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Show Tin: next dKtinruished visitor whom London expects is tiie khan of Kniva. He will soon make a tour of Europe accompanied ac-companied by a high Russian otliciaL He has m-ver been west of Moscow hitherto. He ran speak a little Russian, but no other European tongue. lie is a devout Mahometan. PEOPLE WITH TITLES. CouSTKSS Ruspoi.1, whose death occurred recently, was the possessor of a vast collection of Napoleonic relics and correspondence, the disposal of which will have a large interest to the French imperialists. The silver wedding anniversary of the king and queen of Greece brought them, among hundreds of other costly remembrances, a handsome gold and silver service for sixty-eight persons from their imperial and royal friends. The king of Sweden has given permission per-mission to his son and daughter-in-law, Prince and Princess Uernadotte, to accept the hereditary titles of "Count and Countess of Wisborg," recently conferred ou them by the grand duke of Luxemlmurg. Cor nt de Lrsseps, whose prosecution , in connection with the Panama canal j investigation has been determined upon up-on by the French government, is 67 years old. lie feels the disgrace so deep- , ly that it may. his sons think, actually 1 cost him his life. ! Empress JosF.rniNr: was the first to publicly use a pocket handkerchief. Her teeth were bad. and she gracefully concealed this defect by holding a costly handkerchief before her lips. The ladies of the court followed her example, ex-ample, and the custom was thus inaugurated inaug-urated as a fashion. |