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Show iie emperor ol itermany lias artlstla tastes, and has lately painted a picture pf a ship sailing the high seas. Tiut Mary Washington association has contracted for tho erection of n monument worth cloven thousand dollars dol-lars over tho gravo of Mary, tho mother moth-er of Oeorgo Washington, nt Fredericksburg, Freder-icksburg, Va. Tite Danes of Chicago nro having' prepared, as their gift to tho city, a , fine statue of Hans Christian Andersen in bronze. Tho story tcllur is represented repre-sented sitting on a stump, with n 1kx1 on his knee ami a pencil in his htiud The work Is tine and tho likcnoax excellent ex-cellent Maucus IiENOUt, th Trench artist, whoso cat pictures have mado htm famous fa-mous and rich. Is said to have bcon f,o poor only eight years ago that It was j only through ''.the entrance of a home-lets home-lets kltton to his garret that ho ttns ono night prevented from destroying himself. IIo pnlntod a picture of It, and from that thxi hi fortune was X Uay Womnn. The dutlos of the president's wlfo In France differ considerably from thoso required of the consort of tho chiof executive ex-ecutive of tho United States. Minn. Car-not Car-not superintends all tho entertainments given at the Ely see, and no state dinner Is prepared until tho has criticised the bill of faro. Every day sho audits U10 president lu examining tho mass of lcl ters h receives dally, her knowledgo of modern laniruogcs und of political affairs af-fairs enabling her to bo of great assistance as-sistance in disposing of them. Tho ordering or-dering and superintending of her toilets Is ono of her official duties, for tho drcs of tho president's lady cxerclkes a greater Influence over commercial affairs af-fairs In Franco than with us. Tho official of-ficial dutleu of the French republican court are oven more exacting than the official dcmonUsatWashlngtoii, |
