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Ex-Senator Sharon’s new barn cost $80,000. 
The Duke of Argyll has moved all liquor 
places from his estates. 
“Brick” Pomeroy Is 50 years old and is 
living in good style in Denver. 
The Mikado of Japan has decorated Bismark 
with the order of the Chrysanthemum. 
Senator Jones said to a Denver reporter: 
“Mr. Arthur is tired of the Presidency.” 
Premier Gladstone owns a piece of land at 
Niagara Falls and refuses to sell it at any price. 
Kossuth has just celebrated his eighty-first 
birthday and the thirty-third anniversary of 
his condemuation to death as a traitor. 
Mr. Knight, the new Lord-Mayor of London, 
began business life as a warehouse porter in 
the city of which he is now Chief Magistrate. 
The unhappy Emperor of all the Russians 
on returning to St. Petersburg from Moscow, 
at his first meal in the royal palace found, it 
is said, a Nihilistic proclamation wrapped iu 
his table napkin. 
Francis and George Darwin, the sons of the 
great naturalist, are about to move from the 
old Down House to the vicinity of Cambridge, 
where they will establish a large factory for 
making philosophical instruments. 
The late Dr. Pusey made a will many years 
ago, but destroyed it upon the death of his 
son Philip, and so died intestate. As a result 
of this bis noted Orphanage at Oxford will 
now have to be broken up. 
Mr. Herbert Spencer will, as eoon as possible, 
embark for home. The restless, bustling 
American life increases his nervousness. He 
carries a bag of hops around with him, but 
cannot gain sleep. His food consists almost 
entirely of dry toast and sardines. 
Secretary Lincoln shipped from Springfield 
to Washington a few daj s ago (52 trunks that 
belonged to the late Mrs. Lincoln. Altogether 
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