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Show Hews of tbe liforld. Sir Henry M. Stanley, the eminent Af- ' rican explorer. Is now devoting himself k almost exclusively to country life and ! developing into a gentleman farmer. ' Sir Wilfred Laurier, who has been prime minister in Canada since is amonr those to be raised to the peerac when King Edward Is crowned next Juno. M. Shimota. a graduate of the Kiuto 1 Imperial School of Fisheries of the Japan- ese government, is In Boston on a Pair of I study into American fishing methods. I The kaiser has decreed that hereafter I no statue of his grandfather snail bo erected in Germany unless it hears a" inscription alluding to the original f "William tho Great." f Professor von Kraff-Ebing. the eminent Vlenese alienist, has transferred his rsi- : dence and hl.s library to Graz. In p" t cent interview he spoke of the christian , Scientists as being the dupes of hjsteri'-al women. Senator Teller's speech on the rhillp- pine question fills twenty-six pages irftM Congressional Record and contains 7.-. words. With the exception of a '' d'- n- ments the entire speech was oxtempoi- I anvou-. I , M. Serpollet lost no time in dispesins ''t , the motor car with which h ninu ns f kilometer record at Nice. He sld it im- mediaitely after his wonderful perform- ; ance for 2,2tX) to an Englishman, who H'rl f at once for London with his purchase. George P. Sherman, one of the oldest I citizens of Milwaukee, was an eye-witne 4 of the triumphal pageant in New lorK at the time of Lafayette's last visit u this country. He Is also one of Hie fpw men now living that heard the farniy Webster-Hayne debate in 1H at asn-Ington. asn-Ington. A new portrait of Pre-Uleiit Buchanan, painted bv William Chase of New ' or.K' has been hung in the green room at in- White House, and the old portrait. wii' became discolored, has been removed, the request ot Mrs. Harriet Lane Jonn-son. Jonn-son. President Buchanan s nice, '-v replaced it with the new likeness. During a recent visit of Marion Crawford Craw-ford to New York, says Current Lit : ture. he met at a social function Mary E. Wilkins. The lady said - thing pleasant, about a recent novel o i ' ; Smiling and bowing, he asked. Ann you write. Miss Wilkins?" She was tu solutcly too surprised to reply-Senator reply-Senator Clark of Montana. 'hoJ'rit ) ; bigger checks than any other man ' f , Washington, is fond of singing. He n , a sweet, clear tenor voice, which, i-strong, i-strong, but very pleasing to a simi."' panv.? After he had piled millions on 1 mi II ions he employed a vocal teacne r. . the result Is that he is fond oi ln for a small company. |
