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Show PERSONAL. SWINBURNE, the poet who is in bad health, will pass the winter in the South of England. <br><br> MR. SPURGEON said the other day that now, as in the days of Luther, men stand staring at the truth like cows at a new gate. <br><br> MR. G. W. CHILDS draws $1,000 profits a day from the Public Ledger, while Mr. James Gordon Bennett draws $1,200 from the Herald. <br><br> THE PRINCE of Wales' sons receive as naval cadets twenty-five cents a day, which will be raised to forty-five cents when they become midshipmen. <br><br> MISS Colenso, a daughter of the distinguished Bishop of that name, is writing a work which not many young women would undertake-a history of the late Zulu war. <br><br> MAJOR Thornburg's remains have been buried with imposing Masonic ceremonies in Omaha; in the same grave was laid away the body of his little son, who died at Fort Steele. <br><br> EDWARD Eggleston says, "In no period previous to our own could it be said that the greatest English writer of English prose was a woman. This distinction fairly belongs to-day to George Eliot." <br><br> OLIVER Johnson's book on Garrison will be called "William Lloyd Garrison and his Times; or Sketches of the Anti-Slavery Movement in America." John G. Whittier will contribute to it an introduction. <br><br> THE Earl of Aberden has a distinction unique among earls-he is the sole owner of a railway, the entire cost of which came out of his own pocket. It is ten miles in length, runs chiefly on his own property, and cost $275,000. <br><br> BISMARCK suffers constantly from neuralgia and sleeplessness. Both are symptoms of nervous decay. They indicate that one of these fine days something in the great man's head will snap, and then there will be an European crisis. <br><br> MRS. LUCY Stone is quoted by The Cincinnati Gazette as saying that Chief Justice Chase once said to her: "I see no end to the good to come from woman's suffrage, both on the elections and on the elected, and on the women themselves." <br><br> QUEEN Christina of Spain is a wise and kindly young lady. She begged her betrothed to economize as far as possible in the expenses of their wedding festivities, and to give the money to the sufferers by the late floods in Spain. <br><br> QUEEN Victoria, a fortnight ago, expressly commanded that a paragraph stating that she was eating strawberries grown in the open air at Balmoral should be sent to the papers, her object being to dissipate the idea that at this season Balmoral lies in a snowy or foggy waste. <br><br> THE CABLE news comes that the Empress Carlotta, who lost her reason after the execution of Maximillian, has recovered. As her case had been pronounced incurable, it will have a double interest to the world, exciting our sympathetic gratulations [congratulations] and in presenting a topic for medical discussion. <br><br> MRS. BELVA A. Lockwood, the woman lawyer of Washington, is conducting a case in Baltimore where she was on Monday admitted as an attorney of the United States Circuit Court. While in court she removed her dark felt and feathered hat and placed it on the table with the hats of the other counsel. <br><br>"SENATOR," said General Beatty to the late Senator Chandler not long ago, "I would like to see you President; you are the sort of man we need just now." "No, no," he replied. "I hope I'll never get the Presidential fever. It is sure death. Men recover from the small pox, cholera and yellow fever, but they never get over the Presidential fever." |