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Show BRIEF LITERARY NOTES. Paul RornorT, the distinguished literary lit-erary rival of llmnas, was once a Paris- ian reporter. 1-onn Ai.FRtcn Tk.vxysos is the eleven j hundred and seventy-third person buried in Westminster abbey. The longest word in the new Century ( dictionary is palatopharingeolaryngcal. The next longest is transubstantiation-alist. transubstantiation-alist. The manuscript of Edgar Allen Poe's "Tale of the Ragged Mountains'' was sold in New York at auction recently i for fr'05. j The number of pilgrims to the house I at Ecelefeclum. iu which Carlyle was 1 born, is yearly increasing. During the past three months three hundred names ; have, says the (llasgow Mail, been added to the visitor's book. ! (Jen. Cassil'h M. Ci.ay, the veteran diplomat, soldier and anti-slavery ad-i ad-i voeate of Kentucky, has presented his ! fine library and his statuary and paint-; paint-; ings to the county in which he lives, for 1 the nucleus of a public library, tien. : Clay is eighty years of age. Every year a g rent many hero-worshiping pilgrims go to the house in which Carlyle was born and try on the sage's old hat. which is preserved as a relic of interest. Of the thousands of visitors during the last few years only thirty-four had heads large enough to lit the hat. |