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bons are exported TO Constantinople
yearly for the ladies of the Turkish
Harems.
In London ono woman in every twen-
ty is pauper one i'll every thirty is
illiterate, and one in every sixty is a
gin drinker.
Mrs. Schliemann, in addition to her
other accomplishments, has Il talent
for tapestry that would have made her
fit companion for Penelope.
DIR. James Croll. the first to explain
the movement of the Gulf Stream, has
died at the age of 68. distinguished
Fellow of the Royal Society.
A telephone line about five miles
long has been established in Iceland,
and is regarded as great curiosity,
being the first ever established on the
Island.
General Butler owns the Craig
Ranch, below Pueblo, consisting of
100, 600 acres. He is also the owner of
three-fourths of 600, 000-acre ranch
in New Mexico.
Ida Lewis, the famous life-saver, has
been offered chance to 20 on the
stage as the heroine in Il life-saving
scene, but she prefers her station in
the Newport lighthouse.
Animals are kept on the roofs of the
houses in Lima. Peru. and it frequent
ly happens Il cow passes her whole life
on roof, being taken there as calf
and brought down finally rs fresh beef.
1t is said that when Fanny Daven-
ports stage toggery went through the
New York Custom House it was valued
at 81, 900, but after it was reduced to
ashes in the New York fire the valua-
ton rose to nearly $4,000.
One of the few herds of buffalo still
left in the country is owned by Senator
Pettigrew. He has twenty of the ami
mails pastured near Sioux Falls, where
he has also thriving menagerie of
deer prairie dogs and moose.
The Royal Geographical society of
England has advanced $1,000 to Mr..
Theodore Bent for the exploration of
the ruins found recently in Mashona-
land, East Africa, which. it is suggest
ed, may be King Solomon's mines.
Mr.. Spurgeon gives but little time to
the preparation of his sermons. He
sits in his study couple of hours with
his face buried in his hands, then goes
to his desk, jots down few headlines,
and then he is ready for the pulpit
EX-Empress Eugene declines to help
any more of Napoleon Thirds rela-
tives. She thinks she has been too
good to them, and she is not able to
help them now. 1t is limited that she
has lost heavily in financial invest
ments.
Governor Francis T.. Nichols, of
Louisiana, is diSmcmbercd To Il remark
able extent. He has lost leg and an
arm and an eye. He lost his leg ut
charlottesville and his arm was car
ried away by cannon ball at Win
chester.
Mr.. Justice Brown is variousy said
TO resemble in countenance Senator
Carlisle. Major Mckinley and the late
Samuel j. Randall; and when he first
appeared on the bench in his judicial
robes there were those who thought of
Edwin Booth as Hamlet.
Prince Bismarck is said to bear up
well against the neglect into which he
has fallen, finding mental occupation
and diversion as we'll in his business
enterprises. He is especially interested
in his new brewery. The Princess
takes their changed position far more
to heart.
The Russian bandit Kroukouski, who
has recently been sentenced TO penal
servitude in Siberia, is IA man of excel
lent birth and education. His parents
belong To the circle of the late Prince
Demidon, and he ran through Il fine
property before essaying tue role OF
Fra DiavolO.
Rev. DR.. John Hall, of New York.
was visited recently by a young man,
recently arrived from Ireland. who
when the doctor remarked that he did
not remember having seen him before,
said: Indeed, you did, then. Why.
you baptized me twenty-five years ago
in the old country, and yet you have
forgotten me entirely"
At San Martin. near Altacapotzal,
Mex. tnere resides pure Indian wo-
man who is believed to be 115 years of
age. She owns documents proving
that she carried on lawsuits with Vice
roy Vnegas while Spain still held
dominion of Mexico. The name by
which she is known is Torres, but her
true name is Ixcahuaxochiti.
Speaking of namesakes, Chauncey
M. Depew says he gets an average of
two photographs day of babies said
to have been named after him, and he
adds: MY son is named after me, al
so, and tell him that by the time he
has grown up, if this average contin-
ues, the Chauncy Depew's will fill all
the offices and iails in the country"
Mrs. SANKEY'S mother, Mrs. Ten
nant, is in some respects II more inter-
esting woman than her talented daugh-
ter. She is neither so tall nor so ro-
bust as Mrs. Stanley, but in figure and
in manner she is moStsattractive. Hel
black eyes sparkle with viyacity, and
though there is silver thread here and
there in her black hair time has dealt
very gently with her. Her speech il
concise but melodious. In talking
with her daughter she almost invaria
bly, uses French.
The ROYAL Commission appointed tc
examine Westminster Abbey in its rela
tions to future hurials report that there