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Show I MEN YOU HEAR OF, Sardon, the French dramatist, started out as a surgeon's assistant and became a professor of mathematics before he took up play writing. The founder of Primrose day, Sir George Birdwood, is living quietly on his estate in England, and helps to celebrate cele-brate the day he created by gifts of money. Allan W. Thunnan, son of the "Old Roman," is an enthusiastic horseman and admirer of horseflesh. Ho is a regular regu-lar visitor at the race tracks near his home, Tsu Knu Yin, tbe Chinese minister at Washington, is a stout man of about 50 years of age, with a wife and one son. He was at one time the head of a college in Pekin. "Old Hutch," the picturesque Chicago speculator, dresses in solemn black and always wears a felt hat. When in repose he is said to resemble Lincoln as he appeared ap-peared in 18C1. The late Fletcher Harper was a sailor j to the Chinese seas in his youth. There I is another Fletcher Harper, the third of his name, and a great-grandson of the founder of the Harper firm. Du Maurier, Punch's well known caricaturist, cari-caturist, lives in elegant leisure at Hamp-stead. Hamp-stead. He occupies there a big house that is filled with his wonderful collection collec-tion of old engravings and pictures and with his handsome library. His Koyal Highness Duke Carl Theodore, Theo-dore, of Bavaria, has resumed the gratuitous gratu-itous treatment of eye diseases among the Tyrole-se poor, and recently he has carried to a successful issue 170 operations, opera-tions, of which fifty-three were for cataract cata-ract Dion Boncicault has been paid for his various plays, among which are "Rip Van Winkle," ' London Assurance," "The Shaughraun" and "Colleen Bawn," npwardg of 13,000,000. Y"et he is today poor, and at 68 is hard at work on a new play, being in need of the money that he expects it will bring him. William Waldorf Astor, since he became be-came the richest man in America, has the gloomiest expression of face conceivable, conceiv-able, his former cheerful demeanor having hav-ing entirely departed. His head hangs forward like that of a man who is weighed down by responsibilities, and his eyebrows are drawn together in an almost querulous fashion. Money to loan in sums to suit by S. F Spencer, 267 South Main street. " |