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Show I'KKSONAL I'AKAORAl'UH. The queen has, after all, decided to build a villa at Aix-lcs-Uaincs, for which the plans were drawn nearly three years ago. William Pdakio, the well-known athlete, ath-lete, quotes an eminent clergyman as saying that Urn Bible pays more attention atten-tion to the body than it does lo the soul. Little Joseph Hoffman, w ho is living at Eistiach, practices steadily at his home, composing more or less, but has not played iu public since he left this country. (,'aplaiu White of the English army has accepted a coloncl'seoniuiissnion in tho army of tho sultan of Turkey, lie is one of the hardest riders in England and an able officer. Governor Campbell, the democratic leader in Ohio, has refused a pension from the government on the ground that his circumstances place him above the need for such help. The Empress Eugenic still keeps the hat which the emperor wore on the occasion oc-casion of Orsini's unsuccessful attempt. It is riddled through with small holes hardly bigger than pin thrusts. The widow of the late due d'Aosla received re-ceived from her husband's estate C:M0,-000, C:M0,-000, with jewels, pictures, etc., valued at $200,000 more. Besides this the duchess aud her child have a btate allowance al-lowance of $80,000 a year. According to an interviewer, C'arlyle surpassed himself when first introduced to Dr. Joachim. Shaking hands with the great violinist, the sage observed that he "hadn't a great opinion of inn sic.ans they seemed such a vain, wind-baggy wind-baggy sort of people." Joe Mauley, of Maine, Blaine's trusty lieutenant says that his chief is in the cabinet to finish a piece of work begun long ago, oand that ho will not and could not in honor, be a candidate for the presidency while in the cabinet, and will not resign until this work is lin-ished. lin-ished. Henry Irving has once more repudiated repu-diated the notion that he intends to go into parliament. "Not only," he says, "do tho circumstances of the actor's work forbid such a possibility, possi-bility, but the work itself needsa calmer atmosphere than is to bo found in the strife of public needs aud personal am-bitioii am-bitioii of such a lofty kind." |