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Show AMERICANS WE KNOW. Though Anna Dickinson is only fifty years old, she has been before the country for nearly 'a third of a century. cen-tury. Jay Gould carries in his purse a ten-cent ten-cent piece which he declares was at one time all that stood between him and a dead broke condition. George William Curtis succeeds Mr. Lowell as vice president of the Egyptian Egyp-tian Exploration soeiety, one of the most interesting and successful enterprises enter-prises of the kind. Mr. George W. Childs reached the western limit of the-ccuntry without finding any limit td the affectionate regard re-gard of his countrymen. And his speeches get better the more he makes of them. Eppa Hustos, who succeeds John S. Barbour as United States senator from Virginia, was a brigadier general in the confederate army and was imprisoned at Fort Warren for three months. He has had several years' experience as congressman. |