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As commander of the Thirteenth Army Corps, Boulanger should carefully avoid duels.

The smallest jockey in the country is De Long, a most inappropriate name. He weighs only sixty-eight pounds.

The astonishing news goes forth that, after a recent ball in Saratoga, Berry Wall was observed wearing a collar and a pair of cuffs which were full of wrinkles.

Zola is about to publish a new novel said to be viler than any he has written heretobefore. It is too bad that no good shot thinks it worth while to challenge Zola to a duel.

London Truth says the the Prince of Wales has presented Buffalo Bill with a horseshoe pin set with diamonds. What Bill wants is the freedom of London.

Emperors William and Francis Joseph will meet at Gastein Aug. 6. An osculatory smack, which will echo around the world, will inagurate the meeting.

Robert Louis Stevenson is again seriously ill at Bournemouth. There is some fear that he never will be strong enough to make his contemplated American journey.

Miss Content is the unambitious name of one of the most popular of the season's belles at Long Branen. It is not at all an uncommon thing to find Discontent at Long Branch.

A correspondent writes that Mrs. Clement C. Moore of New York is the handsomest young married woman at Atlantic City, while Miss Josie Trossell ranks first among the unmarried belles.

After Jules Verne has finished his novel of the civil war he should try his hand at magazine article on the battle of Gettysburg. The subject is one especially suited to his peculiar genius.

Congressman Phelan of Memphis is the youngest member of the Fiftieth Congress. He will not be 31 when he takes his seat. Congressman Vandever, the oldest member, is 71.

Mrs. Sadie Chanfrau, aged 24 years, the wife of Henry T. Chanfrau, an actor, died recently. She was formerly Miss Sadie Fulton, the daughter of a well-known hotel proprietor of Pittsburg.

The monument of Sir William Wallace recently unveiled at Sterling is on an eminence three hundred feet above the plain. The pedestal is fifty feet high, and on this is a statue of the Scotch here twenty-one feet high.

Dr. McGlynn, three years ago, came near being appointed bishop of the Pittsburg diocese, his name, with three others, being sent to Rome. This gave him a close chance, as the pope was then favorable to him.

William K. Vanderbilt, who is still in London, has leased Beaufort Castle, Lord Lovat's new and picturesque seat in Inverness, for two months, at a rental of $10,000. It is said to be the very ideal of a sporting estate.

A twelve-year-old boy near Springfield, Mo., who was bitten by a rattlesnake, was saved from the effects of the poison by the application of the raw flesh of five chickens to the wound, and by drinking a quart of whisky.

A tall, fine-looking colored man recently called on Secretary Lamar, and the two men sat down and conversed for over an hour. The surprised clerks at length leraned that the caller was Bishop Turner of Georgia.

Queen Victoria has contributed numerous relics to the Mary Stuart Tercentenary Exhibitions at Peterborough, among them, a Bible with the Queen of Scots' autograph and a print of the Queen and Lord Darnley, of which only three copies exist.

At the Goodwood races the Prince of Wales wore a black sack coat made of rough cloth, gray trousers, white overgaiters, a white cravat tied in a four inhand knot, a white shirt and collar, a pair of yellow kid gloves and a gray Derby hat. He carried a cane with a silver handle Altogether the costume was much more becoming than the admiral's uniform he wore at the Spithead naval review.

Mrs. A. F. Hill of Orlando, Fla., got so excited at hooking a fish, while out for sport with her husband and niece, that she upset the boat, and the entire party were drowned.

At Redwood City, Dr. Gamble, a naturalized Canadian, tore down and trampled on the stars and stripes on the Fourth. He was ridden out of town on a three-cornered rail.

It is reported from Richmond, Va., that a pious Baptist of that city has rented her fine home and moved into cheaper quarters that she thus might be able to give $1000 a year more to charity than she otherwise could have done.

