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Show FAMOUS FORI Hill People Who Have Eeoently Gained Ephemeral Ephem-eral Notoriety They Bubble Up on the Surface for a Moment 6EVEEAL VEST PECULIAS OASES. People Who Flash like Comets Before the World's Eye Today, Only to Be Lost Tomorrow in the Gloom. i traitor. Sensation is 1 30 mild a word for the effect created in Paris by the publication. Mer-nieix Mer-nieix has more challenges on hand than he can attend to, and has already been seriously serious-ly wounded in a duel. Once he was mobbed in the streets and narrowly escaped. Henri Hoohefort has also had onednel on account of the publication. M. Duniontel, a Bou-langist Bou-langist member of the assembly, is the man who wounded Menueix, and be wants to fight some more duels. According to the account book of the conspirators Boulanger's ordinary expenses -ere 2,000 francs a month, and 40,000 francs in addition were raised to "subsidize the press." The monarchists gave a little money and a large amount in notes payable when they got the promised help. The duchess alone paid all in cash and now whistles for it That is, she would whistle if she were a man, but as she isn't she storms and tells all she knows. Meanwhile Boulanger Bou-langer is living quietly in the Isle of Jersey, while his long discarded wife is in strict seclusion in France. And the Duchesse D'Uzesand M. Mormeix are unpleasantly famous for a day. Osman Pasha was or is the "Hero of Plevna," where in 1877 he turned the tide of war in favor of Turkey, and held the Russians at bay so long that their whole plan of campaign was disconcerted. . Some weeks since a Turkish vessel sunk near the Chinese coast, and several hundred , DULEEP BINGH. Three persons across the 'water have lately risen, blairan nud fnllen. The public has been amazed and t hen hiul its lauRh at s them there was such a marvelous margin between what they threatened and what they actually did.- They are Duleep Singh, who was going to upset the British empire . lu India; Duchesse D'Uzcs, who raised the cash for Boulanger to upset France, and M. Terrail-Mormeix, who upset Bou-langism. Bou-langism. Mistaken identity alone is responsible re-sponsible tor the ephemeral fame attoch- Iiugtoafourth object of recent notoriety. Ho bore the name of Osman Pasha, aud tvlien he was drowned the other day the world jumped to the conclusion that he was the Osman who enjoyed brief but high repute years ago by holding Plevna . against the Russians. But he wasn't. Of those mentioned the first occupies rather a ridiculous position. Duleep Singh is the heir by descent of the great Sikh, ruler of India, one of those fierce warriors who divided the country among them after the overthrow cf the Moguls. The "Great Mogul," Aurungzebe, ruled 800,000,000 people peo-ple for forty-nine yearo, being contempo-' contempo-' rary with Oliver Cromwell and the five . English monarchs who followed bim; but the English now control all his territories, territo-ries, and "dole out a monthly pension to his heir." Well, Runjeet Singh, the war-' war-' rior, thought himself entitled by conquest . to all the lands of Aurungzebe, and Duleep Singh claims to be Bunjeet's heir. In his infancy his chance of regaining the royal inheritance was about as good ns the present baby king of Spain has of .regaining all Spanish America; so the lit-' lit-' tie fellow wus taken to England, educated as a country gentleman and granted an state which afforded him a fairly good OSMAN PASHA. persons were drowned, "among them Osman Os-man Pasha," said the report. It was found that Osman Pasha had been a passenger pas-senger on that vessel, and so many elaborate elab-orate and eulogistic accounts of him appeared ap-peared in the papers. He may now have the pleasure of reading them in the flesh, for he is alive and well. It was another mnn of the same name and less repute who found a watery grave. , The real Osman, whose picture is given herewith, was one of the great warriors of the Turkish empire. He won his first honors in the Crimean war when he was bnt 23 years old. In the Turko-Servian wur he rose to the rank of field marshal, and in the war with Russia be commanded command-ed the largest and most effective army of the Turks. His plans, and brilliant execution exe-cution of them, and his general schemes of army and civil reform since, have led many English critics to believe that he might even yet restore Turkish prestige. He, indeed, has a reputation to last, but his unfortunate namesake succeeded, by going to the bottom of the sea, only in becoming be-coming famous for a day. J. H. Beadle. I mmS DUCHESSE D'DZES. Income. Four years ago, being involved in debt, he conceived the idea that he , could regain the throne of his forefathers . in India, and dashed at once into a series of wild adventures. He fled to the continent conti-nent and issued a manifesto in which, with many other things, he demanded tho return of the great Kohinoor diamond. He then went to Kussia and offered to lead a Russian Rus-sian army into India. The czar was polite, but the army was net forthcoming. Duleep next masqueraded as an exiled Irish patriot under the name of Patrick ' Casey. His next appearance was in Paris, . hut the most desperate of Boulangists, Bonnpartists, Orleanists, Legitimists and Anarchist conspirators only laughed at the claimant to thermpire of Aurungzebe. lie was stricken witn paralysis and lost heart. A few days ago his old intimates inti-mates were amazed to see him in London. Ho had made his submission and received the queen's punlon. Tho mogul dynasty is not to be restored right away, and Duleep Singh is vegetating quietly once more on the remnants of his fortune. The Duchesso D'Uzes is the woman who "cave the Boulanger snap dead away," as t?y say on the streets. Of course she ce believed in bim, for she put her money in his scheme several millions of francs, she says but when he fled from Paris with a gay lady of the Rue de Berry the duchess got angry enough to talk. The I ingenious journalist and member of the National Assembly for the Seventh arron-dissemer.t arron-dissemer.t of Paris, M. Mermeix, followed the clew thus given, unearthed all the I M. MERMEIX. facts and has just published them in a serial entitled "Coulisses de Boulan-gisme" Boulan-gisme" in the Paris Figaro. And a disgusting story it is. All tbe while that Boulanger was posing before the people as a political savior and the proposed pro-posed reformer of tbe constitution he had secret understanding with the monarchists, mon-archists, and an intrigue with the Bona- 1 partists, and a truly hideous plot with the worst anarchists. He was promising everything every-thing to each separate faction, and receiving receiv-ing money and other secret aid from all of them. Which faction he intended to aid and which to betray no one of course xnows, but the Duchesse D'lTzes evidently evi-dently believes he meant to betray all of them and get away with her money besides. be-sides. In sho "Le Brav General," as the people fondly called him, proves to be the lowest kind of a swindler and double |