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Show I'MISONAI. FAKAUKAI'IIH. Mrs. Roso Terry Cooke is gradually regaining her health. ,., Mary J. Holmes, the novelist will spend tho summer in Alaska with net-husband. net-husband. , , , Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the London sensational preacher, will visit Boston this year. ' Senator Quay brings back from the South the skin "of a gigantic rattlesnake which he killed at New River. Justin McCarthy is making a close study of the French revolution with the view' of publishing a book thereon. John I. Blair, of Blairsville, N. J., the railway magnate, is eighty-seven years old, with the appearance of a man of sixty. William O'Brien, tho Irish member of parliament, who is in Paris writing a novel, will call his book "When Wo Were Boys." Mr. Stoddard, the lecturer, sails for Europe April 23. His next season's lectures will relate to the "Land of the Midnight Sun." Private Secretary Elijah Halford asserts that President Harrison has a keen sense of humor. At all events he has a funny idea of the presidency. Mobcrly Bell, tho new manager of the London Times, is the author of t wo volumes on Kgvpt, namely: "Egyptian Finaiice"und ' From Pharoh lo Fellah." William T. Adams, belter known to iis many youthful admirers and readers as "Oliver Optic." is nearly sixty, but in vigorous health. He has made a tfiuall fortune by his books. Tho marble statue of the Prince of Wales, which is being executed in Paris by the famous French sculptor Chapuis, is now nearly linished and is lo be presented pre-sented to tlio Rational Art (lallery in Copenhagen. Prince Eugene of Sweden has passed two vears in Paris studying art under the direction of M. Henri Cervex. Tho latter, has just had conferred upon him the cross of a chivalier of the order of St. Olaf. M. do Freycinet, who has become for the fourth time premier of the French republic, 1s a peculiar creature. He is small and insignifieenl physically, and his countenance habitually bears a furtive, seared expression, which has led to his being dubbed "the Whito Mouse." Queen Victoria, who has started on a continental tour, has taken along 8 coachmen, !) grooms, 8 horses, t donkey, il carriages, 72 truuks, 3 special beds, a special cook stove, wine, 3 doctors, 1 surgeon, accoucheur for the Princess Beatrice, 3 ladies in waiting, 9 women servants, 1 lord, 2 equerries, 7 dogs. |