Zebehr Pacha, at Gibraltar, is still protesting that his rascally life has always been of unsullied purity. He says he never was a slave-trader, never murdered, never robbed. And he does not claim descent from Ananias either.

In the garden of the old McClellan house, in Gornam, Me., the first brick building erected in the county, a lady recently found a venerable looking gold ring, with this inscription still legible on the inside: "You are the rose that I have chose."

Daniel Dougherty, the silver-tongued, will go from London to the Isle of Wight and thence to Paris, the Mecca of most tourists. During his evenings in London he has gone to hear the debates in the House of Commons whenever he possibly could.

The original of a long lost letter written by Gen. Washington in acknowledgment of an address from the citizens of Newport has just been found in that city. It is written on both sides of two quarto pages of letter paper and is still distinct and readable.

A lawyer in Colmar who defended some Alsatians of Turkeim against the charge of having sung the "Marseillaise" got three weeks' imprisonment for his plea, the precise punishment that his clients received for their song. Lawyers' fees at this rate will soon be very high in Alsace.

An aged negro blacksmith, who still does good work at the forge in Ozan, Ark., and who is known as Gov. Pickens, is probably the oldest working blacksmith living. He was born in South Carolina March 7, 1787, and sold on the block in New Orleans and taken to Arkansas in 1840.

One of the crack shots of Louisiana recently said that he had engaged in his last live pigeon shooting match. He pronounced it cruel in the extreme, and said that others who had engaged in the last match hold the same opinion, since with but one or two exceptions they shoot under assumed names.

Queen Victoria is going to institute an order of literary merit consisting of twenty knights, fifty knights' companions and one hundred companions. Buffalo Bill's recent essays in literature should make him at least a companion.

Mr. Tizoni of Albany has just completed a bust of the lat ex-President Mark Hopkins of Williams College. The bust is made after a plaster cast taken soon after Dr. Hopkins death, and is wonderfully life-like in its general effect.

It has been some time since the American public has heard naything about Louise Michel, the famous Parisian agitator. It seems she has been devoting herself to literary work, and will soon publish a volume of poems entitled "Les Oceaniennes."

John M. Otter is probably the busiest hotel manager in the country. He is in charge of three hotels at Saratoga, the Grand Union, the Colonnade and the Windsor, and of two in New York, the Metropolitan and the Park Avenue. His cares, however, do not make much impression on his rugged health.

Harrison W. Garrett, Robert Garrett, Jr., and John W. Garrett, sons of Robert Garrett of Baltimore, are studying American geography in a pleasant manner. They left Baltimore in May with their tutor, and have traveled in a special car through Mexico, Texas, Colorado and other parts of the country. They recently passed through Utah on their way to California.

Mrs. S. A. Crane of St. Joseph, Mo., sat in her window in the fourth story of her house the other night in order to get a breath of fresh air. She dropped asleep and fell out of the window, and when picked up from the ground, seventy feet below, was found to have sustained no more serious injury than the breaking of one of her toes.

A year ago County Commissioner Van Pelt of Chicago, who is now being tried for bribery, was at the head of a delegation of business men who called on the president to ask him to appoint McGarigle, now a fugitive, to the marshalship of the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Cleveland did not like the looks of either Van Pelt or McGarigle and appointed another man.

A correspondent who has met Buffalo Bill and his daughter in London describes the latter as a young lady of 19, "inclined to be pretty, but rather conveying the impression that she revels in sucking oranges, chewing gum, etc." One of the curious features of her make-up noted was a piece of court plaster stuck artistically on the side of her nose.

Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has some of her brother's prejudice against newspapers. She writes to the editor of a Maine magazine that she has not given up literary work for periodicals. She says she has been an associate editor with Mrs. Lamb since June 1 on the Magazine of American History. To the Maine editor she further says: "The untruthful and inventive newspapers are at fault and not yourself. My work in Mrs. Reed's school for the next year is that of an associate, not assistant, and is in connection with my historical work in general."