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PERSONAL MENTION.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland Said 10 be n Lib
eraI Purchaser Of Rare Books.

erhl Purchaser Of Rare Books.
The Archbishop Of Erlau in Hungary
has yearly revenue which amounts "a
! $27b,0
The most beautiful unmarried royal
girl In all Europe is the Princess Alix Of
lIesse-D -Darmstadt.
Major Mckinley has received bar OF
American tin smeIted at the San Jacint0
mine in California.
Anna Dickinson's declared purpose is
to lecture through the country on the in
iquities Of state insane asylums.
Jean Paul Laurens was elected to the
yarancy in the French Academy Of Fine
Arts caused by the death Of Meissonier.
Hola requires nine months to write a
novel. He handles pen as a labOrer
might a spade, and is a slow and painful
toiler.
Fred Remington, the artist Of the
Sioux campaign, is going 10 Mexico for a
season OF rest and TO get the frostbte out
Of his pencil.
The wife Of Senator Stanford receives
a large begging mail, among which the
other day was q letter from Texan gen
tIeman who wanted $50 10 get new set
Of teeth.
Mr.. Nebeker, the new Treasurer of the
United States, is short, stout man,
with a round and rather horid face,
marked by a black mustache. He is
about 40 years old.
Lotta has been on the stage since 1856,
when she appeared before a San Fran
cisco audience at the American theater.
Her fortune is estimated at between 81,
100000 and $2,000,00O.
The questionable honor Of having his
bust displayed over the entrance to
" The Jolly Bacillus Cafe in Berlin has
been paid TO DIR. Koch This is having
greatness thrust upon him.
W. Burke Cochran, the great orator of
TammaHy Hall, now abroad, is a large
and stout man, with massive head and
and commanding manner. He was once
clerk in A. 7. Stewards store.
George Francis Train is as agile and
muscular as he was twenty years ago,
and the recent Italian complications
show that he can 90 through his mental
acrobatics with as much eclat as ever.
President Balmaceda of Chill is a stern
and arbitrary man, with cold gray eyes,
thin lips and an angular chin. He pos
sesses more education and ability than
are usuelly found in a South American
dictator.
William II, Crane is said TO have laid
away S500,000. Neil Burgess is credited
with $l5O,000, and Francis Wilson's
check would be good for $75, 900 over and
above his liabilities if he were foolish
enough to draw it.
Grant Allen, the English novelist and
essayist, is thin and intellectual-look-
ing man of 40. His eyes are light blue
and his hair gray. He was born in Can
ada, but has passed the greater part of
his life in England.
Emperor William is said to he fond of
playing Caliph Haroun al Raschid by go
ing about disguised at night to certain
liquor shops and music halls where his
soldiers and sailors are to be found in
order to pick up criticisms on his army
and navy.
Prince Dolgorouki, the perennial ad-
mirer of Mrs. J. c. Aver and her mill
ions, is now at Monte Carlo, dividing his
time between the widow and the board
of green cloth, upon which, it is said,
the crouniers are raking in big piles of
his napoleons.
Charles Stewart Parnell has brother,
John H., living in West Point, Ga. 1t
is surmised that his brother will be
wanted by the warlike leader to stand
for election to Parliament from one of
the Irish constituencies before the next
general election.
Sir Provo Wallis, English Admiral, has
the Tooth year of his age and
the eighty-seventh in the British naval
service Americans feel a special inter-
est in him, because in 1913 he was a Sec |
ond Lieutenant on board the Shannon,
which captured the Chesapeake off Bos. |
ton harbor; and, his two superior officers
having been killed in that action, it de-
volved on Wallis to take his prize to
Halifax.