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Show PERSONAL. Carlyle's books bring him ₤1,000 a year. Christine Nilsson is in her native Sweden. Adeline Patti is at her country home in Wales. Emperor William favors a world's fair at Berlin in 1885. Jay Gould personally controls 1,800 miles of continuous railroad. The Emperor William is described by a correspondent as sun-burned and vigorous looking. King Humbert, of Italy, is living a retired life at Monza, where he is absorbed with business of state. Not many Governors can make themselves useful at camp meetings by preaching, as does Gov. Colquett [Colquitt] , of Georgia. Wade Hampton, the son of the Senator from South Carolina, has just been married at Louisville, to Miss Catherine Phelan. It is fifteen years since Peter Cooper, that plain-looking old man, donated to the public the institute which cost him $600,000. The Princess Louise superintended the repairs at the Government House, even mixing the paint when the tint was not to her liking. King Alfonso of Spain, though a widower, is but twenty-two years of age, and his prospective bride is about four months his junior. The Shah of Persia has ordered 1,500,000 postal cards at Vienna, possibly with the intention of becoming a rival of Private Dalzell. The fifty-three young men whom Alexander H. Stephens helped to an education repaid the money as soon as they were able to earn it. John Bright called Wendell Phillips, the most eloquent living orator, but Murat Halstead, says that "Wendell Phillips is the most able and eloquent fool in the country." John L. Sealy, of Goshen, N.Y., is reported to have returned from Western mining speculations and a three years absence with $5,000,000. He was a horse farrier when he left Goshen. James Russell Lowell will be sixty years old next February. The ill health of Mrs. Lowell and dislike of the monotony of his position may cause him to resign as Minister to Spain ere long. The British Ambassador to France, Lord Lyons, is an old bachelor who drinks nothing but milk and soda water. He has $50,000 a year, besides his house, and he has held his place some twelve years. Rev. Edward Everett Hale insists with much force that men are not to be improved in the bulk, by the hundred thousand, but in the natural groups which circle round the domestic hearth. Louisa M. Alcott, the author, daughter of the venerable philosopher Bronson Alcott, was the first woman to register in the town of Concord, Mass., in order to vote for members of the School Committee. Mrs. Stewart's physician says several men of reputable positions are known to have been connected with the Stewart grave robbery, and that the disclosure of their names would startle the community. Women somehow get over childish notions that men never outgrow. Some men celebrate every birthday as long as they live, while women quit doing so almost as soon as they grow up. -- [Boston Post.] A life-size picture of a lion, presented to the Spanish government by Rosa Bonheur, will probably be placed in the museum at Madrid, although there is a rule against the exhibition there of works of living artists. A phase of fashionable life at Newport is shown by the following advertisement in a local newspaper. "Miss Thompson, from New York, shapes and polishes ladies' finger nails at their residence. Rate per visit one dollar," etc. The Japan Gazette states that previous to his departure from Yokohama, General Grant left 300 yen with the authorities to be applied to the prevention of the spread of cholera. The yen is the equivalent in value to the American dollar. |