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Show PEUSONAL. liight Hon. William E. Foster, the biographer of Dickens, id coming hitiier (shortly. At the enrly age of 55, it is hinted that the Duke of Cambridge is about to retire irom Lire British army with tho gout. Enoa T. Throop, who succee.led Martin Van Bureu as Governor of New York, in 1SiJ, recently celebrated celebrat-ed the ninetieth anniversary ot his birthday. Dr. Dio Lewis says that the failure fail-ure ot tne liquor prohibition in Maine ia complete. In Bangur at least 300 persons are employed in retailing intoxicating in-toxicating drinks. The oldeot ex-member of Congress living is Samuel Thatcher, of Bangor, Muiue, who was a member of Congress Con-gress from Massachusetts from 1802 to 1805. lie was born July 2, L775. King Louis of Bavaria is said to be in treaty witn the royal family of Prussia lor the hand of tire daughter ot Prince Frederick Carl, who is, consequently, grand neiee to the Emperor ot Germany. According to the New lork Herat d correspondent the King of Iceland made himself perfectly at home at the grand thousandth anniversary ball at Keikiavik. He danced with everybody every-body that he could, and everybody . wan pleased and delighttd. In his speech before the late Democratic Demo-cratic State Convention of Ohio, Governor Gov-ernor Allen said ho would rather have written on his tombstone "Here lies an honest man," than th:il he had a million of stolen treasure treas-ure to besiow upon bis children. A boy of about seventeen years of age, the nephew of one of the guides wnom the American party engaged to mako the trip to the Geysers during dur-ing the late millenial celebration in Iceland, was found able to speak D.mish, English, German and French. Dr. Miller of the Omaha Herald ic-itd that the climate of Colorado has a damaging instead of a salutary eltect upon diseases that it is boasted to cure. "It is a fatal and cruel mistake mis-take to send consumptives tuberculous tuber-culous invalids to that atmosphere. Colorado air does not cure consumptives consump-tives it kills them." |