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Show GREAT EUROPEANS. Sib Edwin Abkold has been decorated decor-ated by the emperor of Japan with the order of the Rising Sun. Duke Max, of Bavaria, has a peculiar success to boast of. He has traveled around the world incognito without once having his identity disr covered, The Duee of Edinburgh, like many American boys, is an ardent and tireless tire-less collector of postage stamps, and now possesses one of the finest, it not the finest, collection in the world. Pope Leo XIII. owns a pearl left to him by his predecessor on the throne of St. Peter which is worth 20,000 and the ehqin pi thirty-two pearls owned by Empress Frederick is estimated at 35,000. Ges. Pstif, who was Spanish minister minis-ter of war for two years, held that office longer than any cf his predecessors during the present century. There have been 194 ministers of war in Spain during the century, the averags time cf service "ceing six months. |