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Show PERSONAL POINTS. M. Kmii.k Zola proposes to leave Paris very hhurtly for Spain, with a view of maivintr sUulies for a new book. IIai'.oness i;ei(i:;Tr-Coi;'i i'S possesses the line.st ami most carefully-preserved copy of the lirst folio of Shakespeare, niL'a. Mns. Alexander, the well-known novelist, who is really Mrs. Alexander Hector, is a grand mother, nearly seventy. Tub DahomanKinfrBehanzin is wasting- away in his exile at Martinique, lie is pining-for his African wilds and incidentally smoking- stacks of American Ameri-can cigarettes. Miss Sophie A. Nordhofp. a former student of medicine at Washington, has been appointed a phj'sieian at the famous woman's clinic of l'rof. von Winkel in Munich. Brut IIartf.'s hair is silvery while, contrasting-vividly with the ruddy g-low of his healthful complexion. His face is clean-shaven except for an ample mustache, and his smile most genial. The reason that Prince Bismarck drinks champagne out of the bottle is to get the benefit of the gas. It is by the doctor's orders. They say you do g-et all the gas that way, but not much champagne. Anihieas Zorx, the artist whose original style of portraiture was much admired durinp; the world's fair, suys that Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs. Grover Cleveland are two of the most lovely representatives of womanhood he hus ever seen. |