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Show ' MEN YOU HEAR OF. Professor-A. V. Phillips, of Yale, devotes de-votes his er.tiro life to mathematics. fiijnor Salvini still maintains his prowess prow-ess as a player at pallone, a game resembling re-sembling rackets. Cardinal Newman's birthday presents included a translation of the "Imitation of Christ'' into anelnht Irish, and a valuable valu-able Irish manuscript. George W. Childs, tho rich Philadelphia Philadel-phia editor and philanthropist, lygan his business career by sweeping out stores in Baltimore. He went to Philadelphia unknown un-known and penniless, and finally worked his way into a bookstore. Sir .Tohn E. Millnis is said to have lost a clear vision of near objects, though he sees those atadistaiicedisHnt'tly enough. As a result he is compelled to use very Ions handled brushes, which greatly interfere in-terfere with delicate work in portraiture. Zola and Daudet used to dine together and cull it the "Dinner of tho Disappointed." Disap-pointed." Now they have "no occasion for such a pessimistic meal. Pnudet's stories have sold by the hundred thousand, thou-sand, while Zola's have passed beyond a million. Realism has succeeded. ' Herr Bobel, the German Socialist, is a genuine workingman. He started as an ivory turner, and, even now, when something some-thing displeases him in the establishment of Foesliob & Bi'hel, at Leipsig, of which he is a partner, ha tucki up his sleeves and shows the ignorant or obstinate workman "how it should be done." Gen. von Caprivi is described as a .iust man, thoughtful and almost tender toward to-ward subaltern officers in their straits. Simple and unassuming, as men of merit mostly are, he soon found himself be loved by the navy, although never concealing; con-cealing; his preference for the army in general, and the Guards in particular; and popular in parhV.mont, although disdaining dis-daining the use of even the slightest ornament or-nament in hia speech. |