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Show 8PICE. The five-year-old boy of Soncng Pao Kls, Chinese Embassador at Paris, speaks French and has memorized 2300 characters of tho Chinese script. 1000 of which suffices suf-fices tho ordinary Chinaman. a v Henry Pcrrotln, tho eminent French astronomer as-tronomer and director of tho Nice obsor-vatory, obsor-vatory, who died nt Paris recently, at tho ago of &S, began as a simple, workman in tho employ of the Toulouso observatory. The Stockholm court has pronounced tho Arctic explorer Andreo to bo dead In law. tho legal term of disappearance having hav-ing Just expired. Andree loft Spltzbergon on July 11, 1S97. with two companions In a balloon with tho object of reaching the north pole. Daniel Larzelere of Qulncy, Mich., Is believed be-lieved to be the oldest grain dealer In tho country He began trading In 1S16 and la still active in tho business, halo and hearty at S3. Ho has boon at his present station In Qulncy for twenty-seven years, personally taking In all the grain ho purchases. pur-chases. A friend was arguing with Senator Piatt In behalf of a man of many Ideas and of unlimited activities, but who never accomplished any apparont results. Ho was the ultra typo of reformer and often mado himself ridiculous through what he. proposed and what ho brilliantly failed to achieve. Ills advocate aftor enumerating all of his excellences to the "Tioga sage" said: "You may not agreo with him, Sen-tor, Sen-tor, but this man Is an Individual force In tho activities of our social life you cannot can-not deny that ho Is an engino of much power." "Yes," assented the Senator drily, ' a donkey engine." |