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Show People We Hear About., Sir Charles Dilke lives in the old home of Charles Reade, called by the latter "Naboth's Vineyard." Kate Chase Sprague has organized a gay salon at Paris, is much sought after, and is frightfully in debt. Dr. Morgan Dix is expected, in Episcopal Episco-pal circles, to "knock out" Heber Newton New-ton in his Lenten lectures. Mme. Patti assures the Parisians that in America they believed every fib she told, and paid her well for telling them. Shiro Akabane, the accomplished secretary of the Japanese Legation at Washington, was educated at Yale, but is a strong protectionist. Frank James is reported to have declined de-clined an offer of $25,000 a year to travel with a circus, saj-ing that he-prefers to remain a clerk in Missouri. Lord Randolph Churchill, in his Manchester Man-chester speech, declared that for the last twenty years Mr. Gladstone has been guilty of all kinds of electioneering frauds. |