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Show P e r s o n a l . The late Aea Packer left $ 6,419,849. King Kalakana will visit Washington next winter. Queen Victoria contemplates a visit to Italy in June. Fred Douglass has been nominated as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. Carlyle's father was a stone mason, George Eliot's a carpenter and Shakes-peare's a butcher. General Fremont has been in Boston and Mrs, Fremont in Washington. The latter WAS heartily received at the White House. At the suggestion of the late Thomas Carlyle a tree has been planted at Hud-dington on the spot where John Knox, the Scotch reformer, was born, Edison has reserved the patent for the eleotric light in England, but what good will it do him? " T h e sun never sets on the British dominions." When that illustrious man, Chief- Justice Jay, was dying, he was asked, if he had any farewell address to leave his children. He replied, " They have the Bible." Lord Beaconsfield insisted on dining but five or six times a week and attend ing all the very swell parties, old as he was, and caught the cold which ended him coming home from one of them. Wise, the Mahone candidate for Gov ernor of Virginia, is boyish in looks, but is credited with a cunning brain, and feels sure that he is to be elected if the Republicans in the Senate hold their own. SMretary Lincoln is a harder man to intorvien than General Grant An Inler- Ocean reporter recently pnmped him an honr and a half, and finally learned that the Secretary was feeling " very well." Secretary Blaine 1ms rheumatism In the knooa. lie eats little, and only of dimple dishes, and ho drinks at dinner one glasijof ohampagno, While reoeiv iDfl callers I'd nan ally stands, which siiggeBta short calls. " There was a sound of revelry by night," Kay a Byron's magniflcant " Waterloo," and it it said that Lord Win. Lennox, who recently died, was the last survivor of the invited gueats at that ever- famous ball. Bancroft, the historian, now more than eighty year a old, a aye that the secret of his good reason is easy of ex planation. He oats light meaia, walks three or four honra curly In the open air, and lakes plenty of aleep. Mrs. Garfield, the President's mother, Is quoted by. lho Byraouae Journal & a saying to Mr, I'ryo, with a friendly pat on the shoulder; " Frye, I like yon because yon are stalwart. I don't want any BOH of mine ever to weaken in the faoeottho enemy." Rev. Stuart Hobinaou, 1), IX, the ablonnd well known Bouthorn Presby terian minister, has decided, owing to ooDtlnued Ul- heidtu, to resign tho pas torate of the Second Church, Louis ville, ot which ho has been pastor twenty- two yews. Professor Proctor, tne astronomer, and Aire. Bailie Crowley were married at St, Josopb, Missouri, May l i b , and left for Chicago. They will sail for Europe June lat, and next fall will re turn to America to start on a tour of the world, Yin. San Frrnoisoo. President Garfield, speaking of the Bhsbby conduct of tho hotel- keepers at Springfield, 111,, in refusing entertain ment to the colored jubilee- singers, lays it they g o to Washington and can not secure rooms in the hotels, ha will welcome them to tho " White House. Miss Abigail 15. Judaea, 90 years old, lives ilone at Plymouth, Mass, She has : never allowed tho front door of her house to be opened since the death ol her brother, Adonlram, tho famoua missionary to Burnish, and has ordered that it shall remain closed ( ill her own loners 1. The Poo family ot Winchester, Toon ., is described as tough. Twool tho sons ere on trial for murder. The mother complaceatly ehewe tobacco in court, an& the daughter alto with her feet on the tdible, One ot tho prisoners, en raged at the testimony of a witness, kicked him off the stand. |