Show PEOPLE IX GENERAL ExChancellor Caprivi of Germany who has spent the winter at Geneva Switzerland Switzer-land is going next Jo Italy and thence to Cairo intending to spend an indefinite period abroad The annual oration at the law school commencement of Yale college will be de livered this year by Associate Justice Brown of the United States supreme court class of lS56 < 5 Rev Arthur J Brown of Portland Ore has been elected corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions mis-sions to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rev Arthur Mitchell two years ago Colonel Babcock of Wisconsin chairman chair-man of the congressional Republican committee absorbed so much malaria during the campaign that he rcsolvtd togo to-go to the Hot Springs to take a thorough course of treatment The man who is president when the son of Colonel Fred Grant becomes of an age sufficient for admission to Vest Point will receive a letter from an expresident written long before his death asking that his grandson be appointed a cadet in the institution It is related of the late Moses Kimball the founder of the Boston museum that no one but himself knew tho salaries paid the members of his company and It was for this reasqn that tho receipt for a weeks salary always ran II In lull for services to date Senator Bate has a curious relic In the shape of a fee received from a client soda after the war The client was charged tith being a kuklux but was aquitted of the charge He gave as a fee in the 1eg bag of silver which he had kept f ert buried all during the war There is near Louisa Ky a young farmer named John Fellows who has no tongue nor Is there even a rudimentary organ where the tongue should be There are nine other cases on record similar to this in this country but In every instance the person so afflicted has been a man The old king of Denmark on hearing of the election of M Faure is reported to have sent a telegraphic message addressed to the Elvsee Palace and recalling the delightful evening which his majesty had enjoyed at the royal opera at Copen hagen when M Faure had filled there the principal role in Faust The king only subsequently discovered that Mr Felix Faure and the famous operatic star and singer of the same name were entire ly different persons |