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PEOPLE AND EVENTS.
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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 humoris,
"Bob" Burdette, is winning marked success
as a religious lecturer.
THE painters Munkacey 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 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 Catauqua 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 is 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. Depaw, 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 by 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. - Cinncinati Commercial Gazette.