only one Of
whom is girl. The ages of the four sons, who
generally go about with their parents on their
vice-regal journeys range from seventeen to
twenty one. The eldest son, Edward, is in
England, and il tn future Lord Stanley, as the
Gov ernor- general will succeed his childless
brother as Earl OF Derby. Miss Lister a niece
of Lady Stanley, is staying with her aunt at
present.
As AN illustration OF the thoroughness Of Les
ter Wallaeks discipline. the story is told that,
when about to produce drama, the action Of
which passed at o time when mustaches and
whiskers were not in fashion. he issued an order
that all the men of his company who had parts
10 the piece must DO prepared to play with clean
shaven faces Then, as he also had part. he
hsroicaly sacrificed TO art a mustache that had
been the applause. the. delight and the wonder
Of the town.
SISGULARLY enough the last thing the late
Professor Proctor wrote was short review Of
yellow fever and kindred diseases, entitled
"Plague and Pestilence" Others OF his manu-
scripts in Mr. McClures hands are: "Are Men
AdvancingT ''Our Two Brains" Learning the
Stars Famous Comets. and Great Tele-
scopes" Professor Proctor had just signed q
contract with Mcclure to write for syndicate
Of English, American and Australian papers,
and had agreed to write for no others.
MAHLoN SHAABER. chief Of police OF Reading
Pa, is six feet eight inches high. He 10 the
tallest police officer in the country. and 1t is
record that he was the tallest soldier in the
Union army. George r. Kersey, constable of
Elzabethtown, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
heard Of Readings tall chief of police, and two
or three dsJs ago paid him visit Chief
Shsaber was surprised TO see him. Constable
kerscy 10 seven feet two inches high, and he
stood up and looked over Chief Shsabers shoul-
der the latter looked small. especially as Kerssy
was only an ordinary rural constable. Constable
Kersey tried 70 get Edward Plantz, of White
Rock. Lancaster county, who is seven feet high
and only nineteen years old, to accompany him
on the visit.
PARODY on 1.-THE Quick or the Dead en-
titled 1.-THE Rock or the Rye" has been published
in Mobile. Here is sample of il: There was
yawpine wind ahowl that night. with no mist
TO moisten il; yet IL cringed and whimpsred.
rnored and was hushed necessarily as though
wet to its skin with blizzard. Agamemra was
deucedly cut up by her beauless walk from the
grocery. and from finding thereat no letter from
Rye. for she had expected him to write. re-
mittingly. Ia the jim jam lightning she saw
her own profile clear cut athwart the suave and
compliment sky, like acids on ltmus paper; and
the dry, Whitley sand swirled clutchingy
about her massive feet IN that wetless wind.
And after what thunderous fashion those feet
DO lnded warm -bethward."