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PERSONAL ITEMS. 
The wife of Canon Kingsley is reported to be 
dangerously 111. 
Fat Mips Sanolli, the dancer, Is a great 
favorite In Vienna. 
Longfellow Is seriously 111 at his home In 
Cambridge with a cold. 
Dig Baktol has resigned the Presidency of 
the Boston Radical Club. 
Cor.. Gildrrrleeve haa been chosen Colonel 
of Fisk’s Ninth Regiment. 
I)kj az .t Is playing on alternate nights, at 
the Vaudeville Theater, Paris. 
President Stearns of Amherst College has 
been quite ill for several days. 
King KaLAKAUA and suite arrived at Chicago 
January 12, from Niagara Falls. 
Senator Buckingham Is still at his home in 
Norwich, Conn., In feeble health. 
Mr. Robert Buchanan, It is announced, has 
completed a new poetical comedy. 
M. Emile Oltvier, the ex-Minlster of Napo¬ 
leon III., Ib studying art in Rome. 
Mr. EaRI. Pick of Worcester, Mass., aged 
70 years, hanged himself last week. 
Mr. Phelps the English tragedian, contem¬ 
plates making a visit to Melbourne, 
Hon. Silas Burke was Inaugurated Gover¬ 
nor of Nebraska, on Tuesday week. 
The New Hampshire Republican Convention 
nominated P. C. Cher.cy for Governor. 
Albert CI.vkniku has challenged the winner 
for billiard championship of America. 
IIon. B. F. Havens has withdrawn from the 
canvass for the senatorshlp In Indiana. 
Adelaide Phii.lipps will probably have a 
series of farewell testl mortals in Boston. 
Rev. Dr. John Hall, of this city, has begun 
a course of historical lectures In Boston. 
Tnn lion. Elias Pond, a prominent citizen of 
Rochester, died on the 12th, aged 71 years. 
King Kalalaua cost the country (25,000 
according to a bill presented to Congress. 
Mr. Gladstone attained bis With year Dec. 
2Jth and Mr. Disraeli his Cfith two d iys later. 
Barry Sullivan Is giving farewell perform- 
ances“ prior to his departure for America." 
VaskjUEZ, the California bandit, is declared 
guilty undand awaits bis approaching sentence. 
EberU. Ward, the Detroit millionaire who 
died recently, left an estate valued at (5,300,000. 
Mr. John Green,— “ Paddy’’ Green of 
Evans’s Covent Garden, London,—is dead, aged > 
73. 
Mlle. Victoria, who queened it over the | 
lofty wire at the Hippodrome, has returned to j 
Europe. 
Mrs. John Wood is acting Mrs. Page in 
“Tne Merry Wives of Windsor,” at the London 
Gaiety Theater. 
M. Jean Dolt.pus of Mulhouse, that great 
champion of free trade, is known as the f 
French Cobdon.; 
Russel Sage has been elected a director of [ 
the Pacific Mall Company und will probably be 
made President. 
Ex-President Woolsey of Yale declines 
to be the Republican candidate for Governor 
of Connecticut. 
Wa. Sharon was elected United States Sen¬ 
ator from Nevada by the entire Republican 
vote last week. 
Benton G. Boone,- the new Speaker of the 
Missouri House of Representatives, Is a grand¬ 
son of Daniel Boone. 
Archbishop Manning is said to be endeavor- ■ 
lng to abolish ail musics in his churches except * 
the pure Gregorian chants. 
A MONUMENT to Hans Christian Andersen is 
to be erected In the garden of the Palace at 
Rosonau, near Copenhagen 
At the Michel Theater, St. Petersburgh 
Madame Pasca lias won a marked .success as 
the heroine of “The Sphinx.” 
Mr. Boucicault Is hard at work on two new , 
plays, and Is co-operating with Mr. Bret Harts ! 
In making bla American drama. 
Israel Wasuburn, jr., LL. D., and the R;v. 
Dr. E. C. nolle9 are prominent candidates for 
the Presidency of Tufts College, 
Mrs. Grant has begun lier receptions for the 
season. There will be a State dinner at the 
White nouse on the 20th instant. 
Whittier has promised to read one of his 
poems at a fulr In Boston In aid of the Society 
for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 
Miss Dolores Drummond, an Australian l 
tragedienne, has appeared in London, and is j 
pronounced “pleasing” and “clever." 
Tfie nev, Dr. Thomas U. Dudley, recently j 
elected Assistant Bishop of Kentucky, will be 
consecrated In Baltimore on Wednesday. 
Gen. T. T. Eckert, General Superintendent 
of the Eastern Division of the Western Union 
Telegraph Company, has resigned his position, j 
The Rev. Leighton Coleman Rector of [ 
Trinity Church, Toledo.Ohio, has been unani¬ 
mously elected Bishop of the new Diocese of 
Fond du Lac, Wis. 
Miss Ross, a Chicago spinster, has recovered 
$10,000 damages for a breach of promise of mar¬ 
riage from George H. Fancher, u wealthy Cali¬ 
fornia ranchman. 
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A Work on the Breeding, Hear¬ 
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