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Prince Napoleon is at present living in Switzerland and is engaged upon his long mohtated life of Napoleon I.

Henry Irving's manner at a party where he was supposed to be the lion is full of repose as a lion's ought to be. He keeps a tiger.

Sam Jones admires the American reporters as a rule, but the Minneapolis variety of tho genus he considers a moral mustardplaster.

T. L. Frank, son of the Flowery Land desires to be made a New Haven constable. He can elubbe, he saith allee samee Noo Lork man.

Prince Alfred of Edinburgh is studying at Coburg. He has some idea of going West when he comes of age and of growing up with the buffalo.

Bill Nye has the idea that a big book with nothing in it sells better than a small book full of matter. Let him try it on his constituents with a bank book.

Elkwood, Dak., has given birth to a genius whose motto is "To insure the life of a live man." Anybody can do that, but to insure the life of a dead man, that's posesion.