Show PEOPLE AND EVENTS Alabama has enacted a law malting the birthdays of Jefferson Davis and Robert JoJ Lee holidays and another adopting a state fiaMa crimson St Andrews cross on a field of white In an article on the slaughtering of birds In which she charges the Italians with being the mot culpable Ouida says that Italy is a nation without a palate and that the craze for devouring birds is a fury TVIlhelm Llebknecht leader of the Social Democrats In the reichstag declares that the Party he represents is irresistible After a struggle of thirty years he Is positive that It has come to stay and conquer One of the most popular conductors on the New York New England railroad is a negro named Henry Vanness He had been with the road for seventeen years and has saved considerable money so that he talks of retiring and buying a farm Clara Louise ICelIogg whose sweet voice once charmed two continents js Hy ing in New York in comparative poverty Once she was worth nearly 1000000 but it has all been svept away by unfortunate unfortun-ate business ventures The once famous woman has lost her voice entirely and has no way of recouping her shattered fortunes In a district school near Mount Olivet Ky fiftyfive pupils are enrolled Each pupil is related either by consanguinity or marriage to every other child in the school One or the other of the parents of each of the fiftyfive children was either a pupil or schoolmate with the present teacher V I I II I 1He czarina oi is making remarkable Progress in Kussia to the great deliorht of MlIe Schneider her teacher who also taught her sister the Grand Duchess Serge so successfully However not being be-ing a very good Trench Ihigwlst the empress em-press speaks German and English rtth her consorts entourage Her majesty is passionately fond of music and practices on the piano several hours a day Hans Christian Anderson the Danish story writer vas fond of the stage from a boy and studied singing and dancIng to prepare for a theatrical career Once his name vas printed on a programme in the part of a spirit In a ballet but the talent he showed in writing a ptav se carcd him opportunities for a literary education and he abandoned acting The German emperor has a wonderful memory for sorvlces rendered to him A young nan some years ago when serving in the navy was fortunate enough to save the emperpi who stumbled on a narrow staircase from a nasty fall His majesty took down the Bailors name and lot long agtf he received a telegram from the court of Berlin offering him avery a-very good post in thii emperors house hold B3 a return for his timely services < V V V V I 1 A G |