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PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Mr. henry James Is quite unwen in Lon
don
ODouoTan Rosa has taken TO writing
poetry
William Gladstone says he viii never sit
for another portrait
William D. Hcwells will spend the summer
10 the neighborhood of Boston
King Charles, of Roumania, is one of the
most expert trout fishermen in Europe.
Bouiangers book appears to have fallen
Cat and is already drug in the market
Robert Browning recently refused 1900
from Boston publisher for short poem.
Robert Louis Stevenson considers Henry
James the greatest of living American novel
ista.
Senator Shernan's estate at Mansfield, O.,
including stocks and other investments, is
estimated at slo0,coa
Alan Arthur, son Of the late president Of
The United States, was presented" at the
ievee held by the Prince of Wales.
The Vanderbilts spend enormous sums on
furniture, bric-a~brac and artistic decora-
lions, but comparatively little on jewelry.
1t is said that c. A Dana's royalty of 1915
Der cent. ON each volume sold of the Ameri-
can Cyclopaedia has yielded Mr. Dana over
$loo,oO0
LIE Figaro Of Paris, announces the cleo
ton of the younger ID CoqueIin as president
of the Society for the Protection Of Beautiful
Cravats
Henry Willard confirms the statement that
co. otyoa 70 loa
South Pole Dr.. NeuHayer, Of Hamburg,
viii cooperate with him.
Mrs Langtry now owns 6, 900 acres Of farm
land In Lake county, Cal, and Mr.. Frederick
Gebhardt is credited with the possession of
5000 acres more adjoining.
Bristol cathedral in England has just been
adorned with largo white marble medallion
and tablet in memory of the late Mr.. Samuel
Morley. the eminent philanthropist
The sultan of Zanzibar has a German wife,
and by singular coincidence Germany OBJ
tains valuable concessions from his najesty's
government denied to other powers.
Mr.. J. Seton Carr, the English explorer
and writer, has set out on journey across
this continent by the way Of Che Mackenzie
river end the Hudson bay company's pos
sessions
IL Daniel Wilson does not dare to enter
the chamber Of deputies, but he holds on to
his seat for Tourane and pockets the salary
attached thereto; and under the present law
there Is no way Of getting rid Of him.
DR.. A L. Chaplin, the venerable ex-presi-
dent of Beioit college, who was recently
stricken with paralysis, was graduated at
Yale in 1887 and seven years later went to
Milwaukee, where be was Presbyterian
pastor for twenty-four years.
The Duke of Westminster is returned In
'eBatemans Landowners in Great Britain as
her majesty's richest subject; and the young
Viscount Belgrave, grandson Of the duke, if
he lives to inherit his patrimony, will, it is
stated, be the richest man in the world.
President Diaz of Mexico is making an
honest effort to keep on friendly terms with
the United States The Mexican govern
ment has announced that it viii punish with
death interferences by its soldiers with
American citizens or American laws when
committed on their side of the border.
Mr. Melville W. Fuller, who has been
nominated for chief justice of the United
States supreme court, is reported TO have
visited San Francisco recently in secret. He
went there on business, and kept his identity
hidden from the public because he wished to
avoid being talked with by newspaper men.
The Duke Of Sutherland has become SO
impoverished by the agricultural depression
In England and Scotland that he contem-
plates selling Stafford house, the wonderful
mansion which, when Queen Victoria en-
tered. struck her as being so magnificent that
she said to the duke: Il came from my house
70 your palace"