DEC. 24 
PERSONAL ITEMS. 
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Patent Breech Loading, 
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Tot Clroulnrt.AiJrtw UM'JSMBlkciuivrt, 
tee*MJU>MAUlMAU'eS> 
Thomas Carlyle celebrated hla 88rd birthday 
last Wednesday. 
Senator Gordon left college beforo he graduat¬ 
ed, In order to get married, lie preferred a wife 
to a diploma. 
General Frjmont la malting himself popular In 
Arizona. Ho Is a non-pat tiaan Governor, and at¬ 
tends to business. 
Mrs, General Sherman continues to reside lu 
Baltimore, while her husband and daughters re¬ 
side In Washington. 
Senator Anthony, as la his pleasing custom, 
sent oach of the Nevv-Eugland Senators a Rhode 
Island turkey for Thanksgiving. 
Dickens’s roal name was Charles John Hoffam 
Dlckeus, but the novelist had the good Bense to 
tone It down to simple Charles Dickens* 
Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, Is the fortunate 
owner of halt of a newly developed silver mine 
which Is yielding $9,000 woi LU of sliver dally. 
William Sackvllle Gordon, employed as a letter 
carrier In Australia, died there recently. He was 
a son of the late Lord Henry Gordon, and a cousin 
of the Marquis of Huntley. 
General Robert Patterson of Philadelphia, now 
more than eighty years or age, is said to have en¬ 
tertained at his table every President of the Uni¬ 
ted States sines Madison's time. 
Orson Tlyde, one of the Mormon “ Twelve Apos¬ 
tles," and for many years among the ablest and 
most active In behalf of the Latter-Day Saints, 
died In Utah on Thanksgiving Day. 
Uongressmau-elect Murch, the Greenbacker 
whodeteated Eugeue Hale In Maine, proposes to 
spend this winter In Washington and try to con¬ 
solidate all the opposition to the Republican 
party. 
Horace W. Tabor Is a lucky man. In isw be 
was a stone-cutter lu Augusta, Me. in 1S59 he 
wcut to Colorado aud engaged In mining. He Is 
now worth two millions, and hus been elected 
Lieutenant-Governor of the State. 
Lord Beaoonsfleld is described as ha ving a face 
waxen and habitually ashen pale, on which suf¬ 
fering or pleasure, or, Indeed, emotion of any 
kind, la never allowed to appear. As to his walk, 
It Is “ a curious, panther-like stride.’’ 
Mr. Smith of New Orleans .was agreeably sur¬ 
prised to lind a plump turkey served up for his 
dinner, and Inquired of his servant how It was 
obtained. “ Why, sir,” replied Sambo, “ dat 
turkey has been roosting on our fence three 
nights. So ills morning I seize him for de rent 
of de fence.” 
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