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Show WAITINC FOR DEATH. Alphonse Hamlet, the Well-Knnwn I.lter-ati-nr, In the Dark Shnil -w-Paris, Oct. 0. Alphonse Daudet. the well known litorateur, is "lying. He is surrounded by his family and many friends at his beautiful villa on the batiks of the Seine, where much of his literary: work has been accomplished. The physicians despair of effecting any improvement in his condition, which is the effect of a wasting disease that has long confined him to his chamber and renders literary work impossible. He is only 50 years of ng i and his son is about to marry M'lle Jeanne Hugo, the grand-daughter of the great author. |