PERSONAL ITEMS 
Hew ^ubUfatifln.s 
gmpUttunt?* anti Parhincry 
Thurlow Wkkd wa3 so last week. 
Gkn. Bbnjamtn F. Butler lias just passed Bis 
fifty-ninth birthday. 
One who has seen non. Aleck U. Stephens, says 
he resembles a night-key. 
Messrs. Conkuno, Hill, Banks and Blackburn 
are said to bo the Congressmen who are orators 
by nature. 
Kate Claxton, the celebrated actress, has 
married again. Divorce recently released her 
from Dore Lyon. 
Signor Iolbsias, one of the claimants for the 
Mexican presidency, has returned to his native 
country unmolested. 
Turguknkit’s last novel Is said to have created 
so much political feeling In Russia that he has 
vowed never to write again. 
Mrs. Clkmmkr has been sizing Senator Mat¬ 
thews’ nose, and finds It “slender and rather 
flat,” and “not the nose of power.” 
the Pope was photographed a couple of weeks 
ago. Three attempts were necessary, and he 
wrote under the portrait, “ My last picture.” 
Mrs. Mary B. G. Tanner, a direct descendant 
of King Henry Vlli., died at Plerrepont, N. Y„ a 
few days ago, at the ago of 101 years and 11 
months. 
General Ewing, the Inflationist, Is noted as 
having a resemblance to Mr. Blaine. He has a 
large head and a strong voice, and is altogether a 
handsome man. 
The King of Italy Is to give Mr. H. M. Stanley a 
gold medal, with this Inscription“ To the 
Intrepid explorer of Equatorial Africa, Stanley ; 
given by Victor Emmanuel.” 
The death Is announced of the veteran German 
Field Marshal, Count von Wrangel, This dis¬ 
tinguished General was horn In 17B>(, and entered 
the Gorman army before the close of last century. 
Mrs. Brooks, the artist In butter, has been 
molding t,o the music of a big organ at. a Western 
Exposition a common-piece to her “ Dreaming 
lolanthe”—a mau’s head, called “The Coming 
Man.” 
The Warner sisters, the authors of "Wide, 
wide World ” and “ Queechy ’’—are now elderly 
persons In their sixties. They live an Isolated 
life on a pretty Island In the North River, and re¬ 
ceive a comfortable Income from their books. 
Bertha Von Hillers Is really a great pedes¬ 
trian. She walked a hundred miles In twenty- 
eight horn’s In Philadelphia, and It was thought 
that she would have made much better time had 
she not desired to reserve public interest for 
another exhibition. 
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BI-WEEKLY 
THE ORGAN OF THE 
Tlie Centennial Judges having ( ©n* 
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Watches at a great reduction from ’ 
Improved machinery, whereby tho \T 
cost of manufacture greatly re- \ 
Itv Improved, Insuring a tirst-elass 
within the reach of all. These 
the past IS years, are made of the 
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to perform with the regularity and accuracy of a <chronometer, 
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