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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.
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BUFFALO BILL'S BIG VISITORS ------------------------------------------- Four Kings and a Crowd of Notables at the Wild West Show. ------------------------------------------- They Ride on the Deadwood Coach and on the Switchback Railroad--On Visiting the American Bar They Try Every Variety of American Drink from a Cocktail Up--Buffalo Bill's Witty Reply to the Prince of Wales. --------------------------------------------
LONDON, June 20. --The royalties who now throng London, and who have assembled here in greater numbers than ever before in any one place in Europe, apparently take more interest in the Wild West show than in the jubilee performance. The queen of Belgium said to one of the English gentlemen who called on her this morning that she did not come to London at all on account of the jubilee, but that she came here because she was dying to see the Wild West performance. There was a private exhibition given this morning by Buffalo Bill and his men for the benefit of the visiting royalties. The general public was not admitted. There were not over twenty guests outside of the people who had been invited by the prince of Wales. Judging by the interest displayed by the royal guests at the Wild West Show this morning, it is very evident that Col. Cody could go through Europe and command the same attention for his performance that he has obtained in London. There were never so many crowned heads before at any private or public entertainment given in Europe. The prince of Wales brought with him four reigning sovereigns and the crown princes of the most prominent countries in Europe. There were four kings present, namely, the king of Denmark, the king of Greece, the king of Saxony and the king of the Belgians. Besides these were the Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, the hereditary prince and princess of Saxe-Meiningen, the crown prince and princess of Germany, the crown prince of Sweden and Norway, the Princess Victoria, of Prussia, the duke of Sparta, Prince George of Greece, Prince Louis of Baden and the prince and princess of Wales, Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales, and the Princesses Victoria and Maud of Wales. These were attended by a numberous suit of lords and gentlemen and ladies-in-waiting. The entire Wild West performance was gone through with from beginning to end, and the royal visitors became so excited and interested that they had to go into the arena in order to observe the shooting and maneuvres at close range. All of the royal visitors wore black frock coats and high silk hats with the exception of the prince of Wales. He wore a light spring suit with a light drab overcoat buttoned tightly to his chin. In the buttonhold of his coat there was a rose. He was the only one among the visitors who wore a high white hat. The Prince of Wales acted as the master of ceremonies. He gave the directions when the performance should begin, and could not remain in his seat in the box. In his capacity as exhibitor he walked uneasily up and down, and every time that there was anything that especially pleased him, he would go out into the arena with all of the royal visitors. The shooting principally seemed to interest the king of Denmark and the crown prince of Austria. When Miss Oakley had finished her shooting both the Danish king and the Austrian crown prince insisted upon examining her gun and sighted it, as if they were anxious to try their skill. The riding and shooting were greatly admired. The royal party seemed bent upon a lark. Several of the numbers of the programme were given before the princess of Wales arrived. She came conducted by Major Burke and followed by her two daughters and Prince Albert Victor, who is a home on a visit. The princess of Wales seems to regard the Wild West as the place for a lark. She wore a light summer dress with a dainty small bonnet tied lightly under her chin. When the Deadwood coach was brough out it was the question whether she would ride or not. She rode the other day. She decided the matter very quickly. She signalled to Major Burke and said she was going to try the coach again. She climbed up on the back seat of the coach without any help, although several rushed forward to assist her. She coaxed her father, the king of Denmark, to climb on to the crazy coach by her side. Then the grave and severe king of Saxony was invited to risk his life on the same wagon. This ancient king stroked his wide whiskers with calmness as if to show that he had as much courage as the princess of Wales. After him came the crown prince of Sweden and Norway, a very tall melancholy looking young man, with black eyeglasses, a crisp black moustache and short black whiskers. He wore a tightly buttoned gray suit. He languidly puffed his cigarette smoke into the face of the princess of Wales, and indeed all of the royal party followed the example of the prince of Wales and puffed cigars or cigarettes all through the performance. The crown prince of Austria clambored on to the centre seat and Prince George of Wales mounted the coach by the side of old John Nelson. Victor Richmond raised his hand and away the coach dashed. The Indians charged down upon the coach, and in a moment the royalties were encircled in a volume of smoke and fire. The cowboys came to the recue after the usual fashion. There was a mad dash around the ring. Only one item in the programme was ommitted. No death occurred during the short ride. All arrived safe and well in front of the royal box
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STARBEAMS.
New coins are to be issued in England in honor of the Queen's jubilee.
George Augustus Sala no longer writes for the London Illustrated News. He and the News had a falling out.
A New York paper thinks the pretty names of the city are Mrs. Bliss, Mrs. Love, Mrs. Sweet and Mrs. Darling.
Albert Sully, the rich railroad man, gave his favorite niece fifty thousand dollars the other day when she graduated.
News comes by the way of New York that Wichita has a population of thirty-five thousand. The [Eagle?] will verify the statement.
Will Kentucky erect a monument to Craig [Tolliver?], the martyred hero of Rowan county? He was popular, but almost too daring.
The mormons want to come into the union. Congress will insist that before admission, mormons should moderate their matrimony.
Mrs. Cleveland wears No. 5 shoes for which she pays five dollars per pair. Such is the information given out by her shoe dealer in Washington.
One of the sons of the late Thurlow Weed is going to marry the wealthy Miss Morris of New Orleans. Thus it is that the troubles of the late war are being healed.
Anna Dickinson, her friends learn with pleasure, is recovering from a severe illness. Her failure on the stage will be regretted, but her efforts on the platform will never be forgotten.
The English sparrows do a great amount of work. When the tower of a church in Illinois had been cleaned out it was found that enough hay had been carried in by those little workers to fill a wagon box full.
Kate Field is going to sail for Alaska. She will pass the summer there. By the way, what is the reason Alaska should not become the great summer resort? It is cool and not far away, and then it is American soil.
If General Butler has any silverware concealed about him, there will be no objection raised if he would return the same. The general always resents any such imputations and would no dobut consent to an investigation.
Some gossip who pretends to know something of the President's cash book says he is saving thirty-five thousand dollars per year out of his salary He is as prudent of his own money as he has always been careful of the state interest.
It is not true that the man who does not "touch a drop" is a milksop. In these days of frequent temptation it requires more stamina of character to resist temptation than it does to yield and then fight off the danger of excesses of the cup.
Of course Mr. Blaine is too much of a statesman to neglect to call on Buffalo Bill and to go to see the "Wild West" show. If he is well received by Buffalo Bill, his popularity will be assured at once in London. The act would also render him popular with frontier men.
Jake Sharpe's experience in the bribery business has not been satisfactory. His failure to get away with the [swag?] undetected was a [great?] [inconveniance?] and disappointment to him. His sorry outcome may serve to remind aldermen and others that honesty is the best policy.
Macaulay was a Scotchman and never appreciated a practical joke and was even greatly shocked when the genial Thackeray proposed to exchange identity with him for the purpose of an interview. It probably never occurred to the historian of England and the man of resounding phrases that there was anybody else on the planet quite equal to himself.
Ability in the old world seems to have triumphed over prejudice against color. At least this is true in the case of Fred Douglas. He recently [said?]. "I have traveled through most of the countries of Europe, and whenever I am in the cars, in the theatres, in the ball rooms, anywhere in fact, I find that I am treated always with courtesy and not rarely with distinguished consideration As far as I can see a man is judged over here without any regard to the color of his hair, or his eyes, or his skin."