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Show PERSONAL<br><br> CARDINAL McCloskey is to have a $75,000 house.<br><br> IT'S Flood tied with young Ulysses.-Boston Post.<br><br> THE fast male-Dr. Tanner.-Philadelphia Chronicle.<br><br> BEECHER has announced what he is prepared to believe in 1881.<br><br> EX-MINISTER Washburne is off to Europe on account of his health.<br><br> PRESIDENT Hayes has been elected a Vice President of the American Bible Society.<br><br> TOM Taylor got $7,500 a year for making Punch the dullest paper in England.<br><br> MISS Adelaide Neilson, the actress, died suddenly at the Restaurant Duchalet, Paris, on the 15th inst.<br><br> THE lion of London society just now is Mr. James Russell Lowell. His after-dinner speeches are described as particularly happy.<br><br> HIRAM College, Ohio-the college of which General Garfield was once President, and of which he is now a trustee-has 200 students.<br><br> The report of Charles Reade's conversion is confirmed. He has abandoned writing for the stage, and is said to contemplate preaching.<br><br> VISITORS to the White Mountains will build a monument to Harry Hunter, the Pittsburg printer, whose body, after six years, was found lately on Mt. Washington.<br><br> MR. A. Bronson Alcott has not tasted animal food for half a century, and drinks nothing but water, except an occasional cup of tea or coffee made extremely weak.<br><br> MRS. Hayes is soon going to Fremont to put her remodeled house in order for future residence. Her son, Webb Hayes, will, it is said, become a merchant in Toledo next spring.<br><br> GEORGE Eliot and her husband are now in Venice, and may often be seen together on the piazza, where the novelist appears old enough to be her husband's mother, say the Italians.<br><br> GENERAL Hancock is reported to be a rich man. Besides all his other property in Missouri, he has some excellent coal mines, which he refuses to sell, and does not at present care to open.<br><br> QUEEN Olga, of Greece, has a kitchen so admirable in all its appointments as to be the wonder of that classic land. It may be said that she has made cooking a fashionable accomplishment in Greece.<br><br> MR. C. C. Jones, of St. Louis, who is ninety years of age, and who sailed up the river with Robert Fulton on the steamer Clermont in 180, was a passenger on the day boat from New York to Albany, last week.<br><br> PRESIDENT Hayes does not sing, but Mrs. Hayes is said to have a sweet, old-fashioned voice, which she uses in church. She always walks to church, believing, it is reported, that it is wrong to ride there.<br><br> JAY Gould is said to be very fond of his son, whose name is George J. Gould, a bright lad, and he takes him with him wherever he goes, in order to educate him-that he may learn the ways of the men with whom he comes in contact.<br><br> MR. Bancroft has been at work fifty-five years on his history of the United States and expects to finish it this summer. He is a stalwart worker at eighty, and there is no telling what new literary enterprise he will embark in when the present work is off his hands.<br><br> JOHN Mackay, the mining millionaire, walks about Virginia City in a thirty-dollar suit of clothes, goes to work at five o'clock in the morning, and lives in the plainest style. He is credited with dispensing $200,000 a year to the poor, and denying it if questioned.<br><br> GEN. Robert Toombs is one of the best farmers in Georgia. He made this year 350 bushels of white rust-proof wheat, on eleven acres of land. He gave one hundred bushels, worth ten dollars a bushel, to the State for distribution, among the farmers of Georgia to sow for the next crop. |