Tombstone epitaph., 1891-02-08
MEN YOU HEAR OF.

"Ofd Hutch" gave Ben Butler the hrSs law case he ever had
 The new lord mayor of London is a fan maker named Whitehead
 All the debts of the late King Louis II, of Bavaria. will be paid in full within two years
 Theodore Roosevelt asserts that tho western cowboy has nothing of the milk sop about him.
 Boston is rejoicing in the return of William D Howells, of that city. from his summer home.
 Du Maarier uses his two pretty daugh. ters as. models for. his witty society sketches" in Punch.
 F. Marion Crawford, the novelist, is now residing at Vallombrosa, where he is actively engaged in literary work.
 Vernon Lee. tho London novelist, is plain, large and masculine in appear ance, and an invetcrate cigarette smoker.
 Mir. D. L. Moody will spend the coming winter on the Pacific coast, and will begin series of meetings at San Francisco on Jan. 1.
 Coquelin and Jane Hading have been very successful in one way. They have completely routed the great American punster.
 Ii Hung Chang, prime minister of China, is devoting great deal of attention to the improvement of the tea production of that country. 1asY sy
 The crown princes of Sweden and Groecs have been obliged to take to eye glasses. They are not the only near sighted princes in Europe.
 Humphrey Ward husband of Matthew Arnold's niece who wrote Robert Els mere" is an editorial writer for The Lon- don Times.
 Bishop Potter, Rev. Dr. William M. Taylor, Mr. G.. W. Cable and Professor w. M. Sloan. of Princeton, will be among the winter lecturers at Yale.
 Chauncey Depew is described by The London Court Journal as a spare built mau with an undeniable Yankee cut, angular face and keen. twinkling eye.
 Row John Carroll, of St. Mary's church, Chicago, is 91 years old, and is believed to be the oldest priest in the United States. He is of Irish parentage and was ordained in 1920.
 Richard Clifford Palgrave, the Arabian traveller, is dead. According to The Jew. ish Chronicle he was born Jew with the name of Cohen, but changed it when he married.
 Mir. Stanley's last words on leaving Cairo on his present mission were: "It must not be supposed that am lost be- cause l am unable to communicate with the outer world"
 Mahmoud Djelladellin Pasha late min. ister of France to the sultan of Turkey, entered the office practically penniless, but now owns over quarter of 8 million of Turkish pounds.
 Lord Tennyson has had new volume of poems ready for some time. which he has kept back, expecting America to pass an international copyright law. It is not known when they will be published.
 It is announced that Denzon, better known as Jubilee Juggins," the English plunger, is not as near ruin us has been reported. In fact, he has found it utterly impossible to spend $2.000,000 in two years.
 Ex Postmaster General Thomas L. James, who has just returned 10 Now York from England, reports that the city of London has 5000 letter carriers for population of about 5,000,000, and about dozen deliveries per day
 Tic late Prince Schwarzenberg, whose landed estates were so enormous as to be called the Schwarzcnbcrg empire, left fortune of S50, ,000, ,000. from which a sum of Si00 was bequeathcd to tho poor of Vienna. That was his sole charitable be. quest.
 Tho new Persian minister to this coun. try. Ghaoly Khan (lihan means coloneD, expresses the opinion that the women of America aro the most beautiful in the world. Persia was late in having a min icter at Washington, but she sent diplomatist when she started in. Col Ghaoly will make his mark.
 Henry q. Raworth. of Augusta. Ga, said to bo the oldest living railroad en- gineer, was the engineer of tho Best Friend" the first locomotive built in America. and he has followed his business for fifty one years When he first handled the throttle twelve miles all hour was considered good time, while nowadays nc one is surprised at a run of sixty miles an hour.
 The bishop of New York has the largest personal revenue in this country. It is $10,0 ,000 year. The bishop of Maine has the smallest. It is $500 O year. The bishops of California, Chicago, Long Island and Massachusetts have each SC, ,OO0 a year. Others havo incomes running from S5,0G0 a year down, while eight of the American Protestant Episcopal pro lates are content with $2,000 year each Prince Bismarck keeps guard of four soldiers in small conservatory in tha garden of his official residence at Berlin After Blinds attempt on my life" he says, "the emperor insisted that should havo body guard. But sometimes for. get these good fellows. and once at Yer. sailles, seeing one of them appear sud. denly before me in corner of my garden, drew my revolver, thinking he mespt .-!~l;r ,"