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Show PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Lawrence Barrett is in the south of France rapidly regaining his health. Millais is nowr engaged in painting a portrait of Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain. Little Josef Ilofmann is living at Kis-nach, Kis-nach, practicing constantly and composing. com-posing. Queen Victoria has derived much benefit from the massage treatment at Aix-le-Bains. Frank R. Stockton's sister has become a teacher in a fashionable Washington academy. The prince of Wales is looking very well again. The rumor that he had Bright's disease was unfounded. Susan Coolidge will join tjie literary exodus to Europe this summer, and intends in-tends to remain abroad for six: months. Jean Ingelow; although nearly sixty years of age, looks still quite young, and goes about from pace to place with evident enjoyment and satisfaction. Isaac. MeLellan, who wrote "Poems of the Rod and Chin," was at Bowdoin college with Longfellow and Hawthorne. Haw-thorne. He is now over eighty-three years of age. It is said that JVfiss Edison, daughter of the electrician, has been completely cured of epilepsy by Professor Fiedler of Dresden, physician to the king of Saxony. Buffalo Bill has purchased a house in Naples. He has become an enthusiast regarding life ou the continent, and he was offered an old house in Naples at a ridiculously small price. ' The king of Sweden is about to send to the' shah of Persia the insignia of the order of the. Seraphim.' The shah has already been decorated several times by European sovereigns. If report speaks true of him, he is sadly in need of polish. - Marion Crawford has been awarded a prize of 1,000 francs by the French academy as an acknowledgement of t he merit of his novels, and especially of two of them; "Zoroaster" and "Mar-Bio's "Mar-Bio's Crucifix," which were written in French as well as in English. The present king of Dahomev, who was educated iu Paris, speaks French fluently. His anxiety to defeat the French in Africa is said to bo due (o an unfortunate love affair which he bad in Paris. He has become a barbarian because be-cause he could not marry the woman he loved. . , M. Bartholdi, the well-known architect archi-tect of the American figure of Liberty, is eufrased in desieninsr a monument to commemorate the balloon service of the Franco-Prussian war, which is to be erected in tlin Square of St. Fierre, Faris. He proposes to construct a model of a balloon out of thick glass, with an iron-work netting. An electric arc lamp will occupy the center and light up the whole interior. ' Faul B. Chaillu is resting in Loudon. He has been suffering with throat trouble trou-ble for some time past, and was advised by his physicians to go to warmer climates. cli-mates. Cairo was his destination on leaving America, but ho has remained in London ever since earlvinl)ecember last. -As concerns future literary work, it. is said to be his intention to write next a work of travel and description for young people. The wife, of RevT Thomas Mai-Mas- tors, a retired elder of the Methodist Episcopal church of Glens Falls, N. Y., stated that her husband came into tho house about 8 o'clock the other evening even-ing feelingquito well, apparentlv, and , sat down on the bed preparatory to re- J tiring, when he was stricken with paralysis. par-alysis. Almost immediately he began to laugh as if ecstatically nappy, and there came about his head a halo'whieh transtigured his countenance. The circumstance cir-cumstance of the halo is corroborated by the younger Mrs. MacMasters, who further says that it lasted one hour and a half, and w as like a luminous cloud about the old man's head. 1 |