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PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

SAM SMALL will locate at Washington.

WHISTLER, the London artist, has got hold of Buffalo Bill.

FREDERICK WINSTON and Frank Collier are homeward bound on the Auranis.

BEFORE the century is out it is estimated that London will have a population of 7,000,000.

IN Korea you may throw a beggar a handful of copper and yet have given him but three cents.

SAN DIEGO has a Upas street. It is not "deadly," though the name has an uncanny look. -Los Angeles Times.

MISS MARY G. BURDETTE, sister of the humorist, "Bob" Burdette, is winning marked success as a religious lecturer.

THE painters Munkacay and Angeli are among the first members of Kaiser Francis Joseph's new order of Arts and Letters.

A BIRMINGHAM gun firm, in order to obviate the difficulty in sighting small guns in the dark, have introduced small diamonds in both sights.

AN old lady of Versailles was so anxious to see the Pranzini's execution that she paid [English Pound]6 per day for a week for a room opposite the prison.

A TRANSLATION of Daudet's "Sappho"--a story not hitherto welcomed with any great enthusiasm by the Anglo-Saxon mind--is at last to appear in this country.

THOMAS HUGHES has found his colony at Rugby, Tenn., in fair condition. He will visit one of his sons in Kansas and sail for England about the middle of October.

THE Chinese sailors at Portsmouth are cutting out the British tars in the affections of the local nurses and waiting-maids. They are not so large, but their manners are more engaging.

THE physique of the English soldier has improved very much during the last decade. During the years 1860-4 the rejections were 301 per 1,000. During 1882-6 there were only 206.

BETWEEN seventy-five and 100 young ladies of Atlanta, Ga, and vicinity have agreed to form a mounted escort to President Cleveland and lady on the occasion of their visit to the Piedmont fair.

MISS KATE F. KIMBALL, whose name is a household word among the 100,000 members of the Chautauqua circles, in her capacity as secretary of the university, is still a young woman in her twenties.

THE extraordinary supply of grouse in London on the first day the shooting law was up is now accounted for by the information that the grouse had been kept for ten months in ice cellars at a temperature of 28 deg. They were very much relished.

A PRODIGIOUSLY powerful explosive, which is being experimented with by the Russian Minister of War, and is called Sleetoya, may be discharged in a cardboard gun barrel without injury to the barrel. This story may be taken for what it is worth to scare Europe with.

CHAUNCEY DEPEW sailed for home Thursday by the White Star Line. The Prince of Wales is said to have asked Mr. Blaine for a typical American, and was referred to Mr. Depew, who in turn disclaimed so high an honor, and passed the Prince on to Governor Alger, of Detroit.

THE people of Louisville refuse to march under pictures of Hewitt Green, a painter of that city who is sending home from Paris portraits of nude women. Undress art has had its run in this country, and decency is beginning to assert itself. --Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.