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Show PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Bishop Newman has gone to Japan on an extended visit. The German emperor's new rules for wearing uniforms in the navy tills a book of forty pages. A monument to Alexander Stephens is at last to bo erected over his grave at Crawfordsville, Ga. Both of the Nevada senators, Stewart and Jones, are extravagantly found of tobacco, and their liking for a cigar is greater even than General Grant's. Donald G. Mitchell (Ik Marvel), who lives in a pretty cottage near New Haven, Conn., finds much in life to enjoy, en-joy, even if he is sixty-eight years old. There is a flourishing Japanese club in New York, of which nearly every native of Japau in the city is a member. The president is the present vice consul, con-sul, leijiro Kito, who is thirty-six years old and married. Thomas B. Rarabo, of Morristown, N. J., has just been restored to possession posses-sion of his property, valued at $10,000 which was taken' from hira seventeen years ago, when tho court declared him to be a habitual drunkard. Theodore Tilton is described by a lady who recently saw hira in the new salon in Paris. lie has grown stout and his long, white hair was pushed behind his ears and his face had a restful look, peculiar to men of leisure. James Russell Lowell is at his homo at Elmwood, Cambridge, where he will remain during the summer. He is sufficiently recovered from his long illness ill-ness to take short walks about his grounds, and is rapidly gaining in strength. t . Cardinal Manning's aversion to strong drink in every form is so great that twice in articulo mortis he has refused re-fused stimulants, and he alludes triumphantly to the fact that he got well each time as proof that stimulants are never necessary. Says the Philadelphia Record: "The head on the standard dollar was tho i work of a Philadelphia artist, Thomas Eakins, and the foundation for the design de-sign was the profile of Miss Nannie Williams, who is at present or was recently re-cently a Philadelphia school teacher." Labouchere got hit badly the other day. Colonel Saundersou, in a heated speech, compared him to a "gargoyl." "I believe you don't know what a gargoyle is," said Labby. "Yes, Ido!" shouted Colonel S. ; "it is a grotesque gutter-spout!" Labby joined in the general laugh. Father Ignatius, who is now on his way to this country, is regarded at home as a harmless sort of a crank. Ho is a native Cornishuian, and in 1862 began his movement to establish monkish brotherhoods in tho English church by reviving the order of St. Benedict. He was once shot at. Among the idiotic gossip in relation to Stanley is the assertion of some English En-glish newspaper woman that Stanley acknowledges having received eleven refusals of Ins hand from many different differ-ent women before ha won his intended bride, besides that Miss Tonuant herself her-self refused him until after his last expedition across Africa. Another of Punch's staff artiste Is about to court fame in the character of author. Linley Sambourne is about to start on a yatching expedition to Scandinavian waters, and proposes giving giv-ing the public the result of his observations, observa-tions, recorded with both pen and pencil, pen-cil, on his return. The title of the book will be "The Land of the Vikings." |