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PROMINENT PEOPLE

Mrs. John Mackey has returned to her Paris residence for the winter.

Claua Spreckels, the sugar kind, is said to be worht over $30,000,000.

It is said that Julian Hawthorned is to give up writing to go into business.

John Russell Toung, it is said, has returned to the New York Herald, and is writing for its editorial page.

Mr. Pendleton, the American minister at Berlin, and Mr. Anderson, the American minister at Copenhagen, are visiting London.

M. Meissonier, the painer, shows symptoms of paralysis in one of his thumbs. His physicians have ordered him to take a long rest.

Ex-Secretart B. H. Bristow is a noteble figure on Broadway, New York. He is a devoted pedestrian and is entirely out of politics.

Ciara Lousie Kellogg was once worth $250,000; but she lost havily in bad investments, and now has to struggle along the income of $100,000 and what she picks up singing.

The Hon. E. L. Merritt, of Springfield, Ill., has become part owner in the Omaha Herald and will shortly assume duties of general manager of the paper.

Bishop H. B. Whipple, of Minnesota, has long locks like Buffalo Bill and knows a great deal about the Indians in his section. He speaks several of their dialects and has a great infulence over them.