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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.