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Show PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A garter buck'e is in the shape of a flour do lis. Society's best evening gloves are a dark lavender. If an oyster has a black veil on its surface it is a male A very long-striped and capcless coat is tho newest thing to go over a dress suit. It is said that there are 15,000 brass bands in this country, with 150,000 performers. per-formers. Miss Vera Berlngcr, the best Little Lord Fauntloroy on the English stage, has been taken off the boards and sent to school. Prince JJismarok's profits from yeast alone are said to have exoeeded $30,000 last year. Yeast doesn't often raise the wind like that. . General Sherman is said to know how to shake hands better than any American Amer-ican In public life. Young ladies say he salutes most gracefully, also. Mr Edward Lloyd, the English tenor is announced for a tour in the United States in May and June, 1803. A new fashion in Paris puts metal boxes on the tombs in all the cemeteries into which friends of the deceased can drop their cards through the slit at the top. j The day on which Chief-Justice and Mrs. Fuller will celebrate their silver wedding in January has been set; also for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Mildred Fuller, to Hugo Wafiaoe. |