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Show NOTISS AND I'EKSONAI.S. M. Kenan is an accomplished aud enthusiastic whist player. . . Sir John Millais is now engaged in painting a portrait of Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain. Governor Godell of New Hampshire is now able to walk out of doors, and will soon resume his official duties. The great autograph collection of Ferdinand J. Dreer has been formally presented to the Historical society of Pennsylvania. , ' The poet Swinburne is the chief unmarried un-married man in England. He is said to love all pretty womcii, but has never proposed lo one. Bismarck doesn't caro lo seo his own imase in marble or bronze. He says he doesn't know what kind of expression expres-sion to assume w heu ho linds himself "by the sitle of his fossilized self." Kx-Seerctary Thomas F. Bavnrd uses cards that are simply inscribed "Mr. Bavard." The style is English and ii created much eoiisternalion in the south when ' Mr. Bayard traveled there. , John Kelly, jr., son of tho late Tammany Tam-many hall leader, is ten years old, and is au exact counterpart. 011 a small scale, of his father. He is said to be a little "boss" among his youthful companions. com-panions. Death has shown conspicuous favors thus far to the senate of tho Fil'ly-riit congress. While ho litis taken but one from that body Beck he has taken nine from the roll of the house Gay, Burnes, Townsliend, Cox, Laird, Xu't-ting, Xu't-ting, Kelley, Wilber and Uandall. PTho clergy of St. Cloud, Minn., got a joke on Bill Nye the other day. He was to deliver one of his snored lectures iu that town on Sunday evening. Tho local lo-cal clergy heard of it and arranged such taking programmes iu their respective churches that no ouc cared to hear Bill. Baron Ferdiuaud Swift, the proselytizing prose-lytizing atheist, who died iu Venice a short lime ago at the age of sixty, climbed the Campanile of St. Mark 611 horseback, paddled from Venice to Trieste in a canoe, jumped over ranks of drilling soldiers on a hunter, and rowed down tho Grand canal from the bare back of a horse standing on a barrel. When M. Saint-Saens disappeared so mysteriously from Paris a few weeks ago he went to Las Pnlmas, where, under un-der tho name of Dr. Charles Sannois, ho passed himself off for an Englishman. His identity was at last suspected because be-cause of his musical performances, lie ran away thus simply to get rested and restore his health, and iu this he succeeded. Francis Farkman went a few days ago to his summer homo nt Jamaica Flain for the season. There ho enjoys rowing on the large pond near his house, which is the most available exercise for him, and cultivating his (lower garden. Like his brother historian, Mr. Bancroft, ho revels in roses. His health is much better than it was last year, ami lie has heeu able to continue his historical I work. |