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Show PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. The Marquis de Leuville bears a striking strik-ing resemblauco to Colonel Elliot E. Shepard. Miss Bissell, who is ono of the most popular ot San Francisco heiresses, is a merry girl with red gold hair, a pink and white skin, and a pair of magnificent magnifi-cent shoulders. The long nervous strain is at last telling tell-ing plainly on Keminler, the murderer, and it would not surprise his friends if he died before the law fixed a day for his execution by electricity. Tho important information is sent out that President Harrison weighs 103 pounds. In the matter of physical bulk it will have to be admitted that Mr. Harrison is not a small man. Gladstone makes it a rule never to travel on Sunday, and ex-Governor Cur tiu makes it a rule never to travel on any other day if it can be avoided. And they have both lived to a ripe old age. The mountain home of Stephen B. Elkins in West Virginia is built on a peak from which a view of thirty miles may be had. The house is more like a baronial castle than a residence. The surrounding mountains are full of trout streams and game forests. General Gordon, who is once again prominent in the public eye, is a man of fine physique, who looks "every inch a soldier." He has a strong face, to which a scar just below the left eye a souvenir of Antietam adds impressive-ness. impressive-ness. He is said to be the most popular of the surviving confederate generals. Postmaster Eberle, of Girardville, Pa., kindly offers a prize of $75 in gold to the woman who can tell the biggest lie and attend to other people's business better than her own, none but Girardville Girard-ville women to compete. It is understood under-stood that the ladies of Girardville have been taking some interest in the management man-agement of the postofflce at that piace. Before his departure for Africa Mr. Stanley accepted from Sir John Pender a copy of Burns in miniature form. He promised to make it his constant companion. com-panion. Last spring SirJohu Pender was in Egypt at the time of Stauley's arrival, and he relates that Stanley, soon after they met, reminded him of the copy-of Burns, and said it had been a great source of comfort to him;, he had read it many times over and he believed there was no better thumbed book in existence than that little volume. It will be remembered that during his tour in America with the Patti company com-pany last winter Sig. Tamagno, although al-though earning $1000 a week, practiced economy to the extent of penurious-ness. penurious-ness. In New York he lived in a cheap room and cooked his own meals, even buying his beer by the pitcher to reduce expenses. It was said that he carried a small oil stove in the sleeping car, on which he boiled eggs and made his coffee, to the disgust of other passengers. passen-gers. He has lately put all his savings into a handsome residence and will retire re-tire from the stage. He may be said to have paid a high price for luxurious ease. |