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Show MEN YOU HEAR or. For many years Dion Boncicanlt spelt his name Bonrcicault . ' William N. Whiteley, the famous inventor in-ventor millionaire, is a mental wreck. Senator . Wade Hampton, notwithstanding notwith-standing his cork leg, is an expert horseman. horse-man. A New Yorker says C. P. Huntington is the only great millionaire in town who. never laughs or plays or has fan. ; ' Canon Farrar approves the Salvation Army idea of a week of prayer and self denial in behalf of missions. . Ex-Governor Hnbbard, of Texas, is one of the weightiest politicians of the Democracy. He weighs 880 pounds. Emile Zola is a fatalist "I feel," says he, "that with nations as with individuals, in-dividuals, what is destined to happen will happen." - John Greenleaf Whittier is still erect and active at 82. His hair and beard are white as slacked lime, but his deep set dark eye is scarcely dimmed. V George W. Jones, of Dubuque, la., is perhaps the oldest congressman living. He was elected a delegute to congress from the then territory of Michigan in 1835. Marshal MacMabon, ex-president of France, is in the eighty-third year of his age, bnt that doesn't prevent him from regularly bunting in the forests near his homa , : The Duke of Bedford, who owns a large part of London and is a millionaire many times. over, looks like an under-grown, under-grown, sickly boy, although of fairly mature age, - Jesse F. CarpenteT, of Cazcnovia, has purchased a fine residence site in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, paying $35,000, which is said to be the largest sum ever paid for a single lot in that city. Pope Leo is said to be interesting himself him-self in hypnotism. Also he will call ! npon the churchmen to opp;e it on the ground that a loss of will power mtift be accompanied by a lapse of moral control and self respect Rev. Dr. Charles ELtftwelL of Foo Chow, China, who has been in the foreign for-eign mission fiald for nearly forty years, style the Japanese the Frenchman of the east, and tho Chinaman tae Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon of the east |