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HE, SHE AND IT.

President Cleveland is said to be saving $35,000 per[?] out of his salary.

Adjutant-General Drum, who has raised snob a robbery about the flags was a Blaine man in 1881.

The New National Liberal Club of London has 5000 [?] [?] and the finest club home in the world [?] $750,000.

[?] A [?] of [Atlanta?] was [shooked?] by lightening Monday so severely that [?] [?] [?] for three days and suffered [?] [?] [?] [?]

A. Washington [?] has successfully introduced a new style of [?] [?] [?] she has named Dorothy Whitney, to [?] of the Naval Secretary's baby girl.

Mr. [?] Morris, the assistant [?] [?[] [?] [?] [?] of the "L" to [?]." He owes big [?] to the possibility of the Prince of Wales.

Phil Armour, [?] is stated, will be the next millionaire owner of a traveling steamer. He talks of having a yacht built similar to Lord Brassey's [Sonbeam?] and for the same purpose, a voyage round the world.

Rembrandt's famous etching of "Christ Healing the Sick" has been brought by the British Musuem for $6,500. There are but eight impressions of this etching in existence, and the last, which came on the market of [1887?], brought $9,100.

M. Vallin, a French chemist, has invented an improved kind of cement, possessing durability and the cold appearance of marble, so that a wall set with it not only becomes impermeable to moisture, but can be polished and made beautiful.

Lord Rochester, oldest son of the Earl of [Carnarvon?], comes of age this week and inherits the Chesterfield estates. When his father dies he will be one of the wealthiest of peers, as his income will exceed $500,000 annually. He was in Philadelphia a few months ago.

Mr. T. [Boulange?], one of the chief [engineers?] on the Panama canal, who has returned to this country on account of sickness, says that the company has only money enough to continue the work for four months, and that the death-rate among the laboting men has averaged 60 per cent.

Jake Sharp furnishes very good pickings for the lawyers. His lawyers- Parsons, Slickney, Fullerton and Nelson- are paid $56,000; and other expenses, so far, bring up his bill to $77,000. As Sharp means to fight all along the line of courts, his disbursement will increase like compounded interest.

Buck Taylor, the cow-boy, whose daring performances with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show recently resulted in a dislocated thigh, is having a high old time during his convalescence. He is the London lion just now, and is getting all sorts of good things to eat and drink sent to him by his British admirers.

The latest show-window attraction in New York is animals. The electric dummies that thump on the window glass to attract one's attention are being supplemented in places by parrots that call to customer squirrels that keep a cage buzzing, and one hat store keeps a Brazilian lizard that wriggles his tail and blinks.

Provance McCormick, who in 1811 established the first cake oven and made the first coke in this country, died on Friday, at Connelleville, Pa, aged 88 years. He was a grandson of Col. William Crawford, the first settler in that part of Pennsylvania, having gone there with Washington, who was at the time a captain. Mr. McCormick made a large fortune in various business enterprises, but the great failure of B. F. Bear, a few years ago, ruined him, and when he died he was depending for a living on the small fees derived from his office of justice of the peace.