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Show PERSONAL. Col. (Colonel) Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte is in New York. Dr. (Doctor) Oliver Wendell Holmes has been made an LL.D by Harvard. Talleyrand boasted that he never wrote a letter, and never burned one. Mariner Thompson will go out West to see if the Pacific Ocean is in its right place. Charles Reade made $15,000 from "Drink." Some men have lost as much from the same cause. Beecher told a Brooklyn Eagle man that he loved the sound of a dinner bell better that all other music. Miss Gill, the author of the best known of hymns, "I Want to be an Angel," has just died at the age of sixty. Senator Edmunds pays taxes at Burlington on a valuation of $19,000. Senator Blaine pays a tax of $1,301.30 at Augusta. Walt Whitman is in Canada. Every once in a while it transpires that Canada is very valuable to this country. - Chicago Inter Ocean. The President has appointed Orange Judd of New York, of the American Agriculturist, to be a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, vice Barstow, resigned. Miss Anna E. Dickinson has just returned from the East. Everywhere she had enthusiastic audiences, and the newspaper criticisms give voice to a general desire to see the play put upon the stage. M. de Lessups calls King Leopold, of the Belgians, "a model King," because he has common sense, and is not foolishly elated by his grandeur. He says: "He is the most intelligent monarch I ever met." Winfield Scott Hancock Dickinson comes upon the world's stage at the Democratic candidate's old birthplace, Norristown, Pa. (Pennsylvania). The distinguished infant is the son of H. B. Dickinson, a popular attorney. Olive Logan is back from Europe. Olive is the person whom King Alfonso hired to write an account of his wedding for American papers. Olive and Lucy Hooper have, to judge from their letters, been running the various European courts for the last year or so. The full baptismal name of the recently betrothed Princess, who may one day be Empress of Germany, is Augusta Victoria Frederica Louise Feodora Jenny. She is a lady of great personal attractions, and is in her twenty-second year - about the same age as Prince William. Mr. Russell Hancock, the son of the General, is said to have made a poetically romantic marriage. The young lady was the daughter of an ex rebel in Louisville, who refused to let her marry the son of a Northern soldier. The young people met at an evening party by agreement, slipped across the river into Indiana, and were married at midnight. On the tombstone of the Rev. (Reverend) Dr. (Doctor) Morrison, the renowned Chinese missionary, is the following characteristic epitaph; "I have sinned; I have repented; I have trusted; I have loved; I sleep; I shall rise, and (through the grace of Christ, though unworthy) I shall reign." This is what Mr. Ingersoll ??? Line crossed out ??? but the greatest minds in the world call it sublime faith. King Louis of Bavaria dislikes to be seen by his liege subjects. He carries this caprice almost to the same extent as the late Duke of Portland. He never drives out in daylight, but at midnight. Lindenberg, a seat he possesses in the environs of Ammergan, was, until lately, open to the public, who could visit that castle and walk the grounds. The King has now enclosed it by a high wall fence and iron gates. Colonel Bob Ingersoll says that none of the planets have been called by Christian names. Did he never linger under the silver light of the moon and hear the word "Bob?" Did he never wander by the brookside as the light of the stars glinted over the waves and hear the word "Bob?" Robert did you ever argue with your girl in order to convince her that there was a Bob Ingersoll? And didn't she look up sweetly into your eyes, "Bob," and say "Robert," your Christian name? |