Tombstone epitaph., 1891-01-18
MEN YOU HEAR OF.

"Old Hutch" gave Ben Butler the first Jaw case he ever had.
 The new lord mayor of London is 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 the 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 Maurier 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, the London novelist, is plain, large and masculine in appear ance. and an inveterate 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.
 Lii Hung Chang. prime minister of China, is devoting great deal of attention to the improvement of the tea production of that country.
 The crown princes of Sweden and Greece 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. MT 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 man with an undeniable Yankee cut. angular face and a keen, twinkling eye.
 Rev 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 percentage and was ordained in 1920.
 Richard Clifford Palgrave, the Arabian traveller, is dead. According to The Jew lsh Chronicle he was born Jew with the name of Cohen, but changed 1t when he married.
 MT. Stanley's last words on leaving Cairo on his present mission were: 'lt must not be supposed that am lost be- cause 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 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 bc published.
 It is announced that Benzon, better known as Jubilee Juggins. the English plunger, is not as near ruin as has been reported In fact, he has found it utterly impossible to spend $2,OO0,00O in two years.
 Ex Postmaster General Thomas L. James, who has just returned to New York from England, reports that the city of London has 5000 letter carriers for a population of about 5,000,000. and about q dozen deliveries per day.
 The late Prince Schwarzenberg, whose landed estates wore so enormous as to be called the Schwarzonberg empire. left q fortune of $50, ,000. .000, from which sum of $400 was bequeathed to the poor of Vienna. That was hls sole charitable be quest.
 The new Persian minister to this coun try, Ghaoly Khan (khan means coloneD expresses the opinion that the women Oi America are tho most beautiful in the world. Persia was late in having min ister at Washington. but she sent g diplomatist when she started in. Col Ghaoly will make his mark.
 Henry G. Raworth, of Augusta, Ga. said to be the oldest living railroad en gineer, was the engineer of the Best Friend" the first locomotive built ir America, and he has followed his business for fifty one years When he first handled tho throttle twelve miles an hour was considered good time. while nowadays nc one is surprised at a run of sixty miles al hour.
 The bishop of New York has the largest | $1O,O0O a year. The bishop of Maine has the smallest. It is $l.30O year. The bishops of California, Chicago, Long Island and Massachusetts have each SC, ,O0( year. Others have incomes running from S5,000 year down. while eight ot the American Protestant Episcopal pre- lates are content with $2,0OO year each
 Prince Bismarck keeps Q guard of foul soldiers in small conservatory in th' garden of his official residence at Berlin After Blinds attempt on my life" ht says, 'the emperor insisted that should have body guard. But sometimes for get these good fellows. and once at Yer sailles, seeing one of them appear sud denly before me in a corner of my garden l drew my revolver thinking he mesp' mischief"
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