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PERSONAL ITEMS. 
Wade Hampton haslectured inSavannah, Ga. 
The Greeley statue will be placed In Central 
Park. 
The Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa., has a salary of 
$ 20 , 000 . 
Edwin Forrest left $10,000 worth of dia- 
monds. 
Gen. Dix Is the oldest Governor In the United 
States. 
Louisa M. Alcott makes $10,000 a year with 
her pen. 
Joaquin Mi bleu is again being lionized in 
London. 
Mbs. Lauua I). Fair has lectured In San 
Francisco. 
A monument to Walter Brown, the oarsman, 
is proposed. 
Thornton, the English Minister, is very fond 
of walking. 
Brigham Young is said to be the father of 
117 children. 
Rev. II. W. IiEKcmiR has lectured in favor of 
female suffrage, 
Alex. H. Stephens appears as the hero of a 
Southern novel. 
Robert Dale Owen has recently married; 
also, Rose Terry. 
Charlotte Cushman got $12,000 for three 
weeks in Chicago. 
Stokes thinks ho is to be hung because of 
liis social position. 
J. 0. Bancroft Davis is the now Assistant 
Secretary of State. 
Gen. Sherman denies that he shall write a 
book about Europe. 
A SON of the Viceroy of Egypt will make a 
tour in tills country. 
Spiritualists claim to have had a message 
from Horace Greeley. 
Gustave Doue bus three paintings done for 
the London exhibition. 
The President’s New Year's reception con¬ 
tinued for seven hours. 
The Thomas monument, to cost $60,000, will 
be erected In Washington. 
Hamilton Fish, Jr., is to marry a daughter 
of Senator Frclinghuysen. 
Two ex-Congross men of Wisconsin are chop¬ 
ping wood at $30 a month. 
Kaulbagh is painting a picture of the deluge 
fertile Vienna Exposition. 
The Shall of Persia will live in Buckingham 
Palace while in Loudon. 
Six of the signers of Jeff Davis’s bail bond 
are dead. Mr. Davis still lives. 
A Greeley professorship of journalism is 
talked of for Cornell University. 
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