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Show PERSONAL I'AKACIt 1I HS. John MacGregor, of Brooklyn, owns tho claymore carried by Bob ftoy. Bishop Newman has been appointed to visit Japan and hold the uiethodUt conference there in July. Count Herbert Bismarck, tho sou of Prince Bismarck, will spend a few weeks in England as tho guest of Earl Koscberry. It appears that there is a movement on foot in London to have Robert Louis Stevenson mado the British counsel at Somoa. Henry Furniss, the caricaturist of Punch, has made many enemies among the royal academicians by poking pictorial fun at them. Bertha von Hillern, artist and ex-pedestrian, ex-pedestrian, and Emma Howard Wright the author, are building a summer cottage at Middletovn,..Va. Richard Vaux, who has been nominated nomi-nated in Philadelphia to succeed Mr. Randall, bears a remarkable resemblance resem-blance to James Russell Lowell. Jean de Reszke, the tenor, and Kdouard de Reszke, the basso, want 10,000 francs and 5,000 francs per night, respectively, to sing in America. George Meredith has been suggested as Lord Tcnnvsou's successor Fn the poet laureatesliip of England. Algernon Alger-non Swiulmrne is also mentioned. Grace Greenwood is described as a woman with large features and very dark hair, which she combs down over her ears iu an old-fashioned way. Mrs. Edward Morrell, of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, formerly Miss Drexcl, has received re-ceived the gift of a colt nf the mure formerly owned by General (iraut, and now owned by, G. W. C'liilils. |