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being frightened, screamed loudly and
dislocated her jaw.
Louis Michel. the Paris communist.
says some Of the pleasantest hours OF
her life have been spent in prison.
ID. Z. Grouse of Syracuse. N. Y. is
said to own the costliest horse barn in
the world. 1t has cost him 500, 900.
A surveying party has discovered
that one OF the Hudson's Bay Com
pany's stations is on American terri
tory.
1t is said that fair hair is rapidly dis
appearing in the British Isles ard that
the darkcning of hair is more marked
in males than females.
The Portuguese nation is one of the
most iliterate in Europe. the illiterate
Inhabitants being officially stated at 81
per cent of the whole.
Despite the superstition about tho
opal, Col. Ingersoll invariably wears
one in his tie when he wishes to win an
especially hard ease.
Buffalo Bill has purchased a house
in Naples ut a ridiculously small price.
1t is place of historical interest, az
King Bomba once owned it.
Mrs. Sarah NJ. Renton, who died ir
Port Blakely. Wash. recently. was the
wealthiest woman in the new state.
She left fortune of $2,000,000.
Bismarck is well versed in English
literature, and has been known tc
quote twenty or thirty lines of ''Lallat
Rookh" on the spur of the moment.
A traveller in Japan writes that the
japanese pay more attention to per.
sonal cleanliness than any other peo.
pie in the world. High and low battle
all over at least once a day and some
times oftener.
Cyrus w. Field is said to wear two
watches. One, an elaborate affair,
valued at So. 800, is worn to please
friend who presented it to him. and the
other. an ordinary gold watch, i,
worn to tell the time of day.
Photographs of seventy-eight ole
couples and the same number OF
pictures of brothers and sisters OF q
similar age are said to show that the
former are more like one another liz
apPcdiah bhaH TIC D1OthSiS anu
sisters.
Jane Simmons. of Middle Edgeville,
Ga, is the first woman in the South &c
adopt the business of n butcher as
regular calling. She is very exper
with the knife and cleaver and can kill,
clean and cut up more hogs than any
man in the county.
Bishop Mackenzie of Zululand. who
died recently, directed that hii
corpse should be Inferred in Zulu fash.
lou. Accordingly no coffin was used,
but the body was tied up in a blanke,
in kneeling position, and thus de-
posi- ed in the ground.
Owing to the capitalists from the
North there has set in an era of house
mansions reduced to a mass of ruins
are propped up, repainted and
thoroughly restored and surrounded by
elaborate pleasure grounds.
A bride couple in Springfield, Mass.
were so anxious to avoid the curious
chances of the neighbors on leaving
the house that they climbed over the
back yard fence, and. passing through
the adjoining yard. entered the car.
riage. which was waiting on the next
street.
Queen Natalie. who is furnishing a
house ut Belgrade, has ordered all tho
furniture. 100000 francs worth, from
Russia 1t is taken rs an indication OF
strong Russian proclivties on her part,
inasmuch rs the Russians have the
reputation of being the worst up
holsterers in Europe.
A tramp whose intellectual calibeI
was far above his profession was re-
Gently found at Bangor, Me. His
only baggage was a small but choice
collection of books. including The
Confessions of Jean Jacques, Rous.
scau," the works of Balzac, Dumas, o
copy of Shakespeare and the Had.
The nude has noticeably diminished
in the Paris Salon. 1t doesn't sell as
it used to sell. having declined in fash.
ion with the demi-nt9nde. and the lead.
ing artists are now somewhat careful
about warning of by too startling dis.
plays the steadily increasing number
of young women pupils of recognized
iOopcOldOiit1'
Those who 60 for rest to the fash.
ionable summer resorts are lulled to
slumber not only by the piano playing
of the amateur. but by the music from
the girl violinist, the girl cornetist, tho
flute player and the girl with the banjo.
Bits of broken tunes float out of in.
Vulnerable doors and windows, and
there never was such a summer fol-
musical variety.
Henry Willard. the eminent financicr.
Is writing his autobiography for the
use of bis children alone. He was
born in Germany and the story of his
early years is written In German,
while, having been educated in France,
his schooldays are described in French.
His business and social life in America
will be recorded in English.
The largest corpse ever conveyed to
grave in Missouri was, perhaps, that
of the negress known as Big Jude.
buried recently in New Madrid. The
collin was SO inches broad. feet long
and S6 inches deep. She weighed
$50 pounds. 1t required the strength
of sixteen pall-bearers to place her in
the wagon, made for the occasion, and
lower her into the grave.