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Show MEN YCU HEAR OF. Ex-Senator Thnrman continues a great sufferer from rheumatism. He rides out but rarely, owing to the excruciating pain which invariably follows the exercise. Mr. Peck, the mayor of Milwaukee, has a picturesque habit of prowling around the city in the small hours of the night to see that everything is all right. Von Moltke, who will be 90 years old next October, should he live till then, is said to use his voice with the clearness 1 and gravity that characterized it a score j of years ago. Culberson, of Texas, is denominated the silent man of congress. Ho never i says a word on the floor of the house, and but for the roll calls there would be no record of his presence. Count Tolstoi has recently recovered from a severe attack of pneumonia. During his illness he refused all medical i attention, bebeving it impious to interfere inter-fere with tho designs of Providence. President Carnot has signed a decree canceling or reducing the punishment of i upward of seventy-two persons who h.ni been condemned for their actions during the recent labor strikes. Xinety-six in all were in prison from this cause. Mr. Henry Gardiuer, of Xiantic, Conn., has been awarded tho highest prize for figure drawing at the Ecole des ' Beaux Arts, Paris. This is the first time in the history of the school that an American has received this decoration. A distinguished relic of ante-bellum congresses is Gen. J. F. Farnsworth, of j Washington, who was a contemporary of Owen Lovejoy and Elihu B. Washburn Wash-burn in representing Illinois. He is a tall old gentleman now of 73, with snowy ! locks. ! Herr Peter Lochner, connected with the weather bureau service of Austria, is known as the loneliest man in Europe. He is stationed on the top of the Schonn-blick Schonn-blick mountains iu tho Austrian Alps, i Sometimes ho does not see a human face : for mouths. j The lato Sir George Burns, who was i one of the founders of the Ounard steamship steam-ship company, and who died in bis 95th year, came of a long lived race. His father livei to be 03 years old and was minister of a church at Glasgow for seventy-two years. |