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Show PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. President Harrison weighs just 103 pounds twenty pounds more than Postmaster General Wanamaker. Mrs. Gladstone always attends meetings meet-ings of parliament when either her husband hus-band or her son Herbert is to speak. Premier Mercier will leave Canada in September for France, it is said, to negotiate a conversion of the debt of Quebec. Little Marshall Roberts, when he becomes be-comes a man, will have au income of $'.'00,000 a year. He is now a child of ten years. Miss Grace King, the Louisiana novelist, novel-ist, is a woman of stately figure and striking features. Her hair and eyes are brown and she is twenty-seven years old. Mrs. Edison, the great electrician's wife, is a woman of twenty-four, whose graceful figure is a trifle above the av-( erago height. She lias brown hair, hazel eyes, a clear olive complexion, and is an unusually pretty woman. All thinking people will leari with pleasure that Mr. Hymen, of Mississippi, Missis-sippi, has become engaged to be married mar-ried to a Now York girl. A little experience ex-perience ought to have a most salutary effect upon this reckless young man. During Senator Jones' recent exhaustive ex-haustive speech on the silver question, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, he referred to tho fact that in the ancient days of Massachusetts oyster shells wore used as money. Mr. Hoar nodded his venerable ven-erable head and whispered to Senator Gray: "Yes, and 'very gocd money it was. If a man in those days wanted to order a dozen on the half-shell, he could do it with perfect safety, knowing know-ing that he could pay for them with the shells." Young Mr. Thurman, son of Allen G. Thunnan, is gray haired and has but one arm. He lost the other in an accident acci-dent many years ago. He is a prominent promi-nent attorney at Columbus, O. The bust of Sidney Lanier, given by Charles Lanier of New York to the city of Macon, Ga.. will be unveiled on October Oc-tober 3d. Judge Bleckley of the Georgia Geor-gia supreme court.will make the dedicatory dedi-catory speech.' M. Ktamboulnff,' tho premier and practical ruler of Bulgaria, is about 46 years old. He is short and rather stout, and with his round face, black mustache mus-tache and small gray eyes somewhat resemble re-semble the Chinese. . The new postmaster at Warren, Wyo., is George L. Thompson. Having heard that speculation was the order of the day in Washington. Mr. Thompson undertook un-dertook to do something on his own account. ac-count. Accordingly he fixed the price of 2-cent stamps at 5 cents, but the peo-plo peo-plo whom he serves in an humble capacity ca-pacity have rebelled and forwarded a petition to the postmaster general asking ask-ing for his removal. |