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Show CONDE 8IXOS. As a relaxation from his work on the boards, Salrini indulges in a game of pailone, greatly resembling racquet, lie has become an expert at it, and has not yet met a man abU to defeat him. The Japanese government has seut a commission to Gorinauy to stud v the telephone system with a view of introducing intro-ducing it in Japan. If tho Japs want to understand that btisiuess the first hands they should come to is this coun- try. Tho way to make a book sell now is to get some exaggerated statement of it. For instance "Tho Evil that Men Do," by Edgar Fawce.tl, is advertised as the strongest American novel slnco tho "Scarlet Letter." Of course it sells. In tho arts of music things now arc all tho time being introduced. The latest invention of musical Germany is a mechanical conductor, a figure which beats the' time with mathematical accuracy ac-curacy at auy tempo that may bo do-sired. do-sired. ' The late secretary of the navy is able to live in great and costly stylo. The freeze which decorates the diuiog room of Mrs. W. C. Whitney represent, not only Shakespeare's heroes and heroines in life size, but also the modest sum of 810,000. - ; , The French boast that they are an isolated people and do not read t he literature of other nations. That may be whv they are so easily deceivod. " A French girl stole seven tWereut. poetm from VVhittier's published efforts and had them printed in Paris papers and magazines as her own, and even when an American showed up the steal she boldly claimed that Whiltier stole them from her. According to the laws of Italy, fathers fath-ers are responsible for their sons' return re-turn when they leave tho country, and should they not return to do the miliary mili-ary duty required of them aro put in prison. A young Italian who had been living in Waidoboro, Me., returned to his native laud last week to save his father a term of imprisonment. Tho American dinner at London to Stanley is to bo given on May 80. As Minister Lincoln is in mourning for his son, Consul General New will preside. It is doubtful if there will be a large enough banquet tlng hall in Loudon lor the Americaus who desire lo bo present. pre-sent. The historical house built by the marquis mar-quis de Talleyrand 011 the St. John's river, near Jacksonville, Fla., iu is now the winter home of Mr. and Mrs, Richard P. Paulison. The latter, an accomplished ac-complished and beautiful woman, is known as the best lady shot in tlieSuuth. She can cut off a coot's head with a nllu at '00 yards or shoot au eagle onihe wing, and has performed many other difficult feats of marksmanship.. Swinburne, Edmund Gosso, Andrew Lang, and Lewis Morris are among the noted poets who are contributing rounds rou-nds of homage to Beatrice, all of which are to bo read at iho Beatrice celebration celebra-tion in Florence in May and June. The autographs of the sonnets will be framed and "hung in perpetuity" in the new Sala Dantesea, now beiug added to ir,,, ii oinii il llhnirv. Prof. Win. G. Sumner, Yale's well known professor of political economy, after leaving his clas-room Monday dropped suddenly on tho campus. He was picked up in an unconscious comli lion and carried to his home. His p) y-sician y-sician announces that his trouble was occasioned by a disordered fctomacli, and that, while Professor Sumner may not be in danger of death, his condition is quite serious. |
