Show I MEN OF MARK Emperor William will be 36 years old this month It is rumored In literary circles that General Lew Wallace has solemnly promised prom-ised to write the great American novel Janves Whitcomb Riley says that he was 25 years old before he began to think ithat printers liked copy good enough to read without beIng translated I Lieutenant Nicholas Slavin who died recently in Russia entered the French army ninetjslx years ago and his age at death was claimed to be 126 Judge Charles Gayarre the Louisiana historian was 91 years old last Wednes day Although his health Is poor his mental faculties are unimpaired Congressman Harrison of Alabama is so like Dr Parkhurst as to be easily taken for him But as he ds a Congressman Congress-man the similarity goes no further Tom Watson has come to the conclusion conclu-sion that the Populist party can live without a newspaper On the other hand the newspapers lived before the Populists were Invented Wilbur M Palmer for the last sixteen years of the city staff of the New YQrk Tribune has been apoointed secretary to Mayor Schieren of Brooklyn to succeed C P Dixon resigned A M Palmer is still looking for somebody some-body to play the part of Trilby in Paul M Potters dramatization of Du Maurl ers novel The feet and freckles come easy but the voice is hard to find Rev John Henry Barrow D D who I was chairman of the Worlds Parliament of Religions held at Chicago in 1893 has accepted an InvitatIon from President Schurman of Cornell university to preach the baccalaureate sermon next June Thomas H Wells of St Louis owns a I Martin Luther Bible which was printed in 1591 It is a London print in the type characteristic of the sixteenth century and is of the very rare editlor > of Martin Luthers first translation It is in a fine state of preservation I |