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Show PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who is at present pres-ent iu New York, denies that she is going go-ing to reside in Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland both like Eastman Johuson's portrait of the ex-president, ex-president, which has just been bung in tliu While housu. William Stewart, a blind law student, heads the lists iu the results of the linal examination in connection with the I litlurin Iftw ephonl. Robert E. Lee, when in the United Stales army, over fifty years ago, pro-pared pro-pared river improvement charts which ure st.il in use in M. Louis. Mr. Gladstouo is obliged to stay at Kauanlen tor another fortuight. bis recent illnesa having left traces in bis lungs of a bad cough. ( Scnor Antonio Uatri s. the new tnin- Ut.-r to Washington from Gautemala. has tilled this office before, and still longer ago was secretary of the legation, lega-tion, lie has an income of $10,000 from his cocoa plantations, M. A. Aanna,' a prominont shipowner ship-owner and politician of Cleveland, is tjio owner pt tho . manuscript from which Genwal Grant-mad hla orable speech at Warren in the Garfield Gar-field campaign. It was a present from the general himself. Mrs. James T. Fiold of Boston, the widow of the publisher, is said to possess pos-sess one of tho largest private literary collections in tho world. In tho library are quantities of valuable original M.SS and autograph letters, aud iu tho garden gar-den at the rear of tho houso grow trees that were planted by mauy famous authors and public men. Owen County Bieokinridge, a lawyer law-yer of the l'acilic coast, owes a portion of his name to a romantic circumstance. In is.":; John C. Breckinridge was run,-niug run,-niug for congress in Kuntticky, aud Dwen county gave him the victory, and to a son born upon tho day of tho election elec-tion ho gave the county's name as an expression of his gratitude. llev. W. P. Drown of Missouri is a member of the Whitmer branch of the mormon church, which repudiates not only polygamy, but the prophetic mission of Joseph Smith. Ho has ti cf-11 cf-11 red that the second coming of Christ will occur this summer, has sola bis property and is goiug to Jerusalem to be upon the ground ready for the great event. Uul.instein. in his new and yet unfinished un-finished book, "Music and Musicaus," will take the grouud that Wagner, Liszt and Iterlaiz were uot reformers, but piaced obstacles in the way of progress in the tone of art. Of himself the llus-ian llus-ian says: "I am one of the have-heuiji" have-heuiji" (Jo stiis un de ceux qui ont ete). This latter statement leads the I'aris correspondent of the London News to remark that this composer has always diKpaiaed his own work. Nearly twenty years ago, when asked by a friend what hn had been doing during the summer, he tersciy replied: "Spoiling "Spoil-ing music paper." Theodore Beck, the grit French potter, pot-ter, who died a fortnight ngo, was for fourteen years administrator of the Manufacteur National de I'orcelaine in .Sevres. 15y birth an Alsatian, and by 1 early education a stovenmker, he came to I'aris in lS.Vt, aud, sliil in the same trade, began to study to rediscover the lost art of making transparent ennniel, and finally succeeded. At the exhibition exhibi-tion of decorative arts in Faris in 180 and lSt he attained world-wide celebrity cele-brity with his va-es in red, turqiiois, Dcck-bluo and other colors. In 173 ho was sppointcdan otlicer of the Legion Le-gion of Honor. |