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is believed to be the first lady secretary
ever taken abroad by a United States min

is believed to be the first lady secretary
ever taken abroad by a United States mill
lister.
III. A. PLAYTER. a stenographer, of New
York city. hasundertaken the most difficult
task that ever fell to the lot of a shorthand
expert. The two languages used at the
sessions of the maritime congress, WASH
ingtoh, are English and French. When a
speech is delivered in English it is Mr..
speech orally into French from steno-
graphic notes. He reverses this process
when a speech is first delivered in French.
The magnitude of thisa achievement can be
fully appreciated only by st~enographers.
GENERAL RAUM, Pension Commissioner.
will be sixty years old in December. He is
one of the three men in Washington who
are called Shakspearian in their type of
head and face. the others being Justice
Field and Congressman Reed. OF the three
Raum is the handsomest and looks most
like the portraits of the bard of Avon. Gen.
Raum has a fine house in Washington. his
wife is the happy mother of three sons and
five daughters. OF the latter three are
married and one is a widow. General and
Mrs. Raum are noted for their hospitality.
THE London Times declines to believe
that King Alexander. of Servia, indulges in
any hysterical grief because he is not al-
IOWcO 10 sec LIS mOtntT. 1t SuOulU Ut TO-
membered, a Y the Times. that the King
is not a mere child, but a full-grown boy of
thirteen, and, indeed. so precociously devel-
oped that he looks like English boys do at
fifteen. He is of a calm disposition. and
certainly would never ask any favor with
crying or ~wringing of hands. He is old
enough. to understand that his mothers
conduct may do MIN, politically, a serious
injury.
BLAKELY HALL relates the following
story of George Lewis, the famous English
solicitor: "A large financial operator.
whose methods had at last provoked legal
investigation, went to Lewis for advice,
and laid before him his entire situation.
You must have a good bit of money said
Lewis: Yes Very well, then. Give me
a check for $4,000. Perhaps ! might help
yon:' The check was given. DO you keep
booksi' asked Lewis. Certainly Well,
they are the only material evidence against
you. IT'S a pity you keep books. Good
morning. Curionsly enough there were no
lator escaped. The intimatiOn was cheap
at 100000"
The news that the Grand Duke Nicholas,
of Russia, uncle of the present Gar, is not
likely long to survive the illness caused by
a cancer in the ear. will be received with
regret by thousands of Americans who fol-
lowed his course in the early stages of the
campaign beyond the. Danube, in 1877,
when his qualities of dash were we'll appre-
cIated. The Grand Duke was by no means
a great general. but he was a good soldier,
and did wonders with q very small body of
men at the outset of the campaign. He
had a wonderful horse. which went SO fast
that few others could follow it, and he was
frequently quite alone i'm the eneIny's coun-
try, and very likely escaped capture only
by the skin of his teeth.
EVER since a sworn statement was made.
several months ago, to the effect that Prof.
E. NJ. Park, of Andover. was in such feeble
health that he could not safely appear as a
witness to tell what he knew about the
secret history of the prosecution that he
had been SO active i'll promoting-although
the hearing at which his testimony was de-
sired took place but asfew steps from his
own door--the Christian public has been
very sOlicitous regarding the health of the
aged and eminent divine. Great relief was
therefore experienced in the public mind.
says the Boston Advertiser, when it was
learned that Professor Park had been pres
ent at the 225th anniversary of Newton
Center Congregational Church, last Sun
day, and had not only taken part in the
public services. but participated with an
ease and grace that younger men might
envy, in th~eimmediately subsequent social
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