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Show PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. The emperor of China is a handsome young man, who is said to look like an American college student. Mrs. Miller, wife of Joaquin, the poet, and their daughter, Juanita, have rejoined re-joined the poet at Oakland, Cal. Among the summer dwellers at Cape May are Mrs. Dupont widow of the admiral, ad-miral, and Mrs. Kearney, widow of the general. Mrs. Liliie Devereux Blake is the best looking of the female suffragists, through somo unappreciative peoplo say the competition is not very strong, Mr. Teck, the Mayor of Milwaukee, has a picturesquo habit of prowling around the city in the small hours of the night to see that evervtning is all right. Edison is rarely seen without a cigar in his mouth. He uses the stub of one cigar to light a fresh weed, and thus forms the regular (ienuau "smoker's" chain. The longest speech on record was mudo in tho legislature of British Columbia by a representative named Do Cosmos, who to defeat a bill spoke uninterruptedly un-interruptedly for twenty-six hours. Colonel Thomas C. Jones, the democratic demo-cratic candidate for governor of Alabama, Ala-bama, aud Mrs. Grover Clevelaud, of New York, have been elected honorary member of the Alabama Tress Association. Associa-tion. Old Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor gover-nor of California, is passing his declining declin-ing days in poverty. He is now ninety years old, has lost his property, anil has not money enough to pay his house rent. Miss lisdel, the daughter of Colonel W . T. Tisdel, of Washington, recently created a genuine surprise in theatrical circles in Paris by the admirable manner man-ner in which she acted at an amateur performance. D. Edgar Crousc, a rich bachlor, of Syracuse, N. Y., is finishing a stable which is said to have cost over $700,000. It is palatial in all respects, even to the comparatively small portion which the horses will occupy. The late J. J. McElhoue, stenographer of the national house of reivresentali ves could report equally well with either hand, and iu taking a long speech in the house he would frequently shift the pencil from one hand to the other without with-out interrupting his speed. f |
